Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03
WOOL GROWERS FOR FREE TRADE.
New York Wool Growers Pass Resolutions
Against tha Wool Tx.

Against the Wool Tax.
The Wool Growers and Sheep Breed
ers association Of Ontario and Livingston
counties at its last convention adopted
numerous resolutions relating to the
business. We publish few Of them.
ana a. those who may be opposed t0
free wool to read them.
Whereas, Il has been the policy IL the past
ivr tais association tD annually pass stereo-
typed resolutions praying congress W restore
the wool duty Of 1851, or its equivalent: and
Whereas, This association finally recognizes
the unsgunnness Of its last position on this
question, and ever ready t0 correct any error
into which il may have ralIen. ne beg leave to
submit the following.
First We recognize that the wool duty ~ u
delusiou and a snare % the wool growers, ana
that It has been largely Instrumental in driT-
Ing to the wall an industry IL was calculated 20
benefit
SecOnd-Prior To 1857. under tie various
changes Of the wool duties. the price Of wool
nuctuated not IA sympathy with the tariff. but
Dy reason ~ the ever controlling law Ut de-
mand and supply, the growers having received
high prices and low prices under high tariffs.
and conversely low prices and high prices
under lpT tariffs.
Third-The success of the wool grower de-
pends on the success OF the soolea rnanufac-
turer, while the American manufacturer ls se-
r1pusly handicapped by reason of being com
PEELED 70 pay ezgrbitant tariff taxes III every
pound Of clothing wool imported for necessary
adml1ture- while All foreign countries III anv
consequence have THE benefit uk fHee WOOL. and
are thus enabled To undersell the nanufac-
turers.
Seventh England, France ana Germany ara
the only three countries in tile world that
export woolen manufactures ID excess of the
imports Of raw wool: Ia other words, these
countries, By admitting wool free have created
demand for their home pH0Dl iu excess VIZ Will
Wooi required to clOthe their people, and after
giving employment to labor export more wool
than they have imported. The United states.
on the other hand by imposing w higii duty WIN
raw wool. has rot only destroyed cur export
trade bus so throttied orr manufacturers as
to ruin tho market for domestic fleece and
Eive to the English, French and German man
ufaeturers the cream Of our markets for
cloths.
Eighth-Ilc free importation uf raw wpci
into the United states would knock out the
imports Of woolen goods. and would revive tie
present depressed state OK our own fnanufae-
lures thus giving employment IN labor here
ana create am increased demand for Uur strong
Tools for necessary admixture.
The closing resolution calls for the
placing on the free list of wyUl and
wooden manufactures 4-in order that
these industries may again thrive On
tario and Livingston counties are Re-
publican counties, and four years ago
they gave large majorities for Harrison.
Sheep raising ana wool growing IL one
Of the principal industries of that see
ton, and when the people We're told
Democratic success meant ruin for them
they believed 1T. But they differ from
some other people, and are willing to ac-
knowledge their error. They have seen
prices Of their product decline Instead
Of advance, as the result Of d nigh tariff,
and now they demand that wool shall be
placed upon the free list.-American
Wool and Cotton Reporter.