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Show Political Policy is Condemned Wool Growers Regard Treatment Of Their Industry Dy Administration As a Mistake Salt Lake, Jon. 17. Dcmunclatlon of tho Democratic administration at Washington for tho treatment accorded accord-ed tho wool growers of tho country was embodied in ttio roport ot Secretary Sec-retary S. W. McCluro at tho afternoon after-noon session of tho National Wool Growers association yesterday. Mr. McCluro was in Washington for four months at tho tlmo when President Wilson attacked the methods of lobbyists lob-byists during tho discussion of tho tariff bill. Tho report seemed to strlko a responsive chord among the dolcgates present, and Secretary McCluro Mc-Cluro was applauded for his speech. Other delegates took up tho themo rnd John Clay of Chicago, and Dr. J. M. Wilson of Wyoming, former president presi-dent of tho association, addressed the convention lif tho same strain. In tho course of reading his annual report, Secretary McCluro declared that President Wilson ordered wool on tho freo list against tho advice ot United States senators and others who represented that it would bo ruination ru-ination of tho wool growing Industry. Ho said that Representative Underwood Under-wood sponsor of tho tariff hill In tho lower house, had planned a duty ot in per cent on wool when tho measuro was first drawn, but when tho administration admin-istration took tho bill from tho hands of Congress freo wool was substituted Mr. McCluro read correspondence from the White Houso In which President Presi-dent Hagenbarth of tho association was informed that President Wilson cculd not tako up tho wool question with tho wool men until a deftnlto program ot leglslatlvo enactment had como beforo him. Mr. McCluro said that from this tho officers of tho association as-sociation presumed they could get a hearing at the proper tlmo. A few days later, said Mr. McCIure, President Presi-dent Wilson camo out with an absolute abso-lute demand for freo wool. |