The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-07-21
a eLAoRANT FRAUD.
Republicans Trying 70 Fool The rarDess
IN the WO0l Question.

Rullibility Of the farmer continues TO DO
unbounded. Under the promise that
tho Mckinley tariff was going TO enrich
him, they induced him TO vote for
continuance Of control in the party
that passed that measure; and now
when he is feeling severely the pinch
which that measure has given him,
they are trying to persuade him that
he is merely suffering from premoni-
ton of what Is going TO happen when
the law Is repealed or modified The
oct has been In force long enough 70
produce all the promised results. II they |
are producible by such legislation. 1t
has not only failed utterly to produce
them, but has on the contrary,
brought disaster TO industry and the
country generally. Yet the upholdcrs
of the act have the effrontery to tell
the country and especially the farm
ers, that it is not the Mckinley act
which is responsible, but the POSSIBLE
ity Of its repeal.
Some of them are going even further
than this. A republican wool buyer In
this city boosted few days since that
he and his associates were doing what
they could to keep the price OF wool
down in order TO create sentiment
among the farmers in favor OF an In
crease in the tariff, in place OF the re-
duction which is so earnestly demanded
by the best interests of all, including
the wool growers themselves Their
plan is to persuade the farmer that the
low price offered is the free trade
price'-a price fixed by the prospect OF
free wool after the democratic congress
assemblies.
This prctcnsc is fraud on its face.
Waving for the present discussion as
70 what the effect is likely to be on
prices of removing or materially low
ering the duty on wool. it is an abso-
lutte certainty that nothing congress is
likely to do or can do at the coming
session will have any effect on the
price of American wool this season.
The market is already opened. The
BUYERS are in the field. The demand
and probable supply are known.
All the elements that go to the making
OF market price are present; and the
pretensc that the possibility OF q
change next season in the tariff on
wool cuts any figure in this seasons
price Is prepostcrous. We believe IT is
q misfortune for the farmer and wool
grower that this is SO. If it were abso-
lutely certain that the duty on wool
would be materially reduced or wholly
removed when congress assemblies, W.
believe he could afford to hold his wool
for the better price which would
eventually follow Dut in the absence
Of absolute assurance on.that point this
seasons wool, or the bulk of it, will
, have to be marketed ut this seasons
price fixed as it is by the relations Of
demand and supply. and injuriously at
. fected as it has been by the operations
Of the Mckinley act. If 1t is any lowel
than can be fully accounted for by ref
ercnce to these conditions, that fact 1
!, probably due to some such combina
ton as that limited at by the wool
buyer between himself and his asso
!. GATES TO crowd the price down in orde
70 create q reaction in favor of tn
n tariff.
: II is a we'll understood fact that on
q Of the chief uses Of our high grad
4 American woods Is to mix with tn
a cheap foreign WOODS. III the latte
were imported free of duty there woul
, be. for an obvious reason. an increase
!, demand for them and consequently 10
q the American woods to mix with them
:" The heavy duty has lcssened the de
!, mand for foreign WOODS because IL
a crease of price lessons consumption
and as q result there has been fallin
q of In the demand for American WOO
(, and corresponding fall in price. "
l. the tariff men still offer their di
credited panacca with a faith that
o. perfectly marvellous. They seem
r. have a notion that the homeopath
ID law of like curing like applies
economies. High tariff has lowcre
I the price OF wool: therefore TO raise Il
oricc put on more tariff. And they G.
st pcct the farmers to De fooled again |
s. .uch nonsense.
,c Oaly few days ayo the Ohio rcpu
N cans incorporated in their platform
in rnand for such full and adcqua
n rejection for the wool industry rs w
# liable the American farmer TO supp
,c woo, required for consumption
m ac United States" But the Amcric;
er ..ru.cr-thc intellid ht farmer, that
r. docs not want to supply ''thc wo
ne eouired for consumption in the Unit
IS satcs." lie can do better by supplyii
!" ne hgh-priccd portion OF 1.-THE fin
az rrades--and permitting the cheap
a rralcs to be raised abroad where lai
lr- md labor are cheaper. There is
as money for him in raising cheap WOO
in ara would not be if the tariff we
n made psohibitory. Tw. thirds OF I
al WOOL brought into the country fro
nv abroad is coarse wool Of q kind I'll
tie would compel the American farmer,
liz undertook To raise 1t. To grow Z
lis sheep in order to get dollars wor'
he Is he going into that sort OF an cns
he prise when, by raising finer grade.
can get twice as much for SIM
sheep? The Ohio republicans and
ito combine that is trying TO bear the IN
all kct with the cry of free trade price
Is. went him to do so; but if he is wise
ter will take warning by experience a
ost steer clear of them sll.-Detroit II
yn L'rcss.
- -Gov Mckinley Is letting Moth
'h0 - o,v,x, that NAV be- AN ADVANTAGE