The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-09-02
More Endorsements For F. H. Watson.


eral As assuming greater proportion every
day. Letters from all parts of the State
indicate that his friends are vigorously at
WORK In his behalf, while number OF the
republican papers have given him strong
endorsements.
Benton Harbor Palladium: Hon. Frank
II. Watson, of Owosso, will be strong
candidate in the forthcoming republican
State convention for the nomination for At
torney General. He has been member of
the bar of Shiawassee county for eighteen
years and has served acceptably as prose-
cutting attorney of the county and as amem-
Der of'the legislature.
st. Johns Republican: Frank II. Wat
( the nomination for attorney general. Mr..
Watson is good lawyer and has long been
prominent working republican. His quail
ifications for the Office are far above that of
MANY who aspire to, and some that have
held the office. Considering the loyal sup
port given Mr.. Norton by the Shiawassee
delegation, 1t would seem that Shiawassee
has claims upon us for her candidate.
Fenton independent Hon. Frank FL.
Watson. of Owosso, is being prominently
mentioned as candidate for the nomina-
ton to the Office of attorney general at the
coming convention of the republicans of the
state. Coming as he does from strong
republican county, and being equipped with
a ripe legal experience, Mr.. Watson's can
didacy should be given due consideration.
| He is entitled to it both by reason of his
own and his county's services in republican
work.
I0sco County Gazette: Shlawassee coun-
ty republicans will 60 before the coming
State convention with a candidate for attor-
ney general and will present the name of
Hon. Frank II. Watson, of OwOssO The
writer has some acquaintance with Mr..
| Watson, and has knowledge of the excel
| lent record he has made in Shiawassee as
school boy, a student in the law Office of
Hon. Hugh McCurdy, practiclng attorney,
two terms as the county's prosecuting Off
Ger, and as q representative in the State
legislature; and we believe that Mr.. Watson
would make most excellent State official.
Business Facts VS.. Free Trade Theories.
No other duty prescribed by the Dingley
tariff was so vigorously opposed and so
severely denounced as that on WOOL The
free trade advocates predicted great injury
to our wooden industries and declared we
would be compelled either 10 import raw
wool for our factories il the duties on wool.
en- manufactures should be too high, or, II
not, import more wooden manufactures. In
either case our people would have to bear
the burden of this taxation in the form of
higher prices for wooden goods, and our
small exports of these articles would be
wiped out.
What has actually taken place? During
the last year of the democratic WilsOn.Gor
man tariff, when manufactured wool was
free of duty, we imported $50, 1884,
pounds of it, of the value of S53,243, 1911,
while during the first year Of the republic
can Dingley tariff, which left only few
kinds of wool on the free list and placed
duty on all others, we imported only 81, ST.
5S4 pounds of the value of So, 593, 767 duty
free, and 111,217,71s pounds of the value
of $13, 1s9, 925 on which duty was paid. In
other words, the importation of unmanu-
featured wool under the Dingey tariff was
less than nethird in value of what it had
been under the Wilson. German tariff.
| Now, according to free trade theories,
the importatiOns of manufactured wool
having fallen off so immensely, the importa-
ton of manufactured woolens must have
increased in proportion. But IL has not,
quite TIE contrary; the importation of wool
en- manufactured goods has fallen off even
! more than that Of manufactured wool,
although it is well KhUwn mat our home
consumption was greater during that than
during the preceding year. During the
last year of the Wilson. German tariff we
imported wooden manufactures to the value
of $40, 162, 992 and during the first year of
the Dingley tariff the importation of these
goods amounted only to the value of S14,-
s23,76s
This proves two things: first, that our
wooden industries revived under the Ding
ley tariff and produced goods to the value
of at least S35, 600, 900 more than under the
| Wilson German tariff. Second. that the
wool used in our wooden Industries was
mostly raised here, which shows that our
J sheep raisers had kept their lambs instead
of selling them for meat, thereby increased
the number of their sheep, and clipped
more wool when that article was protected
than when it was dutyfree. AS we im-
ported nearly s37, 900, 600 less unmanufact
uIed wool during the first year of the
Dingley tariff than during the last year of
the Wilson German tariff, our sheep raisers
and farmers have surely received that
amount instead of its having gone to
foreigners Is this not great lesson?
And are the prices of wooden manufactures
now so much higher than under the Wilson
German tariff? Certainly not, most are