The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-17

we would be forced to import from
| Australia and South America would
raise the price of wool in these countries,
and the foreigner would receive the
millions of golden dollars diverted from
our farmers by hostile and senseleSs
legislation.
Another disastrous effect of this pro-
posed legislation would be 10 increase
the area of wheat and corn which would
| further depress the price of these cereals.
OF course the land at present devoted to
sheep pasturage would be utilized as
wheat a d corn fields. and the products
| of these lands would go a-begging for a
market four thousand miles away.
| Such legislation would undoubtedly
benefit transportation companies, but 1t
would injure all producing classes IN
these United States, for the simple rea-
son that you cannot depress one industry
without doing an injury to all. The
magnitude of the wool interest and its
benefits to husbandry can be understood
when we consider that for the five years
ending with 1889. the American wool
grower averaged 2S5, 600, 900 pounds per
annumi In 1899 we imported more than
126, 900, 600 pounds of wool, besides pay
ing foreign manufacturers more than
So, 5000 for wooden goods, Is it
not the part of patriotism TO en-
courage legislation that will IN
crease our tiocks until we not only
produce all the wool required by our adj
vancing civilization, but also to put into
the pockets of American woxkmen the
az million dollars which we yearly pay
for WOODEN goods to foreigners who hate
us and our Republican institutions. II
he who will not provide for his own
household is worse than an intidei, and
has lost the faith, what must we think
of members of the enlarged household
over which waves the ''stars and stripes"
who would deliberately by means of ad-
verse legislation give to the wives and
children of aliens the bread end butter
that should be sacredly reserved for the
members of their own national house.
hold? The advocates of tariff reform
are striving to divide the party of pro-
lection by encouraging the manufac-
ing interests to vote for free wool and
then appeal to the wool grower to retail
ate and vote for free wooden goods.
Our manufacturers have free cotton;
in fact cotton is cheaper in the United
States than in any other country on the
globe, yet Notwithstanding this advan-
tage aud protection against foreign
manufacturers of about 40 per cent, we
are still unable to hold our own markets
against foreign competitors. / find in
the twelfth number of the Statistical
Abstract" prepared by the bureau of
statistics, that for the last seven years
we have been paying to foreigners for
cotton goods from S32. 900. 600 TO SEA
100000 Per annum. These facts furnish
food for reflection, and candid men must
necessarily come to the conclusion that
if we continue to send a golden stream
across the Atlantic to feed the pauper
producers of monarchy, we will soon be-
come paupers ourselves. Hoping the
Mckinley bill will divert these millions
which we have heretofore paid to our
transatlantic rivals into the pockets of
our own workmen, remain yours truly,
ONE OF THE MACS.
Glen Mary Farm, Delano Township,
Feb. 16, 1892.