The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-08-26
Who is the Wiser, Cleveland or the
"Democrat?"

To the Editor of THE REPUBLICAN.
The Democrats are becoming
more and more out-spoken in ad-
vocacy of free trade.
Republicans rejoice at this, Tor the
reason that it is always better to
have an open than secret enemy.
We have now had over thirty
years of Republican rule, and it
hrs been the most prosperous per-
lod of our national existence.
Cleveland did nothing but exc
cute the laws on the statute books
put there by Republicans. His
opportunities for mischief, were,
therefore, limited.
In his annual message of 1887
he argued at great length for free
wool. He SAID the repeal of the
duty would make wool cheap so
the American manufacturers could
buy their raw material cheap and
thus produce cheap goods to COM
pete with foreign products. The
Democrat says taking the duty off
will make the price of wool high,
so that the price of wooden goods
will be correspondingly high also.
Who knows the most, Cleveland
or the Democrat?
The Democrat is circulated
among wool producers and it says
that the slight increase of duty by
the Mckinley bill was the cause of
the decline in the price of wool
since it went into operation.
Here are some extracts from the
American Economist of July II:
"Some disappointment exists be-
cause of the recent decline in
woods in the outside markets of the
world, causing corresponding de-
cline in the United States, but the
wool growers realize that their
wool sells for more money in the
seaboard cities of the United States
by twelve cents per pound than the
same wool would bring in the Lon
don markets.
"Well informed wool growers be-
lieve that failure to pass the Nc
Klnley bill would have been fol-
lowed by prices for wool five cents
per pound lower than to-day's
prices, and the passage of the
Mills bill in its place would
have been followed by decline of
twelve cents per pound to bring
American to the level of semil
woods in London. the latter mar
ket dominating prices for the whole
outside world.
"The United States Consul
Griffin, at Sydney, Australia, re-
ports that wool growers of that
continent received nearly rs per
cent. less for their clip now being
marketed in London than they
obtained for the previous years
clip.
"The American wool grower in
northern Ohio is receiving thirty
cents per pound for the washed
fleece clipped from Shropshire
sheep. The same sheep in Canada
are producing exactly the same
wool which is selling there at only
eighteen cents, as against thirty
cents in Ohio"
The same article shows that the
consumption of wool in the United
States has increased enormously
since the Mckinley bill went into
effect.
The same paper In more recent
issue publishes table taken from
the London Economist showing
that the decline in the different
grades of foreign woods have aver
aged 81 per cent in the last two and
a-half years and another table from
the Boston Commercial Bulletin
for the same time shows the decline
in American woods IN the Boston
market to average but = per cent.
The decline has, therefore, been
only one third as much in the
United States as it has been in
London.
In his mastery speech in the
Senate just before the adjourn
ment of Congress Senator Aldrich
produced some figures showing the
selling price of certain grades OF
secured woods in the markets of
this country as against the selling
price of the same woods in London.
which demonstrate very conclus-
lively that the prices of woods in
this country average at least 333
per cent. higher than the same
wool would bring in London.
When the wool growers of Aus
tralia, South America, New South
Wales, the Argentine Republic and
other wool producing countries go
to market their wool they take it
where they get the most. money for
it.
They have to pay eleven cents
per pound on every pound Of cloth