Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-26
: The Republican Party stands
for honest money and the chance
to earn it by honest toll.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
A POLITICAL PAPER,
And a Good One, Written by DIR. NJ. "
Hardy of Marietta. q
(Installment No. 81


Installment No. 81
AS wool growers, when we are forced
into competition in wool growing with
the wool grower of those countries
where nothing is required of the flock
master only to herd his flock and make
his two yearly clips, while we must
feed and house our flock for nearly half
the year and only make one clip in the
same time, we have reason to feel most
shamefully abused. This is an unpar-
donable wrong done to the flock master
in the northern portion of our country,
still we hope there was nothing Sec
tional intended by it. and it cannot in
jure US much at present, as the wool
industry with us is thing of the past
and our farmers are not burdened with
the millions of dollars that, under the
. Mckinley law, they were compelled to
receive for wool. That money now
goes abroad for wool.
/ was taught to believe that under
the republican tariff laws our wool in
but if so, it is certainly NO GOOD now.
The substitution of advalorum duty
on many articles, instead of speci
fic duty, was the means of whole
sale frauds being practiced upon our
government, whereby much merchan-
disc passed through our custom houses
without paying duty, hence further de-
ficiency in revenue moreover thereby
the foreign manufacturer was enabled
to unfairly possess our market. The
abolition of those reciprocity treaties,
too, have greatly damaged u.s.
In those treaties we were the gamer
in two ways. We increased our export
trade, and surrendered nothing in re-
turn, because we only admitted articles
free from duty which we could not
. smanufacture or produce, in which case
our capital was not kept unemployed
nor our labor disturbed.
In our treaty with the Colum bian
States of South America we opened up
heavy trade in flour, whereby our
farmers wheat commanded better prices
and more ready sale. Those Minneapo-
lis mills, employed in the manufacture
OF flour, made steady runs to the ad-
vantage of their owners, and the la aborer
employed was adding to his little capi.
tai stock, SO we find it was good thing
all around.
Many other articles of our manufac.
ture found ready sale from that treaty,
such as sewing machines, pianos, or.
gans, nails, cloths, farming implements
&c, and what did we import from
them only such things as we mus
have and could not produce for our
selves. 'r
We imported raw-hides, an article
which we could not produce in sufficien
quantity to keep our extensive tan
neries working on full time. We wer,
making good article of leather when
eyer we had the hides and we found
ready sale for the leather. This indus
try alone kept thousands of our labor
ing men in employment at the highes
wages paid anywhere in the world, ant
but for those hides they must have beer
obliged to seek other employment.
We also imported india rubber from
those states free from duty an articl,
of which we could produce on,
pound, but we were adopts in making
rubber boots, rubber shoes, rubber
belts. hose &C., and in obtaining tn,
rubber from those countries, we KEEP