The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-14
RUIN IN FREE WOOL,
Address of the Ohio Growers to the PEG.
pio of the Country.

Pho OF the country.
COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 5.-The Ohio
Wool Growers association held its an
nual meeting at the Ohio state fair
ground, it being the first since the
German tariff bill became law. Judge
William Lawrence, president of the as
ISOLATION. made a stirring speech, in
which he said the treatment of the
similar to the methods of anarchists
The association issued an address to
the people of the United States which
clearly shows the temper of the wool
growers of the country toward the
new tariff law. The address SAYS:
For seventy-eight years there have been
high tariff duties more or less protecting upon
wool The German law not only denies wool
growers the benefit of tariff for revenue. but
places wool on the free list. though not one
citizen petitioned congress asking it. Until
President Cleveland's free wool message of
December. 1857. all political parties favored
protection for the wool industry. The price OF
foreign wool imports is now so low that with
out protective duties American wool growers
cannot successfully compete with them.
Utter Ruin Threatened.
Free wool as a permanent policy would SUBJ
stantially destroy the American wool industry,
and In large measure annihilate the capital
invested therein. The threat of free wool has
reduced the value Of our 40 600 coo sheep nearly
t7o.cOO.OOO and reduced the price of the wool
OF 1894 more than $50 900 600 below the normal
under adequate protection.
The German law attack on agricultural in
terests is aggravated by the fact that the obi
GUS whisky trust and the sugar trust and
others are amply provided for and protected
Free wool Is an infamous and odious discrim-
ination and conspiracy against all our agricul-
tural industries. AS permanent policy IL
would drive q million of wool growers from
sheep husbandry into increased production OF
hay, wheat, corn, oats, cotton and other prod
ucts, destroy our sheep and reduce the de-
mand they would make for food and thus add
to our existing overproduction and low prices
the ruin OF still further overproduction. This
would take from all farmers large measure
OF their just incomes and render them unable
to patronize merchants, groccrs, mechanics,
schools and churches. All Industrial and other
classes would he involved In common disaster.
Free wool IS blow at civilization and prog
ress. Immense imports OF log-p-iced woods
would supplact TO q largo extent the use OF
cotton ana bring disaster to the planters of the
south. In 1893 the imports Of the third-class
wool were 1873 1877 ,5sl pounds, ct valuation Of
cents per pound.
Free Wool a Conspiracy.
Why is free wool thrust upon the country;
Not one OF all the senators who voted for the
German bill ventured to give any reason in
support Of FREQ wool. Their silence is a con-
feSsion Of its injustice, and that ii means ruin.
1t is c conspiracy with four purposes:
l. To add to the existing oyerproduction of
cereals. cotton and other farm products, and
still further reduce prices, already ruinously
low
M pIfn Oh,
tective policy, and thus enlarge the policy of
free trade.
g. With cheap foreign wool and protective
duties on manufactures. to limit manufacture
Ing to the eastern cities and New England |
States.
4. Its political purpose is to win for the DEM |
party few New England |
states and punish the protective wool-growin2 |
states.
The pretense of cheaper clothing is false and |
fraudulent. With the destruction OF American |
focks. and the manufactures limited to a mar
row section. combinations and trusts would |
prey upon the people with monopoly OF wool |
and wooden goods.
The government must have revenue n not
derived from duties. the peope will pay in
some other form. The wool tariff yielded in
1893 s1S147,219 The German bill surrenders
he wool tariff revenue, but imposes four times
greater tariff by tax sugar of 5000 eco
annually.
Adequate Protection Demanded.
We indorse the doctrine announced by the
National growers that while protection is &C
corded to any industry it should also be given
@ wool
Full and adequate protection for the wool Ia
iustry would soon increase our As. 900 900 sheep
10 a required sll0O00.00O. furnishing C5oOO0OO1
pounds Of wool annually, all needed, and we
would import no more. This would save an
lual export OF gold OF SEQ coo coo or more to buy
oreign wool from countries which take substan
tally nothing from US In return but gold. 1,
would make such an increased demand for
hay, oats and corn as to increase
heir production and secure full and fair
)rices. 1t would enable farmers to reduce the
wheat production. and thus secure fair prices.
t would increase the resources of more than
100000 Of the agricultural classes, and thus.
~ their patronage to other classes. to give
prosperity to all. 1t has been proved that nc
oreign wool is needed to mix with ours for
manufactures.
Wool Growers Must Vote Right.
What. then, shall wool growers do? Tn
rec wool policy cannot be reversed until after
500 In the meantime sheep cannot be made
o pay for capital invested and labor in pro-
ucing wool.
Let all people who desire prosperity for
americans rather than for foreigners vote for
10 candidate for congress who does not favor
equally to all American industries
which by its aid can be made to furnish all
eeded supplies at fair American prices. The
rec wool infamy will soon be wiped out, never
lore to return. and the people admonished
y the ruin Of the last years. will not 5000
emand again a change to the policy which
rought It
Democratic Deficiencies.
II rs noteworthy fact that demo
attic fnanciering inevitably leads tc ,