The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-06
THE EXCELLENCE Of
AMERICAN W00LEMS
By Winthrop |. Marvin in the
Editorial Review.

An accusation ofie, made against the wooen
industry by it's foreign and domestic enemies Is hat 'ne
protective compes the of inferior materials anu
substitutes for wool and results in deterioration OF
fabrics Such charge is particularly mean and baseies
has examined this phase Of the qnes
hon hut it effecually covered IN the recent report Vi
the the United States These gov
officials their examination of the wool mana
facturo for 1909 show that of wool consumed
in condition purchased in the wooen mills OF this country
carpet felt knitting mills etc. increased
10000 pounds 1899 to 474751ooo pounds ut
the end Of the decadea gain Of IA cent? reckoned
a secured wool basis the gain 90 per cent In the
decade the quantity Of cotton consumed fell OH
from pounds 22005000 pounds decrease or
so per while the of cotton purchased in
creased only from pounds 10000 pounds
II per cent Thc net result" states the census bureau
ts decided decrease in the amount OF cotton used as
material by wool manufacturers -
official figures the result Of most minute
and exhaustive inquiry undertaken all the United
States by agents of the government They prove that
instead of decreasing the consumption of wool in the
American mills has enormously increased to the extent OF
so per single decade gain out of all proportion
the growth population. Fifty per wool has
been used there has the time very heavy
falling off in cotton How about shoddy, that other sub
stitute for pure woo7 this point official
Of the equally conclusive The federal
census SAYS:
''Thc figures also show marked decrease the of
shodd The quantity purchased decreased 50 cont and
the amount manufactured in wooen mills for therein
fell off 10 per 1899 total of shoddy
consumed by woolen and manufacurers was 6s
$4,000 pounds; in 1909 only 6as2looo pounds,
industry is considered''
Those politicians and magazine writers who have been
asserting that the protective tariff
that only the rich could that nothing but
sboddy could be found upon backs
American people, have been guilty of amazing faehood
proved impartial records Of the national
government 1t not America protection
Britain under free trade that the land hoddy par
cellence. AS the tariff board says in its report
'The greatest hoddy producing in the world is
in Bailey and Dewsbury. in England the 900
picking machines in the United Kingdom Yorkshire
in which Bailey and Dewsbury located has ss1 ma
chimes In the whole of United States there arc onv
3l6 rag grinding machines
In other words, the shoddy industry is only little more
than one third large in the United States
people, as it is in the United Kingdom with $4,000 Ooo
American woolen mills whose hoddy as compared
with Great Britain negligible and decreasing consume an
huaIy onehth Of all the wool produced consumed in
the whole world
Any traveller with open eyes open mind can readily
compare the attire OF the masses of the people Of
Great Britain the with that of the wage earn
Of the United States and comparing understand
why the first thing immigrants do in this conn
try II they have any money in their pockets discard
their oldworld garments for American clothes E,
cep for certain light weight fabrics which the labor
cost is the dominating factor the only woocns now i'm
ported into America are the fine, costly exeluve' "a
brics of the very rch-luxures and properly taxed
such e H. Van Ingen, great merchant of New York
the chief importer of English cloths familiar also with
American cloths has lately said products of Ame
Mills
'There expert manufacturers arvwber.
than the best of those in this country. They wonder
fully qmsk to catch ideas to modify alter improve and to
meet quickly the changing demands Of fashion and
fancy They produce great variety wooen cloths as
can be found In the whole of Europe together
The fine and medium grades Of the wooen cloths ,od
here arc generally better than those of quality TO he nh
tanned in other country American coors are as nile
better clearer and lasting those of similar foreign
made fabrics The designing talent America is ouite
equal TO any in Europe
lhee frank words OF an importing merchant are an ef
fecve answer and rebuke to those Americans who
Tor potc or gain have coutemptby sandered the hon
esty and skill OF their fellow countrymen