Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-08-15
OF INTEREST TO s1ockMEN
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years reign of the Wilson Bill when
we got 5, 6, 7A and about to 10
cents the last year of that reign.
Also two years ago with good times
and world shortage of wool reporte
and IL cents per pound protection,
we got IL and ~ cents per pound for
our wool.
Now what does all this prove but
that either extreme is detriment
to this one great and most useful
industry, and If our two senator's
would cast their votes for the duty
asked for by our 'insidious lobby
lists" on wool of cents a pound then
the other two parties would not have
such a good reason to stir this ever
lasting, never-to-be-forgotten tariff
tinkering up again.
We are told by those who know
what the cost of transporting wool
by water is. That they can land wool
from Australia in Boston for very
much less than We can ship il from
Colorado by rail. The same applies
to other wool producing countries.
Why should we not have enough pro-
lection to cover that difference and
something also to cover our extra
cost of labor over the cheap labor
of foreign countries? President Will
son (this is the last WILSON, says,
that if the Unied States cannot COM
pete with the world in growing wool
without the advantage of any duty,
then. it is not legitimate industry.
| have not his exact words but the
about conveys his mean ing as l re-
member. Now if this is true then
why not the same apply to the manu-
facturer to whom they are giving
So per cent duty on manufactured
goods in this present bill.
Colorado grown wool shrinks in
securing about &C 2-3 per cent If
our representatives in congress would
lake the pains to weigh suit of
wool underwear and a suit of clothes,
or a ladies' wool dress pattern, and
figure out what difference it will
ma .e ia the cost ola garment whether
we get four cents more or four cents
.ess for our wool in the grease, they
would be astonished at the small diff
ference it makes and how easily that
difference can be consumed by the
retailer, or the other middle men,
making a large profit when times
are good, or q small profit when
times are hard or competition keen.
and decide surely that their free
wool hobby will not cheaper cloth
ing to the consumer. And even If
it should, the producer should have
the first consideration for he is the
life blood of the nation, the laborer
next. and lastly the great consumer.
Gentlemen, it is high time the pro-
ducers were all getting together in
this state by forming an organization
with strength enough to make itself
felt, or else. go on getting the worst
of it on every side as he always has,
and it looks like God so intended
ever since Cain, the tiller of the
ground, killed Able the keeper of
sheep. Those. first two producers
did not cooperate and work together,
and producers never have done so
that we have any record of.
As statistics prove there is n
marked shortage in the worlds pro-
duction of wool based on the per
capita consumption of the past de-
cade, so. no doubt Colorado growers
will get around IA to Is cents for
wool with the duty off, but you wool
growers know there is no profit at
such prices through a term of years,
of course the high prices of lambs
has been helping us out for several
years. All things considered it takes
about II to IS cents a pound to max
a fair profit growing wool in Colo
rado, so. the three or four cents pro-
lection we are entitled to-
l will just touch on some of our
local grievances and leave the matter
with our very excellent executive
committee to thrash out. And We
will hope that our two brilliant sena-
tors will explain, when they reach
Schedule X in few days, why So
per cent should be left on manufac-
tu ed goods, more especially. when
there are no manufactures in
their state but the wool producers
must have no protection. Perhaps
the manufacturers had an "insidious
lobby" but the producers lobbyists
were not insidious.
There has been fed in this valley