Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-19
'THF WOOL GROWERS
HAVE THEIR TURN .
|rbp First Time the Association Has Ever
Met West of Mississippi River - Vice
President Benefits Speech.

D. North, the legislative agent 10 whom
have lust alluded, he says. THE prac-
tlce of sklrting has long been the night
mare OF the domestic grower This Is
spec0us reasoning, because the
domestic grover realizes the advantage
OF Initiating the Australian I'm sklrtlng
his neeces or In Introducing any other
invention or Improvement which the
wool buyer suggests. II Is not the
practice " skIrting which Is the night
mare Of domestic growers, but IL is
/ the fact that q sufficient ratio OF pro-
| lection Is denied upon skrted Wcols as
! compared with the unskirted. For IN
stance ~ the duty upon unwashed wool
I Is II cents per pound and the duty upon
/ SECURED wOUlv Is three times II cents,
or 80 cents. IL is evident that the II cent
duty is based upon woods shrinking
&C 2-3 per cent II, then the unwashed
wool is secured so as 10 shrink but 90
per cent and 10 still admitted at II
cents duty, II Is apparent that the duty
would be equivalent TO but % cents up
on the secured pound thus ai1Ordlng
net protection OF but I l-3 cents TO our
domestic growers OF unwashed wool.
This statement is so plain and the ar
gument SO palpable that II would seem
as though no legislative agent Of an
importer Of wool would be SO disIngen-
uous as 10 deny 1t.
THE TARIFF REDUCTION OF 1883.
! have said that the high-water mark
IN sheep husbaudry was reached In the
United states when a total Of JO,36o.-
2i3 sheep We're maintained here. From
that time forward the decline was due
to the tariff reduction of 1888, whose
immediate depressing Influence upon
the wool growing industry so speedily
discouraged the wool growers that two
years after that date the reduction Of
flocks began.
The total number Of sheep in the
United States however began 20 in
crease a little in 1890. and had risen to
4G2i3553 In 1888 whence under Ceve-
lands administration with free WOOL
Il declined TO 3G,S7S6i3 IN 1891 With
the passage Of the present Dingley law,
there has been some increase until the
number Of sheep In the United states
Is now stated as ll,SS3OG5, In addition
10 such loOpholes as the admission of
skirted wool without additional duty
there are also loopholes under the
clauses respecting third class or carpet
woods. and the Mckinley bin OF 1890,
introduced By the present President of
the United states, proposed a specific
duty Of eight cents per pound on the
better grades OF class 8 woods. The ad
valorem duties on these woods were in
serted against his wishes ana against
the wishes OF the wool growers.
II there had been as honest a degree
Of protection upon wool In the United
States during the past forty years as
there has been upon manufactures OF
iron and steel ana wooden goods. the
sheep industry Of the United states
would now stand Ike the iron and steel
Industries, independent Of all the world.
BETTER ORGANIZATION DE-
MANDED.
1 recommend that the organization
or the National Wool Growers assOci-
alton be so perfected as 10 demand for
itself honest and generous treatment I'm
future legislation. not only respecting
the turin but respecting land laws. the
occupancy OF the forest reserves and all
other matters affecting our Industry.
AT the last meeting 81 the National
Wool Growers association in Washing
ton In the winter OF 1867, Il was due
solely 20 the influence OF our Organiza-
tion mat the present duty upon I'M
washed wool was made II cents per
pound instead OF cents. as was gem
orally proposed But the representa-
ton at that meeting though keen and
aggressive was neither as numerous
nor as widely distributed as It should
have been, and nearly everybody who
attended paid all Of his own expenses,
as there were absolutely no funds with
which 10 do otherwise.
At the meeting OF the National Wool
Growers association In 81. Louis. Mo.
which preceded the tariff law OF 1883.
resulting In such q fretwork OF loop
holes and such diminished protection 10
the wool grower. that the number OF
sheep in the United states has never
since been able 20 reach It's previous
maximum-at that st. Louis meeting,
Hon. a. NJ, Garland was elected presi-
dent or the National Wool Growers
association by five votes under section
3 Of the bylaws Of this association
which reads as follows and OF which
have caused copies 20 be distributed at
this meeting: Section 3: the presi-
dent. secretary and treasurer shall be
hereafter elected annually by the exec
utlve committee" Under that section
Mr. Garland was elected president and
because OF that Office. he was made a