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The Coconino sun., 1911-06-16
WANT PROTECTION FOR
 THE WOOL INDUSTRY
Secretary of National Wool Growers Association Clearly Explains
 Situation of Washington
Washington, D. C.,
 une 6, 1911.

bl O. w. MSSluIS, SeSlttdi of the National Wool Growers Association, who has been in Washington for some time, makes the following statement relative to the possible effect upon the sheep industry or the passage of the democratic bill revising the wool schedule:
 The new wool tariff proposed by the democratic Ways a n d Means Committee in the House, reduces the duty on raw wool to an insignificant figure, which will neither afford revenue to the gov ernment, or protection to the wool grower or consumer of woolen goods.
 Under the present law there is a duty of eleven cents per pound on grease wool imported into this country. On the face of it, this looks like a protective duty, but when we examine into the facts the actual protection given to our wool growers by this tariff against foreign wool, is in some cases less and in many cases just about half what the law specifies. Ameri- can wools shrink when secured an average of 6I per cent, or in other words it takes 2.56 pounds of our grease wool to make one pound of secured wool. Foreign wools, as now imported, shrink in securing just about half of what our wools shrink. There fore, the importer who buys for eign wools pays eleven cents duty on the grease pound, but he gets from this pound about twice as much secured wool as he gets from a pound of our wool; there fore, our wool growers have an actual protection against foreign wools of about 5 to 6 cents per pound, instead of eleven cents, aa the law specifies. The wool grower has been blamed with a duty of eleven cents, when ln reality he receives only half of 1t. This light shrink of foreign wools is due to their inferior quality and to the fact that the present law allows the heavier parts of the fleece to be thrown out and permits washing of class two wools, without increasing the duty.
 If the House passes its bill placing the duty on fleece wool at 20 per cent, this will give the growers an actual protection against foreign wools of from two to three cents per pound which in reality is no protection at all. Since the democrats assess the duty on the value of the imported wools, it necessarily follows that only the lower grades of wools will be imported, for the duty on them will be less than on the higher quality of wools. In other words, this tariff encourages the impor- tation of poor wools.
 Wool can be grown in Aus tralia, South America and Africa for considerably less than half of what it costs to produce it in this country. Therefore, without ade- quate protection, our growers will soon be driven out of the sheep business and if this democratic wool bill should pass, the value of the American sheep will shrink ST 50, 900, 900 in less than five years.
 We have in the United States, according to government figures, over 57,ooo, 1000 sheep that last year produced 33o, 1000, 900 pounds of wool. Under the present tariff
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had any influence on the price of clothing and everyone understands this who has taken the plans to investigate it.
 An all wool suit of clothing which you buy from your tailor for $40, or from the store for S25, if of the usual summer weights, contains---if it be all wool, just 71@ pounds of wool as it comes from the sheep. For fine Merino wool our growers now receive about I6 cents per pound and figuring eight pounds to the suit 1t would make the wool that went to make $40 suit of clothes cost just SI.28. That is all the wool grower gets out of the suit in spite of the tariff. You can figure this out for yourself. The aver age suit of clothes requires 378 yards of cloth; the cloth weighs from ten to sixteen ounces per yard. There are very few suits of clothes, regardless of what they may sell for, that the wool grower gets as much as S2 for furnishing all the wool that goes into them. At present prices it is almost impossible to put S2 worth of wool in a summer suit. The value of the wool contained in the suit is so small that it is never factor in regulating the price for which the suit must be sold.
 The tariff on wool has saved the American people hundreds of millions of dollars, for it has built up in this nation a sheep industry that furnishes our people annually with 33o, 1000, 1000 pounds of the best wool in the world. Amerl- can wool is superior to any inn ported wool, and clothing made from it will wear from twenty-five to sixty per cent longer than cloth made from similar grades of for eign wool The only reason for using foreign wool in our clothes is that it may be purchased cheaper than domestic wool. Australia and South America recognize the superiority of the American wool producing sheep and in many in- stances they have purchased from us sheep for the improvement of their foreign f1ocks. 1 have been told by manufacturers and wool experts who have spent lifetime in the business--that for eign wools as imported did not compare with ours in wearing quail ity. Our government recognizes this fact and in letting contracts for all woolen clothing flor both army and navy-specifes that nothing but American wool shall be used in their manufacture.
 This tariff agitation hast cost our wool growers $50, GOO, 900 in the last year. Our wool is now selling at London prices and our growers are being driven to the wall. Our wools have gon e down over 20 per cent in price since this agitation started and if the price of wool controls the price of clothing, you should now be buying your clothing at from 20 to 25 per cent less than a year ago. This tariff agitation has done no one any good and under no circumstances can it benefit the consumer. They promised you two years ago that when the duty was removed from hides that you would buy leather and shoes cheaper. The result has been that the government has lost $2,- ooo,o per year in revenue and
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District Attorneys office Phone ~ FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.
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MISS FLORENCE GIBBS
 PUBLIC STENoGRAPHER

