Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-03-17

this country. For the first ten months
under the Mckinley law. as compared
with ten months prior, the imports OF
wooden goods decreased in value, ST.
f7S2, 1868, equal to $1,000, 600 pounds OF
wool; i'll the same ten months the rel
alive decrease in wool imports was
| 4, 900. 900 pounds. making an in
creased demand for sc, ooo. 900 lbs. in
the domestic demand for wool due en-
tirely TO that bill. This decrease has
continued pro rata since then, and by
continuation of our protective sys-
TEN, would soon give our markets to
our farmers. Since the passage of the
Wilson bill in Congress there has been
decrease of 81, 900, 900 in the Ameri-
can product of wool alone, and God
only knows how soon it will be before
our sheep will be slaughtered and dis
appear. The low price of wool results
from the arbitrary and inerciless pol
icy Of the present Democratic admin
istration, which places wool on the
free list, and directly encompasses its
destruction The decrease in focks
and prices shows that the faners do
not wait until wolves fasten their
faIgs in their business, to get away
from destruction.
But, must hurry on, Mr.. Editor,
your space being valuable. The in
creased demand for labor may come,
but it will be pauper-paid and empty
handed. The great mass of idle la
borers will be enlarged, and the way
to the poor house feel many weary,
sore foot.
The last part of this remarkable ed
itorial charges gross and base con-
lspiracy among Republican manufac-
turers, awilful lowering OF wages, clos
ing of factories, and discharge of hands
for effect Great God, what miserable
demagogyl What fearful littlenessl
+ Does not the editor know that the halls
of Congress had hardly ceased rever-
berating with the yells of triumph over
the partial passage of the Wilson bill
before the edict went forth from w. l..
Stevens, Democratic Congressman
from Massachusetts, to the manager OF
his wooden mills in that State, to cut
down the wages of the operatives 20
per cent? Was this Republican con
spiracy2 Was it Republican conspi-
racy that caused the National Wool
Growers Association in convention
assembled in Washington last month
to denounce the Wilson bill because it
would destroy the sheep industry OF
the land, and that caused petition to
be sent to the Senate by that organi-
cation, to amend or defeat that bill
Was it Republican conspiracy that
caused Governor MacCorkle to plead
so pathetically for the defeat Of the coal
schedule, and has even shaken the
pure Democracy of our gracious
Charles James Faulkner? Boshl No
sensible man can TAIL 10 see the fearful
effects of impending ruin. that follow
in the footsteps of a party, utterly, in
capable of governing, and whose rep
resentatives have been rightly accused
of Grass Ignorance" of public matters,
and lack" of craftsmanship. Let Mr..
Dunn reduce the price of his goods
until every thread 10 fibered from for
eigu wool, and still there will not be
any explanation of the proposition
that cheap wool will bring higher
prices to the farmer. Grover Cleveland
during his first administration haunt
ed the banner of Free Wool in the
faces of American farmers, and they
buried it deep i'll the dust And SC
long as our hearthstones are dear to us
SO long as we favor our own people il
preference to those of other countries,
so long as the present administration
continues to evince its incapacity lack
of patriotism, and miserable delays
there will be found among the loyaI
and deserving, toiling millions of this
grand nation sufficient voters to con
denim it and to sweep it again into
oblivion. Abraham Lincoln was right
You can fool part Of the American
people all the time, and you can fool
all the American people part of the
time, but you cannot fool all the
American people all the time
T. S. G.. PITZER.