The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-27

upon sugar, moro OF Wnlcn u CuuuulueA
BY the nottingham than by the million
afro probably because he has better
digestionl. In other words, the Demo.
cratic policy, which you favor, is to re-
liave taxation from the back Of the
millionaire who is we'll able 10 bear II,
and put it upon the stomach Of the
nottingham who is least able TO bear
it, aud you thus tax him more heavily
than you tax the millionaire; because
you tax an article oiwhich he consumes
more than is consumed by the milllon-
airc.
some soLEIN PAcTE.
The placing Of wool on the free list
makes it impossible for the American
wool grower to compete on even terms
in his own markets with the wool grow
er Of Australia and the Argentine re-
public, for the reason that the freight
on wool from the sections OF the United
States, where the bulk OF the wool Is
from four to six times as great as the
freight on wool hall way round the
world from Australia to our own mar
kets. The freight on wool from Austria:
liz by sailing vessel is only one-hali
cent per pound; the freight on wool
from any OF yonr Ohio farms to our east
ern market Is greater than this, but'she
competition from London is even great
'er. The wool grower from Ohio cannot
ship his wool by rail to Boston, New
York, or Philadelphia as cheapiy as
wool can be brought by sea from Lon
don. The freight on wool from London
to New York Is only I cent per pound,
which is about half OF what 1t costs the
Ohio farmer to freight his wool to east
ern cities.
In many sections OF the Rocky Noun
tain regions the freight is 8 cents per
pound on wool to the seaboard. This
IL twelve times as much or 200 per
cent greater than the freight on the
same kind Of wool from London to our
own market; six times as much or GOO
per cent greater than the freight on
wool from Melbourne, Australia, to our
own market How, then, can the
American wool growers exist If there IL
no longer any projections ia tile way OF
tariff duties2 Many Democrats believe
that the wool growing industry on the
open range of our territories whore
sheep are herded all the year round
would not be destroyed in the event Of
free wool, but the value OF wool to-day
on the free trade or London basis for
Rocky Mountain wool ranges from one
TO four cents only on the ranch; that is
to say, the London value, which with
free wool would be value here, Is only 8
cents on Colorado merino heeces, the
cost of shipping to market is cents, so
that 1t nets the Colorado wool grower
only one cent, which is less than the
cost Of shearing.
LONDON VALUES.
The London or free wool value Of
Montana wool is 0 cents in the market,
or cents on the ranch, the cost of ship.
ping it to market being cents. We
are lust now quite familiar with the
London values because we have recent
~ been sending American woods there
for the purpose of ascertaining their
value in the outside markets of the
world, of which London is the main
market, and unless the growers of the
Rocky Mountain regions can raise wool
to net from one to four cents Q pound
ON the ranch that industry will be de-
stroyed with free trade, and more than
half the sheep in the United states are
on the western half OF our continent
Even in Australia, which is greatly
favored by climate for wool growing
purposes, under free trade finds the
wool business so improbable that dur
ing the past year over four million OF
sheep in the country were boiled down
for tallow because they had no other
value for any other purpose. Some oil
these sheep, within one hundred and
fifty miles of the great city OF Mel
bourne, were sold for the pititul price
pence or II cents per head.
II Australia, with the advantages
which it possesses, and which are un-
equaled by any conditions here, finds
wool Improbable under free trode, the
United States most certainly could not
raise wool under the same conditions,
for here through the winter months we
feed our sheep the crops which are oil
labor. 1t costs nothing TO grow the hay
and grain which We feed here to the
sheep in winter, the cost of these
articles being mainly the labor OF plant
ing, the labor Of cultiyating, the labor
of harvesting, and the labor OF feeding.
THEIR ADVANTAGE.
In Australia the sheep Craze out all
the year round; the grass there in win
ter is better than it is in summer: with
free wool, the only farmers in the
United States who can continue to
raise wool will be those situated near
enough in cities to find a market for
their sheep for mutton purposes, as 1t
is now in most parts OF Europe. Aus.
tralia and the Argentine Republic
have driven the raising OF merino
sheep almost from the face of Europe,
leaving no wool grown there OF any i'm.
portance except the coarse wool sheep,
which are the mutton sheep.
With free wool here in the United
States we would suffer the same fate,
for seventy-fYe per cent oil our sheep
are msrinos, which are not suitable for
mutton; the other twenty-five per cent
being similar to the English, producing
only coarse woods. The wool industry
OF the United States is the sixth largest
of the agricultural industries. In 1893,
the value OF the sheep in the United
States was over S1S7, 100000 This was
their value when the tariff Of 1867 was
repealed; at this date, since the pros.
pect OF free wool, the value OF the sheep
in the United States has fallen to S90,.
100000, and with FREQ wool the value
will fall fifty per cent or more, or to
$40, 0O0, 900, so that in one year after
wool is put on the free list, predict the
number OF sheep in the United States
will not exceed one-haltot the present
nnnihar. and their value will be thirty