Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-19
TNF WOOL GROWERS
HAVE THEIR TURN.
The First Time the Association Has Ever
Met West Of Mississippi River - Vice
President Benefits Speech
J, North. the legislative agent to whom

d. North. the legislative agent 20 whom
have Just alluded. he says, THE prac-
/ lice OF skIrting has Ions been the night
mare OF the domestic grower This Is
I spscIOus reasoning, because the
/ domestic grower realizes the advantage
| of Initiating the Australian In Skrting
his heeccs or in introducing any other
invention or Improvement which the
wool buyer suggests, II Is not the
practice OF skirting which Is the night
mare Of domestic growers, but ~ Is
the fact that a sufficient ratio OF pro-
lection Is denied upon skirted wCols as
compared with the unskrted. For IN
stance, II the duty upon unwashed wool
Is II cents per pound and the dpty upon
SECURED woulT 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 H. then the unwashed
wool ~ secured so as 10 shrink but 80
per cent and Is still admitted at II
cents duty, 10 Is apparent that the duty
would be- equivalent 20 but p cents up
on the secured pound, thus aft0rding a
net protection Of but 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 50 disingen-
uous as to deny IL.
THE TARIFF REDUCTION OF 1853.
have said that the high-water mark
In sheep husbaudry was reached In the
United States when total Of 5O.56u,-
2i3 sheep We're maintained here. From
that time forward. the decline was due
to the tarin reduction of 1883. whose
immediate depressing influence upon
The wool growing industry so speedily
discouraged the wool growers that two
years after that date the reduction u
hocks began.
The total number Of sheep in the
United States, however, began 10 in
crease little In 1890, and had risen to
4G213.5 53 IN 1898. whence under Ceve-
lands administration with free WOOL
II declined TO 3sS7S.6i3 I'm 1897. 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 il.SS3,O65 In addition
TO such loonholes as the admission Of
skrted wool without additional duty,
there are also loopholes under the
clauses respecting third class or carpet
woods. and the Mckinley bin of 1890,
by the present President Of
the United States. proposed a specific
duty Of eight cents per pound on the
better grades Of class 3 woods The ad
valorem duties on these woods We're in
serted against his wishes and 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 and wooden goods, the
sheep industry 81 the United states
would now stand ike the iron and steel
industries, independent OF all the world.
BETTER ORGANIZATION DE-
MANDED.
recommend that the organization
OF the National Wool Growers associ-
ation be So perfected as 70 demand for
Itself honest and generous treatment In
future legislation. not only respecting
the tarin but respecting land laws, the
occupancy Of the forest reserves and all
other matters affecting our industry.
At the last meeting OF the National
Wool Growers association In Washing
ton, In the winter OF 1891, Il was due
t'ANtF AN INV AlIAA"AAA' VI NAA VI kNAllau-
tion that the present duty upon un-
washed wool was made II cents per
pound instead Of cents. as was gem
orally proposed. But the representa-
ton al that meeting though keen and
aggressive was neither as numerous
nor as widely distributed as 1t should
have been. and nearly everybody who
attended paid an 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 ST. Louis Mo.
which preceded the tarin law OF 1858.
resulting in such q fretwork ~ loop
holes and such diminished protection 70
the wool grower. that the number Of
sheep In the United states has never
since been able 90 reach u.s. previous
that St. Louis meeting.
Hon. A. ~ Garland was elected presi-
dent OF the National Wool Growers
by FIVE votes under section
Of the bylaws Of this association
which reads as follows and OF which !
have caused copies to be distributed al
this meeting. Section q the presi-
dent. secretary and treasurer shall be
hereafter elected annually by the exec
utiye committee" Under that section
Mr.. Garland was elected president and
because Of that office, he was made a