The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-09
to 1854. tho number Of sheep increased 100 per

to 1854, tho number Of sheep increased 100 per
cent.
! In 1850 the number of sheep was q. 000,-
Uo0, and IN 1867 it was 49, DOC, 900, an increase
Of Is per cent. in seven years, or an In
crease OF over 10 per cent. year under
free wool This rate of increase has never
been approached under protection
The assertion that sheep increased 100
Fer cent. ''in the first seventeen years of
protsction.' p is totally utterly and meanly
| false 10 employ the choice phraseology
| OF the politest phrase known for it in
! English literature. If | were 20 say the
Times tiled, mere as elsewhere, ii would
no doubt rush into print and call some
other respected citizen .'cheap black
guard Twill merely say, therefore. That
the Salt Lake Times has deliberately palmed
of on its readers the statement that sheep
increased $50 per cent. while the fact is,
the increase WIS only 80 per cent. These
are the government figures from the stats
tical abstracts. The Times has merely
added ivO per cent. 10 the actual total in
crease--thsts all. Notice the next:
The increase of sheen in the latter period was
rom =. III cq0 to 50,5tO009 and the increase OF
the wool clip was from. %, 26s 900 pounds TO $50
100000 pounds.
In this case the Times does not "Iie,n we
may suppose; it merely gives the number
OF sheep in 1860 SIS the number in 1867
that's all and it merely gives the clip OF
some other year. probably 1859, as that Of
IS61--thars all.
The number OF sheep il 1867 was 80,
1856, 'e5, Statistical Abstract Of the United
States. for 1889, page 296. The wool clip
of the United States in 1867 was 1e0, 900, coo
pounds. T. Dodge. statistcian Of the
department Of agriculture, in thirteenth
treasury abstract page 19l. The clip for
1854 was 800 OO0, 600 pounds according to
the same authority. The Times merely ex-
aggersted the increase by 100 400, 600
pounds-thaps all No 'lie' of course-a
mere untrrth.
In 1855 the tarir on wool was reduced and a
little later came the menace OF the Mills free
wool bill.
Under this reduction and this threat the
number of sheep quickly declined from $780,,
CO IA 1851 TO 4, 100000 il 1880
Tho slight reduction Of the wool tariff,
then, seemed 20 revive the sinking wool In
aust-y, for IN two years after, tne number
Of sheep in this country was the greatest
ever known. "What produced this resulp'
the result Of 30, $50. 2aS sheep three years
altar the Sigh. reduction-was no doubt
the reduction of the wool tariff stimulat-
lug our manufactures and increasing their
demand for wool. The paper says tae
free trade professor of Logan" makes the
remarkable assertion that 1.-THE tariff builda
&c AHuuSiI CoNnHu1u-ltOm d Fside Ol
Sl32, GOO, coo in 1861 to value of only Sl6,-
Geo, OD0 il 1892. We do not know whore he
gets these figures, but we know he Is very
paCly mistaken IN his conclusiOns.n
The figures are not those of any tsfree
trade professor They are found on
pages 1856 and $40 Of the Statistical sb-
stracts Tor 1889 and 1891. The second fig
IRE is sll6.0Oo. 900. The decrease in the
vslGe of protected sheep in twenty-four
years of protection mas been y per cent
Sheep are the only animals whose value
has decreased
In my next i shall take up the absurd
claim of the Times that it lis not liar"
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