The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-22

figures are high protection figures. The
duties levied by Hfle latest Republican
high tariff law are stil protecting
them. Certainly 1T was the Repubh-
can party that Frustrated the wool
market as predicted by john Sherman,
who advocated THE high duty as sure to
bring down the price of the domestic
article.
On the sheep question the Boston
Pest says:
Senator Lodge makes am eloquent
plea for the poor sheep and their poor
owners
They are to be wiped out, he says,
| by free wool.
Wen. what has McKinleyism done
for them? An American sheep had
something Ito be proud of before Nc
Kinley undertook to protect that
amiable animal. The fleece sold at
good prices until McKinleyism came
| III: and from that day it dropped, low
er and lower. in a manner most mortl-
| flying ITO any sheep Of a self-respectlng
nature.
Free wool cannot bring the Ameri-
can product amy lower. 1t undoubted-
| ~ VIII lIl5TGiSS iNS fd-lNC ny 0IlH4ulSlI7
| ing the use of that material And at
the same time the blankets of the
American workman and his trousers
and coat and tine carpet ON his floor,
will have more wool in them, will be
warmer. and will wear longer and will
lock handSonler.
And am American citizen is OF more
account than a good many American
sheep.
II &c Or, i,,oo,,t.e,-,t;l,Ia foot tl7,at eveY.y
time the tariff ON wool has been raised
the price of wool has gone down. Mr..
Lawrence's address to the wool grow
ers gave THE figures for a number of
years, and the Mckinley bill is but
another illustration of the analogy be-
tween a high tariff and a low price
for WOOL The Post is mistaken in
thinking that under Republicanism an
American citizen is OF more account
than a good many American sheep. Has
not THE American Congress for thirty
years been fostering and caring for
the poor sheep while it has never once
bestowed a thought on the welfare of
the American citizen?
| In a report not long ago from the
American consul at Bradford, England,
| it is stated that large quantities of
American wool have been sold there
since last February. About $4,000
pounds of Ohio wool brought in that
manufacturing town fran 221s to 26
cents per pound. He says: CAS- a
general thing, the prices of all grades
of American wool are now practically
the same in Bradford as the similar
grades of English wool, the cost of
transportation making most of the
difference against the American pro-
duct
| 1t will be remembered that about
three weeks ago three carloads of wool
was shipped to England from Wy
oming. State Senator Hurt, who sent
the wool, is a Democrat and believes
in free wool. He was ito receive two
cents a pound more in England than
he could get in this country. Where
is the need of duty on wool under
these conditions?
From the report referred to we learn
that:
| The wool merchants and manufac-
turers of Bradford declare that as soon
as wool is put in this country on the
free list its price will revive here; and
several of them are so strong in this
faith that they have, through their
agents. made large investments in wool
now held in Philadelphia and Boston.
They insist that the new impetus given
to manufactures by free raw material
will cause larger quantities of the wool
produced in the United States to be
mixed with fine foreign woods, and that
a. demand for American wool for
hosiery purposes would immediately
set in in England. 1t is already pro-
posed by English wool-dealers to eX-
change their grades of wool more suit
able for dress goods and cloths for
American wool adapted for hosiery
and other purposes.
This is what the advocates Of free
wool have contended all along. The
only way to test the truth of it is to
place wool on the free list and then
note the effects in year Oh two after
wards. One thing is certain, that I'M
der the Mckinley tariff, which is still
in force, wool has gone down in price
in this country and lead has also sunk
to its lowest level. 1t was the Repub-
lican party that caused these prostra-
tons, and to deny it is equivalent to
saying black is white.
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