Show interesting TO SH SHEEP P MEN THE call to the wool growers of utah colorado wyoming idaho and nevada which appears in our advertising columns is worthy of special notice A mass convention is appointed for monday may ard 3rd at 10 am in this city all wool growers and wool dealers dealer are interested in the subject which will then be discussed the morrison bill which is shortly to come before congress angress on gress proposes to put wool on the free list the reduction of the tariff on wool lisa has already dam aged the sheep interest considerably and the admission of foreign wools into this country free of duty will ruin it in many places entirely it may be for tile the greatest good of the greatest number that american wool growers shall be brought into competition with foreign producers it if woolen goods would thereby he sensibly cheapened the masses of the people would be measurably bene fitted but it is not sure that this would be the result of such a reduction in the price of the raw material as would be occasioned by placing it on the free list it is quite likely that the chief profits would go eo to the manufacturers it is in their interest that the change is proposed what would be a rich thing for them would be a poor thing for forthe the sheep men the latter cannot well compete with the foreign wool men who have the advantage of cheap labor and low value of the stock the sheep industry I 1 I 1 of the united states has grown it into ito large arge dimensions und under erthe the limited protection which the tariff has afforded but if that is withdrawn under present circumstances the sheep interest must decline and disaster overtake many people the object of the meeting is to take action so as to bring this matter properly erly before the attention of congress and to protest against the proposition in the morrison bill everybody Every bod andus who is engage engaged in the wool growing industry sh should 0 id be present or be reD represented resented at the mass convention |