The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-15

II is about the forthcoming auction |
sales in Boston OF Australasian wool |
at price said to be three-fifths of |
what was paid local growers for their J
wool last spring, made possible be-
cause no protective tariff is in force |
during this administration of govern
ment in the United States.
that it constituted menace to Ameri-
/ Protest against the free entry of
the British wool was made by Wyom- |
ing and Utah growers, on the ground
can product.
1t is not the desire of this paper
to comment upon the right or wrong
of allowing the sales to continue, be-
cause of the grave economic questions
involved-on the one hand reduction
i in cost of woolen goods and on the
other justice to wool growers forced
to pay high labor and other costs
prevalent in this country. 1t is. how
ever, fair to say that only the views
of government officials partially re-
sponsble are here given, and they of
course condone the sales. Many other
arguments could be put forward
against the policy, but by so doing
would revert to the never ending con-
fiict OF opinion concerning the afore-
mentioned economic problem. So the
correspondence is printed for what
information it may contain for Nevada
sheep men.
After it had been announced that
the British government would be al
lowed to conduct the auction sales of
wool at Boston, Wyoming growers
took up the fight and on October IL.
this year, Senator King of Utah in
troduced a joint resolution providing
for an embargo on raw wool importa-
tons until our government could dis
pose of surplus stocks. A recent tele-
gram from Representative Evans of
Nevada stated there is slight hope for
has said he will enter his strongest
protest against the sale, if given op-
portunity.
The explanatory correspondence
follows:
Department of Commerce
"My Dear Senator Warren: In re-
gard to your letter of the 7th. find
that the Briti.n Government has an
nounced that 1T ill sell at auction in
Boston $4,000 bales Of wool in Novem-
ber or early December Although GER
tain communications have passed
through this Department between the
wool trade in the United States and
the British Government. the final de-
cision of the British Government was
apparently made independently.
I'm view of inquiries made here, the
British Government finally decided
that the wool manufacturers were
very short of specia. kinds of wool
such as come from Australia and New
to ship these quantities 10 Boston for
auction. The British Government, as
you have been previously informed.
had asked if this Government had any
objection to sale of this character, to
which reply was made both by the
, State Department and this Department
(of Commerce) that no objection could
, be offered in view of the fact that wool
, is permitted by law to come into the
United States at present without duty
r and without any embargo. You ap-
; preciate. l am sure, that wool has
been coming in steadily during the
past year in thoroughly large quanti-
ties. The statistics for the period
January l to August show that 244,-
53l, 1913 pounds of wool were imported
a into the United States. Without spe-
cial legislation it would be impossible
' to prevent the British Government do
ing what is already being done by the
wool brokers in large quantities.
THE wool manufacturers say that
the kind of wool grown in Australia
: and New Zealand shipped here. that
: is, certain kinds of fine merino. are
. not grown in the United States. Ii
{ has long been customary for the trade
/ to use certain quantity of this fine
: wool from Australasia. The wool
y manufacturers cannot go ahead and
8 take orders for wooden cloth without
/ having made arrangements for obtain
{ ing special raw material. They say
d that unless supplies of this particular
kind Of wool from Australasia were