Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-02-17
Lead AND WOOL noB0onLINs.

We hear good deal OF rash talk
about lead as well as about wool. The
favorite phrase about free lead is that
IL will reduce wages Of miners here TO
the level OF the wages OF 1.-THE poems OF
Mexico" That is repeated again and
again with dull reiteration, indicative
oil the leaden quality OF the thinking
organ which suggests ID. The plati-
tude about free wool Is that IL win re-
duce sheep men here TO the condition
Of ''the sheepherders Of Australia"
There is no more foundation for one
scare than there is for the other.
The protective tariff has not helped
the lead miner--ii we have any OF that
class OF laborers here--any more than
! il has the wool grower. The price Of
both lead and wool declined under the
protective tariff, and went down lower
under the Mckinley bin than ever
before.
A great deal Of lead il produced IN
Utah OF course. But it is mined as
secondary or incidental to the p-o-
duction OF silver. The percentage OF
lead In the Utah mines, as rule, Is
very much less than that OF the Mexi-
can mines, and for fuxing, than Tor
ores which carry higher percentage.
Cheap lead is an essential TO cheap
smelling.
> The Bullion-Beck company claim
that they lost $4,000 in one year
= under McKinleyism in smelling
! charges. That operated with other
a cause.-the low price OF silver OF
, course being one-to necessitate the
:, reduction in wages, WHICH resulted in
|, the strike and finally the closing down
Of the works that has flattened out
Z Eureka and left il PROSTATE. "Tht
= poems Of Mexico" form a sort of raw
"a head-and- bloody-bones on the leao
:, question, TO frignten miners into voting
for protection, under which thci
:, wages declined and many Of the mine
we're closed down.
There have been several causes a
!, work 10 produce the present low price
:, Of the different qualities OF wool in thi
y country. The price abroad has ais
!; gone down. Win the removal Of th
"A tariff still further depreciate the for
eign article? We think not. The Nc
.. Kinley duty was almost prohibi,ory
- Just as soon as that is entirely take
i. of there will be market for Austra
N lian and Argentine woods in this couu
y try which will, by increasing the d.
IN mand, most likely raise their pric'
Manufacturers abroad will have to pa
or more for those woods than when ii
Ia American market was PRACTICAL
closed. This will stimulate the ger
erai demand aud so raise the price
this country. The terrible dread Z
competition with the Australian pr
:, duct will soon be dissipated. For, I
an we have previously shown, IT is oil
~. different texture To our western wo
:, and therefore the two kinds, instead
u. being brought into competition, W
-, both he wanted FOR admixsnre, al
a. that will surely not o crate to redu
40 the price Of either. Aud the che
"A growers OF the west, with free rang
az splendid climate, a constant dema'
-, for mutton at far higher figures 'h
Ia Australian meat can reach, viii
ses able 10 pay fair wages to their wo
II hasds and make higher pereenta
,ev OF profits than il reaped by inyest'
Low in almost any otiser industry.
,ro 1t will be found that when the N
sic tariff has been in operation 10
ars enough TO demonstrate It's workir
hv and effects, the stereotyped protects
ova ist phrases about "the poems OF N
nd leo" and the "sheepherders OF Aust
han lia," will be knocked into pi and {
.,ed appear in the melting pot of exp'
ence. They are only Republican CT
he. and very silly subtcriuges at that
,,rv Salt Lake Herald.
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