Show RECIPROCITY THE ARGUMENT ON THE WOOL The Herald-Republican predicts that some of the House Democrats will hesitate a long time the death blow is given to an industry which is responsible the livelihood of persons in the States and which can muster several million Think of forty odd million sheep supporting eight million One American by every five or six sheep nearly half of them lambs and each in Each American by to worth of sheep And so the interest or profit on an American citizen for a does The truthful H.-R. says and it boasts of it absolute in this same H.-R. a paper that is now telling more lies per linear than any other paper in except the American the organ of the protective tariff universally recognized by all authorities on economics as the greatest newspaper liar on the In similar I we read in the New York a review of the workings Wilson Tariff which raw wool free It says the revenues the manufacturers and the farmers K and after one experience the country turned back to the protective concludes the a dangerous thing to experiment with 1 in this Not at but highly beneficial to I have American people clothed in wool at reason- able prices instead of in cotton and shoddy rag to mixed at the prese n wool with a little I h prices for which are from one-third to I higher here than in any coun- Just over the line in woollen cloth ana Nothing is at one-third cheaper than with In Germany and it is more than one-half Why should Americans be compelled to wear As to the price of wool under the Wilson it simply followed all other prices in two years of a world-wide financial Real estate feU in so did wheat and and no tariff had been taken off wool declined heavily in but no change had been made in its So with Australian and with French and German securities and real estate all fell in price during those few years of British banks failed or wavered the world and British declined And what made wool decline to the Wilson tariff level just a few seasons ago Was it not because the tariff had been made so high that manufacturers used less and less wool and more and more The Commercial talks like a mere tool of the perhaps it is who knows T Perhaps the H.-R. our local gem is by its protected sheep-owning and mine-owning so that it isn't pleading so much for the dear workingman as for the pockets and pelf of its own dear We Do Not Wear On the other reet the sE how our American authority on of cotton has increased during the past thirty consumption of wool has stood years our We are actually using less wool per capita it than in After noting that it seems fairly certain for good or the woolen duties are to be the editor goes on to woolen manufacturers have largely themselves forget how much they have done to to They short-sighted greed in business by their own damage demands on Their pathetic appeals for pedal consideration ignore the high rate of capitalize fon to value of output in the woolen and also unus-lly low ratio of wage payments to We Wear the statistics published by the beneficiaries of Schedule one of its is utterly The cost of woolen clothing has been raised to a figure largely beyond the reach of the industrial with f consequent resort to the use of other Tariff changes are to be not for the sake of the overprotected worsted woolen but for their influence upon general The blame for that must be placed with those who sought and obtained an unjust privilege in the first any readjustment of the woolen schedule would necessarily cause temporary inconvenience and whatever form it took and however little it changed the Those are of the most unscientific and inequitable r and their worst feature is that they have conferred only a slight benefit upon the while they have forced a burden upon the consumer much greater than the revenue obliging as the following figures to use other textiles in place of U. 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Consumption World's Production per Capita Cotton Wool Cotton Wool 1908 2 1906 1 1905 1904 1903 1902 1901 1891 1880 1872 be seen that the high tariff on wool has helped to drive the consumer to substitute articles V wholly or in part made of Observe the decline in the consumption of notwithstanding the fall in and the simultaneous increase in the tion of despite the rise in From 1880 to the present time Ohio washed wool fell from 48 to 30 cents per while middling cotton rose from to cents per Our per capita con of wool has actually fallen off during our half century of high while that of cotton has 45 per it is not the policy of the manufacturers to drive the consumer but is not this exactly what is In this polite and sedate way the great financial journal cautiously indicates the The which it so guardedly are not mainly cotton but shoddy old rags so that the H.-R. and other is actually pleading for the rag interest while pretending that they are arguing for the up-building of the sheep and woolen Those Pauper United States Consul Edward L. at Mersine in Asia has just reported the prices of wool in that far-off land of pauper These are the coarse wools that the protectionists claim are sold at three cents per pound in Asia and that these wools would be imported at from 8 to 10 cents per pound but for our tariff on How far their statements are from the truth is shown by Mr He provinces of Adana and Angora in Asiatic Turkey are known for their fine breed of which annually large quantities of wool suitable for the manufacture of Adana wool is coarser than that of which is very The former is preferred in the American because it is much Thus of the tons of wool produced in the province of Adana in 1910 about tons were exported to the United 40 tons to France and the balance for use in The declared exports of wool from Mersine to the United States in 1910 were valued at Prices averaged 25 cents per kilo entire yield of wool of the province of Angora is over tons per most of which goes over the Anatolian Bagdad railroad to and thence About however are brought by camel to Mersine and shipped to France and With th of the new sections of the Bagdad railroad now under construction a much larger part will come to which will then become an important wool And so vanishes another bogey about the three-cent Asiatic wool that would ruin the American if the wool tax were |