Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1894-02-10

llun am Neutrality-suspicious. buu tibrh rNrTy
elias. ~ stock, between 1878 and 1871, the
sheep hal only Increased IN 1891 to a.
t3l .OOi. ami wonl under the protective
influence II the Mckinley hill in lSa2
rcArh~l the unprecedented low pro. II
~ cents fur unwAsh-d and 35I cents for
secured i'm. medium wuols A it'll.
more projection u thir character and our
sheep industry will become = thing ~ the
past.
TlKRRl AsARILLA, N. NJ, Jan. 80.
Editor ti,is"n
Eucl"r,sl send you AN editorial from
the Santa Re New Mexican IN regard Ia
the tariff nn wool The New Mexican.
since ,a change in politics, has been try
ing To- pull the wuol over IA. sheep griw.
-rr' eyes in n manner which Ia not only
nm inrul, to their intelligence, but u vital
blow 10 their prosperity.
Before ia. sherman law was repealed
We were assured by their "stuifed pro
phet' that as Epn as that law would be
Repealed, the land would again flow with
milk and honey What ARE the factsi
Idle millions AMI starving thousands. and
now W. Arr again assured by that same
ial-" prophet and his followers that the
rrlTAl II the Mckinley hill In our only
salvation, then the price IL wo'l will AL
vance and prosperity will reign supreme.
II in surprising that such stuff should
lie written a. IN contained in the enclossi
editorial, for when the mere threat of
taking the tariff of free wool rsiuces the
pric. two-thirlH, what will the actual
fact IL the repeal dot A review Of the
tariff and i,s effect upon the price ~ wool
aud the grow,h Of the sheep industry for
u quarter Of . century previous to the
time when this administration came into
power. was 10 double the price IA the
American wool grower above what WAS
icing received in London ~ the same
time for wool of the same quality and
condition. Tn. number II sheep in the
un,,.i States IN the last twelve years, un-
der the tariff law 81 1867. doubled We in
creased our aocks faster than any other
nation In the world, and the average
price Of wool. during all this period. was
more tan doubl. the price Of the same
wool in free trade London. II the wool
growers Of New Mexico doubt this, let
them refer TO the object leaaon II the past
year, for without any change in the law
the mere prospect of the placing Of wool
ON the free liz, has precip,at.d the price
II American wool every year Ia the free
trade price Let President Cleveland an
nounce tina, he will veto the Wilson tariff
bill. and the pric. 81 New Mexican wool
would double within n month. and in
stead II il being worth only AZ much as
IL IL to-day, which Ia no more than the
cost 81 s-nding IL Ia market. II would ~
back Ia iis value at the time when Presi-
dent Harrison lef, the White House. II
wool in put on the free list the coarser
New Mexican clips wouldn't bring here
the cost II sending them 10 market. l.
wrl Ia pu, on the free list the railroads
will refuse 10 receive any wool unless the
freight IN prepaid. Now, II protection has
been of no benefit tn the wool grower, how
ia II that until protection WAS threatened
the American wool grower got double ~
much for his wool In the United States ~
he would have had in the London mar.
keti
since 1916 the price u scoured merino
wool in the FREE trade markets ~ the
| ,.nslJ ha . n. LA, ,H f,.,,, .;xt,, 49,. can't,
in 1916 Ia thirty tive cents In 1893. q de.
cline II over forty-Sx per cent. During
the same years scournd Xxx Ohio has fall
en- OH from eighty cents In 1886 Ia seventy
cents on the first II March. 1893. Up Il
the time when protection was not dis
turbed, there was decline 81 only i2I
per cent. against the decline II over Il
per cent. In the outside markets ~ tn,
world for the same period. II was pro
lection that kept up the price u American
wool, M that II declined only l2i per cent
here, and Il wAE free trade that causes
the same wool Ia decline forty-ax pei
cent. in London. As against only abou
one. fourth Of that much decline In Ia,
United States.
The wool clip In 1899, weighed S64, 600,
600 pounds. This was under the McKiu
ley law. and was the largest clip evel
taken off II the American hocks. II Il
Was not protection that caused the growth
Of this enormous clip, what was III Roi
in FRYE trade England there In less WOO
grown than there was twenty -dve year,
Ago. while In America We had the bigges,
clip In all Of our history, aud our wool
crop has doubled under protection, whil'
England, and In fact, the whole Of Eu.
rope, where merino wool growing Ii con
Quoted, as II 10 here, has been almos
obliged 10 give up the growing Of 6n'
wool-ihey are growing only common
wool. such Al comes Of Of mutton sheep.
The editorial says that In 1857, there
were s9.0cO,oOo sheep In the country and
the average price Of wool was hny-ons
cents per pound. Why was Il that WOO
brought hfty-one cents per pound here,
when the same wool In free trade London,