The herald., 1896-10-10
WOOL IN THE PAST

Wednesdays Santa Ana Blade had
this to say regarding the wool industry
of this country as affected by the Wilson
tariff measure:
The wool industry, formerly a very
important one on this coast, has been
literally swept away by the benefic MT
Co workings of this Democratic meas
ure of which Mr.. Bryan. who is now
running for president on the Democratic
ticket, said:
Il favor the bill, not because of its per-
fection, not because the duties are
brought down as low as they might be.
but because the bill Is infinitely better
than the law which we now have, and is
q step in the right direction
Under the above heading, the UlSiah
Dispatch Democrat, published in the
great wool-producing county of Men
docino, had this to say, on the I'd instant,
on the same subject and as an unanswer-
able argument it cannot be successfully
disputed:
Free wool the cause of the present de-
pressed state of the wool market ?
Fraud! Sham!! Humbug!!! Let every
sheep raiser; let every man who is cling
ing to the Republican party today be-
cause he believes that 12-cent wool is
due to free woodland wool Is about the
only tariff talk of the Republicans-read
the subjoined and ponder for himself
This Is no forgery-no statement that
| originated with any manipulating Dem .
ocrat. 1t is the truth, the whole truth
| and nothing but the truth! The United
| States agricultural reports are our au-
| thority, and we have taken the pains to
procure them that the honest sheep
| raiser and the honest poor man of this
county might escape from the trap into
| which they have been ensnared w, ].
Bryan is the peoples friend. He is an
honest man. He is poor man. He is a
| second Abraham Lincoln. When he tells
| you that the country is goingl to ruin
because of the infamous policy of the
money sharks in dwindling the money
| of the land, he speaks truthfully and
| from the bottom of his heart. Tariff is
not the cause: neither tariff on wool, on
lumber, nor on anything else. The fig
ures appended are amply explanatory:
In 1857, free wool, price SO cents a
pound.
In 1858. free wool. price As cents q
In 1859. free wool, price SO cents a
pound.
In 1860. free wool. price 81 cents a
pound.
In 1861, tariff per cent, A cents a
pound.
In 1863, Canada wool free. 50 cents a
In 1864. tariff 25 to 80 per cent, As cents
a pound.
The great wool tariff Of 1867 so to go
per cent tariff, 46 cents pound.
Wool sold in Ukiah that year, 1868, as
shown by and old copy of the Mendoclno
Herald, edited by Judge Budd, a good
Republican, at to 121s cents per pound.
In 1885, with so per cent tariff, it sold
for 121a cents in Ukiah and 25 cents in
Boston.
Take the present price OF wool, the raw
material being on the free list, and run
back over these figures and see whether
our millioneI'e advocates know what
they are taking about. If they know
what they talk of they are not truthful;
If they don't know, it is time they
learned. They preach this, however, to
divert attention from the financial issue,
which is their nightmare.
We challenge our Republican papers to
print the tariffs the years and the prices,
concerning wool from government rec
ords from 1857 to the present time. and
we challenge Republican spielers to
read the same list to their wool audi
ences.