The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-02
on WOOL,
The Question which iaot Great Intrrrs, 10
Wett N%irglnihns,

inc tSttthttOl when Ia or Great Interrst IN
West %yi,u,uihns.
To I'm Editor NJ IA, intciiL,,,o,.
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s'i''-' Phriose an article On wool
which II YOU wish you can publish ms
an editorial or use In nny wny ynn
lcslr, rt,, w,oi t,,.r,s,. W.,
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NIr6'nlh WRs rnplulS increasing under
the Mckinley bill ANA | think they
should he reached. | believe an editor
lnl AT least twice u week un this sub
Jcct Will do nor good than ~ much
gOld talk and will h. glad 10 furnish
YOU with them or amy data YOU desire
FOR treating them without cost tO your
self, The Argentine Republic Il now
the greatest competitor TO West Viz
Ginla woods. Labor IL IS Il day there,
the land free.
Free wool means FREQ trade. prcsl-
dent Cleveland recognized that I'm his
FREQ wool message OF 1855, At that
time the number Of sheer In the United
tSAtcs was O,JGO,O 300 and " Il had In
creased IN the same ratio as the seven
previous years, there would now be
over $780, D0, 900 producing all the wool
we require, but growers became panic
stricken aud disposed OF their sheep az
AllhNlNN wv IpAHlllF. DIttlltE MIN
checked and ut the time the Mckinley
bill was passed the number had been
reduced to $4,000, 900, Encouraged by
the passage Of the hill the tide turned
and increased To Il. e75, 1000, With the
passage OF the Wilson bill the .bb
came and In January, 1896, there were
only $1,000, 600. to-day probably under
20, 900. 1000. In the far western and
southern states SlrNrp were turned
adrift as they could not be soldr md
the wool would not pay for the labor
OF keeping them. Prices Of wool have
declined from fOrty-fuur to fOrty-ckght
per cent. lmportntIOns OF wool and
wOOlcnS have more than doubled and
many Of our wool growers and man.
u%faCturers have gone into bankruptcy
losing the accommodations OF n life time.
This Is far from the prophecy of Pro-
fcssor Wilson that with free wool
prices would advance. as It would
permit tibet Use OF woolB That we ab-
solutely required to mix with ours, a
tallacious statement 80 bald as to
hardly require notice. While
were to have more for thelr wooi.cloth-
ing was 10 he Chcanrr but taIlJrs have
made no reductions In thar prices and
the only cheap clothes are the bank
rupt stocks Of ruined manufacturers.
While low prices are desirable, we fail
to see that It applies when they are
made by the mlsfJrtunes OF Others, Ma
JON McKinlcy predicted in 1855 that
free wool meant higher prices for
mutton. 0verbalancInS the gain o.
lower priced wool. Wool IL no now n
fnctor in the price OF mutton sheer,
and In every large market Of the coun-
try prIScs Of mutton have so advanced.
that IL Is the rich mans meat, ChoDs
In our eastern markets are now TWEEN
ty-tve to tweuty,-eIght dollars against
eighteen 10 twenty before wool was
free and butchers COMPLAIN tharn IL
less profit now than then. We are in.
formed that the growers of our state
have made randi studies in tha I'M
proyement of their ilorkS within rho
mast few years and II nnanu,tn nr,-
lection ia arnln given thorn th,t thnv
bid fair Ia outrank nr ha NJ, nv, IN
az tho growers or tho world Tho
~ ,ha dIefercnt snc,L,rs ,f ,mr
state are aIoptitnr srch hrp,Is ne orn
most si,Itnhl1 f6r ,hair nartIcmi,r go
ti5ns NnrIn,s load in rio pnn.h,rIIc
and northwestern rourtIas En"iish
crossed wins Narir,s which trnnrl,
~nrsInmInofcs In ,bc ss,,H,1
and nnra English hraeIs rsar ma w,
Virginia limo ON NcrirnS h,,s baan
largely n-urch,s h. siIJdi",a~ iii
f,r th,i,. indigo L,,a cI,ths ,,I 49,
nsIs ana whIIn ,bcir rn"t ~ 49,,
greater nor nnupd han ntbor w.,,ts -
the same nuslIty rhcir sunsriar cLnroCI
Ter has w@nrrnn,ad iba ncrnovaj 80,
or cross breeds ors s,ftcr anJ 49,
piiable than tho Austroran nrd n,r