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Show WOOL GROWERS WERE TRICKED. Explaining how the wool growers havo been duped and tricked by the wool manufacturers and the makers of the Aldrich tariff law, the Salt Lake Tribune presents the following editorial which is unanswerable un-answerable : The Herald-Republican has great difficulty these times in trying to explain to the wool growers the trouble with ' the wool market. The wool growers are disgusted and discouraged dis-couraged at the low prices for wool where they expected high prices, and at the apparent going back upon them by their friends, the manufacturers. The wool growers stood in with the wool manufacturers strenuously in order to retain the Dingley tariff rates in the wool schedule. Those rates were retained in the new bunko tariff law, but the safeguard for the wool growers which were plainly due and necessary were neglected. At first, when the Dingley bill was passed, pass-ed, the wool manufacturers had not formed a combine for the purpose of controlling the prices of wool. Along toward the last, however, they began to form their combine for the purpose of controlling the prices of wool. For two seasons past this combine was in operation, ard the wool growers were obliged in their own interests to provide for the storage of their wool until better prices could be obtained. Those bettor prices were obtained last year, when the wool manufacturers let up on their combine so as to get the co-operation of the wool growers in retaining the wool schedules where they were. But as soon as that bunko tariff law was passed, the wool manufacturers clinched their combine more firmly than ever, and fixed the prices that they would pay for the wool As their leading organ explained, they wanted their "raw material at fair prices," and in order to be sure that they would get their raw material at their own prices they formed a combine and agreed that they would not pay above a certain cer-tain figure. In order to strengthen t heir position and keep up their stock they imported very early last spring upwards of $20,000,000 worth of foreign goods, $13,000,000 of which was clothing wool. That gave them a supply which tided them over until they could reduce the wool growers to terms and show them that there was no hope of an increase in prices at any time during the year. The wool manufacturers . had taken complete control. They exercised the liberty procured pro-cured for them under the law., and the wool growers were left in the lurch. The Heerald-Republican appears to bo at a loss to account ac-count under the stand-pat theory for the unfavorable situation situa-tion of the wool growers, and brings forth the theory that the wool market is depressed this year on account of the agitation against the bunko tariff law. There is reason for you! There is practical sense measured out by the thimbleful. thimble-ful. The idea that the wool manufacturers are refusing to pay fair prices for wool because the people do not like the bunko tariff law is one of those strokes of erratic lunacy that sometimes illuminates a disordered mind. And there you have it. The wool manufacturers are in complete control of the wool market. They don't need to pay any more than they wish to for wool. They openly announce that they want their raw material at ''a fair figure." They are able to keep that figure at a standard which they themselves fix. It is not this, however, according to the Herald, that fixes the price of wool. It is because there is a clamor by the people at large and in the newspapers against the bunko tariff law. Such sapience aa this is worthy of a .Howlspiegcl of the Middle Ages, the jester and "foolman" of the miracle play stage. One must really be put very hard to it in order to take up with a silly subterfuge like that. But there is no doubt in the world that the stand-patters are hard put to it to account for things, as they are under the faith-breaking, monopoly-serving tariff bill which they passed. |