The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-11-02
CAMPAIGN COMMENT.

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takes turn at the wool question, in a
communication to the Argus-Leader.
He quotes his own letter which he sent
70 Judge Lawrence, editor of the Amer.
hcan Sheep Breeder, in reply to the
Following inquiries:
In about five lines would like to have
say what you think of Senator
TX yle's efforts" in behalf of South Da-
M kota wool growers, also what prices YOU
received under Mckinley bill, and re-
turns this year"
@ The inquiry was dated Sept 26, 1894,
land the following is Col. Sheafe's rcply:
Z" WATERFOWL. Oct. 5, lS94.-An-
&S &SSyS swering your request of the 26th inst.
will state as follows: Senator Kyle's
efforts" in behalf of the wool growers
ARE in the right direction and highly
appreciated by all who are not too much
prejudiced to investigate The result
@will bring higher prices for wool as has
an varlably been the case with wool on
8#the free list. received cents per
@spound under the Mckinley law. am of.
Uttered l0cents at this day and am hold
ing for l5 cents
Any other information will be cheer
fully conveyed on this subject. Very
#xrespectfully. Nj. w. SHEAFE,
s Proprietor Crystal Springs Sheep
& Rancho, Deuel. county South Dakota" !"
S# The date on which the colonel receiv-
& ed I cents for his wool under the Nc
kinley law" was no doubt, some time
this year, or last fall, while the mills OF
the country we're closed, while the de-
mands were next to nothing, pending
BSthe uncertainty of tariff legislation and
B when free wool was not one of the un-
Il certainties. Why does the colonel
81 fight shy OF the fact that throughout
n 1891 and 1892, our western wools, of
N Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming
and Utah, sold at 13 to Is cents per
3 pound, delivered at the railroad stations,
at time when the legitimate opera
& tions of the Mckinley law were to be OBJ
b served? We would like to ask him if
he considers it fair to ignore the prices
throughout those two years and call at
4 tention only to the prices of January,
May and July OF this year, when the
Il wool handlers of the country, as we'll as
the manufacturers, we're confronting the
absolute certainty of free wool, and
Il waiting for its formal announcement?
The colonel charges the American
d Sheep Breeder with being in league
4 with the Woolen Manufacturers Asso-
ciation to further the interests of
"McKinleyism" If he will sound the
I manufacturers carefully, he will find
they are we'll pleased with the free
wool clause, for nothing suits them so
well as cheap raw material. The Nc
Kinley law trainers refused to grant
the manufacturers protection without
\ coupling with it ample protection to
Il the wool grower. The present law,
4 while it affords the manufacturers slight
protection against the competition of
of foreign factories, it opens wide the
gates to those who compete with our
domestic wool grower.
He complains that his letter was not
published and impugns the motives of
Judge Lawrence for refusing to publish
''an expression of opinion" from pat
4 ron. Isn't it fair to state that the colonel
lodged the question, taken in its entire
scope, when he replied that "under the
Mckinley law he got 7c for his wool
and has been offered 10c under the
d Wilson law?"
The REPUBLICAN wishes to be fair
4 in this matter and doesn't it appeal to
fairness to- state that with the wool
growers of the world in our markets
4 selling wool, which never occurred be-
4 fore, the manufacturer will be able to
buy wool cheaper than when foreign
competition was restricted by high
tariff?
The colonel predicts that by another
year wool will advance to where il,
was prior to the passage of the Nc
4 Kinley monstrosity." Please note in
another column the prices of wool in
Il 1889, which was prior to passage of the
alleged 'monstroisty" and note the
4 range of prices during the time the
L same 'monstrosity" was unhampered
by threats of change. which was in
\ 1891 and 1892,
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No Republican should throw his vote
away on the Prohibition ticket,
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While Hill was pleading his own
cause and hat of Tammany to a crowd
I'd house at Albary on the evening of
the 29th, Carl Schurz Wheeler, Peck
ham and others were denouncing Hill
and Tammany to as many people as
y could crowd into Cooper Union, in New
York. The election is near at hand
and at present Morton is conceded 25,-
600 plurality. Hill begins to realize
4 that he will be defeated.
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1t is now stated that the sugar trust
raised purse last winter with which
to hri ha WashipptOn naWSDaDer cOrreS-