Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-11-01
wool GROWERS FOR FREE TRADE.

wool GROWERS FOR FREE TRADE.
New YoFs Guoi Growers Pass Resolutions
Against the wool Tex
The Wool. Growers aud Sheep Breed
era assOcialonu Oniariuand Livingston
corrt.as at is last convention adopted
numerous D. 1'u'ions relating 10 tle
business. We publish q f.w ~ th,n.
and th.r who may 10 opposed to-
free wool .-ai them:
Vs. 0,as. r ra. been he policy IN the past
for tli- r-e.. IN tD annually pass stereo-
tyI.. r .plu.i'lt prHl 'l- congress TO restore
d. wool uuts rf I.ii, Ur ..- equlNalrrI: and
Whereas. association finally recDsu.zrs
,he 4u-luuH .. ~ is last position. on ta,s
quest D, aus ,..r ready TO correct ouy error
into ,l. .u % iHa. h1ve ra,len, We beg leave 10
submit tael
ilr.t. Ne p. 1..Ilr that the wool duty T.
dDIu..ol aud q .u.Ictp the wool growers, and
taaI 10 las boon .--eiy Instrumental in drive
iu, Go the vaN $40 indus. - il was calculated 10
btucul.
second Pr,rr 10 lsG-. under rho various
change, uf tie wool duties. the price OF wool
fuotltt,l o.. .l sympathy with the tariff, but
by reason O.. f.r ever controlling law Of do
mand and supply, The growers having received
high price, end prices unGer high tariffs,
auI CuuNCrr ~ low prices and high pIlces
under low t.r.....
qlud The ,.r-- of tho wool grower de-
ponds on the success, Of the woOlea mauufac-
turrr. while the American manufactures IL So
r.ou-iy handicapped 10y reason - being COM
PEELED tD pay ez ruituut tariff taxes on every
pound Of cioli... wo'i imported for necessary
admixture, w, .Iva an foreign countries oil any
cor. ,.uguc. have tAe t.u, nc OF free wool, and
arr thus enabled to uHderseI tie manufae-
turerS.
Seventh England, France and Germany are
the only three countries Ia the world that
eXrurt Wuo.,u mtLuta, lures in excess Of tho
lmuurt, ~ o.. wool; in other words, these
couptrict, b. Wil, ,iug wool free, have created
demand for ....Ir home wool I'm excess Of all
wool required tp rlOtue th,ir people, aud after
giving employment 10 labor export more wool
than they have imported. The United states,
on tue other head. by imposing a high duty on
raw wool, ha- npt only destroyed our export
trade. hu; 80 ,uru''led our manufacturers ss
20 ruin the q. y.,t for domestic fleece and
give to The r.. .I-n, French and German man
utacturers IT, cream OF our markets tor
cloths.
n .h,h.Tre srcc Importation Of raw wool
into tu, Umf,C States would knock oUt the
imports ~ w.,..I goods, aud would revive The
Ir -crf ur.r,. .aIt'c II orr pWl mRnul4C-
turc~, tnu- l.... employment 10 labor here
aud create AN INCREASED demand Tor our strong
wOo!s Tor u,, t..a.. -omi6ture.
The closing resolution calls for tie
placing on he free list of wool aud
wooden manufactures lin order That
these iu1usj'ie- may again ,hrive." On
tario and LrNur7tou counties are Re
publican COMMITTEES. and four years ago
they gave large mn jories for Harrison.
Sheep raising and wool growing is one
Of the principal industries o. that sec
ton, and when tle people we're told
Democratic success meant ruin iur them
they believed IT. Eat they differ from
some other ,ple, ANA ar, willing to ac-
knowledge t.yir error. They have seen
prices Of thor product decline instead
Of advance. the result OF a high tariff.
and now they demand that wool shall DO
placed upon the free list,-American
Wool and Cotton Reporter.