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Show LIVESTOCK 1 SHEEPMEN HOLD MASS MEETING. MEET-ING. Arranging Determined Protest Against Proposed Reduction of the Tariff on Wool. Annihilation is Feared. They Can't Compete with Foreign Wool Growers. The Sheepmen of Utah met in the Commercial Club, Salt Lake City, at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon to utter ut-ter their protest in a big mass meeting meet-ing against the proposed reduction of the tariff on wool and formulate plans to wage a campaign to prevent any reduction whatever. The appeal of the Utah sheepmen for the maintenance of the present wool tariff and their united protest against any reduction will be sent to the ways and means committee of congress, which will take up the question ques-tion of revising the wool tariff in Washington on Dec. 2 and 3. The sheepmen will also select a representative represen-tative to go to Washington and fight the case for them there. Indignation -and wrath fairly radiates radi-ates from the sheepmen over the proposed pro-posed reduction in the wool tariff. They maintain that such a move would mcari the utter abolishment of the industry, for the western sheepmen sheep-men cannot compete with the wool growers of Australia and South America. The mass meeting Thursday is the direct result of a conference held between be-tween E. H. Callistcr, president, and C. B. Stcwarf, secretary, of the Utah Wool Growers, and Congressman Howell. They met in Mr. Callistcr's office in the federal building and concluded con-cluded that i.iOmpt action was necessary nec-essary to iave the sheepmen and their trade from annihilation by foreign competition. Howell at the Bridge. Congressman Howell has promised to hurry on to Washington to be there for the wool tariff hearings. He will be equipped wil t data and. information informa-tion which will show how ihc wool industry has gt ... by tremendous leaps under the piotectivc tariff, and willillustratcVhow the lowering of that, tariff would be ai vital blow to such an important and steadily grow- I ing industry. , I Congressman Howell has assured the Utah Wool Growers' association that he will use all possible influence, and will fight to the last ditch against the lowering of the wool tariff. He will act in conjunction with the representative repre-sentative selected by the Utah sheepmen. sheep-men. Secretary Stewart said to a Herald Representative: "The fate of the wool industry, not alone in Utah, but in all the Rocky Mountain States, is hanging in thc'bal-ancc. thc'bal-ancc. If the ways and means committee commit-tee decided to lower the wool tariff, it will be a terrible blow to a business which has now assumed huge proportions. propor-tions. It will put hundreds of sheepmen sheep-men out of business, and will simply kill a home industry in order that a foreign industry may profit. "Wc will make plans on Thursday to fight this reduction to the limit, for every sheepman in Utah is aroused over the idea. Wc would be very well satisfied if they leave the present tariff 2 alone. If they make any change, we want them to raise the tariff on certain cer-tain grades of wool." Get Busy, Says Walker. Jj Secretary Stewart has received the following telegram from G. S. Walker H of Cheyenne, secretary of the National 1 Wool Growers' association: fj "Ways and means committee hear- U ing arguments on proposed tariff re- JU vision. Please have Utah wool growers grow-ers petition the committee for maintenance main-tenance of present schedules. Bring j all possible pressure to bear at once to prevent committee from rccom- mcndSng a lower tariff." f The ways and means committee will be shown by the Utah representative that the sheepmen have to put up with many burdens that were not in force when the present tariff schedule was made up. One is that the sheepmen could have their flocks graze on unrestricted unre-stricted ranges, and now they have to ray for range grazing. Then again, the wages of shecpherders have risen fromi $30 to $35 per month to $45 to $75 per month now. In the face of such additional expense and many others oth-ers of lesser importance, it will be contended that any reduction would ruia .the industry. J E. Au9tin, who has-charge of the plans to sell stock in Utah in the proposed pro-posed National Wool Warehouse & Storage Company of Chicago, has made the announcement that stock will be soldi hereafter through the directors di-rectors of the Utah Wool Growers' association. Directors, armed with literature containing information about the proposition, will go among the sheepmen in the various counties soon and explain the advantages of all interesting in-teresting themselves. The capital stock of the Chicago company will he $25,000,000, of which $3,000,000 has been set aside as Utah's share. If fully subscribed, the stock will allow Utah sheepmen to store all their wool in the Chicago warehouse to await a favorable market. Herald. o |