Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-08-06
D,vfhtsa Answers Calamity Asdsrs.

Dvsghtsa Answers Calamity nsM0rs.
BY n. X. C. Bryan in Charlotte Ob
server. az
Representative R o bert L.
Doughton Of the Eighth North
Carolina District, being some
thing of a wool grower himself,
knows how to knock Minority
Leader Jim Mann over in debate
when the tariff on wool bobs up.
Mr.. Doughton is a hard hitter
in debate, although he talks but
little, He knows what he wants
to say and how to say, as the
Republicans have learned.
After calling attention to Mr..
Mann's "rather uncivil manner"
in declining to be interrupted by
him. Mr.. Doughton defended the
Democratic reduction Of the tariff
on raw wool.
"The gentleman from Illinois"
said MIR. Doughton, answering
Mr.. Mann, requested that tsome-
one take time, and answer why
the tariff was taken off of wool,
if fby so doing it has resulted in
increasing the price of foreign
wool, ifby so doing it has result
ed in increasing the price OF for
eign wool. So far as l can find,
The Record discloses no such
statement has been made on this
side and admitted on that side,
that the price of domestic wool
is from three to five cents higher
this year under the present tariff
law, than last year under the
present tariff law, than last year
under the old Payne-Aldrich tar
iff law. Whether, or not the
change in the tariff has brought
about this condition, am una
bic to state. ~
1--WE all know, however, had
the price declined, it would have
been charged up to the tariff. l
will state to the gentleman on
that side of the aisle that we did
not take the tariff off of wool
and reduce it on the manufacture
ers of wool and woolens for the
purpose ofincreasing the price Of
domestic or foreign wool, though
some thought that such would
be tie result. They believed that
it would break up the wool trust
that,had hitherto fixed the price
Of raw and manufactured wool
and restore competition in buy.
ing wool, and, therefore, increase
the price.
II, for one, at the time, had
some fears that reducing the tar.
if might affect the price OF wool,
and believing also that a reason.
able revenue duty wasnecessary,
opposed in conference the pla-
cling of wool On the free list. The
tariff was taken off OF wool and
reduced on woolens in order to
give cheaper clothing, blankets,
etc. to the American people, az
everyone knows, save the gentle
man from Illinois
"While that bill was under dis
cussion we all remember how
walls and lamentations went uT
from that side Of the House to
an altitude hitherto unknown, al
to it's direful effects on the wool
growing and sheep raising indus
try of the country. The eloquen'
appeals OF the gentlemen from
Ohio, Mr.. Longworth, Mr.. Will
lis and others, and the gentle
man from Wyoming, Mr., Mon
dell, of how a great American in
dustry was about to be destroy
ed, are still ringingAin our. ears
The gentlemanfrom Illinois, (Mr
Mann, said that we were strik
ing down one American industf.
after another, and the able ant
eloquent gentleman from Mich
gan, (Mr. Hamilton,) said tina
the bill was framed by men whit
wanted to increase the flocks Q
Australia, South America. ant
South Africa, and drive thu