The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-25
eoRMAn TARIFF AND WOOL
Democratic Falsehoods Analysed - Wool
and Shoddy.

Democratic Falsehoods Analysed - Wool
and shoddy.
The Philadelphia Record, in CRITICS.
ing a comparison of the results of one
year of actual trial of free wool with
the last year of the Mckinley law, says:
'These statistics show a splendid vista
of prosperity. As soon as the tariff
bars were let down our manufacturers
sent their agents to London and Ant
werp to buy for the first time the finest
Australian and South American tieeces
to be made into fine fabrics for Amer
lean consumers. There is not in indus
trial history a more striking example of
the promptness with which American
manufacturers avail themselves of new
opportunities"
If importing more shoddy and waste
than could be produced by the total an
nual clip of all of the important wool
growing states of Ohio, Michigan and
New York, and in place thereof we ex-
port the pure wool, because under the
new law American manufacturers can
not afford to use it al but little One-halt
Of its value under the Mckinley law,
when it was all used at bone, lis
splendid vista of prosperity" Lord
help us. The facts are these: Pre-
vious to July woods were depressed all
over the world. In America the price
of wool, according to the very reliable
commercial reports of the Record, dur
ing the first week of October, was no
higher, but was slightly lower than in
the last of July, while foreign wool has
advanced % per cent. since July, and it
now pays to ship to Europe American
wool which finds no market in the
United States at SO cents, secured, but
which goes abroad with large quaint
ties of Australian and South American
wool to be manufactured into goods
which are to come back to America,
taking the place, under the new tariff
law, of American goods, formerly made
by American labor out of American
wool, which the new tariff law per-
mitted foreign nations, under the first
year of the new tariff law, to send to
the United States to the extent of $780,
600, 900 in excess of the shipment to the
United States during the last year of
the Mckinley law.
This increase alone in manufactures
of wool, exclusive of shoddy, noils
waste, rags, etc, represents goods
which when made in the United States
required 90, OOO, 900 pounds of wool. BY
the transfer of the manufacture of $780,
OOO, 900 worth of wooden goods from
America to Europe the American farm
er loses the sale here of 10000, 900
pounds of wool. Finding no market
for It all in America, he ships to Eu-
rope. The wool market reports for the
past week contain the following state
ment: The sensational sales of the
week were 100000 pounds of American
wool, grown in Montana, to go TO Eu-
rope at SO cents per pound, because no
American manufacturer could buy it at
that price This lot nets the seller 1
cent per pound more than he could get
Europe to be manufactured into goods
which will doubtless come back to the
United States, contributing to the $780,
900, 900 increase in the first year of the
new law in the imports of manufac-
lures of wool This wool has to go to
Europe at about half of what it brought
previous to March, 1898, before the Nc
Kinley law was menaced with repeal.
This class of wool at that time always
found ready sale in the American mar
ket at from 60 to Sc cents per pound,
secured. To-day, under free wool and
the Wilson-Gorman bill, there is no
market for it in America at 80 cents,
and we are exporting it and are import
ing shoddy, waste and rags to take its
place. Under the first year Of free
wool and the Wilson-Gorman law, the
increase in the importation of shOddy,
waste, etc, valued according to the
Record at II cents per pound, was more
than 100000 pounds. None of these
wool adulterants are being exported,
and, as they have been carded and
cleaned, each pound of shoddy and waste
would require for its reproduction 3
pounds of American wool in the condi-
ton in whichthe latter is usually sold by
the farmer. Thus we have pure wool
going abroad at SO cents per secured
pound because our manufacturers for
the first time in the history of the cOun-
try are working under a bad tariff law,
which does not permit them TO use this
pure wool at SO cents, which under tie
Mckinley law found ready sale To
American mills at over 60 cents, and
they are replacing it with shoddy and
waste. This is about a fair COM
parison of the result of the workings of
the Wilson-Gorman law VS.. the Nc
Kinley law. This is the situation,
which, in the opinion of the Record, is a
splendid vista of prosperity. Chicago
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