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without wool for clothing. and would
have been entirely dependent upon
foreign supply. which the world over is
decreasing. (See Senate Document
No. 440).
We know from U experience during
the free wool period that the United
States. like Germany with free WOOL
would soon see her sheep disappear, in
strong contrast with the period since the
passage of the Dingley Tariff Act,
when the number of sheep in the United
States has increased more than half,
while those of Germany with free wool
have decreased more than half.
Wool growers may we'll ask who is
to blame for the loss of $40, 600, 600 to
the wool industry in six months? and
who is to blame for the drop in the
price of wool to the free wool level.
while the Payne-Aldrich Act is still in
FORGET"
Coneressmen known as Progressive
or insurgents" who have fought the
policies of Aldrich and Cannon are
wholly to blame. These d~estructives,
by their action, are favoring special in
terests that are sordid interests, and not
American.
The harm already resulting from the
has thrown business into
confusion and disorder. The congress-
men who are. responsible for all this
damage to the farmers who grow wool.
were not elected from so-called manu-
featuring sections. but were all elected
from agricultural sections. They were
pledged to protect the farmers in
terests. The wool growers will demand
an accounting: they will ask these con-
gressmen why they have been faithless
to their trust, and why they are not now
advocating the principles of Mckinley
for protection to wool, on which they
were elected, and why, on the contrary,
they are forcing into practice the prin-
ciples Of William J. Bryan that have
thrice been repudiated by the American
people at presidential elections.
The farmers who grow wool will not
forget that these Senators and represent
tatives. while marching under the
banner of protection, have suddenly
turned and fired into their own COM
rades, doing more damage than
open enemies.
Senators Beveridge of Indiana,
LaFollete of Wisconsin, Cummins and
Dolliver of Iowa. and Bristow Of
Kansas. and many Representatives from
these and other states, not m%anufactur-
ing but agricultural states, are protest
ing that they are ''protectionists."
Will the wool growers of the United
States accept their protestations of inno-
cence as sufficient evidence for acquit-
tai of the crime of having Frustrated
this great wool industry; or will they
measure them by their acts. which have
caused all this harm costing the farmers
who grow wool $40, 600. 00O on the 1910
clip.
Some stand-pat congressman who were
valiant in their defense of the wool
industry, r having difficulty to obtain:
denomination, although these men stood
out against any cut in the protection
on wool. .
Are the wool growers loyal to their
friends, and are they giving them earn
est support? Do the wool growers real
ize that failure to give them support
will end in sending representatives to
congress who are enemies of the wool
schedule. and who are not likely to
stand up for the wool industry when
they see their predecessors left at
home. because of loyalty to the wool
growers.
When wool was, up On the free list,
the trade had ample warning. and had
time to prepare for the destruction in
values, for IS soon as it was known
that Cleveland was elected, with a
congress in sympathy with his ideas of
free wool, the industry began to get
ready for the cyclone that followed, but
now, without warning, like a a clap of
thunder out Of a clear sky, this attack
upon the Payne-Aldrich Act, being led
by republicans elected as protectionists,
has caused generalization. Nobody:
now knows what to expect, and as a.
consequence, an unreasoning fright has
taken hold of the community. who will
buy no goods, and mills close, and the
price Of wool falls t the free trade
level. The. price lifting influence of
the tariff under this disturbed condi-
ton, has entirely vanished, and i'm
ported Australian wool in tond is now
being re.exported because it will bring
more money in London than in the
United States. (.
We ask again. who has caused the
wool grower who got $S8. 900. 600 for his
1909 clip to take $67, 900, 600 for the
1910 clip? Ands we again ask, what
is the remedy? President Taft has al
ready aaid nnh1ic1v fhof h;o admin cfro-