The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-12

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NorE-The domestic production of wool in
France decreased from i3,43t,SU0 IN 1876 TO
SC, ,3Sl 200 Kilograms in 1882 The domestic pro-
duction In Germany hls decreased from about
G., 2730 900 pounds In 1873 70 about 4T,01LUO0
pounds In 1888.
"The commissioners, in their report,
commenting on the foregoing tables,
state:
"Theseriously ydiminishedvalue OF our
exports OF woolens ss during the
years 1880 to 1884, as compared with
tho years 1870 to 1874, must be accepted
rs clear proof that foreign tariffs are the
great cause Mt work to prevent the
natural and healthy growth Of this inn
portant industry in this country. How
rapidly they must have been growing
IN France, Germany, and the United
States, whilst comparatively languish-
ing here, in strikingly shown in the
tables on the preceding page. In the
eight years from 1876 to 1854, France,
Germany, and the United States in:
creased their annual consumption of
wool by 325, ,000, 900 pounds, or, allowing
for the estimated diminution of the
home production OF France ana Ger
many 295,000,000 pounds, that is, 40
per cent, while ours increased only by
l2,0000 900 pounds, or 80 per cent. .
This is illustrated by the extra
ordinary TACT that whilst the value OF
our exports OF worsted and woolen
manufacturers in the five years from
1880 to 1884 exhibited. as compared
with the five years from 1885 to 1869,
decrease OF 43.1 per cent, the value
OF our imports, comparing with the
same period, showed an increase OF no
less than 2t4.9 per cent.
This fact confirms the evidence given
before us by witnesses connected with
the various industries that in the case of
countries like Germany. possessing in
ample measure the population and
other resources required for successful
manufacturing enterprise, the adoption
OF 9 system of import duties on manu-
factures and even on primary articles
of food, has not disqualified them from
successful and growing competition
with us in the home and colonial as
we'll as in the neutral markets"
PROTECTION TRIuwPEs.
Three protected countries increasing
rapidly their product Of wooden manu-
factures, the only free trade country
barely holding its own. And you, gen.
tlemen, and those interested with you,
are exhorted to take courage from the
example OF our British friends and fol-
low in their footsteps, that you may be
prosperous and contented.
Here is the testimony Of British
authority, based on absolutely incon-
testible facts, and l beg you to place
that in the balance and weigh it against
the promise held out by our Democrat
ic friends that ii you will support their
party, and accept from their hands free
wool, they will put you in way to
make moro money, because your woods
will be worked up in the United States
and exported to the markets OF the
world" and, in some miraculous way
which have never heard explained,
compete successfully with the pro-
ducers Of cheaper woods with cheaper
labor.
I call your attention to another fact.
The British focks produced in 1860
l45, 100000 pounds Of wool, in 1890, l3s,.
100000 pounds. a decline of7,0O0,0O0
pounds. The United States in 1850
raised &C, 100000 pounds OF wool and in
1890, 2s5, 100000 pounds OF wool, gain
Of 2l90OO0OO pounds. 1t seems then
that the mixing process Of foreign
wools with home woods has not been al
together healthful for the British wool
grower. The woods OF other countries
seem to be holding him down. We
have already seen that British woolen
manufacturers languished then. They
are languishing still more now.
ExdLAxD's GREAT ADvANTAGE.
Ifthere be any great advantagcin FREQ
wool Great Britain has had it for near
ly three.quarters Of century-since
1924. And if there be any advantage in
skill of very high degree, in vast cap
itai, in cheap money, in free mixing. in
the markets OF tho world" that ought
to be seen and be seen clearly in the e&'
perience Of our British friends. For
moro than six hundred years Great
Britain was at great pains to foster ana
stimulate by every means knownto to her,
by every means known TO statesmen
and economists. the growth OF her WOOL
en- industries. She did 1t by protective
tariffs. She did it by prohibitory de-
crees. Nothing was lott undone.
Believe me, fellow-citizens, II ia true
OF wool and woolens US 1t is Of the
whole line OF British products, that no
duty has ever been taken of, no duty
has ever been decreased, until, by 90