The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-16

Clip OF 1870. 300 .ooo pounds used up IN the
fiscal year ended June 50. 1891.
Clip OF 1881. 3O7 900 900 pounds used up IN the
fiscal year ended June 30. 1892
Clip OF 1922. $4,000 900 pounds used up in the
fiscal year ended June so. 1899
Clip OF 1898. 364 900 900 pounds used up in the
fiscal year ended June 30. 1894
Clip OF 1894 32s 600 900 pounds used up in the
fiscal year ended June 80 1926
Clip Of 1895. 100000 pounds available for
use for the fiscal year ending June 80 1896
During the last fiscal year under the
Mckinley tariff the home wool produc-
ers furnished all but $1,000, 900 pounds
of the wool used in the United States
Last year the imports increased to 2O3,-
100000 pounds. and, with a consump-
ton equal to that of last year. the i'm
ports for the fiscal year 1896 will
aggregate PCS, OOO.O OO pounds. 1t is
estimated that the loss to the wool
growers amounts to 1900, 900 year.
The only excuse for this given by the
tariff reformers was that free wool
would decrease the use of shoddy and
enable American wooden goods to meet
those of other countries in competition
for the trade of the world. The prom
ises have not been fulfilled. Never has
there been so much shoddy used as
now, the export of American woolens
has declined instead of increased, and
foreign competition at home has be-
come serious. The Press correspondent
writes:
The free trade price of wool was antici-
pated. and wool dropped from March. 1923. 70
March 1925 measured by the standard grade
Of XIX Ohio. from little over thirty cents TO
about fifteen cents. and the wool growers, be.
lieving that there was no future use for the
wool Industry. sold their flocks in countless
numbers to the butchers, so that the clip OF
1894 fell OF to 32a.000000 pounds. and that OF
1925. just clipped. to only 26i COD pounds-A
decrease. therefore in the two years since
Clevelands inauguration OF 1c0O000)O pounds,
To make up for this deficit in the
American clip we are. compelled to import
wool to take the place OF the American
wool destroyed TO the great extent already
noted For the fiscal year OF 1895 we
will probably have to go to foreign nation,
for 2sSOo0,0O pounds OF raw wool This
takes no account Of the imports Of shoddy.
rags. waste. etc. which are entered as
manufactures of wool. for in the fiscal year
ended June 30. 1894. which was the last fiscal
year under the Mckinley law. we imported
only l3.I5i pounds OF shoddy, rags. waste.
etc, but during the fiscal year ended June 81
1893, and almost all OF it in ten months after
the passage of the Wilson law. we imported
H,7T2, 800 pounds OF shoddy, waste, etc an in
crease OF over 1000 per cent This was made
necessary, first. by the destruction of the
American clip, and, second, by the low duties
upol manufactures OF wool and the ad valorem
feature OF the latter. which permits underval-
uation and eompels American manufacturers
to increase their use OF shoddy Never in the
history OF the wool business in America has
1t bern necessary to uss so many cheap adul-
terants in order to prevent our manufacturers
from being driven out of their home market
by tho shoddy goods admitted under the ad
valorem rates OF the new tariff law"
This is fair statement of the way
free trade affects the industries of
wool raising and the manufacture of
woolens. Not particle of gain has
come to the American people through
the placing of wool on the free list.
On the contrary, one great industry
has received death blow, and the
only one TO gain has been the manu-
facturer of shoddy goods. We are buy
ing abroad an article which we should
produce at home. depriving the sheep
raisers of $4,000, 900 yearly and turn
ing it over to the foreign wool inter
ests. 1t is costly saceifice we have
been compelled to make upon the altar
of democratic free trade.-Troy
Times.