The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-02-15
WOOLS, RELATION TO OTHER COMMODITIES,
And What Effect Free Wool Will Have upon tho Price of the
 American Product.

American l'rOOuCts
 Free wool will bring about a general equalization of values, based upon the London demand, being now about soc. per pound secured, as against 55c. per pound secured, in the United States in 1892, making difference in value to the Arizona grower of about 7c. per pound in the grease, price ruinous to the business, unless present prices, in- cluding rates of interest, taxes, goods, freights, etc., can be reduced one-half With the cattle business reduced 70 per cent. on account of drouth and threatened competition, under the Will son bill, from Old Mexico, with her cheap peon raised cattle; with silver rclegated to the list of commodities; and last but not least threat by the congress of the United States to inflict an expensive and ruinous statehood proposition upon the tax payer, it strikes us that the average Arizonan must take the advice of the Democrat, viz: "Go into some other business.
 Should this idea be followed l pre- sume that as 90 per cent. of Arizona democrats are looking for federal patronage or local political offices, there would be wailing and gnashing of teeth in that particular line.
 As to free silver-statistics has it that 60 per cent of the worlds silver comes from the Pacific states and terri tories; 60 per cent. also of the 45,000,- 900 sheep in the United States are found west of the Mississippi river, 95 per cent. of those engaged in the wool industry in the region above desccibed are heartily in favor of free silver; be- lieving first in the protection of all commodities produced by the work shop, tho brain and muscle of this broad commonwealth, first rccogniz- ing that silver as we now find it, has no better claim for legislation than wool, cattle, lumber, lead, sugar and numerous other commodities,
 To make silver legal tender we arc asked to legislate it from fuctuatine value of about from 65 cents per ounce to about Sl.25 per ounce. Who, w'
 ask, is to take the responsibility O standing good for the difference of 6( cents per ounce. You say, Uncle Sam We'll, look, if you please, at the specu
 lation in the Sherman act. Silver bought at from 75 cents to Sl.l6 pei ounce, and the present market valu' 65 cents per ounce, and tons of 1t in
 OUT vaults. Has it as good a claim then, on the people as those commodities mentioned? We say no, for the simple reason these commodities have cost th' : country nothing for development up t' the present writing. The manufacture of the east has procured from the Will 3 son bill advocates in congress dut' ? ou manufactured goods (by the way s they represent $500, ,000,0 ,000, and
 concentrated yote). TEe gold bug ha
 destroyed your free silver hopes, an'
 has corner on Uncle Sam and the cir
 culatiug medium of the country. Tn ,, gold bug has been saying for man, months, "You cant make money an'
 put in circulation; you must borrow m,
 gold and pay me interest on it. ant we are doing it. My honest opinion i
 we are class of political towards, an' as to statehood for Arizona at the pres
 ent time, no greater curse could be in ' flicted on the country, and l charg
 that it's advocates now are principal,
 non-taxpayers and office seekers, o
 persons expecting to gain crumbs iron !, extrayagaut legislation, all of whlcl
 must impose a still heavier burdel
 upon those engaged in legitimate ur
 dertakings. l ask every advocate 0
 statehood in the territory if am no I right. challenge you to submit tn
 territorial debt and the rate of taxation , to congress, and procure a fayorabl
 report on statehood. J. F. DAGGs. e THERE were 33, 136 locomotives CD T gagged in hauling passengers ant S freight over the railways of this coun D try last year, 8,S4S in hauling passen n gers alone. To transport the passenge
 traffic of the country 28,875 cars wer
 in operation, while for the couveyanc e of freight nearly 100000 cars wer f required.
 II All Free.