Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-16
W00lGR0WERS VOICE PROTEST AGAINST THE
 FREE LIST ASSAULT
Only Nine Fer Cent of Ari- zona Products Were Favor ed in Rcvision of Tariff

he" tdrlH pldclnS WUS1 on tne Tree lSt was held up to criticism when the delegates of the National wooIgrow. CTS Association marked the hftieth year of the Associations existence at their annual convention here today
 Tho address by the president of the organization. Frank J. Hagen barth, pointed out that for the hard time in a century of national prog ress the flockmaster faces free and unlimited competition in the proiuc. tion of wool against the whole world" that previous experiences had proven the woolgrowers' inability to with stand the shock, and that the outcome of the present experiment was doubt ful.
 The flockmaster is reduced" he said, Ito the necessity of striving on unequal terms with the half-clad say age of South Africa and Asia, the peon of South America and the skilled producer cf New Zealand and Austra. lia. whose flocks are shorn under the fostering care of their respective gov ernments. Like Napoleon, after the battle of Waterloo, the shepherd faces the necessity of organizing his brok. en battalions for a lasc stand against hopeless adds. However. it is an Amer ican characteristic never to say quit"
 In analysis of the tariff he declared that 1t was decidedly an alignment of the East and South against the West" and asserted that eighty per cent Of the products of New Jersey would be fonnd on the dutiaile list. whereas but nine per cent Of the products of Arizona and twelve per cent of the products cf Nevada were SO favored.
 The backbone of the strength of the nation is the producer" he con. tinuej The producer is the farmer on the miner. He, who takes from the soil of the earth and the waters thereof, and who takes frcm the sky with its sun and it's air, and from these primary elements brings wealth into the world. Is alone en- titled to thes kingly title. producer The rest of mankind, either directly or indirectly, are parasites living off tfe fruits of his labor. Yet the under lying principle Of the present tarin CT and middleman on the theory that the rr,ducer Is able to take care of himself. In other words, the parasite is more important that the body on which it feeds.
 AS a further criticism of the tar fir act of October 3. 1913, the state ment can conservatively be made that, after all. it was written hastily and with improper preparation and in- formation. The labors of Messrs. Underwood and Clark and their as- slciates in the preparation of a con sistent tariff act, which covered a year or more of unremitting toll, were hurrledly dispensed with when Mir. Bryan and MT. Wilson came into power and wrote free wool, free ru- gar and free cattle. in place of the paragraphs that had been prepared heretofore by Mir. Underwood. These changes were arbitrarily made and without rhyme orr rega.n as pertain ing to, the balance of the bill Under the new law, the grower of Merino wool will be seriously hurt and most likely eliminated from the ranks of American industry. The mutton pro- ducer may be able to survive, but even this is problematical at this time.
 After all" he added. 'the toad cf diversity may yet bear a jewel in its head. The misfortune that has come upon us may prove blessing in dis guise by calling our more serious at- tention to proper breeding, to mere economical methods, to better prepa- ration tf mutton and wool for market, to the proper marketing of these prod ucts land to suitable national and state Legislation.
 He suggested that American breed CTS were behind their competitors in New Zealand, Australia and the Argentine. Where our flockmaster," he said, ''imagines that slOO per head tor the right sort of breeding rams will ruin him. the foreigner will readily pay from sl. 900 to 5000 for indiyid- ual animals 'cf rare merit"
 He pointed out that western flock masters lost an average of nearly two cents a pound on all the wool they grew by branding sheep with in- soluble materials when chalk would answer the purpose.
 A pure fabric law" along the lines of the Pure Food Act was advocated lie said.
 vThis period of extreme solicitude for the consumer would appear to De rshe psyqbplogical moment ,or the passage of pure fabric law by Con gress. We have laws covering pure lcods, pure morals and even pure beer. but the subject of protection of the public against the. use, of all kinds cf addltera tnts In 7 fso'called lspure-woQl goods" has found no iodg' ing place among the statutes of the nation, notwithstanding the fact that that 1t is notoriously matter of com men knowledge' that at least 20 per cent of the goods sold as pare wool