Mohave County miner., 1894-10-06
F~s Wool.

many years. the democratic party wa,
In msjor,ty, both In senate and house
and with . democratic president At IN.
helm, II was expected that the inismoa.
Mckinley bill xould receive i,s veil de.
esvsI qssstus.
When this bill vas pissed. It's advo
.. pfomo,ors and = republican press
essied that the long expe: e:,ed good
) were upon as, that the factories
g old world would stop manuf .c,ur.
tasnd that the field Of activity would
transferred TO this country
" was prophesied that our eastern
.mercial msrts would oe the center ol
sssivity, that the manufacturing centers
would De veritsble beehives, that the
furnaces would be we'll stocked night and
day.
THESE prophets have oil proven to be
false prophets, our republican press have
not had the chance to prove that the
Mckinley b:Ii had brought in its train,
prosperity. welfare and happiness TO the
msjority Of our people.
We do not believe that they even at
tempted to prove il, for the ialsehood
would have been discovered st once. II
they would have demonstra ed that this
bill Was tina cause Of making the IN .nu.
facturer richer, the spscnlAtor prosper
Gus, ana the millionaire still richer, they
would have succeeded, for just that was
the outcome, the SUN total OF the Nc
Kinley bill. And that the people knew
the Ia al results. knew that this insiduous
measure was xnawing At ths vitAls Of the
nation, was demonstrated by the enor.
nous maj ,rity by which Mr.. Cleveland
and the democratic IN rity in Congress
we're elected.
Democrats, alone could not have
elected such radical ch ,ngs 10 the
complexion Of the national policy, they
were assisted by the independent think.
Ing TepuOilcdu VOteTs
The Mckinley bill had pnt a heavy
duty on almost all raw IN 4feri ais which
are necessary for manufsc'urioy pu,-
poses. Wool which is produced in large
Quantities in this country Was taxed per
pound and al vaiorem, 80 to foster the
h,me product. DID ths Mckinley bill
effect its benevolent purpose? No. in
deed. IL af,:ted the sale of large sur
plus stocks held by m,nui .c;urers and
importers, raised the price OF manu-
factured ,olen goods from 3 TO 10 cents
per yard, but stopped almost entirely
the Transformation Of our raw material
into the fabrics Of The loom.
The middle and p)oser classes hal to
pay much higher figures for their ne
cesslties and TO make iniqnity more
iniqutous. the very source from which
they derived a livelihood MAS dried MP
by the operation OF the VI Kialey bill.
OR fActoric. hal shut up. R,w ma.
terial Was taxed 10 protect home in
dustries. Let Us see how it protected.
Wool in Arizons and California sold all
the way from l2c 70 25; per pound be-
fore the pet republic .n bill vent into
operation, and wool growers we're con-
p psrstiysly happy. bat presto change"
Mex .nley's bill reduced the price step by
step, until wool went actually begging to
be bought al 4 cents per pound.
Could the woolyrower get ricn at this
figure, Vas he mo,e prosperous under the
high tariff bill? We rather imagine
he wished Mckinley and his bill in a
place where cl'ahing would he neither
luxury nor necessity. but rather down
night Nuisance.
The new tariff bill hardly went into
effect before the vol market in this
country and the world over began to
NJ ,nutactnrers sent out
their agents to buy the raw material In
Philadelphia, Boston. New York, San
Francisco and European markets. They
need Australian and Soutb American
wools to mix with the home material
and ~ thew could get imported woods
now without paying an extravsesnt
price. they began to purchase and the
very act stiffensd the price Of home
wools, 50 that prosperity is in the wool
growers perspective.
And look at our woolen mills. Thou
sands and hundreds Of thousands are
working and will begin TO fnd emplo"-
ment, when year ago the stiffness in
bus,nesa vas almost death like, and a.