The sun., 1900-10-07
SHEEP INDUSTRY MENACED:
IRRET LOSS THE REVIVAL
or FREE WOOL WOULD ENTAIL

sheen uusbandry. SHOWING tne 'As'
p,ndIture OF Effort and Money in BrinEinE
IL 10 It's Present standard OF Ehceuenee'
No commercial review OF recent years shows
90 well how lnscparably bound are the manu- manu-
featuring and stock breeding interests OF THIS
country to a Republican Administration as
n review Of tho progress OF American sheep
busbandry lust issued by tho Department
Of Agriculture The report was prepared
by j. r. Dodge a special agent OF the Depart
nent. than whom there Is no man in the country
moce oonyersant with the history OF wool
growing in the United States. Mr., DodRes
report goes into the mlnutest details Oh ''o
sheep-ralsing industry, carrying II baoK 10
Colonial days. and Is exceedingT lnterost-
ing The industry has had checkered career
those engaged in it having suffered Rreaty
from frequent fluctuations in the tlrHl' 10
dav the Industry is recovering from the lar''
law OF 1894. which made wool abSoluleN 'l'"
as well as all forms Of shoddy ana waste ,na-
terials used In aduIteration IL mas tahen
all of this time for the sheep. raising industry,
which was almost wiped out by that law 10
get IL, head above water again but, as Mt
hodge says. the manufacturing and growing
Industries. whloh are inseparaoly connected
will increase steadily II the prosperity OF ooth
Industrie, are maintained What Mr Dodgo
means Is that the great business OF wool grow
ing. which neoessItates tho employment OF
thousands Of persons both on ranches ana
In factories all over the land. Knocked "ut
as Il has been time and again By short-siGhtei
tariff changes, has under the Administrator
of President Mckinley taken on new me- ana
that II this new life is 20 be maintained II must
be protected as II has been since Grover Cleve-
land went out OF once and william Mckinney
succeeded him.
Ifitls not, the markets OF the United states
will be slutted again with foreign made cIo'h''
and the domestic products VIII haVs aoso-
utely no chance with them. II VIII mean the
disappearance Of the great herds of caretnIy
reared sheep In the West "a well as III tho last
From time 10 time these great heEdS nave peen
roduced because Of the enactment Of laws
which practically shut the American WOOL
grower out, and 1t looked as though the AMI
mails which It had taken over century 10
bring 10 their present condition OF excellence
I'm this country would disappear In Few
months. The men who rear the fno strains OF
sheen that afford the American people the
Clothing they wear and the men VINO weave
II into cloth are the men who look with most
anxious eyes to-day on the danger when
menaoes the country In the candidacy OF VIII
liam j. Bryan. The arguments oil theorls1
10 the contrary notwithstanding. tho WOOL
growing and cloth making industries cannot
live In this country unless they receive inc
protection which the Republican parry wiz
give IT, and which the Democratic party viii
take away from II the first chance 1t gets. MI
DodRe's report shows this conclusively. The
experiment has been tried many times. ana
the present splendid condition OF the Industry
is almost beyond belief when one reads the
results OF these experiments IL Is all 100
evident that this great Industry the greatest
In the land perhaps, will stand or TAN with the
coming election. Another blow IKE that oil
1894 would end It, for the vitality and energy
which have kept II alive through adversely
while characteristically American. could
scarcely survive another such shock. The
wiping out OF this great industry would OF
course be the most serious result OF another
declaration Of free wool. but the fact that al
most million peo pie who are steadily employed
and making good wages to-day would be
thrown out OF employment is not thing TO
be overlooked.
NJ podoa b.oin. his report with brief
,.riaw ~ WOO, growing In Colonial times The
erst settIor, In New York. virginia and Massa-
.,,,s.,t. e,th.r brought sheep with them from
49, ia oornt,v or IN, norted ther with the f,rst
., IN. rnrIles th.v sent for after reaching here
rrho Ioo,n ana the .n,nning wheel were arti-
o,a. ~ ,,r,Itura IN avery household in those
d,vs The matron OF the household was a
,ra,,.a- opd tho daughter n spinster. Tho
shoor were mainly from England and Hol-
t.nd and were ~ the COARSE wool breeds. II
,s so,d th,, tho erst Of these sheen brought
int tho colonies landad at jamestown. Va.
In ,eoo In ,e.o there wore 900 sheep in yir-
ai,I, Tbsrs were sarlv importations in Massa-
ohwso,ts and IN IAN the number Of sheen in
tb,t St,ta was est,rnated at 900, The Dutch
hrousbt eocks N New Netherlands in 1925
ond again IN Isso. A Swedish colony brought
a,rhtv int delaware IN ,eea. In fact IN all OF
,ha oolonies tho dopestic manufacture o, wool
r.os oroo,roUed The Colonial Legislatures,
aroourasod the Industry nv Offering nre-
,.I,,ros ,rhiob var, aagorlv sought vI,b tho
r.a,,I, ,ho, ,n ,oSs q skiled vaave- inducsd
~. ,rort =, thirty acres ~ land sottled In
T~on W,ss Witch has s,rca hacono a 0re,t
oantr. ., ,e,tia Irdr.,rv rNorts were mad.
.,a,iu,, 80 onoouraea vaavers ord artisan,
=. - - ,-or, Sorsigr oo,,,trIes and os-
.-,,.t ,h. -, ., ,ba Io,or fac,orr s,o,oro
80 I, ra. a. s,,ooass,ul that IN tho ,olIowtrg
,,,,. a. oard,,, woayinc ord snIrri,.