The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-25

calling without resultant benefit 10 any
but foreigners and the importers of their
products"
One might suppose from this language
that the farmers of Indiana had met in
general convention and were uncorking
the walls of their wrath, but such is not
the case. These brave words were issued
by some two dozen gentlemen who devote
their time to taking ribbons at fairs and
selling fancy sheep TO deluded but am
bilious farmers. AS matter OF fact not
one farmer In ten in Indiana owns any
sheep. and those who do own them
usually keep them to destroy weeds
or to raise mutton, and not for
wool-growing. Year after year these
ram-breeders have been working the
farmer" scheme ON the country, and
whai have they accomplished? Under
the highest tariff ever known the price
OF wool steadily decreased and so did the
number OF sheep. In 1877 Mr.. CLEVELAND
made his stand for free wool. and the
ram-breeders began fighting him. In 1888
the election of Mr. HARRIsoN was pur-
chased, and in 1890 the ram-breeders re-
ceived their law increasing the duty on
wool. On Jan. Is. 1890, the Indianapolis
Journal quoted wool, "unwashed medium
and common grades, 25c; bury and
cottsd, 10000" On Jan. Is, 1898. the
day on which these resolutions were
adopted it quoted wool. fine merino. 100
lSc; unwashed combing, DC" And ret
these Indiana ram-breeders have the
nerve TO say that "the duties on foreign
wool. established by the tariff OF 1890,
have given a stimulus to the wool industry
and an encouragement to farmers gener-
ally to engage in sheep husbandry to an
extent never witnessed In this country
before"
We would really like to know what use
any honest and intelligent farmer, or any
other man. can have for a collection of
men who can reconcile their consciences
to such q declaration as that A ialsehood
on its face. An utterly preposterous asser-
ton, known to be untrue by every man
who has sold a pound of wool in the last
three years. And, not satisfied with that,
they insult the intelligence of the country
with this:
Ii 10 an undeniable fact that no well-in-
formed and candid man will have the
hsrdihood to controvert that all the staple
wooden goods, and most of the fancy
goods, may now be obtained in the
greatest abundance at a cost to consumers
less than ever before in the history of the
country. except at brief Intervals of uni
versal panic and financial crisis, thus al
ready demonstrating that wooden goods of
foreign manufacture. and raw wool of
foreign production, are compelled to pay
the duty without an increase of price az
which the same are sold to the consumer
In this country.
There is not a well-informed man in the
country who does not know that the
price of al real WOODEN goods has been
largely increased by the Mckinley bill
not one who does not know that Ameri-
cans never before GOT SO much cotton and
shoddy in their all WOOL goods es now.
For number of years the papers have
been giving accounts of the quarrels be-
tween the National Wool-growers' assOcia-
ton and the National wooden manufactur-
ers' association, and every one knows that
the whole wool schedule is the result of a
compromise. by which the one was TO be
allowed to try 10 rob the people on wool
and the other to rob them on wooden
goods. Every person Of common sense
knows that if the duty were removed
from wool and cut down at least ono-haIf
on wooden goods. we would al have better
and cheaper clothing better and cheaper
blankets. better and cheaper carpets
There is no one item of the
tariff so important TO every man,
woman and child in the country as
this one of WOO en- goods. II falls on rich
and poor alike-naY, heavier on the poor,
for at this very hour hundreds of iil-clad
unfortunates are suffering bodily anguish
on account of it.
And now we say to the farmers of In
diana, why do you stand idly by and let
this handful of schemers speak for you
and speak falsely? You know that they
do not speak in your real interest. You
know that they do not speak YOUR real
sentiments. Are you going to let congress
believe that they do? You complain OF
trusts and combines and monopolies. Are
you going to rest quietly while these
Sdluc lhtclCSlo kOb ~ buCi Obkuc
sensations TO influence national legislation
in their favor? Why do you not as-
sembls and denounce these pretenders?
What are your f. NJ. B. A, and your
Wheel, and your Patrons of Industry and
the rest of your organizations doing for
tariff reform? Are you letting the world
know what you think about that system
of robbery, or are you devoting your at
tention to demagogues who are trying to
make you believe you can get q share of
the steal by the sub-treasury scheme or
some other equally absurd device? You
do not want any class legislation. What
you need is to get rid of class legislation.
Why not make q stand for your true in
terests? Why not begin bv exposing the
false pretenses of the Indiana wool
growers association?
CONGRESSMAN WAUGH of this state ia de-
claring that the democrats are planning
Wholesale attack on the whole pension
system Congressman WAUGH knows this
statement to be false. The democrats will