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Show A CONTEST ON HAND. Tho. annual session of "the wool. growers' grow-ers' convention, hold in Ogdeii has adjourned. ad-journed. It was a Nationa f and on-Lhusiastic on-Lhusiastic convention, representing -I ho wool interests of the whole country in. thorough fashion. The applause whic-h greeted tho news that Pinchot had been removed as chief forester shows th.o estimation es-timation in which that tyrannical" person per-son is held by the sheep men. The convention con-vention declared in favor of T.hc present pres-ent tariff and against, any change in it so far as schedule K is concerned. At the same .time, it is evident that tho wool men sense tho Ja:L heretofore noted by The Tribune, that they nro linblo to have a lijrhn with tho wool manufacturers for tho control of tho wool market. In this fight, iho manufacturers manu-facturers will have decidedly the advantage ad-vantage if they combine closely and are disposed t'o spend money to reach their control. Tho tariff gives tho wool manufacturers man-ufacturers a decided advantage. They don't need to buy wool'-9 except when thoy want to. and at the season of the wool clip their disposition has always been to depress prices Wool growers met tlu's move of the manufacturers last year by providing to store their wool and hold it until the market recovered. That was a success last year. 'It will be a success ovory limo that tho wool manufacturers give way and allow tho market to rise. ' But supposo !ho3' don't give way. Suppose the hold to their proposition not to pay moro than certain figures for the different classes of wool, run light on manufacture, and buv foreign wool oven at an advanco, in order to rc-taiu rc-taiu their control of tho market; suppose sup-pose they do this for a year, and until the second crop of wool is clipped, and continue even longer if necessary in order or-der to subdue tho wool growers. There is no question at all about the practicability prac-ticability of this. It is simply a question ques-tion of whether tho wopl . manufacturers manufactur-ers havo the nerve and tenacity to go into that kind of a .fight. Tho fact is that the wool producers arc put altogether al-together at tho mercy ofthc manufacturers manufac-turers of woolens 1)3' this tariff bill. This fact seems to have been fairly i recognized by the sheep men in (heir convention at Ogden, and while thoy put up a stiff upper lip about storing their wool and made advances looking to the general storage proposition, it must be manifest to them that their advantage ad-vantage is a. temporary ono if the wool manufacturers dctcrmino to go into this fight in earnest. And if the manufacturers man-ufacturers do so dctorminc, it will be a caso where the wool growers will not be so well satisfied with the wool tariff as tho3' professed themselves to be in their resolutions as adopted. |