The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-06
THE wool QUESTION.


We commend the following letter on
the wool question to our friends who
are interested either in sheep or in the
manufacture on woolens:
Tariff on wool to help the sheep men.
Tariff on wooden goods to help the man.
ufacturer. and the laboring men. Also
to stimulate competition and bring
down the prices Blankets, duty 81,
sell for $5.75. used to be S.. Price of
wool kept up, wages kept up and goods
so per cent. less. Beautiful logic, If
true.
Sheep men and laborers look into
this and see if the makers of those
blankets have not been cutting your
corners a little while the reduction has
been going on. Enquire if their shod-
dy mills are not working over old
clothes and old blankets that have
been twice and thrice worn to get the
1913 blankets they are selling to you
instead of buying fresh material of you
to make bran new article. If that
is what they have been doing, who is
benefited by the tariff on blankets, and
in the absence, of the demand for your
wool for such purposes the price has
declined to about what the duty on
wool is, which is it that is standing in
the way of your prosperity, Republican
or Democratic doctrine?
Don't you believe that if the Amer
lean market was open to all wool that
the price of the foreign article would
advance having a wider, unrestricted
demand. and that you would also re-
ceive corresponding benefit? Don t
YOU believe that with the opportunity
to get better grade of wool than you
grow. to mix and work up with yours,
that the wooden mills Of America
could better meet the competition
abroad and secure a larger share of
the worlds trade, than under the pres
ent high prices of such wool, which
confines their trade to the home mar
ket. and even there, demands higher
price for their product?
Tell us. please, who but the foreign
manufacturer has enjoyed any advan-
tages from the operations of the Nc
Kinley bill? You certainly have not,
either in price of WOOL or of mutton.
Now wool men and laborers, where
are the promised fruits of that legis-
lation? Where are the industries built
up under its fostering care? True,
prices have gone down. But has it not
brought down your raw material and
YOUR labor? 1t certainly means that
and nothing less. You can't put a duty
on to decrease prices, as the Republi-
cans claim it does, without either the
producer or the laborer or both foots
the bill.
Our manufacturers may be very pa
triotic. and ask for these nigh tariffs
solely for your benefit, as the party
of protection claim they do; but to a
man UP a tree, when they ask for those
things and for bounties it looks
like bounties and tariffs for
revenue Ito them) only" Again,
boys. if they did not wish to take adj
vantage of your situation, and did not
want all there is in it, why do they
not pay you something near what for
eign wool of the same grade would
cost them?
The tariff on articles made of wool
is ample to warrant them in doing so,
and although you are only very
small percentage of our population,
vet in that way. the rest of us would
be forced to keep you in good shape,
think belongs to you by way of protec-
ton they. and they alone, are able
to give you.
And if the duty on blankets is $4 per
pair, they can't pay you few cents
more per pound for your wool, charge
us So for the blankets and "thank God
we are not like other men" able to
help ourselves.
So then l say charge down ON the
mill men with your complaints and not
on the Democrats Turn to them for
help and not to the Republican party,
who would forge your chains still
stronger.
Find out the great first cause of your
discomfort and the remedy will be
plain to you
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
Ogden, Jan. 4, 1894.