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Show PRESIDENT IS CRITICISED Salt Lake, Jan. 16 President Wilson, Wil-son, the administration tariff bill and Democratic principles In general came In for a severe criticism at the open lng session of the National Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association in the Elks club yesterday. Every officer of the association asso-ciation took a whirl at the tariff, the proposed leasing of public ranges and the actions of the administration In putting wool on the free list. Perhaps the most startling denunciation denunci-ation of the methods of the administration adminis-tration was embodied in the report of Secretary S. W. McClure, who was in Washington for four months at the time when President Wilson attacked the lobbying methods being used during dur-ing the discussion of the tariff bill. Secretary McClure 6aid that President Presi-dent Wilson ordered wool on the free list against the advice of senators and others who declared It would be the ruination of the woolggowlng Industry. In-dustry. He reminded them that Representative Re-presentative Oscar Underwood, sponsor spon-sor of the tariff measure in the lower house of congress, had planned a 15 per cent duty on wool But, he declared, de-clared, the proposed duties by Mr. Underwood would have made him a strong candidate at the next presidential presi-dential election, so President Wilson stepped in and demanded free wool. Mr. McClure read correspondence from the White house in which President Presi-dent Hagenbarth of the association was informed that President Wilson could not take up the wool question with the wool men until a definite programme of legislathe enactment had come before him. Mr. McClure said that from this the officers of the association presumed they would get a hearing at the proper time A few days later, said Mr. McClure, President Presi-dent Wilson came out with an absolute abso-lute demand for free wool. "When I was In school I was taught that government consisted of three branches, legislative, executive and judicial," said Dr. M. J. Wilson of Wyoming at the afternoon session. "Now, If I were asked to define the government I would simply say 'Woodrow ' " Thus it wa-6, from the opening speech of President Hagenbarth at the morning session, down through the list of officers, Vice President M. I. Powers. Vice President A. J Knol-lin Knol-lin and Secretary S. W. McClure, the tariff measure was berated and the administration criticised for the way in which the association holds it treated the sheep men. The speakers advised the wool men to hang on and do the best they could for the next three years and a half and predicted that thereafter there would be a new order of things. |