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

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Since these statistics were gathered
there has been steady increase in
South America and Australasia in parti-
cular, SO that the total is much larger
in 1892 than it was four years ago. The
opportunities for expansion are almost
infinite. Estimated conservatively the
worlds annual production of wool is
2,30O million pounds. The United States
produces 202 million pounds. Outside
OF the United States more than six
sevenths OF the wool OF the world is pro-
duced. Do you think that the one
seventh can hold its own against the
six-sevenths, and do you think the wool
| OF the United States, OF West Virginia,
of Brooke county, can compete on adead
levelin this or any other market with
these foreign grown wools?
COMPETITION on DEAD LEVEL.
Well, here is a Democratic authority
which says you cannot. l will read it
to you. This Democratic authority is
entitled "WooI and Manufactures Of
Wool" published in 1887, as you will
recollect under the administration OF
President Cleveland. 1t was prepared
by the bureau OF statistics under the
supervision OF Col. William F. Switzler,
chief OF the bureau OF statistics, who
was appointed by President Cleveland,
and who made his report to Mr.. Fair
child, Mr.. Cleveland's secretary OF the
treasury. So that so far as politics has
anything to dowith this business ques-
ton, we have Democratic authority sup
porting the Republican cause. read
from page XLVI:
"The countries that yield the largest
surplus OF wool for export are Russia,
the Argentine Republic, South Africa,
and Australasia. Their capacity for
supplying the manufactures OF the
world seems to be ample. They have
all improved their sheep by crossing
with the merinos, and their woods, es.
pecially those of Australia and the
Platte country, are among the finest in
the world.
These two last-named countries are
much alike in their peculiar fitness for
sheep raising, and are as yet not taxed
to anything like their capacity. Aus
tralia alone is as large in area as the
United States.
In Australia the plains devoted to
sheep-raising are in the hands OF COM
paratively few, who have perpetual
leases OF immense tracts Of Government
lands at low rates. Some of these
tracts contain as much as 10000 acres,
so that the country bids fair to continue
to be q sheep-raising section.
It is idle to talk about raising sheep
in Europe or this country TO complete
with South Africa, the Plato country,
or Australasia.
The conditions or entirely different
in South Africa, Australia, and South
America, where laborers are, at best,
semi.barbarians or poems, and the i'm.
mense plains OF cheap lands and torrid
climate seem better adapted to sheep
raising than other industries"
The report speaks of semi-barbarians
and poems. Poems arc not very far from
semi-barbarians They are tho lowest
class OF human beings in South Amer.
ica. They are frequently debtors in @
qualified servitude TO their creditors
working out their debts. These Aus.
tralian woods which have shown you
have this advantage to-the wool-groweI
over the wool grown in this country
the fleeces average about eight pounds
while the average in this country is six
pounds and half to the fleece. What
are you going to do in the face OF these
wools raised under these conditions
You must take your chances.
THE DEMOCRATIC WOOL SCHEME
And here is the scheme of our Demo.
cratic friends as they present it to you.
You may Judge what your chances will
be. / quote from the report OF the
Democratic ways and means committee
OF which Mr.. Mills was chairman.
have not the original report with me
but have it in the Democratic Cam
paign Text Book for the year 1888, and
! assume it to be correct.
ave say to the domestic wool-grower
that We have put wool on the free lis
TO enable the manufacturer to import
foreign wool to mix with his, and thus
enlarge his market and quicken the dc.
mand for the cohsn,n ption OF home
wool, ,"-protection under the guiss Of
free trade, it seems. think there Ia
not an intelligent man anywhere whe
believes that statement to betrue.-tha
we have need toimport any woods from
anywhere to mix with our wools for an!
purpose. It has cometo be awell knowr
fact that we can, and under proper en-
couragement Of the industry shall, pro
duce in this country every kind OF wool