Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-02-11
RUN MAD.
One-Hundred Per Cent. Does Not Sat.
isfy the Avarice of the Pam
pered Industries.

The Wool Growers association has
just held its annual convention and the
members seem at a loss to understand
the depressed condition of their BUSH
ness and, like other petted monopolists,
are begging more fatherly assistance
from Uncle Sam. They have resolved
to ask the department of the interior
to issue equal quantities of mutton and
beef to the Indians and the army, as a
further stimulant to the sheep industry.
These wool pap-suckers are monop-
olists and not farmers. They appropri-
ate the use of the government lands,
driving off would-be settlers who would
interfere with their free pasture. No!
content with a protection duty of about
100 per cent. or wool, they now cry fol
monopoly. They ask Uncle Sam to force
their mutton down the Threats of the In
dams and the soldiers, whether the NUT
ton is palatable or not. There is a vast
difference in mutton; that from the
Southdown or Cottswold sheep being of
superior texture and flavor and that
from the pure blood Merino almost In
eatable-it being stringy and of a dis
agreeable and strong flavor. What the
white mar of the cities refuses, is to be
forced on the Indians and soldiers. All
for the further protection and advan-
tage of the few millionaire sheep men
of the plains. Could any greater abb
surdity be attempted in the interest of a
pampered infant industry" We
might as well force the Indians and SOL
diers to eat the carcasses of the skunks
and foxes, which are now wasted by
the proprietors Of the skunk and fox
farms that enterprising Yankees have
established in the wiids of Maine.
On the same day that the press dis
patches announced the meeting of the
Wool Growers association, there ap-
peared an interview with a leading citi-
zen of Wyoming which shows that pro-
lection does not always protect, although
it most certainly EFFORTS from he gen.
eral public: with a tariff on wool that
equals II cents a pound, our sheep rails
ers are getting only 10 cents per pound.
and hardly that" SAID ex-Gov. Osborne,
of Wyoming, at the New Willard. "The
sheep, If sent to market, bring a very
poor price for mutton, though eastern
consumers have to pay a tariff that is
simply exorbitant. But while the sheen
raisers are feeling a depression in the
value of their product, everything they
have to procure in the way of ranch
supplies has gone up fully SO 1-3 per
cent. The burlap, the paint, the Irvine
has advanced a third and over, and the
bacon bought by wholesale for the en-
ployes is 10 cents per pound, as against
nine cents q few years ago"
No one can know better than Gov,
Osborne the true facts about the sheen
industry Of the northwest, and yet to
hear republican congressman talk and
to read republican newspapers, all il
prosperity as the glorious results Of the
protective tariff.
High trust prices and protection for
trusts and favored industries, is now
to be supplemented by forcing our wards
to consume what is otherwise unstable.
Too much brooding over protection has
made these millionaire sheep ranchers
mad. Thank goodness, they are all re-
p%ublIcans.