Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-10

ttu9t ana the sugar tfuSL anu OCQefB arc
amply provided for and protection pro-
fessedly il not actually adequate is given
to most Of our manufacturing industries,
and free coal. iron ORE and other raw ma
terials. Free wool is an infamous and
odious discrimination and conspiracy
against all our agricultural industries.
"As a permanent policy it would drive
a million Of wool growers from sheep hus-
handry into increased production Of hay,
wheat, corn, oats, cotton and other pro-
ducts, destroy our sheep, and reduce the
demand 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 measu,e of their just
income and render them unable to patron
ize merchants, grocers, mechanics. schools
and churches. All industrial and other
classes wouId be involved in common dis
aster. Free wool is q blow to civilization
and progress. Immense imports of low
priced WOODS would supplant to n large
extent the use OF cotton, and thus bring
disaster to the planters Of the south. In
1898 the imports for consumption of the
third class woods Were 1S3, i91, ,5Sl pounds,
at n valuation of :. 10 cents per pound.
why is free wool thrust upon the
country, Not one Of all tue senators who
voted for the Gorr;l bill venturcd TO give
any reason i'll Support of free wool. Their
silence is a confession of its injustice, and
that it means ruin. IL is Il conspiracy with
four purposes: G) To add to existing
over production of cereals. cotton and
other farm products, and still further re-
duce prices already ruinousiy low. (2) To
ALLEVIATE wool growers from the protective
policy, and thus enlarge che policy of free
trade. 81 With cheap foreign wool and
protective duties on manufactures, to
limit manufacturing to he eastern cities
and New England states. % It's political
purpose IS 10 win to the Democratic-Go--
man party few New England states. aud
punish the wool growing states. The pre-
tense of cheaper clothing is false and
fraudulent. With the destruction of
American fiocks and with manufactures
limited to narrow section. combinations
and trusts would ex:ort upon the people
with a monopoly of wool and WOODEN
goods. The government must kavercve-
nue.. If not derived from duties the pco-
pie will pay in scme other form. The
wool tariff yielded in 1898 IS, 1i7,2l9. The
German bill surrenders the wool tariff
revenue. bat imposes five times greater
burdens by tariff tax on sugar of S4O,-
COZ, 900 annually.
I'VE indorse the doctrine announced by
the national grange that while protection
is accorded to any industry, it should also
be to wool. Full and adequate protection
for the wool industry would soon increase
our A., coo, 600 sheep to required l1O, ,OO0,-
600. furnishing $50. .00O, 600 pounds of wool
annually-all needed. and we would i'm
port rome. This would save an annual ex-
port of gold of Ss1, ,Ooo, OOo or mere to buy
foreign wool from countries which take
substantially nothing from us in return
but gold. 1t would keep our finances on
a solid basis. 1t would make such an in
creased demand for pasturage, hay, oats
and corn as to increase these products and
thus secure fair prices. 1t would enlarge
the resources of more than 30, 600, 600 of
the agricultural classes, and thus by their
patronage to other classes give prosperity
to all.
at has been proved that no foreign
wool is needed to mix with ours for sue
cessful manufacture. What, then, shall
small wool growers do3 The free wool
policy cannot be reversed until after 1896
In the meantime sheep cannot be made
to pay for the amount of capital which is
invested and labor in producing wool.
The true policy is: Fattea the wethers and
Old ewes; sell them for mutton; keep the
breeding ewes and be ready to rapidly in
crease the flocks after 1895 Let all the
people who desire prosperity for Ameri-
cans rather than for foreigners vote for
no. candidate for congress who does not
favor protection equally to all American
industries. which by its aid can be made
to furnish all needed supplies at fair
American prices. The free wool infamy
will soon be wiped out, never more to re-
turn, and the people, painfully admon-
ished by the ruin of the, last two years,
will not soon demand again change to
the policy which brought it on"
If protection is good for the interests Of
given industry, given section or n
given party, it is good for the interests of
all the people. In singing out the agri-
cultural interests for special attack, while
their own cotton growers and sugar plan
ters come in for careful consideration, the
Democratic tariff members displayed the
real animus of their bogus tariff reform
campaign. and offered to history another
proof of their untitness to govern.
Mr. HILL don't know what he will do