The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-11-17
CHEAP GROWN FOREIGN WOOL AND UNIDENTIFIED
SHODDY DESTROYING SHEEP HUSBANDRY.

Tie number of sheep America has decreased from
900 head 1910 less than head in 1920 accord
ing statements made before the United States Senate FL
Committee at Tariff Hearings Representatives
National Sheep and Wool Bureau of America.
j. +. Walker of Ohio member of the Executive Committee
of the Bureau and j. B. Wilson of Wyoming its VicePres
dent vigorously attacked the ad vaorem feature of the Ford
ney Tariff Bill in their statements the Senate Finance
mittee, and asked that it be eliminated.
They presented comprehensive arguments favor of basng
the duty the clean content rather than the and
quoted the costs wool here and foreign countries
calculated to show that 80 cents per pound the
basis is the minimum duty that will afford the sheep industry
in the United States sufficient protection its des
truction.
The representatives of the National Sheep Bureau
CLAIM that there great increase to the wool
te of producing wool in the United States today
the cost of producing in 1912 there is in the increased
cost to the manufacturer of manufacturing fabrics
United States tie cost to the fabric manufacturer in 1912
But the price of wool to the grower today
low and instances lower than 1872 the
fa manufacturers today get for their fabrics double
whai they got for the same fabrics in 1912.
: he representatives of the Bureau said:
1T may be possible that the manufacturer needs add
e. protection in order to compete successfully with for
ign manufacturers, and if such be the case wool
want to him have it, but he certainly should
mt be allowed to get it under guse Of protection
grower, which it most certainly is not
lit has been the history Of wool tariff legislation
the past thirty that in every instance the manuac
turer has had hidden protection in his compensatory
duties, and this schedule stands with the
facurer's compensatory duty based 25 cent clean
content duty and his actual duty ranging as
cents cound he will still ENJOY this hiddenj protec
cit generally accepted fact that wool growers have
liver received the entire protection which wool tariff
schedules intended they shod have and which the con-
ming public actually believes they receive, and in the
drafting of this present only asking
,tual consideration with the manufacturer
If the sheep industry of the United States is destroy
ed and as this measure stands it nothing
else what would be position in the another
.rarf
$50 vital the necessity for 1918 that the
Government took tie entire wool supply in the
United States and quoting General Marsh United States
Army page H. wool and rag trade report of the Federal
Trade Commission, I'VE must commandeer and have done
So all OF the wool of the United States and taken
the wool OF the Argentine We going put whole
civilian population on shoddy for the next year
The humiliating spectacle of nation like the United
States putting its civilian population shoddy even
using shoddy for its Army requirements the first year
of the war, should never be repeated"
The representatives of the Bureau also that we an
naay produce shoddy in the United States than we
produce Virgin Sleeps Wool and that in addition to ADEQUATE
tariff protection it necessary to promptly enact the
french-Capper Truth in Fabric BILL which would put a
st" to shoddys counterfeng Virgin Wool The s.Truth in
Fabric bill of vital Importance both consuming pub
he and the wool growing industry.