The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-06
a WOOL LIE NAILED,

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. daily papers in the w%ool-growing sec
tons of the union which require expla
I nation. just why that wool commission
firm should interest itself in making the
statements can be accounted for only
upon the hypothesis that it has been
subsidized by the administration to
prostitute itself for the benefit of the re,
publican party. But in its zeal as u serv
ant it has overshot the mark. Its state
ment carries its own refutation. Justin,
Batenan Il Co. W to the public an ex-
PLANTATION of the following:
THE growers who are getting 81 cents
for wool at their farms under the Nc
kinley bill would get only 10 cents for
Springer bill or the Mills bill on the
basis of the London free wool market.
and the farmers of Wayne county unless
they are deceived by falsehoods and mis-
representations, will not vote against
their own bread and butter, and will not
vote for 10 cent wool as against IS cent
wool, the outside price which it is al
legged they are getting"
~ may { dnS"tTeu tndt DIS There dTt
about one man in fifty in the United
States engaged in the wool industry, and
that as the Mckinley tariff asks every
forty-nine men to put their hands in
their pockets to support the iiftieth man
the forty. nine men will not vote against
their own bread and butter and will not
ynfa for ~ can't un,l vrho, fhn,. ,,, ,.,%
it for 10 cents. We say the statement of
Justin. Bateman ~ Co. may he thus an
swered, but it Is not necessary to pre-
sent that view of the situation. \ suf-
ficient answer to the Misrepresentation
is that given by the American Wool and
Cotton Reporter. which thus disposes of
the statement:
AS the duty on wool is II cents per
pound there are no possible conditions
under which the manufacturers OF Eng
land secure their wool Il cents cheaper
than those of the United States. More
over the great bulk of the WOODS of the
world cannot be imported today because
the difference between their foreign and
American price is not even equal to the
duty of II cents per pound. Statements
like the above by Justin, Bateman a. Co.
have become too well understood
throughout the United States to require
contradiction in the wool trade. but that
any established wool house should be
to lend it's signature to such mis-
representations cannot but be a source of
continued regret
Still the statement is being copied and
Daraded before the wool growers of the
by every little penny whistle
republican sheet and the name of the
wool house given AS authority for its
1t is by just such unmiti-
gated falsehoods as above noted that the
'epublican party hopes to continue the
.Dlutocratic reign il is trying to establish
n the United States. False statements.
Misrepresentation and down right lies :
eem to be the stock in trade of the party
Turing every political campaign. 1t has
nut wool in the foreground this year.
he republican prints throughout the
ountry are furthering the movement to ,
he extent of their ability. The object .
to cOunteract the adverse effect low .
rices have had upon wool growers. Nc -
.inley promised the latter better prices +,
their wool as soon as his tariff got in .
s work. 1t has gotten in its work. and ::
DOL that sold for ~ and % cents right :
ere in Montana when the Mills bill was =
lrown in the face of wool growers and .
ley were told if it became a law they
Ould be driven out of the business. !,
bid this season for II and Is cents. :.
Wool growers remember the promises '
Iade and they know the condition of !.
re wool market. They know they have :.
cen imposed upon and are inquiring in !.
the motive. In order to deceive them :,
Irther and to hold them in the republi-
party just such false statements as 4.
Iade 10y Justin Bateman n Co. are be a
x circulated throughout the wool .
sections of the union. They 4.
e furthermore told that though wool :
lower than ever before known in the :.
of wool growing in the United y,
ates it would be much lower if it were y
It for the Mckinley tariff. They have :.
data upon which to base the SUPPOSE y
IN, but make it upon the general propo-
ton that protection increases the price
home products, while the facts in the
Sc OF wool prove the contrary. This y;
Dol lie Of Justin Bateman a. Co. is ~
lied to the cross. @.
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