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Show increase that nas taken place in the productive value and market value of sheep. It appears that last fall, in making a sale of a bunch of sheep at $3 per head, F. C. Hollister of Buchanan Buchan-an township had one ewe rejected because be-cause she did not come up to the standard. He cared for her during the winter, and Is as well satisfied as if she had been taken when sold. She had twin lambs In January which weighed 90 pounds at three months and sold at 6 cents per pound, or $5.40. The ewe herself weighed 140 pounds, and brought $4.90, while she sheared 8 pounds of wool, which sold for 2S cents per pound, or $1.88. Here is a return from this animal of $12.18. Commenting on this episode of the rejected sheep, the Des Moines Regis-tar Regis-tar said: "Sheep are about the most profitable and useful animals on the farms, If they are well cared for; and they constitute con-stitute ahmif tViA ht nrnne.rtv barom- THE WOOL GROWERS. WHY THEY WILL SUPPORT THE M'KIN LEY TICKET. Sneep Hd Wool Ha- More Than Iloubled la Vain aliice the Dingley Lew Was . Placed tb Statute Books. "I was for free wool In 1894 when I voted for the Wilson free wool tariff, and I am for free wool now In 1900." William Jennings Bryan. The wool growers of the United States know what to expect if William Jennings Bryan is by any chance elected elect-ed to the presidency. He has nailed lis colors plainly to the masthead. Ht wfco runs may read. There is no qual-Mleation qual-Mleation wheatever in his declaration. Se Is for free wool now and all the time. $75,161 In March, 1900; and they tate that the value per head has advanced from $1.76 to $4.10. This year will see more than 3,000,000 sheep and a clip of about 20,000,000 pounds of -vool in Idaho. Can Mr. Bryan and his free wool propaganda offer Idaho anything any-thing equal to what protection , has done for sheep and their fleeces? Prosperity Reach! Texas. Now let us turn our steps toward the banner state of bourbonism and free-trade, free-trade, a state which- a year ago had 2,383,650 sheep and sheared about 15,-500,000 15,-500,000 pounds of wool, but which will this year show over 3,000,000 sheep and over 18,000,000 pounds of wool. From Texas we have 60 reports, and they tell us that In March, 1898, under the administration to which Texas g;e such a tremendous majority, these owners had 100,953 sheep, worth to them $1.45 each; and that in March, 1900, under an administration whose success at the polls Texas did to much to prevent, these same 60 owners had 124,125 sheep, and their average market value was $2.75 per head. Would you think that Texas farmers would next November sit up all night and stand In line waiting for a chance to put In a ballot for Bryan and free wool? There are sheep owners own-ers enough in Texas, not to turn the scale from Democracy to Republicanism, Republican-ism, for that Is too much to hope fdr Just now, but enough to at least cut down the big majority of 1896, and show that Texas has some appreciation apprecia-tion of what has been done for her by McKlnley, protection and prosperity. prosper-ity. Hn was It In NohroaVa the home eter to indicate the condition of the government and the people. Many farmers Insist that sheep pay for themselves In weed killing and enriching en-riching the soil, and that all - the other Income from sheep Is clear profit a profit-that will average more than 100 per cent annually as long as American labor receives the protection It should have. The Income from that scrub sheep would not have paid for the sheep's feed during any six months of the free-trade and free-silver agitation agita-tion hard times from 1893 to 1897. Compare the history of that scrub sheep with any of the speeches of Col. W. J. Bryan, and you will have proof of the difference between principle and theory." Progress and Prosperity. The condition of the sheep Is an ac- emrate barometer of the progress and gosperity of the entire country. "Tell a how stands your sheep in respect as value and productiveness," said Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio, "and I will tell yon how the country stands im the same respcet" At the time of the election of President Presi-dent McKinley In 1896 there were In e United States 36,818,643 sheep, which at an average of $1.82 per head were worth $67,020,942. Four years of ' protection under the Dingley law has .resulted In an 'Increase of the flocks to 63,121,881, which at an average value f $3.80 has brought the value to $246,-1TSJ35. Ohio Farmer Hade Glad. Another remarkable illustration of the difference in the value of sheep under un-der free-trade and protection occurred In connection with an assignee'", sale of the estate of a farmer in Jefferson county, Ohio, in October, 1894, a few weeks after the passage of the Wilson Wil-son bill with its free-wool clause. The animals sold were all fine black-topped Merinos. The files of the Ohio State Journal show that 40 ewes sold at this sale for 69 cents each, 30 lambs for 30 cents each, and a registered buck was knocked down for 60 cents. Other lots chosen from the same flock sold at similar prices, and all were fine Merino sheep. It is recorded that a farmer in Fulton county, Ohio, recently sold 125 head of sheep for $800, being 16.40 per head. The farmer of Fulton Ful-ton county will tell you that under the Wilson law that number of sheep would not have produced $125, perhaps less, and that owners would have had to look around a long time for a purchaser pur-chaser at any price. Early this year the American Protective Protec-tive Tariff League sent a circular of inqury to sheep owners throughout the United States asking for information on the following points: Number of sheep owned in March, 1896. (Wilson law free wool period.) Number of sheep owned in March, 1900. (Dingley law, protected wool period.) of him who is at once the hope and despair of his party? From that state 28 reports have thus far been received. They show that under the provisions of the law of 1894, which the Boy Orator of the Platte helped to pass, the parties reporting owned 23,568 sheep, worth $1.69 per head, while In March, 1900, these same parties owned 75,730 sheep, marketable in cash at an average of $4.77 per head. Nebraska will remember who it was that said, "I was for free wool In 1894, when I voted for the Wilson free-wool tariff, and I am for free wool now, in 1900." The sheep census taken by the League In detail is as follows: Reports received 964 Sheep owned in March, 1896 (Wilson law, free wool period) pe-riod) 1,458,804 Sheep owned in March, 1900 (Dingley law, protection period) pe-riod) 2.501,215 Increase, 1900 1,042,411 Percentage of increase 71.44 Average value per head March, 1896 (Wilson law, free wool period) '. $1-76 Average value per head March, 1900 (Dingley law, protection period) $3.90 Increase of value per head for 1900 $2.14 Percentage of gain In value per head for 1900... 