The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-06-07
WOO. AND TARIFF s.
lssustIce and Inequality OF so-Caiied fTo-
lection Laws.

a.,uss,ee and Inequality of so-caiied Fro
tection Laws.
We are exporting wool for the hrst
| time In many years and the fact that
this result has been reached under
wha, the republican press terms free
trade" and a tariff law charged with
hei NO in the interest Of foreign AID OPP
noScd To that Of home growers Is
most conclusive answer To inisrepre-
kentation.
A reader Of the Republic writes In
r.ference TO an article which recently
apneared in republican journal
Oh arcino TINT the Wilson tariff law
under which we are now working - re-
snonsible for what is alleged 10 be q
depressed condition Of the wootgrow-
ing industry. The editor after paint
ing the imaginary woes OF thc sheeP
h,,sbandman under the free trade OF
1he Wilson law, points out what re-
vi val will follow the return OF me re-
publican party TO power and the re-
} enactment Of the Mckinley law IN
) spirit IL not in letter. Then, says
5 he. 1.-THE American grower Will get
! anple pr election against his foreign
rival"
At the time this promise was writ
statistics were available showing
, that there has been decrease in the
= importations of foreign WOOL since 'he
Mckinley law became imperative ana
the Wilson law went into eject ina.
is the important fact In the pressn'
J. situation, but our correspondent reai-
% ICES another and perhaps more impor'
II cant fact as affecting the genera as
Or cussion Of the tariff question, IN ASK
* ing: "Will this not be at the expense
of the consumer. and do not the con-
r. sumers largely outnumber the class re-
ferrcd TOP
ly The total assessed valuation OF al
IN real and personal property IN tn'
nj United States in 1890 was S7,lJ9' ooo'
An Ao5. The entire wool industry, includini
Id growing and manufacturing. and tax
De- inc the value of the finished produc
he as representing the value protected. Q
TO sunposed TO be protected, by tarif
laws. was S33s. a3l. 100, or about pc
W cent. of the total assessed weaith
% the country. OF course the vaiue
500 The raw wool was not half OF the tota
,,w volue here expressed, so that the pro
% lection" so insolently demanded Tor In
" wool grower is claim. when reduce
800 to;,s final ANALYSIS, that % per cent
) % The wealth of the country shall !
) 90 taxed for the advantage OF the oth'
d. per cent. a more striking hius'r
cal ton OF the disparity between the u
har ures and the claims is Afforded by co
hon sulting the census reports showing u
III, condition of the shcep-growing inau
God try in Missouri as compared with oth
industries in this state. such COZ
parison reveals the fact that IN 10
the assessed value of property
e561 nj, while the total value
That Missouri sheep was sl,9i s,023, or L
:. than one-third of l per cent OF
II OF total taxable wealth Of tho state
the The inequality and injustice OF
and callad protective tariffs can never
this more clearly proved than by the GO
con- narison our correspondent has surge
were al Rut the inefiicacy of tariff 10
axes for the development of the wool ind
abit- trv can be even more clearly prov
an oficiol statistics and tables of PR
)ther how That in 1902. within year al
con- the ADOPTION Of the Mckinley !
there nr;ces on all grades of wool had
otne- clined heavily. The greatest uroi
rhich rr;ce was 10 cents per pound and
~ to- .n,llcst cents. What Is equ;
e fire puzzlinr to sincere advocates OF
tectionism is the fact that within
cared three years following the adoption
thin The Mckinley law the importation
htful- foreign wool showed steady mere
some In 1890 the percentage Of foreign
for "A consumed in the United states
ID in pared with the homegrown article
light es.4. In 1891 it had increased TO
owed in .soa to 1876 and in 1898 TO
eroot. During ali these years the progre'
lbled, prices for the domestic article
oscil- steadily downward. Our correspond
, took will be able TO see from these 81
ooked tics that he is not more opposed
4 the revival of the conditions under "
thin they were possible than is the nv
he had gent wool grower who has studies
it at business and the effect of high ia
upon its promotion.
Ii wc might conccde that II Is
cigar Unsuitable O. desirable to employ
rously taxing power Of the government =
'e that yelop any industry to a self-sustai
laving point, certainly no such concession
placed bc any longer made to the wool Y
pulent trv in view of the fact that IT Is !
ing better without than with s.
$ was tax. and that in the general rcviv
he thin industry now promised IT Will III
feeble prominent placc.-St Louis Eept
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OPINIONS AND POINTER
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