Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-06

WOOL.
We put wool on the dutiable Inst higher
| than II was before. CnueT the reduction of
duty IN 1881, the woOl-growlng industry OF
the United States began 10 decay, and in
| i've years II .U00. 600 sheep disappeared In
/ 1888 One-fourtn OF the woOlen mills of the
! L nntd States were idle and their opera
| tveS thrown out OF employment The Nc
/ klnlcy law increased the duty on wool.
made II adequately productive. and IN
| single year the sheep IN the | nlted states
/ increased l,500, O00 and the wool product
/ increased 1000, 90 pounds; not only that
/ but the Importation of WOODEN goods that
/ year decreased S1LO010OU, with no de-
| crease IN the domestic production of WOODEN
| goods. We simply made them at home IN
/ stead OF sending money abroad 10 buy
I them from there Applause /, and to-day,
/ ladies' and gentlemen. there Is not WOODEN
/ mil IN the nlteu States that Is not run
! nlng, anu large numUer have been added.
/ W ny, the Democratic party, as | reCol-
( lect, II succeeded IN 1880, IN eIectlng con-
/ gTeSS. they elected that congress on
4 platform that they would repeal the Nc
| kinley law, and now many majority did
I they have? one hundred and seventy
/ i've. A tremendous majority IN session,
month after month, month after month,
month after mon,h-and what were they
/ doing Simply iirlng paper-wadS at the
! Mchlnley law. Laughter and applause.
/ Why didn't they repeal II If It was such
/ robbery? They passed bill putting wool
j on the free list They say IN their ma GRITTY
report that the duty on wool has not been
/ OF any benefit to the farmer; that 1t has
not increased the price of wool that is a
/ falSeh0od, but they say ~ ana the taking
ot duty oil of wool would not decrease The
/ price OF WOOL TO Tie farmer. In the next
+ Inc they say they take the duty oil OF wool
/ because |, Is raw material and they want
/ to cheaper the cost OF woolenS. Ii taking
/ the duty OF of wool would not diminish
/ the price OF wool now would 1t diminish
the price of woOlenS? Two million men
IN the United states engaged III sheep
| raising this last Yea- that produced 2o0,-
GOJ,UOJ pounds of WOOL. The value OF the
farmers sheep in the United States to-day
Is Sill 100000 and his income from wool
| last year was N2S, UOJ,U}J, and yet this
Democratic house repealed so much of the
! mckinley law as 10 put WOO on the free
| hSt-let it come in here without restriction
tile wool of Australia and south America.
IL had the time / could show You that IN
Australia they have good grass all the year
| around except when they have an occa-
slonal drought. They get tnelr lands from
the crown and they pay only cents an
| acre by the year and three acres TO the
| sheep; so that 1t only cost them cents for
! the Sheep the whole year round. They
| have multiplied that industry and increased
1t so that it is as plain as anything can be
sheep huSbandry of the Uulted States must
| be Killed; but these men-tnlnk of 1t a
minute these men take the duty Off wool
| and yet they leave duty by their bill CT
80 per cent. on wooden cloths. They talk
/ to us about class leg islation-what is that
but class legislation? ~ discriminating
! against 2,O0U0OJ men engaged IN sheep
! huSbandry and discriminating IN favor or
go. 900 men engaged IN the manufacture of
wooden cloth.
That is not all. We put prohibitory
! duty on Shoddy of 80 cents a pound and
! kept hlgh duty on rags and waste To
| keep that peSt-lauen stun out OF the United
States, and to improve the quality of the
clothing which our people wore. Great
! applause. The oil which they reported
from the committee and which passed the
house, putting wool ON the free list and
leaving woolenS 80 per cent. dutiable.
made rags free and put Shoddy at cents
pound This great patrl0uc Democratic
| congress- dominated by the South largely,
| Disseminated against the American farmer
and in favor of the Paris rag picker, ask
/ the farmer of Wisconsin TO stand by them
and vote tor free wool and free trade all
along the line : VIII you do it?
a yoiee-'No, never" Applause.
BIsMARCK's TESTIMONIAL.
They nave had a great deal to say about
! the farmer having no protection under the
! Mckinley law. | cannot take the time to
! go into 1t tonight, out on tobacco the
| farmers market laSt year was 81 100000
more than 1t was the year before, and we
saved to the farmers OF this country by the
! duties levied by the Mckinley law upon
their products in gross Sl6,0O0,000 as
! against the year preceding the enactment
| OF the tariff law. Now when the free
| trader talks about the tariff as robbery
and undertakes TO satisfy the people that
! 1t is class legislation and ought to be
| wiped away, he takes upon himself an
| awful big contract, 1t was Prince Bis
| marck, the great statesman of Germany,
whom our people remember as standing
i'll his white uniform beside the old emperor
when the ensign OF united Germany was
| planted To stand forever-it was Prince
! Bismarck who said that he had watched
the course of America. He had seen her
wonderful progress and he aScrlDed it to
her protective tariff system. l want to
read it.
1.-The success of the United States IN ma
| terlal development IS the most IlluSri0us
of modern times. The American nation
| has not only successfully borne and sup
/ pressed the most glgantc and expensive
war OF all history, but immediately after
| ward diSbanded It's army, found work for
! all is soldiers and bereayed, paid for
almost all of It's deOIS, gave labor and
| homes to all OF the unemployed of Europe
| as fast as they could arrive within its terri
! tory; and has done ali this ny system OF
| taxation so indirect as not 10 be perceived,
much less to be felt; because 1t IS my de-
! liDerate judgment that the prosperity of
America Is manly due to its system of
! protective laws,al urge that Germany has
now reached that point where 1t is neceS-
sary 10 initiate the tariff system of the
| United States And Germany thereapOn
adopted protective tariff under which the
| industries of Germany have trebed and
the wages of German labor have increased
355 per cent. Great applause. And
| that is the utterance or a statesman who
| stood away from US unbiased by our poll
| ties without prejudice oil section; but look
| ing upon us from distance with the eyes
| OF keen statesman and philosopher;
and that Judgment Of our prosperity md
| OF our policy put IN vogue among his own
| people. And when the tree trader ar
| Iaigns protection as a system of robbery
he impeaches the judgment and the in
tegrlty and the common sense of every
people unGer the sum- except Great Britain.
France has her protective tariff, Germany
| her protective tariff, Italy her protective
tariff, Canada her protective tarllf. A us-
tria, Russia, all of them protective tariff,
| and what awful fools they must al be II
| the free trader il ripht IApuIause.