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Show Defense of Commlslon Men. It Is certainly ludltroiia to hear some of those wool growers howl against the 'robber commission men ' The wool commission com-mission men wero not so bad until those wool-growers got tn scheming organizations organiza-tions for mutual protection, that Is, mutual mu-tual protection for those Interested in organizing or-ganizing them ndgeltlng their "linger 111 Iho plo In Ihe wa) of enmpilsslons Theso associated wool-grow rrs schemes for selling wool, when Cell e.f ilnun .lid elmpl) no more nor t"a th in wool eom-mlsslou-housis for tin) do the business for a commission Just tho some All their tulk about doing awn) with the mldtllc-min mldtllc-min is baldenlash, for there must bo ono mldlleman between tho wool growir and the maniiiiitunr nnd It matters little whether Ihls man calls himself a commission com-mission man or an associated wool-growers concern It covs as much for one to do business ns the other Ihe wool has kot lo b shipped to a wool center, grnd ed put on sale and offered to tho manufacturer manu-facturer 'lliese wlso lulls who try to make the ftockmnsters see several profits between tho sheepmi n nnd the manufacturer manufac-turer evident!) think the wool-growing public knows nothing about the mi tliod of selling wool The da) mat eome. and will come, no doubti when tho bulk of American wool will be sold at public stle. Just as It Is now done In England am! oilier countries, but until that ilat comes some middleman has got to represent the lloekmaster, for tho I Ig wooltn mills of this counlrt hate no time to send Tcprc-sentatlvrs Tcprc-sentatlvrs out to hut up fleeces Phei send their buters Into tho wool markets and nhk up hero und there so mum thou-Mind thou-Mind pounds of a certain class of wool which s manufactured Into the class of goods thet sell Iho wool (ominlrslon men of the big wool markets ure tho buters of wools when the manufacturers are busy nnd there is an active demand for tho staple Whin the season Is rather slow the commission men nro not so particular about butlng nnd nre reudt to receive consignments Oeneralli the shrewd wool, grower thinks It to his ndviintuge to sell nt tho highest price ut home but when bo bus no buter he Is forced to consign and await a niarket for his product This alwats has been and always will bo until un-til wool Is sold nt public sale und before Hint Is done In this tountrt the llnekmns-ters llnekmns-ters will have lo grow more iven nips nnd market them In n belli r condition thnn they hate vet done One of our sub. serlhers rtcinlly wrote that he had shipped some wool lo an associated wool-growers wool-growers rnniiunt In the l.sst and they were only charging him S cents per pound commission for all expenses attached to marketing Hie wool Western wool commission-houses charge it cent h pound whlib covers evertlhlng but Interest on ailvanies when made 'I here Is hardli a reliable wool commission house (n Ihe Last tint asks over a cent mid h hnlf commission and mani nf them will hail, lie laige clips nn a basis of ono eint per pound so we cannot see where Ihls us-smluted us-smluted wool growers' sthenic Is sating the shipper ant money Wool sells on Its merits In the open mirket nnd the so-called so-called 'nssnilited wool growers rant lommand u fraction of n farthing moro for It Hun mi oihir wool handler, American Hhiep Itreeder |