121.59 Fonr Tears of Protection Haa NEARLY DOUBLED THE FLOCKS. MORE THAN DOUBLED THE AVERAGE PRICE PER HEAD. NEARLY QUADRUPLED THE VALUE OF ALL SHEEP. It Is for the sheep owners to decide by their votes whether they want a return f the free trade days under the Wilson Wil-son law or a continuance of prosperity mnder the Dingley law. It is for them to say whether they want to be paid lor their wool and their mutton In 48-nt 48-nt dollars or In dollars worth 100 eats each. If they want free wool, let them vote for the advocate of free wool, William Jennings Bryan. If they want protection protec-tion and prosperity, let them vote for President William McKinley. If they want to be paid in 48-cent dollars, let them vote for Mr. Bryan; It they wish to be paid in 100-cent dollars, as good as anybody's money on earth, let them vote for Mr. McKinley. There is no middle course. It is for the sheep raisers, great and small, to vote decisively on this issue. gome Prosperity Fignrea. There is a world of material for study and reflection among the producing produc-ing classes In the study of th statistics at sheep raising in the United States In the last twenty-two yean. The government reports, which cannot be Questioned by anybody, show this state of affairs for the,years since 1878: ainmhar Average Average value per head in Marcn, 1896. (Wilson law, free wool period.) Average value per head in March, 1900. (Dingley law. protected wool period.) ' Up to June 4 of this year replies had been received from sheep raisers in 39 In commenting on these returns let us begin with a section of the country where for a time the belief was strong that if you would see prosperity you must look through silver spectacles. Take Montana for example, which in April, 1899, had 3,218,802 sheep. Seventy-two Seventy-two reports from Montana show that in March, 1896, the persons reporting owned 304.374 sheep, with an average market value of $2.12 per head; whereas where-as in March, 1900, these same persons had increased their flocks to 525,434, and the average value per head had grown to $4.15, or only 9 cents less than double the value of 1896. For 1900 Montana will show flocks numbering num-bering fully 5,000,000, and protection will be worth to the sheep raisers more than $10,000,000 as compared with free trade to say nothing of an increase of more than $2,000,000 in the value of each year's wool clip-Silver spectacles did not enable the farmers of Mon- of price Total sheep, per head. value. The Morrill tariff: in ...38.123,800 $3.09 $79,023,984 U7J 40 765,900 2.21 90,230,537 1880 .... 43.576,899 2.39 104.070.759 1881 ....45.016.224 2.37 106,594,954 1IS2 ....49,237,291 2.52 124,365,835 The tariff of 1883: IMS ...-50.626.62S 1.37 119.902.706 14 50 360,243 2.14 107,960,650 1(85 48.332,331 1.91 92,443,867 1886 ....44.759,314 1.01 89,872,839 1S87 -.43 544.755 2.0S $9,279,926 1888 ....42,599.07 2-13 WW 1889 ....44.336,072 2.27 100.659.761 The McKinley tariff law: 1S90 ....43,431.136 2.49 108,397,447 1891 .44,938.365 2.58 116.121.290 1892 ....47,273.553 S.66 125.909,264 The Wilson tariff. Free- trade in wool: 1898 .. 45,048,017 1.98 89,186,110 U94 ....42,294,064 1.58 M8M M5 ...38,298,783 1.70 6o,167.735 1896 I!.. 36:818.643 1-82 67.020.942 Tbe Dingley tariff: tJf 37 656,960 2.46 92,721.133 9S .,..39.114.453 2.75 107.697,530 lWo'.iiS.'lVl'ioi 3.80 246.175.335 tana to see tnis lminemn wealth. Utah. Blessed with Prosperity. Fifteen Utah farmers state that in 1896 their flocks numbered 58,070, valued at $1-81 per head, and that four years later this number had increased to 72,600, and the value per head was now $3.89. With a present total of more than 3,000.000 it ought not to be Tery diftlcult to convince Utah sheep raisers that the country made a good choice when it rejected free silver and free wool for protection and a 100-cent dollar. In Colorado, according to the reports from 33 owners, the flocks have increased in-creased from 154,039 in 1896 to 185,-624 185,-624 in March, 1900, and the average value per head has been increased from $2.03 to $3.94. It would take the combined profits of a good many silver mines under a "16 to 1" ratio to equal the gain which Colorado has realized on her sheep and her wool. Idaho's showing is still more impressive. im-pressive. Forty of her sheep farmers report 158 358 head in March. 1896, and aUnited States government report tor 1899 not yet published. In the history of industrial and eco-omic eco-omic conditions no more wonderful veanlt of the benefit of protection can ' fee shown. Prosperity for the Farmers. And yet the candidate nominated by the Populists by the Democrats and by tie Silver Republicans voted in 1894 tor the Wilson tariff law with Its free-wool free-wool clause, and today stands where he stood then, in favor of free wool. Is not this reason enough for bringing to notice at this time the facts and i figures relating to "American Tariffs d American Sheep?" If ever time was when these eloquent statistics .hould be made known to the people of the United States, this the 1 Instances without number eould be eited bearing out this marvelous prosperity pros-perity of the sheep raisers. Not long Zo the Fairfield (Iowa) Register .rinted an anecdote tot o h . to tbe point of illustrating the great |