The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-20
Effects of the Mckinley Bill
Shown Up.
PROFITS OF WOOL GROWING
THE ADVICE GIVEN BY REPUB-
LICAN FATHER.
Facts and Figures That Cannot BE
Controverted-Hebe Bennion Ex-
plains Why He is u Democrat.
To the Editor of The Herald:

TAYLORSVILLE. Oct 19-When
free wool was talked of a few years
ago. wool growers generally pro-
claimed against it as ruinous to their
industry. Carnegie and Spreckels
Joined in the howl and together they
made a. dismal chorus. Their furnaces
would go out, the chimneys be smoke
less, the wheels of their machinery
silent, the flocks turned to the wolves
and dogs But the Wilson bill goes into
effect and the world still goes around
and the furnaces burn more brightly.
the mills increase their capacity and
the 1ockS are better cared for than
ever.
The Wool Question Probed.
Now let US probe this wool question
a little deeper. The average tariff on
wool under the Mckinley bill was
about II cents. Republicans say that
the tariff raises the price to the extent
of the tariff, i. e., a lucent tariff on i'm
ported woods will raise or keep the price
of domestic woods II cents above the
level of free trade. Had they been in
full faith with their own principles
they would have anticipated a. fall Of
IL cents under the Wilson bill. AS it
was they anticipated a fall of about 60
wool at to- s cents per pound Ac-
cording to this working there had been
burden of II cents on the American
people yielding but or Z cents benefit
to American wool growers Now every
sane American farmer knows that a
machine SO badly constructed as to
lose half the power put into it through
friction is worthless, except for fire
wood and scrap iron Such results
remind me OF county scrip at a dis
count of 50 cents on the dollar. 1t
shows there is something rotten in
Denmark
But then the law was even worse
than they had anticipated, for as the
effect of the Wilson bill was left, wool
rose TO 10 cents q speak of local prices
showing that the II cent burden had
been yielding but and cents benefit
and the end is not yet, for wool still
rises. Now, the question is, can the
American people afford such prodf-
gality? A farm machine yielding such
results would be called a. horse killer,
or man killer, as the case may be.
PrOftabIeness of Wool Growing.
Then independent of the profitable
ness Of this law arises the question of
its necessity. 1t is not generally I'M
derstood now. that wool growing is the
tilOSI pIOllIdDlS business IN the terri
tory. If there is a more profitable one
1 want to know it. I am constantly
besieged with applications for the
rental of sheep, the most common offer
being % cents per head per year,
though 80 cents is occasionally offered.
AT Wasatch on the Union Pacific rail-
road a few days since, two men in my
hearing offered my friend so cents
rental and $1.50 per head. The crudest
mathematician will see that 30
cents rental at a valuation of S1.50 per
head means 20 per cent interest, and
yet my friend took the $3.50. claiming
that he could go south and buy again
for $1.25 and lease for the same money,
80 cents.
A Republican Fathers Advice.
Last year one of my Republican
friends told me that his boys were talk
ing of exchanging their sheep for bank
or railroad stock, but that he said to
them: Hold ON a little, boys; let's
figure on this. And 50 we figured
everything up, and it showed a net
profit of IS per cent"
This year, Of course, will show a still