Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-12-15
AND URGE IT UPON CONGRESS
Compares Cost of Wool Production
Here and Abroad.
RAPs W. J. BRYAN AND PINCHoT
Says Bryan Dangerous to Laboring
Man and Producer.
DELEGATES IN THEATER PARTY
Government Officials and other
Noted Men Are ON Program for
TodRy--Feed Tonight at
south Omaha.

Speakers for today3
Governor O. II. Aldrioh.
A. d. Melvin, United States bureau
OF animal industry.
W. ~. Hays, assistant secretary Rg-
ricultuPe.
A. +. Potter, assooiato U. s. forester.
Judge 8. n. oowan, Fort worth.
Joseph II. wing, member United States
tariff board.
Meetings at Auditorium.
With about go delegates in attendance.
tho National Wool Growers association
opened it's forty-eighth annual convention
this morning by getting at once to the
subject uppermost in every sheep mans
mlnd-the tariff.
President #. r. Goodlng of Idaho de-
voted the great part OF an hours address
TO this subject. incidentally rapplng VIII
liam j. Bryan. and dlverglng long
enough TO score former Chief Forester
Pinchot and commend Forester Graves.
Want Honest Revision.
This convention" said President
Gooding, should so on record for an
honest revision of schedule X. both for
Of wool. The honest difference In the
cost of production between this country
and foreign countries is all the tariff W.
should ask.
I'VE should make our fight for revision
based on the report of the tariff board
That report may be a disappointment to
some OF our wool growers; It may not
show as large a difference in the cost OF
| t.Na saNl. - Ill.
but II It comes anywhere near the line OF
rsasonableness we shoNld accept It and
make a fight for final settlement OF the
question. The continued agitation OF
schedule X has done much to paraIyze
the industry and IL we can have anything
like permanent settlement Of the ques-
ton we can adjust our business to meet
H. 40 that In future there will be some
stability for the products of our industry.
Wants n settlement.
Let us not take It for granted that tho
report OF the tariff board is going 10
settle the issue am sure those who
have watched the tariff fights I'm con-
gress must be convinced that what one
political party wants the other objects 20.
We should go on record as favoring the
settlement OF all business questions that
are affected by politics through com
mission"
The American flockmaster pays the
highest wages, the highest freight rates,
the highest prices for food for his en-
ployes and the highest rental to his gov
ernment for range in the world said Mr..
Gooding, and he must be protected by a
tariff or he can't exist In competition
with other countries
Wool can be shipped from England.
Australia or South America 10 Boston
for between one-third and half the
transportation charged on wool from the
Rocky mountain states to Boston, he said.
What Countries Pay.
The American flockmaster pays his men
$40 TO $50 a month and board; the Eng
lishman pays $l475 a month and provides
house; the Russian pays 10 to 20 cents
day, not in cash. but in grain and
vegetables; the Argentinian pays Si2.bO 10
$50 month and provides mutton. six
pounds OF salt, tea ana six pounds OF
rice.
1T costs the American sheeprpen more
to feed his shepherd dog than the Russian
pays his herder." said the speaker.
Wages IN Australia are only 15 or 20
per cent less than in tho United States.
he said, but sheep owners there are al
lowed fenced government range at 3 cents
per head per year and, owning to the
fences. one man can care for five times
as many sheep as In the United States.
Mr.. Gooding explained that for the wool
OF his $50 suit the wool grower got only
l.$, while the manufacturer received
only for the three ond one-haif yards
Of cloth contained in the suit.
JObber Makes Too Much.
Somebody is committing robbery" he
declared. 'and It is not the wool grower
or the manufacturer. Tho Dig mills CON
tract for practically their entire output In
advance. The jobber makes more on n
yard Of woolen cloth than the grower.
commission man and manufacturer com
bined. The people OF the country have
been deceived too long as to who is get
ting the big share Of the high price they