The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-08-17

The |uocrntlc Tariff crlpples rmpor-
tant Industries.
6odnteresting figures In regard TO
wool given by the Washington cor
rcspo|nt of tho Philadelphia Press.
Dcmdtic papers have pointed with
pride sedimportations Of wool
undcre new tariff. but they have
failcd.note the decline IN the home
wool wing industry. The low price
OF woe forcing the sheep raisers out
OF butss. With the home supply
cut offices will advance again, but
the foyner viii reap the harvest
Forcigpool is low priced only when
II comm competition with the home
nrticleEvery time we have had to
have tHoreign product we have been
forced bay well for IL, and that will
be the Serience rs soon as the dem
ocraticIe trade programme has had
time tdill of the American sheep.
The corpondent gives table show
ing the sme wool clip and the con-
sumptioluring each OF the last five
years. b figures show that with
steadily sreasing consumption there
has becndecline in the clip since the
democraltariff went into force. The
table folks:
CLIP OF 1900 900 900 pounds used up In the
fiscal year cd June 30, 1891.
Clip OF 1907 600 900 pounds used up Ia the
fiscal year icd Juno 3d. 1892
Clip OF i6t30, 900, 900 pounds used up In the
fiscal year I'D June 90 1899
Clip OF 1904 000. 900 pounds used up In tho
fiscal year ID Juno 30. 1894
CLIP OF 1893 900 900 pounds used up In the
fiscal year cd June 3d. 1923
Clip OF 1854 100000 pounds available for
use for tho ~ year ending Juno 30. 1904
During last fiscal year under the
Mckinley iiff the home wool produo-
ers furnish all but IS, 900, 600 pounds
Of the woolsed in the United States.
Last year timports increased TO 203,-
100000 pous, and, with a consump-
ton equal that Of last year, the inn
ports for B fiscal year 1896 will
aggregate B,000,000 pounds. 1t Is
estimuted It the loss to the wool
growers amnts to $40, 600, 900 year.
The only e&se for this given by tho
tariff rcforirs was that free wool
would decree the use OF shoddy and
enable Amchn wooden goods TO meet
those of th%ountries In competition
fer the traddf the world. The prom
ifs have noteen fulfilled. Never has
there been much shoddy used as
nlw, the eprt of American woolens
has declincdhstead of Increased, and
foreign CONDITION at home has be-
cone serious. The Press correspondent
Whites:
The FREQ tire price OF wool was nntici-
papd, and wooIroppod from March. 1893, TO
Mich, 1925. me3red by the standard grade
Xxx Ohio. froh little over thirty cents TO
abpt fifteen Get and tho wool growers, be-
Icing that thclwas no future use for tho
wo9 industry, 81 their 1ocks In countless
nuabcrs TO thoptchers. so that the clip OF
ie9ffell OF to 100000 pounds and that OF
1893 just clippedp only 264 100000 pounds
decpase, thorcfb. In tho two years since
Clepland's inauration OF 100000 900 pounds.
To mike up br this deficit In the
Amrican clip are compelled TO import
voc 10 take 4 place OF tho American
woe destroyed the great extent already
notd For the fiscal year OF 1890 we
wiliprobably hal to so 20 foreign nations
for Ns.0o0000 pods OF raw wool This
take no accounHf tho imports Of shoddy,
rags. waste, et( which are entered as
manufactures OF pol fcr In the fiscal year
endd June 30, i5ehghioh was the last fiscal
ycarrnder the aKinley law, wo imported
onlylsi.754 poun OF shoddy. rags. waste.
etc. nt during thnscal year ended June 30,
1898, M almost abr IL In ten months after
tho usage OF thWilson law. we imported
l47pO pounds oihoddy waste, eto Ian In
creasof over i.004er cent This was made
noccsnry, FIRST. ! the destruction OF tho
Amcran clip, ankecond, by the low duties
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES wool and tho ad valorem
foatus OF tho lntta which permits underval-
uatio and compels American manufacturers
TO indase their ui OF shoddv Never IN the
histof OF the woobusiness In America has
II bee necessary tuse so many cheap adul-
teranl In order to fevent our manufacturers
from hing driven ht OF their homo market
by thehoddy good admitted under the ad
yaloro rates OF thlncw tariff law"
Thu is fair tatement of the way
free irade affets the industries of
woolnising and the manufacture Of
woolas. Not aparticle OF gain has
comeo the ANGLICAN people through
the Hcing OF wtol on the free list.
On q contrary one great industry
has reived leath blow, and the
only DO TO gain has been the manu-
factulr OF shodd goods. We are buy
ing aload an article which we should
prodtf at home, depriving the sheep
raiserof sio,0O0p00 yearly and turn
ing tiger to the foreign wool inter
ests. Is a costly sacrifice we have
been dnpelled Z make upon the altar
OF onocratic free trade. Troy