Dictations taken in or out of office. Prompt attention given to telephone calls. First class work guaranteed.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-06-01
BLIND BOYS HOLD
ATHLETIC PROGRAM
The Events Were Divided Into
Three Glasses
WEATHER WAS IDEAL;
GOOD SCORES MADE

The boys at the New Mexico
Institute for the Blind held their
athletic meet on the campus last
Saturday forenoon under very
favorable weather conditions and
some very good scores were
made. The events were divided
into three classes-A, B, and q,
aAd were pulled off with snap
and vim. Below we give the
several scores:
Events for class A: Standing
broad jump, 1st, Juan Mestas, 3
feet, l-2 inches; class average,
7 feet, 5 ll-24 inches.
7sR yard dash, lst, Juan Mes
tas, 40 seconds; class average,
10 5 seconds.
ing broad jump, 1st, Juan
M IA feet; class average,
II I, 8 IA inches.
Ginning, 1st, Louis MontOya,
81 times; class average, 2I times.
Events for class B: 60 yard
dash, 1st, Gertrudis Villarreal,
IA feet, | inch; class average, Ia
feet, l inch.
Ginning, lst, Gertrudis Will
arreal, 81 times; class average,
81 times.
Events for class @: Standing
broad jump, 1st, Yiacero Cash
tea, Z feet, . inches; class aver
age, g feet, IL 3-4 inches.
80 yard dash, lst, YiacerO
Gashtea, Z 10 seconds; class av-
ersge, 7 1870 seconds.
Events for class d: Ist, Fraa-
cisco Gonzales, Z feet; class aV-
erage, q feet, 3-S inches.
40 yard dash, 1st, Francisco
Gonzales, 3 40 seconds: class
average, e2.5 seconds.
On Wednesday evening, Jans
7th, will occur the CLOSING exer-
cises of the school, to which the
public is cordially invited to
attend.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-06-01
Why Not'

Under the above heading in
the New Mexico Journal of Edu-
cation, We find the following
article, to which we add why
Not2"
The Alamogordo schools have
had a good year under the ELI
cient supervision Of Superinten-
dent Chas. d. George. TIVE
hundred volumes have been add
ed to the school library during
the term.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-06-01
CALL Of NEW MEXICO
Thursday, JUNE z
Proclamation BY the Governor;
Send Out Post Cards
TELL ABROAD THE ADvAN-
TAGES OF NEW MEXICO

