The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-15
THE WOOL OF THE WORLD.

! Was maze Tree anu opened up TO the
unrestricted competition of ali
THE WOOL OF THE WORLD.
What makes that act more indefensible is,
first, that it was wholly unnecessary; and
second, that it was singing out one of the
greatest industries of the country for inn
mediate Sacrihce leaving other industries
having no greater claim upon the consid-
Grafton OF the government practically un-
! harmed (Cries of That's right" No
class of our citizens have suffered so
much from that tariff law as the wool
growers of the United States, and none
were more deserving of generous treat
ment than they. So inexcusabe was this
act that President Cleveland, who favored
q reduction in tariff all along the line and
Who believed in free raw materials, was
characteristic words against it: 1t may
we'll excite our wonder that Democrats
are willing to depart from this Gree raw
materially doctrine, the most Democratic
OF all tariff principles, and that the
INCONSISTENT ABSURDITY
Of such a proposed departure should be
emphasized by the suggestion that the
list and the protection Of tariff taxation
be placed around the iron ore and coal
of corporations and capitalists
But this did not avert the fatal blow
Less organized than other industries in
the country, you were unable to secure
the recognition to which you We're justly
entitled and your great product was made
the victim of free trade. Cries of That's
right.')
1.-THE platform of the National Republic
can party, upon which we stand this year,
much to my qualification, singles out the
wool industry and makes of it special
mention as entitled to full protection I'M
der our revenue laws. cloud applause
and cries Of "Hurrah for McKinley.'D
This is the language of the national
platform:
g TO all our products-to those of the
mine and the field, as well as those of the
shop and factory-to hemp, to wool, the
product of the great industry of sheep
husbandry , as well as to the finished
woolens of the mills we promise the most
ample protection (Applause)
And what the Republican party prom
ises it is in the
HABIT OF PERFORMING.
(Cfies of That's right.D 1t does not
make promises to be broken. 1t says what
clothed with power in ali branches of the
government, IL viii give to this great in
dustry fair and just protection with all
other industries of the country. But, my
fellow citizens, what we want, whether
we produce wool or any other agricul-
tural product, is to preserve the splendid
home market to our own American pro-
ducers. (Great applause) 1t is the best
market in the world There is no other
market like it and upon every principle of
justice and fair play it belongs to us and
TO nobody Else before us. applause and
cries of That's right.') Protection to the
farmer has been recognized from the be-
ginning of the government until now. AS
showing the Importance of your industry,
| It is only necessary to say that in 1892
there, We're 100000 wool growers in the
United States-700, 600 people whose chief
occupation was that of wool growing.
There were probably one-fourth as many
in the United States. This industry en-
ployed, besides those who owned the
locks, 1t is estimated, at least
HALF A MILLION LABORERS,
representing, with those who depended
upon them nearly 2,50O,00O people There
We're 100000 farms averaging 100 acres
each devoted to this industry, and the
mountainous regions and the vast plain of
the great west-which are not adapted to
other KINDS OF farming-haVe been utilized
IN this great Industry and made valuable.
Every one of these farms comprising 1850
acres of land-112, GOO, GOO acres in aIl-have
been seriously injured by placing wool
upon the free list In one of the agri-
cultural papers Of the west 1 have seen
the statement that in Oregon, Utah,
Washington, Idaho and western Montana
| there were 6,ll0,746 sheep, which We're
worth in 1892 $13, 421 co., and which in 1896
We're worth only $6,710,000.
In 1882 we had 47,273,553 sheep in the
United States valued al $125, 100000. In 1895
we had 600, valued at $50, 000 COO; and
the total imports of wooden goods in 1892,
diidCl lilt Il6puDIlCdn protective tariff law,
was little above $1,000 600, and in 1895,
under the Wilson tariff law, these imports
| amounted to more than $50, 100000. (Cries of
Hurrah for Mckinley and the Republi-
can party.')
''On the second day of April, 1888, in
presenting the minority report in OPPOSE
ton to the Mills tariff bill in the national
mouse OF representatives, L said: Wool
on the Tree list is a deadly assault upon
a great agricultural interest and will fall
WITH TERRIBLE SEVERITY
upon million people, their household
and dependencies. 1t viii destroy invested
capital, unsettle established values, Wrest
from HockmaSterS their lifetime earnings,
bankrupt thousands of our best and most
industrious farmers and drive them into
other branches of agriculture already
4yerc1r I its (Cries OF That's what it
| has done.D 1t is a very serious blow at
the entire agricultural interest of the
country =" (Cries of You are rightly
Major Mckinley quoted Alexander
Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson in effect
that. the duties we lay on all articles of
! foreign manufactures secure us against
a relapse into foreign dependency.
My own idea" he said, rs that we
should encourage home manufactures to
( the extent of our own consumption. Gap
( plause) [ have said that the home mar
ket is the best market. You know that
! from experience, and the
HOME MARKET IS MADE BETTER
/ by increasing our factories and giving
employment to idle workmen. Great
! cheerng). Put every idle man in the
! country to work and your consumers will
| be increased applause and cries of
| That's right; and when your consumers
| are increased then your market is i'm
! proved, and the better the price you re-
ceive for your products. (Cries of GOOD,
| good.')
1T was said that if we opened up this
country to the free use of the wool of
| the world the farmers would be benefit
| ed 1t was done, and with what benefit
| YOU know better than L can tell you.
| Now they tell you that free silver
| Qaughter is the panecea for all your ills
/ (renewed laughter), and you have the
! same money in circulation now that you
| had four years ago, but you wool growers
| then. (Cries of That's right.') AS free
| wool degraded your industry, so free sill
! yer will degrade your money. applause
and cries of That's right. too.'D
| You have already been fieeced by loss
on your fiocks and you don't propose to
be feeced further by loss on your money
MY fellow citizens. am glad to re-
! ceVe you and welcome you here at my
home and it will afford me sincere pleasure
! to shake hands with each of you person
| ally if you desire me to do So" Great
! aPplause.)
| Major Mckinley dined at the residence
! of Mr.. Isaac D. Harter this evening. Mr..
/ FTarter s a brother of the late congress-
man. Michael D Harter
mayor Mckinley read the reports from
| Maine during the evening with evident
prise, because his advices from Augusta
had prepared him for victory.
! Major Mckinley will receive three dele
cations tomorrow. The first comes from
Michigan the second from Somerset
! county. PENNSYLVANIA, and the third will
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