The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-10-04
AT THEIR OLD GAME.
Fall Quotations on Wool-Desperate
Deception by Unscrupu-
lous Democrats.

The following from Mondays CONNER.
cial Gazette, shows to what desperate
straits Democracy is driven in Wilson's
own district:
PARKERsBURa, w. Va, Sept. 23.--It is
the evident purpose of the Democratic
organs of this state to mislead their con.
stituents concerning the wool market,
and as a consequence some we'll known
sheep herders have had unlocked for
experiences. The gist of the <informa.
ton is that under the Mckinley bill the
high rates kept down the demand for
domestic wool as the tariff on the i'm.
ported wool necessary to the mixture
raised the price. That now, with free
imported wool the mixture can be made
cheaper, and thus increase the demand
for it, and through this, demand for the
domestic wool. This specious stuff is
being dealt out daily to the farming
communities through the Democratic
press, but strange to say, the same
papers are quoting prices for domestic
from to IL cents higher than the mar
ket, and when the fooled farmer offers
his clippings at the prices quoted in the
Democratic press, there are no buyers.
The firm OF John T. Hays & Son, of
Warrington, in this State, relate the
following as their experience in regard
to the wool business, and it is but a
sample of hundreds of other experiences
not yet told. 1t makes interesting read.
ing for West Virginia farmers and doubt
less your readers in the country general.
ly will be interested in it.
'In 1891 the firm started flock of
Shropshire sheep at cost Of from $40
to $50 head. During the same year
the sales amounted to over $4,000, at an
average of $45 head. The wool sold
at 80 centsa pound. In 1892 we increased
our flock 100 head with the same kind
of sheep at $45 head. The same year
the sales were $4 900 at an average OF
$47.50 per head, an&the wool sold for
80 cents pound. In August, a year
ago, the flock was increased by hund.
red head at cost of $25 to $50 each, all
imported stock. The next month the
firm returned to England and bought
nearly 150 more at an average of $50
head. They arrived in December.
Since then this firm has sold but twenty
head at an average OF $17 head. In
1898 wool was worth II cents, but this
year from 10 to IA cents is all they can
get, and it is still on the Market"
The Democratic press is quoting wool
at 26 cents pound, but sellers who of.
fer to let 60 for 20 cents find no buyers.
This firm offers to sell sheep go per cent.
lower than two and three years ago, and
there are no buyers. This firm carries
on its sheep business in Congressman
Wilson's district.
The following is also dodge used to
gull the farmer, likethe tin.cup peddlers
of Ohio some time ago. A dyed.in. the.
wool Democrat who is not subject to
change of faith, takes his wool to q
merchant, and demands 26 cents, the
price the Democratic press state wool
will bring. The merchant up in the
quotations refuses to buy, when Demo.
crat says: swell give me twenty six
cents for my wool and will take it out
in trade, and you make the prices for
store goods to suit" The merchant
does 80, and the deep-dyed Democrat
goes off and says he sold his wool for 26
cents. Only day or two ago this hap.
pened at Independence, in Preston
county. A fellow sent out to dupe the
farmers had four pounds of tub.washed
wool, and he pleaded in vain to the
merchant to give him 26 cents for it. At
last the merchant offered him the mar.
ket price, and the fellow said: "You
can charge what you like for your goods,
but only give me the 26 cents for my
WOOL"
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