The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-12-14
PREPARING A FIGHT,
REPUBLICANS ARE SENDING OUT CIR
CULhR3 BY tbs THOUSANDS.

They Tackle the Wool Tariff Some Points
THAT Southern Senators May Find OBJ
! Jsctl"u Against We siernerd Arc Fairly
! Wen Pleased with the Ta,in Byu.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The Repub.
llcans are preparing for vigorous fight
on the new tariff bill. Circular letters
are now being sent ont TO wool growers
| by thousands e'1nnd by Justice. Bate
man e Co., Phi'aG,'D'ia wool com n;s.
SION merchants, asking that certain WOO,
dam he sent to Congressman Bu,ro vs.
! Tho circular says:
state to Mr.. Burrows the reason
why You cannot grow wool aa cheaply
here rs it can be grown in Australia
ArGentioc Republic or the CaDo of
Good Hope, where for thirty years under
Tree trade they have grown wool, shipped
II half way around the world and sold il
| in London at less than one half of tha
price obtained III the United States
under proteCtivn tariff tor the same
grade and quality Of A uericau wool,
! Ut has been stated that wool grow
my east OF the Mississippi, on high
priced lands, nu Ter free wool might
cease TO he an industry, but that IN the
Rocky Mountain region the industry
would thrive under tree wool. Please
give yCur experience during the past
season, and let Mr.. Burrows know
w2ethor the prospect of free wool has
80 stimulated the business as to lead to
lhe belief that wool growing would
Jhrlvc anywhere in the United States
0ndar tree wool, and why. Has the
| prospect OF Tree wool caused the baux.
rup;cy of auy wool grower who ha
previously been solvent and prosperous?
Ii SO state the proposition Of those s.,
injured who heretofore were solvent.
III proper efforts are made by the
wool growers to enli-hleu members Of
Congress az to the cfltca already pro.
duccd upon their industry by the
prospects of FREQ wool, tho opinions O.
enough senators may thereby be changed
TO make The repeal Of tic Mckinley
law an impossbillty."
Conservative Democrats estimate the
deliciL caused by the new bill will not
exceed a35 100000 They claim that
III addition to revenue Of 10000 900
10 $4,000, 900, TO BIZ derived from
stimulated importation, the natural
Increase ct importation, had not the
hard times set il, would have amounted
thls Year to from $1,000 900 to
$40 900, 900. With the resumptl IN OF
business this increase, they think, will
BE- fully realized.
R!2e sugar, iron ore and coal ara tn
principles in which southerners are n
terealcd, and all have been subjected 10
vigorous treatment, There is 25 pc
cen. in Tho duty on cleaned rice and 20
pc: cent. on the uncleated prodoct.
Representatives of South Carolina,
Fiorlla and Louisiana probably will
make an effort to restore the rates.
Inc western members seem to be tair.
ly well satisfied with the bill. Repro.
sentative Baldwin, whose district in
Miuucsotu Includes many lroa mines. is
lar from being djsmaye1. '.ltmay posi-
bly, retard the development of the coun.
try Tor 81 short time" said he, "but it
will bring the irol business to iis prop ,r
commercial basis and then attention will
be directed 10 those fields where the ore
can re most easily worked. When that
t!me comes the western mines will be
developed with startling rap:dity."
Representative BOatncr, Of Louisiana.
says: MY objection to the bill is that
IL !a!!S bcio" the pom; o. raising rev.
cnn". Ii they had put q small revenue
tuty til HOiIc ol LUC LIlDOS which are on |
the Tree lj9t under this bill, which ould
not have affected the cost of the arti.
cIes to tue consumers, but would have
added 10 tho revenue OF the bill. it would
have bccn measure entirely uaobiec- |
uonable."
Representative Gear, Of Iowa, a Re-.
publican member Of the ways and
means committee, says: "Tnc cut ia
The schedule RELAXING to agricultural pro.
ducts will hu;t Iowa, as we'll as al
states cOntlgu III u the Canadian bor.
der, by subiecilns L'.,'ir farmers to com.
petition with The agricultural products
of Canada" William r.. Morrison, ,
chairman Of The IN n'ersta!e commission.
said:
"lt IS very easy 20 criticjse the actions
Ol others, and besides the whole scheme
has not been developed. | ought TO be
aa!isticd with The woolcu schedule, as it
vas my bill! which first placed wool on
the free list, and have been an advo-
cate Of That ever since"
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