The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-01-13

Totals :. c5.03005S 9li,0Gi.201 eS,oa,las
our experiment with free trade In
wool for ono year has enabled the Eng
lish manufacturers OF yarns, woolenB
and worsteds to sell mora than iour
times rs much OF their goods as they
did IN 1894, and 100 per cent more than
their average annual sales during tha
cntire protection period from 1871 10
1894. inclusive. SO much for the boon
OF free raw material to our WOODEN
manufacturers.
Now as TO wool. The United King
dom sent, us, in 1895, over l5O per cent
more English. foreign and colonial wool
than in 1894, the increase In values Pc
inn sI4 600 GOO. Compared with the
enflre Mckinley protection period, 1881
70 1895 inclusive, this increased value
OF wool sent here last year was almost
81 900. OO0-that amount more money
taken away from American farmers
while our manufacturers lost trade
worth $4,000. 900 additional
Never within thirty years have we
imported into the United Stntes from
oil countries, as much wool as was
sent us from the United Kingdom alone
last year, and We have yet TO learn the
value of our wool imports that were
shipped directly to this country from
Australia and South America. Then
we must take cognlzance OF the shrink.
age in the price OF wool, as compared
with the Mckinley period. that our lar.
mers did sell, before we can arrive at
any correct idea OF the entire loss In
flcted upon American sheep farmers by
one years policy OF Democratic free
trae, which, II was intended. should be
a robbery OF the many farmers for the
benefit OF tho few manufacturers. The
Democratic scheme was partly success
ful Il has robbed the farmers; but II
has failed 70 be of any benefit to the
manufacturers. II has robbed them too
The United Kingdom shipped to this
country last year, more wooden tissues
than in 1891 and 1892 combined. and
moro than in the three years OF lSg2,
1893 and 1884 combined; more than
twice the quauthy shipped In 1881 or
1892: three times as much as IN 1888,
and considerably more than four times
as much as In 1884.
AS TO worried tissues, the United
Kingdom sent u.s. last year. almost as
much as In 1891 and 1889 combined, more
than as much MS In 1892 0nd 1893, and
almost four times as much as In 1884.
or yarns she sent us 90 per cent more
than In all four Mckinley tariff years.
We have to 20 back to 1873 before we
find that the united Kingdom made us
such large shipments OF her wooden
manufactures. In 1880 the output OF
our domestic wooden factories and our
Imports OF foreign wooden goods to-
gether were worth tctal OF $3.50, oOO, 600.
Last year worth ,s32, 100000. TO this we
must add the imports from France and
Germany, which win probably nggre-
gate $4,000, COO for the year, the COM
bincd shipments OF the two countries
having averaged S20.Oco.0O0 year for
ten years past. This win give US a
total of SG0.000OoO worth OF foreign
woolens Importci under the first year
OF free trade in wool.
Not only this. There was IN average
advance OF 2 per oeslt IN the price OF
wool last year while there was less than
per cent OF advance in the price of
wooden goods. II our wooden manutac-
turers have not had experience enough
with free raw material, then they VIII
never get It. OF last years American
wool clip there were 1902 100000 pounds
unsold In dealers hands on January !,
1896 The value of the unsold wooden
goods II Is impossible TO arrive at. But
It ls infinitely more than the demand
Of our people. whose purchasing power
has been 50 greatly restricted since 1888.