The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-01-13
FARMERS APPEAL TO FARMERS.

Some interesting passages preceded
the adoption by the Indiana Wool
Growers association of resolution
denunciatory of the Wilson tariff bill,
says an exchange. The resolution
reads thus:
WHEREAS, A tariff bill has been in..
troduced in congress known as the
Wilson bill, which grossly dlscrlmi-
mates against the farming interests by
placing on the free list twentynine of
the finished products of the farm,
which are now protected by fair and
equitable duties, and also making a
large reduction in the duties now
properly assessed on twenty one other
finished products of the farm; there
fore, be it
Resolved, That we denounee the said
Wilson bill as unjust, unwise, uncalfed
| for, and we invite farmers everywhere,
from M inc to California, to join US in
denouncing the bill, and, regardless of
former party affiliations, to join US in
pIedging ourselves to vote against any
man who shall vote for or favor the
Wilson bill or any similar bill.
But things happened before its pas
sage.
Mr.. Mount had read paper euti'led
| sSisns of the Times: Whittier is the
Sheep Industry of the United States
TendinsY' Mr. Mount took gloomy
view of the situation, and prognos'l-
Gated serious diminution, if no, utter
extinction, of the sheep and wool in
| dustties of the United States unless
some adequate measure of protection
were afforded to them. But up to
this point no hint of resolutions de-
nunciatory of the Wilson bill as a
whole had been dropped. 1t looked
as though the association would not do
more than resolve that the Indiana
congressman be requested to endeavor
to secure protection to heeces and to
sheep. But a Mr.. Garvin, feeling
bound to defend Democratic policy,
denied the soundness of Mr.. Mounts
conclusions, and propounded these
queries to the association:
"What has been the effec! of the
Mckinley law on wool and sheep2'
"Do you believe that the removal of
the duty on wool will lower the price
on wool in degree equal to the value
of the duty repealed"
Mr.. Garvin probably had been sup
piled with the products of that false
hood factory tina. the New York
World and the Chicago Herald dis
tribute, and had come to believe that
the Mckinley law had worked ad-
versely to the sheep-raising and wool
growing interests
Mr.. Garvin's queries were answered
instantly by dozen well-read farmers,
who assured him that the latest report
of the secretary of agriculture showed
an increase of sheep to the extent of
5000, 900 during 1892, and of 5.000,-
900 since the passage of the Mckinley
bill. Furthermore, they assured him
that while the decrease in the price of
wool in Europe had been from seven
to ten cents per pound during the in
teryal of the passage of the Mckinley
bill and the election of Cleveland, the
decrease of American prices had been
limited to tive cents. But that after
the election of Cleveland, and the GER
tainty of Democratic tariff bill with
wool on the free list, the decrease in
American prices had been frightful.
Having thus answered Mr.. Garvin's
first query, the intelligent farmers dis
posed of the second by quoting Cleve-
lands message to congress in 1887, In
which he said that the manufacturer
would be benefited by free wool by
just the difference between the rate of
duty and the price without duty.
They might have reminded Mr. Gar
vim that much more accomplished
economist than Mr.. Cleveland, none
other, in fact. than Professor Taussig,
who is by head and shoulders the
greatest of all the American free trade |
teachers. very recently has confessed
that the probable result of free wool
Is the extinction of sheep raising as a