Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-25
RrPURIICAN WOOL THREATS.

/ judged by its Ohio utterances, il means
/ 10 restore The wool duties should it be
brought to power in 1896. To soft
soap the wooden manufacturers they
/ promise a restoration also Of the Nc
/ Kinley duties on wooden fabrics, al the
/ same time telliug the manufacturers in
the face Of the official returns Of trade
/ ehat the new tariff is flooding the Amer
I lean market with foreign woolens This
/ latter assertion is wholly false. In 1892
/ the first fun fiscal year under the Nc
K.nIey tariff. the visible imports of
WOODEN fabrics amounted in value to
| s35. SOS. $40. in 1898. TO SSS.04S,515; in
1894. 10 S1s.439372. and in 1895, 10
/ S35.5+2.896. It is thus seen that in the
/ first year of the new tariff the imports
Of woo,ens are not as great as in the
first year Of 3IcKinley.sm Under the
Mckinley tariff American consumers
paid an average Of nearly 100 per cent
duty at the custom house on their wool
en- clothing. and a corresponding tax
+ ON the consumption ofdomesicproducJs.
Under the new tariff the average duty
on wooden imports is 90 per cent. 1t
/ is the mere fauaucism Of high protection
to imagine that The American people
VIII ever consent TO a restoration of
/ the barbsrous Mckinley duties on their
wo1len clothing.
Whilst the visible imports Of woolens
under the Mckinley tariff were as
/ great as they are now large quantities
Of these goods were introduced by the
smuglers tempted by large profits from
evasion Of the exorbitant rates of duty
/ So great was the Generalization caused
/ by the co1uabaud traffic that the wool
en- manufacturers employed agents 10
assist The custom house officials TO de-
tect the frauds in the trade. Under the
new tariff the temptation and Opportu-
F nifty of these frauds on the wooden man
|ufac-urers are greatly reduced.
For the first time in the Industrial his
/ tory of the United States the American
wooden manufacturers are on equal foot
ing with their European rivals. As
I PROOF Of the promptuess with which they
f have seized the occasion offered them
the total imports Of raw wool last year
| amounted TO 206133.So6 pounds, of
which 191 326.243 pounds were free.
/ These figures alone afford an eloquent
. refu-a,ion of the calamity bowling pre-
/ lenses that the American wooden manu-
I facmrers are suffering under the new
tariff.
But in order TO estimate the full sig
I rifcance of The above returns Of trade
a further analysis Of them IS necessary.
/ Under the Mckinley tariff the bulk Of
| the imports of raw wool consisted Of
7 the low grades for making carpets IN
/ der the policy Of free wool the tables
/ are already completely turned The I'M
ports Of free wool Of the first and sec
/ crd class for clothing exceeded IN guam
-.ty The imports Of carpet wool last
year. While The value Of imports of
1 clothing wool was S15,27L777 the value
f of imports Of free carpet wool amounted
/ TO SS.71S.447 in value.
These figures tell the story of free
wool i'm the FRS year OF its operation.
/ The importaaons Of foreign wool are
much the greatest ever made both in
quantity and quality. When given a
/ free choice. the enterprising American
/ manufacturers. as a contemporary puts
/ il. have promptly met European COM
/ peltors on their own ground. Instead
Of condDing themselves as formerly TO
the common grades Of wool they are
/ importing and using in their looms the
/ finest heeces of Australia and Argen-
tina But let the Republican threat Of
/ disturbing the industrial peace by re-
s.orat.oa OF The wool duties be carried
OUT. and it win be followed by a disas-
I uous reaction against the woolen man
/ ufacurers. Impor,alons Of wool will
+ De arrested. wages viii be reduced.
/ strikes win ensue, factories viii be
T closed large investments of capital Will
+ be lost and the end viii be widespread
( distress and decentralization in trade.
[ Intelligent manufacturers and working
men in WOODEN industries. as we'll as the
/ wool grower, can hardly fail to recog-
nizs that their interests are closely
bound up with the maintenance of the
policy of free wool
To START THE COKE PLANT.
+ Special TO The Register.
Newburg W. Va. September "a
F The Newburg Orreu Coke and Coal Co.
+ viii reopen their coke plant at this
/ place at once They win make about
+ $50 tons of coke per day. At present
they VIII haul the coal from their
I mines or TyrCCnnel in TAYLOR county.
10 make their coke here. but it is
+ thought they viii soon open mines on
their land here, They have contracts
+ for more coke than they can make at
/ Ty-rrOuueU They will pmnlOv % N