The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-11-01

! our manufacturers moro than we are
protecting them now. You appear to
! know more about their interests than
they do themselves otherwise why
| should 50 per cent. OF all OF the Ameri-
can WOODEN manufacturers join in petit
| ton to the United states senate against
The placing OF wool on the free list
! You can see in the New York DdHg Ifi-
| Juns OF September Is the telegram an
nouncing from Washington that WOODEN
| manufacturers protested tor seven hours
| before the ways and means committee
| against any disturbance oil the Mckinley
| duties.
You say THAI American wool cannot
| be manufactured into as fine goods az
are produced by a combination OF
American aud foreign woods. Here
you are again greatly in error. The
late Captain j. P. Bradley, OF Ballard
vile. Mass, and, believe, also Mr.
Moses Stephens, a member OF the pres
ent committee OF ways and means,
made goods quarter OF a century aga
OF American pick lock or Saxony wool
which were so extremely fine that d
yard OF it could be drawn through
| lady's finger ring. No finer goods can
be made to-day from any wool grown III
any other part OF the world. Hundreds
OF thousands OF pounds OF this plcE:
lock or Saxony wool, with diameter OF
from 2,2O0 to $500 iibers TO the inch,
was sold under this very ROOF in former
years.
WHAT ABOUT omo's CLIP?
1t is quite true, as you say, that ii the
duty on foreign wool be removed the
American manufacturers would become
bidders on foreign wool. Ii American
manufacturers are 10 supply themselves
with foreign wool it would only be be-
cause it would be cheaper to them than
Ohio wool Vino then will be lett to
buy the Ohio clip and what is to be-
come OF it? II American wool falls to
| the foreign price under free trade, the
Ohio sheep will be fOttened and sent to
the butcher, and wool growing in Ohio
| will cease to be an industry there except
| in limited cases where the farmers can
produce the coarser wool sheep Tor the
meat, as they now produce cattle for
that purpose.
WILSON FROM AWAY BACK.
Chairman Wilson, OF the committee
OF ways and means, being wholly I'M
able to find any plausible reason for the
removal OF the duty upon wool, had to
resor. for an illustration to compar.
ison with conditions in 1857. He
stated that wool in 1857 was put on the
free list, and that at that timo We were
prosperous" Now, what were then the
existing conditions? In July, 1857,
&N Ohio wool was worth 60 cents, and
wool was then put on the free list; then,
rs now. the Democrats had control oil
all branches OF the government. James
Buchanan was President and both
| branches OF Congress were Democratic.
What followed? a financial panic
spread all over the country, and BY the
end OF that year XX Ohio wool had fall
len from 60 to 30 cents, decline OF 80
|, per cent in six mouths. Chairman
Wilson points to this condition as
happy state OF affairs, and invites the
American people 10 a new trial of the
same experience Besides, in 1857, the
conditions OF the worlds supply we're
very unlike those OF 1893 Australia
then produced only 30,00O00O pounds
OF secured wool, as against 250OOOOOO
pounds in 1878, an increase oil over 700
per cent; the River Platte produced
only 100000 pounds OF secured wool,
and in 1893 that country produced no.
OO0,OO pounds OF secured wool, an in
crease OF 1000 per cent. The Cape oil
Good Hope in 1857 produced only
100000 pounds oil secured wool, while
in 1898 that country produced 100000
pounds OF secured wool, an increase OF
100 per cent. Thus the worlds supply
OF wool in 1898 is drawn from the south
ern hemisphere, where. by reason OF per-
enniaI pastures better in winter than in
summer, wool can be produced at from
10 to - cents per pound below its cost
IN the rigorous winter climate oil the
United States, while in 1857 the bulk OF
the worlds supply came from the north.
ern hemisphere. where, owing to winter
feeding, wool growing is always more
costly than in Australia.
HIGH PRICES FOR FOREIGNERS.