The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-11-26
FOREIGN WOOL DE.
STROYING SHEEP
HUSBANDRY
Wool Growers Tell Unied States SEN.
ate Finance Committee at Tar.
III Hearings.

THE number OF sheep In America
has decreased from B2,5OO, 900 head
In 1910 to less than $4,000, 900 head
IN 1920, according to statements
made before the United States Sen.
ate Finance Committee ut Tariff
Hearings by representatives Of the
National Sheep and Wool Bureau OF
America. ~.
J. f. Walker Of Ohio. member OF
the Executive Committee of the Bur-
eau. and J. B. Wilson OF Wyoming,
its Vice President, vigorously attack
ed the valorem feature of the Ford
ney Traiff Bill in their statemtnts to
the Senate Finance Committee, and
asked that 1t be eliminated.
They presented comprehensive ar
guments in favor of asking the duty
on the clean content rather than on
the grease, and quoted the costs Of
growing wool here and in foreign
countries, calculated to show that 33c
per pound on the clean content basis
70 the minimum duty that will afford
the sheep industry in the United
States sufficient protection to pre-
vent It's destruction.
The representatives OF the Nation
al Sheep and Wool Bureau claim that
there 10 as great an increase to the
wool grower in the cost OF produc-
ing wool in the United States today
over the cost OF producing II in 1919
o. there is in the increased cost to
the manufacturer Of manufacturing
fabrics in the United States today
over the cost to the fabric manufac-
turer in 1919.
But while the price Of wool TO
the wool grower today is as low and
in some instances even lower than
in 1912, the prices fabric manufac-
turers today get for their fabrics are
double what they got for the same
fabrics in 1919.
The representatives Of the. Bureau
said:
at may be possible that the manu-
facturer needs added protection in
order to- compete successful with
foreign manufacturers. and IL such
be the case, we as wool growers
want to see him have 1t, but he GER
tainly should not be allowed to get
1t under guise of protection to the
growers which 1t most certainly is
not.
"It has been the history Of wool
tariff legislation for the past thirty
years that in every instance the manu-
facturer has had hidden protection
in his compensatory duties, and as
this schedule now stands, with tho
manufacturer compensatory duty
based on a 25c clean content duty
and his actual duty ranging down as
low as &c per pound, he will still en-
Joy this hidden protection.
1T is generally accepted fact
that wool growers have never receiv-
ed the entire protection which wool
tariff schedules intended they should
have, and which the consuming pub
lie actually believes they receive, and
in the drafting of this present mea'
,ure we are only asking for equal
consideration with the manufacturer
"If the sheep industry OF the Unit
cd States is destroyed, and as this
measure now stands 1t can near
nothing else, what would be our posi-.
tlon in the event of another war?
80 vital was the necessity for WOO
IN 1918 that the Government tool
over the entire wool supply in the
United States, and quoting Genera
Marsh, United States Army, page IL
Wool and Rag Trade Report of the
Federal Trade Commission, 1--WE
must commander. and have done so
lall Of the wool of the United States
and have taken the wool Of the Arg
entine. We are going to put thu
whole civilian population on shoddl
for the next year. s tr. en-.
1.-THE humiliating spectacle Of I
nation like the United States puttinl
its civilian population on shoddy, ant
even using shoddy for its Army re
lquirements the first year Of the war
should never be repeated"
The representatives OF the Bureau
also stated that we annually produc,
more shoddy in the United State
than we produce Virgin Sleeps wool
and that in addition to adequate tar
If protection, It was necessary I,
promptly enact the FrenchICappe
Truth in Fabric" bill, which woulC
put stop to shoddy's counterfeitint
Virgin wool. The truth in fabri
bill is OF vital Importance to bot
1.-THE consuming public and the WOO