The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-10
ISN'T HEADAISY?
Hew William J. Bryan Got Into
the Farmers Wool.
WHAT HE SAID IN CONGRESS

And Hew He votsd--Extracts From His
speeches In Favor Of the Wilson. Cor
man Tariff Bnl-Ridiouled the Farm
srs-would Buy Wool In Cheap For-
eign Markets - Not Concerned About
the Farmers welfare-Tabi showing
Prices Under Two Tariff Laws.
Mr.. Bryant, therefore, Mr.. Chair.
man, denounce as fallacious, a. un-
worthy of consideration, the only rea-
son that can be given in support of the
tariff on wool, as a protective tariff and
for protective purposes Congressional
Record, vol. 20. page 2l2H.
He Pokes Fun at the Farmers.
Mr.. Bryan-Out in Nebraska there
sheep for each man, woman and child.
We look back to it as the mutton age"
of Nebraska. [Laughter.] But, alas,
that happy day has passed. The num-
ber of sheep has continually decreased,
until now, if every woman in the state
named Mary insisted upon having pet
lamb at the same time we would have
to 60 out of the state to get lambs
enough to 60 around. Laughter and
applause
No; it is not because of the import.
ance of the industry, nor is it because
1t is an infant industry. You may 60
back into history, sacred or profane, as
far as tradition runs, and you will find
the record of the sheep. Homer tells
how Ulysses escaped from the cave OF
the Oyclops by means of sheep. We
read in the Bible that when Isaac was
about to be offered up, away back in the
patriarchal days, ram was found
caught by the horns in thicket and of.
fered in his stead; and further back
than that, in the fourth chapter of Gen.
esis, think in the second verse-my
Republican friends, Of course, will re.
member [laughterl-it is recorded that
the second son of the first earthly pair,
"Abel was keeper of sheep" And
from that day to this -
Mr.. SIMPSON, want to ask the gen.
tleman if we are to understand that this
is sacrifice you are Offering up on the
altar of protection?
Mr.. Bryan-No, sir; we are only be-
ginning an attack which will be con.
tinued just as long as there is anything
to remedy. [Applause.l
But l was going to say, Mr.. Chair
man, that from that day to this the
sheep has been the constant companion
Of man in all his travels, and it has
differed from its modern owner, per-
haps, the most in that it is recognized
as the symbol of meekness Laughter.
congressional Record, Vol. 23, page
2l26.
He Wsuld Buy Wool In Cheap Foreign
Markets.
Mr.. Bryant have often thought how
perplexed the sheep must have been
after the passage Of the last bill (the
Mckinley bilD when they got together
and consulted among themselves as to
how they were going to increase the
amount of their wool now that the tariff
had made it necessary. Laughter
But nobody. Mr.. Chairman, has said to
this house that protection would reduce
the price of pasturage in this country,
nor has anybody claimed that it would
so moderate the climate as to do away
with the necessity for winter feeding.
The theory, Mr.. Chairman, upon which
this is justified, might as well be met
here as anywhere; and want to state,
as emphatically as words can state it,
that l consider it as false in economy,
at high price in this country that
which we can purchase abroad at low
price.-Congressional Record, vol. %,
page 2126.
He Wanted Free Wool at Onoe.
Mr.. Bryan-The people throughout
the country declared in favor Of free
wool and a reduction of the tariff, and
the farmers want free wool because they
can not be hoodwinked and deceived
any longer. as these gentlemen seem to
think.
Mr.. johnson of Ohio-Then why keep
1t from them?
Mr.. Bryant would like to have it
now.
Mr.. johnson of Ohio-Well, let Ms
have it now.
Mr.. Bryan-The gentleman can not
bring free wool too soon to suit me-
Congressional Record. vol. 26, page 898.
He IL Not Concerned About the "Wool
Grower" and the "Egg Producer"
Mr.. Pickler-I will help you this far.
am in favor of protecting all industries
alike to reasonable extent. am not
in favor of making the farmer bear all
the brunt. as you make him to do in
this bill, and yet give protection to the
manufacturers in the east. [Applause.l
That is what you do by this bill
Mr.. Bryan-The gentleman from
South Dakota (Mr. Pickler) was COM
planning today because we would not
allow the egg producers of this country
to tax the egg consumers, and as long
a. he asks tariff ON eggs he must sub.
init to it on manufactures.
Mr.. Pickler-WOuld not the gentle.
man do well to take more care of the
woolgrowers and egg producers, and let
the representatives of the consumers of
these products take care of themP The
gentleman had better take care of the
farmers of the northwest, whom he in
part represents.
Mr.. Bryan-f the gentleman who
represents the farmers OF South Dakota
would help to take care of the farmers
instead OF standing up for 9a per cent
duty ON the woolen goods which his
people wear, and for an average Of 90
per cent on the tariff schedules. he
would do them better service.