There is great need that accu-
rate information as to our re-
sources and the opportunities to
make homes, be disseminated
among the people of the world,
and it seems meet and proper
that a special day should be set
aside as . day on which all those
interested in the developments
and progress of our fast growing
and prosperous Territory should
make special effort to cause its
manifold advantages to be known
to the outside world.
All boards of trade and COM
mercial clubs Of the various cities
and towns, city councils, county
commissioners, newspapers, pub
lie spirited citizens, and visitors
having an Interest," in the Terri
tory, should on such special day
send to their acquaiDtances and
relatives, or other persons living
outside of New Mexico, postal
cards, pamphlets and newspapers
containing articles and photo
graphs especially descriptive of
their immediate districts and
counties, and of New Mexico at
large.
Now therefore, l, William j.
Mills, Governor of the Territory
of New Mexico, do hereby desig-
nate Thursday, June 22nd, 1911.
as the day upon which The Call
of New Mexico shall be made,
feeling sure that it will be made
in such q manner that it will be
answered by many future New
Mexicans who are now residents
of various portions of our coun-
try and of the world at large.
1t is suggested that upon this
day each citizen of New Mexico
send out of our Territory at least
one postal card and as many
more as may be possible; that
each commercial club. board of
trade or other organization of
similar nature, send out in as
large quantities as possible, pos
tai cards, newspapers and litera-
ture descriptive of their several
localities; that where possible
such organizations have printed
a special postal card for the use
of the people of their several
cities and towns; that upon this
day all city councils and county
commissioners cause to be sent
out such descriptive printed
matter as they may have avail
able; that upon this day every
newspaper in New Mexico pub
lish some descriptive article or
articles especially emphasizing
the advantages of our several
cities, towns and districts, and
that the people of such cities,
towns and districts send to their
friends throughout the country
as many copies Of such newspa-
per as possible.
WuIEAH Nh.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-06-01
Religious Pantomine

The ladies Of the Baptist
church will pantomine the Holy
Nty" aud Almost Persuaded"
at the church tonight, commenc-
ing at eight o'clock. The nd.
mission 10 10 cents.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-06-01
Mediate, Ye GrumbIers

We like to see and hear 9 man
who is proud of his native town.
He is an indispensable citizen,
although he may be as poor as a
church mouse; but his name
should be written in large black
letters at the entrance gate of
his town as an honor to his nest
ory. We have such with us and
they are worth more to the pro.
gress of our town than their
weight in gold. They know ev-
cry point Of interest and of ad-
vantages for miles around aud
any stranger falling into their
hands will soon learn everything
that adds to the honor of our
town and will be most favora bly,
Impressed. Such persons over
look with true patriotism all
shortcomings and magnify with
honest citizenship every advan-
tage. Ye grumblers, mediate.
-Ex.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-06-01

paris OF our native land. Re
mem bering above all else that
you are American citizens.
The fact of the patter is that
in this country we have had a
big family fight, but if . neigh
Dor should come in and try to
interfere, you know what the re-
suit would be-husband and wife
in contest. One with the cane,
the other with the broomstick,
they would rain blow after blow
upon the Intermediates head
l have sometimes thought that
the North and the South would
never fully understand each 9TH
er until the approach of a COM
mon enemy makes US . common
+caase. otlfofbid thaS that day
should ever come. However, if
foreign despotism thinks there
is in our government no union,
they have only to test it. In
stead of thirteen original colonies
they will find that we own from
ocean to ocean, and that by
steam and electricity we are
closely united. We never were
so well equipped as now, nor
more loyal to the stars and
stripes that foat over our vast
domain.
This try abOunds in
wealth. Its rich mines, its miles
upon miles Of railroads, its fertile
lands, yielding rich harvests to
the husbandmen, its numerous
factories of every description,
and its wonderful improvements
in modern civilization, these are
good. We glory in them; we
rejoice that they are here. But
its greatest glory, its most price,
less gem, its choicest treasure,
are men who, in the face of fire
and smoke, starvation and DESC
lation, wounds, and death and .
hasty burial; o, so hasty, even
comrades would forget, and 9TH
ers come and mark the head
board unknown. Yes, these men
that literally forsook all and
went forth at the command of
state; these gray-haired men,
halt, MANNED, and enfeebled.
and > greater number who lie
buried amid the battlefelds of
the south. These are the choic.
est treasure, the crown jewels,
the sparkling gems in the gilt
tering crown Of our republic.
l know you will pardon me
when l make the statement that
some Of the best men of the
North and of the South are not
Visibly present with you now.
Some of the best and truest of
Tour members lie buried on the
Dattlefelds. Some were clad in
gray; some were clad in blue.
No massive monument marks
heir resting place. No tomb
tone stands like : sentinel.
But beneath cedar or a pine,
In solitude austere,
Unknown, unarmed. but not forgotten.
Nests a faithful volunteer
Buried where thav fall h.~
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-06-01
WONDERFUL WIRELESS
SOON ON EVERY STEAMER
Carrying so or More Passengers
as far as 200 Miles
MANY LAKE AND OCEAN
STEAMERS EQUIPPED

