Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-10-24
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Lae U. s. Govt Report
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The Farmers Losses on Sheep.

Statistician Dodge estimated the
total number OF sheep i'm the United
States i'm 1854 at J0,626,626. The
census of 1850 placed the total num-
ber, exclusive of the spring lambs of
that year. at Il. 192.0II. The January
report of the Department of Agricul-
ture for 1893 made the number
~ PA 900 in that year, and the Sep
tember Bulletin of the National as
sociation of Wool Manufacturers
places the number of sheep on the
lst of April. 1895. after two years of
the practical effects OF ''free-woof'
and legislation, at 80, 9,949, ,3SS sheep.
The number of sheep slaughtered in
Chicago alone since January l. 1895.
has been by count l,S20, 1876. This is
not more than Al fifth of the total
slaughter of sheep for the period.
not more than half of which is offset
by the years production Of lambs
1t is quite probable that the total
decline of sheep tn date has been TO
about $4,000, 900 sheep.
The decline in numbers from
A ,273, ,l.3 i'm January. 1888 to 42,294,-
O64 i'm January. 1885. was attended
and perhaps caused by "A decline i'm
value very much greater-namely,
from a value of Sl25, 900. 900 i'm Jan
uary, 1888, to a value of only S66, 100
900 in 1895. In short. the farmers
have got to lose one-half the value
|
sent to the sacrifice of one-ninth of
their number. Thus, il the entire
sum in gold loaned by the Roths-
child d-Belmont-M Morgan syndicate to
the Government should he presented
to the farmers out and out, it would
no more than indemnify them for
the loss sustained by them ON the.
principal value of their sheep alone
i'm the two years after Mr.. Cleveland
took office
Theodore Justice of Justice. Bate
man K Co., the leading wool authori-
ties of Philadelphia, i'm their last
circular of August ~. shows beyond
a doubt that during The chief period
i'm which the decline in the value OF
wool and of sheep in the United
States has occurred, no perceptible
fall has occurred i'm foreign woods
Between October ] 1891 first year OF
the Mckinley tariff, and September
|, 1895 (after one year of the WILSON,
German lawl, American woods OF
all grades fell by from Z to q cents
pei pound, while foreign woods re-
tanned their previous price > cents
. per pound.
The American decline in wool and
wool production is therefore purely
a. National fact due solely to NationaI
causes. and there is no National
cause at work except Tariff Reform
i in it's direct onslaught ON wool in
, particular, aided by the panic which
, has been produced by it's simulta-
neous onslaught ON thirty or forty
other special industries.
There are few who think the
Democratic party will even nomi-
nate for a third term the unctuous
political Chadband who vented his
venomous spleen at Congress OF
: his own party becouse few men in
[ that party had just fraction too
:. much sanity to make the assault ON
"A good many other of the Nations
industries as destructive as il il ON
wool. There are also a few who think
q that the approaching Congress will
not restore the $S.0O0, 900 annually
OF revenue which ought to flow into
Y the Treasury from competing foreign
= wool. Snch are mistaken. Demo
= Gratis enough will vote for il TO over
: ride the Presidents veto.-New YorL
e Press