Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-11-19
Woolgrowers' Meeting.
Continued frompage one.)

OF $1,000. 1000 pounds, gives us va'u
for sheep and wool during the year c
almost $ll 10000 From the best oh
tainable reports We find that we hav
exported from this state. durinf tn
present season, 430, 600 sheep. which W
may safely value at three dollars pc
head, which have returned to the stat
N,92O 900 as the value of cur exlo ts @
live sheep for a single season.
AS near as We are able to fisure, ther
are now employed in connection Will
the sheep industry OF Oregon. 15,OO'
! laborinR men who are receiving gooC
wages. Aside from the men actua |,
engaged in the caring for sheep in THU
state, there are vast numbers who ar,
directly dependent upon this ndustr
for their livelihood and existence and
therefore, from the standpoint of pro
gress of this state. anything which would
in any way menace or retard the devel
opment of the sheep industry would il
an exact measure also retard the devel.
opment Of the entire state. 1t ia oi
grea' importance to the welfare of this
state that at the coming sessi IN OF con
Rress no action be taken which would
in any measure interfere with our pro-
gress, and to this end it is essential hat
our tariff schedules remain as they are
at present. Under protectiv- tariff this
country ordinarily imports 100000, 600
pounds of foreign wool. When this
wool is brought into the United States
the tariff is paid upon it and the wool is
into clio hing and woolen
goods and large portion OF this 200 0O0,-
700 pounds is then exported to foreign
and the original tariff duty is
then refunded to the manufacturer.
This system does not bring the foreign
wools into competition with our wool, but
it permits them to e manufactured into
clothing within orr borders and sup
plies labor to hundreds OF thousands of
A American citizens in the Eastern states.
Under the inf renee Of low tar, fl the for
sign imports are very greatly Increased.
Thus we see by referring to imports for
he year 1897 under the free wool sched-
lie, there was imported 35l coo, 900
pounds of wool. But while thi. wool
vas manufactured into clothing IN this
it was not again exported ON
his country, and, therefore, entered di-
ectly into competition with American
,rown woods.
By referring to statistics We learn that
Turing the period of free wool there VAS
decrease in wool production in the
United States exceeding Al 600 600
pounds, with corresponding decrease
# 10 900, eco head in the number Of
heep in the United States. From sta.
istics gather that the p,ice Of washed
)hlo clothing wool during the four years
# low tariff averaged 19 cents The av
rage for the same wool under protect.
We tariff from 1895 to the present date
ias been so gents, thus showing a diff
renee of llh cents per pound in the
rice of wool in favor Of the pe,iod OF
protective tariff. 1t woull, there o e,
eem that since the sheep industry is
ne of immense magnitude, and sine
uch large bulk OF the population OF
he entire country, either directly or III.
irectly, depend u Jon this industry for
heir existence, that it would be ex-
remedy u wise to in any manner change |
he present tariff schedules upon WOO
nd WOODEN goods. The present tariff |
J not an excessive one, and merely rep |
esents the difference in costs between
he raising and breeding OF s4eep in
australia and in the United States
In order that this subject may be
lore clearly understood. would state
nat an al-wool suit of clothes contains
'om % to 31a pounds OF secured wool,
nd under protective tariff OF II cents
pound the increase cost to the con-
amer amounts to from 25 cents to 45
en's per suit. This amount Is so unim
ortant that it has no relative bearing
hatever upon the price at which wool
n clothing is sold, for it is we'll estab
shed fact that the value of suit of
othes Is measured by the cost of the
.bo, consumed ia its manufacture. At
'ast S5 per cent of its cost depends up
n this labor and not upon the cost of
le material that may enter into its