The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-27
WOOL MEN MOVE FOR RELIEF.

states, IL seems. have at last found
out definitely what is the matter with
the wool market. The Tribune pointed
sequence OF fashioning the wool tariff
schedule in the way it was framed 1t
necessarily gave TO the wooden manu-
facturers the full control of the Amer.
lean wool market. and those manufac-
turers were not slow TO realize the ad-
vantage they thus obtained. Immedi.
ately upon the passage of the bunko
tariff law they entered into mauufac.
turers' combine, and have held fast TO
that combine ever since. They openly
announce through their organ that the
prime object of their combination is to.
obtain their 'raw material sat rea-
sonable prices This means, of course,
at prices so low that the wool growers
do not consider them reasonable at all
Still, the wool growers are absolutely
helpless They are not able to sell their
wool anywhere else than in the United
States, and in the United States the
manufacturers combine has complete
control of the market. That control
buys when it pleases, refrains from
buying when it so inclines. and con
ducts its business in its own way, heec-
mo the wool growers on the one hand
and robbing the purchaser Of woolen
goods on the other by minimizing wool
prices on the one hand and exacting
cXtortionate prices for woolens on the
other. 1t was perfectly natural that
this should be the result Of the wool
schedules of the bunko tariff bill. and
it is in vain that the stand-pat organs
throughout the country, and especially
the Smoot organ in this city. Will un-
dertake TO convince the wool growers
that they are getting square deal un-
der this fraudulent tariff
The Idaho wool growers made their
protest last year against the robbing
combine OF the wool manufacturers. The
Minnesota wool growers are making
move this year that is likely, if per-
sisted in and extended, to shatter the
combine Of the wooden manufacturers
unless they come to time. The prob
ability is that they will come to time
and viii deal with the Minnesota wool
growers, giving them some sort of CON
cessious that will keep off the avalanche
threatened.
Mr., Magnus Brown, who is president
Of the Minnesota Wool Growers Asso-
citation, has been quietly working TO
effect a combine of the wool growers Of
various States with a view Of cutting
into the woolen manufacturing business
in the interest of the hockmasters He
has leased big woolen mill at Albu-
querque, n. NJ, and under the corpo-
rate title of The Wool Growers Co
Operative Wooen Mill, expects soon to
begin turning out blankets, sweaters,
clothing cloths and other articles, with
no shoddy mixture, all pure wool, Ac"
cording to his figures they will be able
TO put these out at from thirty to forty
per cent less than the price. charged
by the manufacturers combine for
their products. 1t is Mr.. Brown $ idea
also that he can pay good deal more
to the wool growers for their wool Than
the manufacturers combine has so far
been willing to INV thI" year. That
combine strengthened its position early
in the season by immense purchases Of
foreign woods, upwards of twenty mil
lion dollars worth having been bought.
Thirteen million dollars of the total
was clothing wools, that gave the man
ufacturers ample TO run their bust
ness so that they could stand off the
American wool producers.
OF course, one woolen mill will not go
very FAR in breaking the woolen man
ufacturers combine, but If IL is a sue
cess and If the calculations of Mr..
Brown for his Minnesota wool growers
association turn out TO be correct. there
will be ample profit in the cooperation
Of the wool growers in putting up mills
Of their own all over the country for
the purpose of killing the manufac-
turers combine and at the same time
putting money into their own pockets,
At the very least, it is a move that
strikes at the root Of the monopolistic