The Dickinson press., 1910-06-25
TARIFF AMP !
shEEPmEN.

Told By Justice, Bateman & Co.
One o t, the Best Wool Auth
critics in the Country.
We desire TO submit the following
facts for your considerations
The National association of Clothin,
Manufacturers. at their annual conven.
ton at Baltimore. have not helped tn,
wool situation. President Marks, a.
the chairman of the special committee
on tariff. is reported to have said:
President Taft has stated that ''th.
one serious defect in the Payne-Aldricl
law was its failure to make a revision
of the wool tariff"
"Your committee is impressed
with the fact that the duties on
wool. and the compensatory duties
on cloth. must be lowered in re-
Spouse to Q popular demand from
the American people. Your COM
mittee would not advocate putting
wool on the free list, but believe
that some conservative schedule.
giving a fair measure of reduction
OH raw material, with d CORE
spending reduction insthe, comDen-
satory duty OF cloth, and inSthe
duty on clothing, will hot wofk
hardships to any branch of. the
trade, but will conserve the best
interests of the industry as a
whole. Extreme or radical changes
in the tariff are almost certain to
bring reaction. just as insufficient
and Observation-Disclosures keep alive
unrest and agitation, and we. are
Firmly convinced that--the tariff on
wool and woolens can be settled for
years to come if all parties inter-
ested meet-the existing situation"
The unrest and the agitation
alluded to already has precipitated {
further fall in wool prices. Thei
claim for reduction was presented il
the senate by their champion, the Hon
LaFollete from Wisconsin
whose attack upon Schedule X. (wQol ant
woolens) will be remembered by WOO
growers.
The loss to the wool growers on tn
1910 clip was estimated in May a
Sis, 600, 900. but at this date it ha.
reached more than $40. 600, 900. Thi
estimate is arrived at as follows:
The 1909 yield of clean American
wool has 1929, 1855 lbs, which at al
average value of 62Kc yielded the pro:
ducer $Ss, ss9, 865 estimate Of th
Matt Ass nss Of Wool. Mfers.) u
same amount'of clean wool dinsssa1QesA
today's value is only s67, 561, 04e.a 1os
to the farmers who grow wool of $21,
1928. SIC.
This is the loss to the farmer on tn
1910 wool crop alone. The shrinkag,
in the value of his unusual wool, a
we'll as that carried over by others iron
last year, including loss on yarns an.
goods made from the same, iis estimates
at over $40. 600, 900 moreIsos that thu
total loss to the wool growingsand WOO
manufacturing business. resulting from
the agitation of a further reduction il
the duties upon wool and woolens. al
ready exceeds a total of $40, 600, 600
and no man can tell where this shrink
age in value is to end.
We do not hesitate to charge tn
blame for this unnecessary and unwar
ranted loss upon the agitators for
tariff reduction. led by a groul
of congressman who are known as PRO
gressive'' or insurgents. No othe
cause for the panic in wool prices cal
be found. as foreign markets ar
Their opportunity for harm i
increased because they were elected a
and protectionists. The!
vehemently claim that theY,atesstil
protectionists. although ,bysiheir cSoanduc
they are bene6ting ''speciM interests
which are antaeonistic to:their farminI
constituents. Among these special in
terests are the wholesale clothing manu-
%facturers. the importing interests,
the foreign steamship interests. and th.
interests of the manufacturers of Enrop'
employing the underpaid labor
Europe. The special interests Aldricl
and Cannon favor are the farmers. o
America who grow wool. and the EN-
ployment of labor in productive in
dustries.
T These Congressman are aware that t
reopen the tariff for revision would sub
ject the wool growing and wool manu-
featuring industry to the danger of de
struction. for they stand or fall together
and both depend entirely upon tarii
protection for existence. After all o
the agitation for q reduction of the voc
duties. if the subject is ever reopene,
by congress, the damage to the wool in
dustry will be of untold MAGNITUDE an
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