The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-10-12
AN IploTIc RAM RAISER.

Some one has sent us a part of the
National Stockman and Farmer, con-
tanning the advertisement of Farmer
Mcdowell, of Stark county, who calls
himself "The Shepherd Lad of Canton"
In this advertisement we find the fol-
lowing remarkable language
"Wholesale trade stopped on account
of Western banks smashed up and
Democratic intention to put wool on
free list. Don't forget to help elect
Mckinley, or you will take ten cents
for your washed wool in Ohio. We
have slaughtered prices to meet the
times. Six hundred rams, of wonder
full vigOr, size aud wool quality to meet
the demand In Ohio for better sheep"
In order to understand just how big
a fool a man who breeds rams can
make of himself, let us look at the
wool market as touched by the McKin-
ley bill.
In the Boston wool market report to
the Ohio State Journal central Pro-
lection organ) under date of Oct, 8, we
read as follows:
"There is q big amount of wool in the
choice, medium sections of Ohio that is
held at 25c S9 10, but it will have to be
held for some time longer before that
price can be realized. In the fine wool
sections zoe is an average price, but
there is no profit in the wool here on
that basis even. Our market is quoted
at 21@22c for X, 23c for Xxx and 2ic for
Xxx and above, and in this range some
10000 10 have beeen sold. There have
been sales of 5000 b medium Ohio at
"a, 10OO0tb No. 1 at 24@25c and 5000 ID
fine medium at 22cf d."
Now, keep this market quotations
in your mind, while we review very
briefly some wool tariff legislation. In
the spring and summer of 1890, the
Ohio Wool Growers Association sent
Judge Lawrence and Columbus Delano,
Zone an ex-Congressman and the other
an ex Cabinet Minister to Washington
to secure high tariff on wool. Iti
known that Mckinley gave them just
what they asked for, and the schedule
prepared by these dress parade sheep
farmers was enacted into law.
What was the resultP
A big drop in the price of wool, just
as predicted by every tariff reform
writer in the United States.
Every wool grower in the U. s.
knows it. Wool, with the biggest tariff
on it for protection ever known, went
lower than ever before known.
These are the facts, as the market
quotations will show.
What caused the result. Manufactur-
ers quit making woolen goods, and
commenced working old rags and COW
hair into shoddy cloth for farmers,
who raise sheep, to wear. And they
have been compelled to wear it.
Old rags have been imported 5000
miles across the Atlantic, from the
cholera infected alleys of European
cities, and the cast off garments of
European paupers have been brought
to the United States by the ship load,
to be run through fumigator and
mixed with cows hair and goats hair
and made into cloth to clothe just such
farmers as Farmer Mcdowell, who has
rams to sell, with no market.
Why, the horrid Horr, who is now on
the stump for Mckinley in Ohio, had a
$11 suit of clothes on exhibition at
Ravenna, few nights ago, which he
exhibited to an admiring audience,
showing how Protection had cheapened |
OF course he did not say that this suit |
of clothes was shoddy, made.of the i'm
ported rags of European paupers and
COW hair, and manufactured in a sweat |
shop, by bent-backed women, with |
fetid breaths and consumptive coughs;
but the exhibition of the clothes called |
forth much applause. Everybody, who |
knows anything, knows that wool has
been lowest with the highest tariff, and
the shepherd lad of Canton, with vigor-
Gus rams to sell at half price, had bet
ter withdraw his self contradictory ad-
vertisment, lest some of his good
friends institute proceedings to send
him to the asylum for idiots.