The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-13
SUGGESTS LOCAL
MANUFACTURE
Ohio Farmer Would
Have Communities
Use Resources

A contributor to the Ohit
Farmer, an agricultural magazine
suggests that wool raisers combine
in localities and manufacture theil
own virgin pure wool cloth and dis
pose of it locally. He thinks the
present power Of the wool manufac
turers will drive wool growing com
munities to this. He says:
Less than per cent of the popu
lation Of the United States deals
largely in wool, and perhaps the
same number manufacture it. About
SO per cent are directly or indirectly
engaged with sheep or the feed and
appliances needed to produce wool
and 100 per cent need and must have
woolens. The proportion of dealers
and manufacturers in the old world
of the former classes are even
smaller than here, most Of them be-
ing in the British Isles. They speak
the same language, have interlock-
ing capital, and are in close COM
munion. This small percentage Of
civilization sets the price for all the
fockmasters and on wooden clothes
for the world.
This is a dangerous power to leave
in the hands Of few. Every pro-
duct except wool has q market near
and far, composed of many buyers,
dealers and manufacturers. But the
few who control it, segregated near
the money system, can not resist the
temptation to squeeze the growers
of material and the ultimate con-
sumers. This is shown by two deal
ers in Boston, Jailed and fined for
neglecting to return $2,40O,00O in
come during 1919, and by the enor-
nous profits in manufacturing. This
awful power has also resulted in pro-
gressive greed. They have not been
satisfied with profits on wool, but
have become experts in mixing sub
stitutes and counterfeits with it and
brazenly say they can not be de-
tected. They have grown >opulent
and domineering enough to try to
prevent any legislation that would
interfere with their use Of this form
of deception which can not be prac-
ticed with any other substitute or
byproduct.
This does not show that the small
per cent of manipulators are sinners
above all others, but it is only an
example Of modern business and hu-
man nature running true to form.
In the days when men were hung
for theft Pat said to Mike. ''It's a
pity they hang men for stealing"
And Mike replied, whist, if they
didn't we would all be thieves" TAX
a look at sugar and see the danger
of monopoly.
Listen to this advertisement in
three papers hr:
"Wool. We have compiled a list
of more than 10000 sheep raisers
and junkmen who will ship in large
or small quantities. Price, $25."
Cheap enough. The cloths made
of "all WOOL for one widows boys
will give profits to buy it. Then
listen to this on the other hand:
"Our safety will be to do nothing
with wool. The statement is made
in the trade that all we need do is
to sit tight and get all the wool de-
sired by simply paying the freight"
This is cheerful news to the men
who waded in wintry SHOWS feeding
hay and grain grown by modern la
Dor with expensive implements, but
it is the working out of carefully
devised plans in operation since the
last clip brought twice as much as
they intended to pay. Readers will
remember that statement-"We will
pay 35 cents a pound for wool, and
not a cent more"
The results of the Sitting" are
manifest now. Wool is the only
commodity in the world without a
market. More clothing will be sold
this year than last, and manufac-
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