Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-01

1888 wrote al article for the August
numb Der Of the Norfh american Rcoieto to
disabuse the minds of all literary and
professional men likely to see it of the
idea that protection OF wool increased
its cost to the buyer or the price to the
seller. lie says:
And tbs fact suggests another view of the rela |
ten Of rejection tonu wool industry II is an |
AXIOM of the protective doctrine that home COM
petition, under adequate protcc ton, will insure
lower prices: andiitis believed that not single |
case can be nddI!rcd of an article the production
of which hasthccn developed Icy protection that |
has not declincdin price below the foreign price
with the duty added.
The opera ton of the rule that protection Sc
cures lower priccs has, in regard TO wool, been
DISTRACTED by the extraordinary development of
our wool NufacturcS and the demand for wool,
which have increased in the same ratio as our
wool production. The census Figures are us
follows:
Wool clip Wool manu-
ID. features.
1874 ,, TO coo 900 Sos, 00t, 900
But the effect OF the duties has been sufficiently
marked to Justify the continued application of
protection TIC onr wool industry for the distinct
and avoWed purpose tC secure lower prices.
MI. Ammidown makes the state
ment as strong as type can make it
that 1.-The continued application of pro-
lection to our wool industry is ''for
the distinct and avowed purpose to Sc
cure, lower prices.'' Continuing, Mr..
Ammidown says:
An immediate reduction of price would be Sc
cured by the swifter process recommended by
| the president and embodied in the Mills bill.
But this course would find our wool-growcrs un-
able 10 comp. tc with their Australian and South
American rvaIs. and would destroy most val
liable National industry.
Adequate and persistent protcct!on would, on
the other land, increase our production. and
| gradually bring about lower prices. The law of
| competi,icn would intervene. Cheaper methods
would yield their fruits to skilful research.
| Those pnrts of the country best adapted to sheep
huSbandry would be devoted especially to it, and
| those least adapted would be gven up TO other
uses. Our Northern farmers would develop the
value of their sheep for food and for fertlizng
the land. The Southern farmers would find in
sheep hushandry a hitherto comparatively uncX-
plorcd means for increasing their incomes and
improving their lands.
Thus encouraged. it is not easy to conceive of
any limit to the wool product of the United
States, nor TO fix IL limit to the decline in price
which would be reached when the industry mad
been thoroughly developed in those vast ana now
sparsely settled portions of the country where
climate and soil are favorable aud where sheep
can be pastl,red all through the year with little
or no expense for food or care.
A copy of the August, 1888, number
of the North American Review, which
is one of the most respectable advo-
Gates Of protection, can be obtained by
sending it so cents. The address is
New York.
| The Manufacturers Club, of Phila-
delphia, organized for the propaganda
for protection in the Middle States, is
the left hand Of the American Protec-
tive Tariff League. Its president is
Thomas Dolan, one of the largest WOO
r buyers in the United States. Mr.
c Dolan having been invited by The
h World to write an article on the bene
fits of the Mckinley bill did so, and il
, was published in The World Aug. -
II 1891. In the course of this article, re
n ferring to the price Of wool Mr.. Dollar
II frankly says:
: sit is an interesting fact, deserving
much emphasis Of statement, that tn
:, prices of wool are lower now than the.
u were one year ago. This decline wal
> distinctly promised by protectionist
. during the discussion which accompa
= MED the framing of the McKinle,
y tariff
n These men are authorized to speai
for protection. All or nearly all tn
: money spent in the United States t.
S defend protection passes through thei
y hands. They are the official represen
tatives of the protected classes. The.
: dictate all protection legislation b.
y congress. Anything they oppose i
+ thrown out. There is not one line il
: the tariff which they do not want
: The protection of wool is in accordance
a with their demands, and in the yer!
s words and at the exact figures they .fu1
r nished. No one else had any part o
I lot in making the wool sections of tn
d tariff, and the "proteetion of tn
= farmer" is their work.
u Delegates to the State Democrat
q Convention at Fargo, Sept.6th, 1892, b
8 paying full fare going and securing
n delegate certificate from the local agen
IS will be returned at one-fifth fare.
81 Dated July 10Th, 1892.
81 r. w. CUrTs,
iEecretary State Democratic Commute