After July no passenger steam.
er carrying fifty or more passen-
gers to sail as far as two hund.
red miles, will be permitted to
leave port unless equipped with
wireless telegraph apparatus.
This is law of congress. Most
Of the large steamers on the sea
and lakes are already supplied.
Within the past year the WIRE
less telegraph has saved nearly
$l2, 900. 900 and thousands Of lives
that were in jeopardy. 1t has
become one of the essentials of
passenger steamers and the con-
nected story of what the wireless
has been to disabled ships in the
past two years, would make
more fascinating reading than a
fairy tale.
And men are gaining more and
more control over it every year,
and the messages are being sent
and received over larger and
longer distances. And still there
is an instinct which is growing
stronger and stronger in the souls
of men that wireless telegraphy
is as yet, not half developed. 1t
may he a feeling that grows cat
of hope only, but it is q very
sweet one.
1t may come of the growing
belief that this world and the
next are not so very far apart,
aud that as electricity is the
very life of the world and at the
same time the perfect conductor
of the messages that the wireless
fiings into space; who knows that
1T will not sometime seEd a snes-
sage that will strike on that 9th
or shore aud that an answer may
come back over the soundless
waste and be recorded in some
station here? II has voice
which the roar of angered oceans
cannot still; it has q substance
which the hurricane cannot beat
back; it has wings which defy
storm and cold and heat, and
which brings messages tied to
those wings, why should it not
conquer space also?
Ii we but knew the characters
of the alphabet used on the 9TH
er side, who knows but what we
should be getting these messages
now9 "A great and strong wind
rent the mountains and broke in
pieces the rocks and after the
wind an earthquake aud after
the earthquake a fire." but the
Lord was in neither, but after
the fire q still, small voice" Ia
our modern world the wireless
defies the wind, the earthquake,
and the fire, but when shall we |
hear its still, small voice telling |
us OF what has been and what 10
TO be? Nothing else is so wonder
ful as what the wireless has al
ready revealed and it is but ten
years since its manifestations
began to be recorded. What do
the years hold in reserve for men
through that source, when human
tars become adjusted TO hear
md human brains to interpret
Its still. small voice?-Goodwin's
Weekly.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-06-01

/ tlZlnR the SOIL WIN LGelr DIOOu.
forever consecrating the ground,
making it holy, while their life
and death tell the story of how
an American will fight and. if
necessary, die for what he be-
lieves to be right, and while |
have talked, | have thought that
these unseen, but not unwelcome
guests are here in our midst to-
day. They pass before you like
a long procession coming from
their camping grounds amid the
cemeteries, the battlefelds, and
graveyards of the North and the
South. To you they are no long
er dead. They live. You can
hear their tramp; you can hear
their well-known voices: once
more they are with you. Side
by side, the blue and the gray,
the private and the officer, on
they pass, those who died at
Roanoke, at Camden, at South
Mountain, at Antietam, at Fred
ericksburg, and the battlefields
Of the South.
All ye comrades of '61, friends
or foes of those days, we gladly
welcome you. As memory calls
your names and recounts your
heroic achievements, while with
US, unseen, you gather here a
reunited band of a reunited
country, beneath the bright un-
folding Of eur own starry flag. =
You who went forth with a
mothers benediction; you who
bade farewell to your children,
giving them a last embrace at
the place of embarkation; you
who faced the enemy so boldly
in the charge, you who died
amid the carnage of battle alone,
while the very stars of heaven
seemed to look down in pity on
you.
U yes, you, my countrymen,
whether from the North or South,
these your comrades gathered
here, salute you as we bring to
mind your faithfulness as SOL
diers, and rejoice with you that
our country has passed from the
hurricane to the calm, from out
of all the crash to liberty, union,
brotherly love, and peace.
But our minds recall others
not present today. who, sitting
in their quiet homes throughout
the land, are thinking of these
memorial day services with min
gled JOY and sorrow. | seem to
look into the mind of dear old
gray-haired mother sitting in
yonder home, thinking of the
boy on whose head she showered
her blessings, around whose neck
her arm was clasped, and on
whose liDs she printed her fare
well kiss, as IN 1851, he babe
her his last goodbye. God bless
her today is the prayer of every
one assembled here.
And in those other homes, |
where dwell the widow and her
children made fatherless so early
in life. Yes, they are thinking
of these services as they rsmem- |
ber the vacant places in your
ranks and the vacant places
around their own fireside.
Could you speak to each of
these homes today, you would
tell them Ct the fidelity and
courage Of their loved ones in
the days # the past, and assure
them Of your undying regard for
their memory. You would tell
them as we tell you've shall
meet again. Our comrades are
not gone forever.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-06-01
Attention g. A. X. and ". X. c,

