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Show Hj' Carrying Out Their Program eeeHL . By a vote of 193 to 74 the wool schedule has H passed the house of representatives. It went HI through with little excitement and without amend- H i ments. It is a part of the democratic program HL already mapped out, and therefore, caused little f excitement when the vote was announced. I There is still hope that absolutely free wool m will not become a law. The senate may holdup R the wool schedule and return it to the house in H. July, and as a cpmpromise a duty of 15 per H cent may be agreed upon. H It is claimed that the free wool talk has al- H ready cost Utah $1,000,000, while other western H , states have been struck equally as hard. 9 We give some opinions on the wool question R which may be of interest at this time. It will be j interesting to watch the future and see if any of M ' the predictions, both pro and con, came true. H Congressman Ashbrook of Ohio says: H "We demand that if raw wool is put on the i free list, manufacturers of wool also be put Ht there. There is no valid reason why the farmer 1 who raises the wool should be hit and the manu- HL' facturer who uses that wool be protected. If wf ' the farmer is to be hit, manufacturers should like- Uf wise suffer. To put wool on the free list without R: treating manufacturers of wool the same way : would not cheapen the price of woolen clothing." V The Philadelpia Inquirer (Kep.) "Free M: ' wool means the destruction of the flocks of m American sheep." Thus, according to the - pT secretary of the Nationl Wool t Growers' Associa-I; Associa-I; I tion, will be destroyed "a $580,000,000 indutry in H fr ; the Western states' ' .. ' . "According to the last census we had in the 1. t V United States 500,000 wool-growers, owning 52,- Hg -jttm--Odo000 sheep worth $232,000,090. In addition Ht ' r to the value of the sheep we have the value of the Bp lands and equipment needed to maintain them, &; . t which amount to $350,000,000. Therefore, the Bfcrf ''"' aggregate investment in the sheep industry is jp . f, ,.,.1580,000,000. This is more money than is in If ' ," Vcpted in all forms of wool manufacturing in the H UniM States." fi "Free wool is going to an nihilate this indus- & try as effectively as if Congress had passed a B y prohibitory law against the raising of sheep in f this country," exclaimed the Denver Repub-'t- ' lican, wihch adds that "in the matter of wool Col-m Col-m j , orado is on the firing line as in the matter of beet l v. sugar, live stock, and ores." Under the present -2 ' tariff, says the Republican, wool-raising in Colo T v rado brings in $1,500,000 a year. M W Advocates of free wool on the other hand K contend that it will not detsroy the wool industry A? in this country but that if it does, an industry B J. .; that'ean not stand on its own feet after all these B w years of coddling and protection, lacks an econ- mg omic excuse for its existence; and that if the 1 wool raisers loses out the general consumer will 1 be the gainer. Bp; The Providence Jounal, an independent m fe paper, thus sums up the case. f "Owing to the great increase in the value of 1 wool abroad, amounting to from 50 per cent to 80 m I per cent'in the last ten years, and to the fact m ' that values for domestic wool have not increased ' '' in like proportion, several grades of domestic m wools are even now within 10 per cent of an f ' ! export basis. Certainly no great decline can -be B expected onlthose grades comprizing more than H, one-half of the United States clip, and this ap- m , plies to the sheep that are raised 'primarily for m the wool and not for the meat, that is, the bo- B t called territory wools from Oregon, Montana and W Nevada. m "It should be remembered, too, that the de- B creasing number of sheep in this country has B resulted in a large advance in the price of mut- B; j ton and lamb to a point where in many locations B 1 the value of the fleece is a secondary considera-B considera-B ,, tion. These"8ame tendencies of decreasing flocks B , , : and advancing prcies for wool are true the world M"1 " over, and it is reasonable to expeet still further B ! advacn.es. B f x. tA careful study of the facts wil lead to the B concluison that, excejit for a temporary dearrang- B I merit of prices, brought on by the fears of timid B, holders, no great drop in the price of domestic If l I iMim iM-v' i&ftMHM ,-iiv T.-- bbb t L.i'A IbbbB. " ' bmibmMHIbhHRsmHHHMK 1 wool is to bo expected. And with the other advantage ad-vantage accruing from the general revision of the tariff duties no injuries will result to the sheep and woolen industry of the country from the placing of wool on the free list." |