The Dickinson press., 1894-09-22
The Sheep Question and Farmers Whe
Have No Sheep.

The Sheep Question and Farmers Whe
Have No Sheep.
According to the latest statistics there
are some 45,OOO,OOO sheep in the United
States. The amount Of wool annually
consumed in this country will reach at
least GOO,OO0.OO 0 pounds. 1t is estimated
that it would require over 1OO,OOO,OOO
sheep to supply the home demand for
wool; and then the American Economist
asks the important question: How does
this question affect the farmers who have
no Sheep" 1t answers the question it.
self:
EVERY pound Of wool imported is
corn, oats and other feed J. that ilufS' MAKE a,ds:
wool. Thus. when wool is imported,
these farm products are in effect import
ed, to come in competition with the SINH
lar products of American farmers and
thus reduce the price and impair the
ability to patr0nize mechanics, mer-
chants, growers, schools, colleges or
churches.
I'VE need an addition to our flocks of
65,OOO,O00 sheep. With an adequate pro-
tective tariff for wool we will soon have
this increase, which would make an addi-
tional demand for ut least 100000
bushels of corn, or an equivalent in corn
and oats for stock sheep, and for 10000
600 additional mutton sheep probably
about 3O,O00,00O bushels more feed would
i asmsna . 1o @% aepias5lSgasaf' f II 9wosaalaas al St'' IL:
crease the demand for hay. oats, etc.
John Reimers, an intelligent German
of Grand Island, Neb., who has a ranch
Of 1000 acres, has stated that large num-
and then driven into Nebraska to be win
tered on hay, fodder and corn raised
there, and that the sheep owners of Wy
oming shipped into that state large guam
titles of corn from other states for win
ter feed for sheep, especially for those to
be sold for mutton.
"'Thus the farmers who own no sheep
Free wool will substantially destroy
sheep husbandry and the market it makes
for farm products. And yet John REIN
ers is a free-wool Democrat!
"The total annual exports of corn from
the whole United States, from 1870 to
1855 inclusive, were only Sc, Isl, 1854 BUSH
els, or 3:9 per cent. of all produced. Ohio
corn crop, so that its proportion Of the
annual export was 1885, 43 bushels,
while the needed increase of sheep will
make increased. .dsa:s.3 for nearly five
times tue export marRer, ana then INC
foreign market will still be open to Ohio
besides.
"The food supply has increased more
rapidly than our population. In q period
of thirty-nine years, ending 1880, the
creased 175 per cent, corn has increased
257 per cent, wheat $50 per cent, oats
All per cent, swine 6G per cent. and
cotton seed oil is just recently made an
article of food like lard. The necessity
for increasing our home market for corn
and oats is pressing. The importation
Of wool diminishes the home market; an
increase of u faocks enlarges it. Our
policy is, import no wool, produce all
needed and enlarge the farmers market"
Some strong Point in short Paragraphs.
The increase in the public debt between
free trade and its relief of the burden of
taxation from the plain people.
The great pacing race between the
famous teams. Per6dy and Dishonor. and
Cleveland and Reform, will end in an
easy victory for the former. The other
team will be lucky if it avoids being dis
tanced.
Immediate advances in the retail price of
sugar will do more to remind the plain
people of Democratic perfidy and dishOnOr
than half a dozen of MI. Cleveland's most
s%ulphurous letters. There is little .likeli.
hood that the lntany OF Mr. CleVelaNd'0
associates will soon be forgotten.
Census returns recently compiled show
that nearly half of all the families in thii
country own their homes. ard that more
than 20 per cent. of these homes are I'm.
incumbered. If the free trade dreamer.
know of an anti-tari!f nation capable OF
making a more striking showing thar
that. they cannot name it too soon.
When the Republican party, in the
hour of the nation's need, devised the in
ternal revenue system, the mosshacl
Democrats how!cd themselves hoa:se in
denouncing it as "the internal revenue
tax" Today, when the system is neither
desirable nor necessary, those same zeal
GUS patriots are rejoicing in extending il
by converting it into a cumbersome ma,
chine to collect taxes on incomes. Thu
Democracy. which is already thirty-fve
years behind the times, is still marching
resOlutely backward.
Ten days ago a legislative founding
was abandoned on the front steps of the
white house. Mr.. Cleveland said it wal
not his: Mr.. Wilson repudiated its pater
nifty; it had been born out of political wed
lock. Last night as the clock struck Il
Mr.. Cleveland opened the back door anG
the waif was sneaked in to receive 9
cowardly welcome in the house of hin
who was responsible for the puny crea
lures existence. The father of the income
tax and qualified protection neither dared
to accept his offspring before the world
nor turn it away to die.