The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-04

cf paaper labor 20 the hop fields The Nc
kinley hop duty aEec.s the cost OF labor
N hop production. The Democratic tariff
for revenue only viii ruin the American
industry and turn over the American hop
market 10 foreign producers. This same
tariff for revenue only means not only free
hops, but free barley. The Mckinley tai
n has cut down the barley imports from
Canada which formerly amounted 10 about
100000 Bushels year by several mil
Ion bushels. 80 that the American pro-
ducer today supplies = large por-
ton OF the barrier imported from
Canada prior 20 the enactment
Of the Mckinley tariff n October, 1850.
The price OF American barley IS low owing
70 the enormous production, but OF course
the removal Of the present duty OF 30 cents
would mean very much lower pr6es. for II
would make the United States again the
market for Canadian barley. The United
States can grow al the barley it needs and
q grea. deal more. In Northern New York,
Wisconsin and Montana this country pro
daces barley equal 10 the best Canadian.
Tariff for revenue only means Tree wool.
The Democratic party have thus declared
for free wool in face OF the Amos. unani-
nous Petition TO congress from both wool
growers and wool manufacturers tina. the
law be permitted TO stand IS il Is. The
number of wooden mills has increased;
the Jocks OF the United States have
increased By more than Isl. go
sheep. There has been = reduction
OF 81, .oo II the imports OF foreign
WOODEN goods; an increased number Of
people have secured employment and the
people get al the woolens they require st
smaller cost than ever before
Free wool robs the wool growers Of the
United States Of the entire tari. protec-
ton they have enjoyed since 1916 This
first wool tariff vas enacted by q Demo-
cratic administration 8 tariff urged by e1-
the war Of lsi2-l4 and approved By him
when enacted in public letter. The e1-
traordinary wool production Of Australia,
South Africa and South America has
glUtted the markets Of the world 50 that
the price OF foreign wool has greatly de-
elined, but our wool tariff has kept the
price OF domestic wool above the level o:
foreign wool by nearly the full amount Of
the daily and has protected our wool clip
from the unrestricted Influx OF foreign
supply.
Free wool would wipe out American
Eool-growing. which today produces some
81, 0oo. 900 pounds. and engages the labor
of ST least 81, 90 persons. The wool man
Uiactu-i1g industry has grown in thirty
years 375 per cent. in the United States 70
5. per cent. in Great Britain, and another
year under the Mckinley tariff would
make rs the greatest wool manufacturing
people on the globe. Thi. is the situation
OF the wool growing and wool msnufscsu-
ring industry Of the United States that the
Democratic tariff for revenue only would
destroy. VIVA. do the voters OF the wool
growing state of Washington think OF this
modern Democracy that proposes 20 de-
priye the wool grower OF the protection he
has enjoyed since 1916?
Tariff fo- revenue only means free lurn-
Der. Prices for lumber are fearfulIT low
q. present, and free lumber means the sur
render Of our Lumber market 10 British
Columbia What do the worklngmen en-
ployed in the various branches OF the lUn-
Der industry think OF ,s-if for revenue
only. which means free lumber, and free
lumber means either ; surrender Of or
home market 10 Canada OF CIT in wages
70 luuoermen 20 the level Of the labor OF
Canada How large majority do the De-
moc-acy expect TO ges for Cleveland in
Washington and Oregon under tariff fo-
revenue only. which means free wool, free
coal, free hops and free lumber?