Attention g. A. X. and ". X. c,
Wednesday, June IA, is Flag
Day, and the same will be OBJ
served at the farm home Of Mr..
and Mrs. John s. Kerr in College
addition. Let all plan To come
with we'll filled baskets, prepared
to spend . pleasant and profit
able day in honor of the old dag.
An appropriate program will
be given and remarks by differ
enc ones will be furnished. Re
the date-Wednesday,
June II.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1911-06-01
in SACRED MEMORY OF THE BOYS OF 81
Memorial Service Held In Grace ~ Z. Church Sunday Fine
Sermon by the Pastor Stirring Music

Grace N. T.. church was filed
Sunday morning for the Memoir
ial service. Mem bers of the J.
II. Blazer Post and w. X. G.
were present in q body. The
church was appropriately deco
rated in the national colors and
a special mixed choir furnished
stirring music.
The pastor, Rev. Ed lie Breton
addressed the Boys in Blue
for thirty minutes and his re-
marks were of such nature that
every old soldier voted it the
best that had ever been given in
Alamogordo. Rev. lie Breton
took for his text: Wherefore
seeing we also are compassed
about with so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which doth
SO easily beset us, and let us run
with patience the race that is
set before us. Looking unto
Jesus the author and tinisher of
our faith.-Heb. II: 1-2. The
following is the sermon in full.
We print it all for the fact that
it was so we'll received. and that
Others may enjoy reading it,
WHO did net hear it.:
Veterans of the Civil War,
relatives, aud friends: 1t is in.
deed great pleasure to stand
here today and address such o
noble body of men, composed OF
both the blue and the gray, who
were Impressed with the right
eousness of the cause you repre-
sented and, feeling assured that
you were right, dared that cause
to maintain.
The fortunes of war brought
you together time after time in
deadly strife, aud, while each
did his best, when the roar of
cannon and musketry had ceased,
and when the smoke had Gle ared
away, humanity took the place
of strife. The dead were buried
and the wounded and distressed
were cared for without regard to
the color of their clothes, wheth-
er they were blue or gray, or
gray or blue.
1t would be unpardOaa BILE in
me were | to fail to mention the
brave and true-hearted mothers
and wives who stayed at the old
home place while the deadly
conflict was going on aad, in
their loneliness, sent up petitions
to God for the safe return of
those who were all in all to them.
All men, how many times, |
when courage was about to fail,
you caught a glimpse, through
the eye of faith, of the old home
and felt the strength of those |
prayers, and your courage failed |
not. How many times those
mothers and wives blessed you |
with written messages. When
you were uncertain as to their
fate, they hid their own suffer.
ings that your burdens might be
made lighter. Yea, upon the
heads Of these wives, today, we
place a crown Of honor, and thank
God that your lives have been
blessing to the world.
Ii is pleasant, indeed. to have
the opportunity of looking into
the faces Of men who, during the
OWL War, were so diametrically
opposite and who, now, are 90
friendly. II proves that time
not only heals, but cools the
blood and gives more mature
Judgment, enabling each to over.
ook the past. While you do not
lain TO forget those dark hours
n your life's history, you can
zach forgive and let the dead
-