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Show I CONGRESS FAILS TO AID WOOLMEN. No greater duty is before the present pres-ent congress than the working out of some form of relief for our farmers, "voolgrowers and cattlemen At a meeting of the ways and means committee of the house yesterday, the wool men were informed that an embargo em-bargo was not favored and they would be compelled to look in some other direction di-rection for relief, and the objections were That an embargo has never been laid in time of peace, that If it is attempted at-tempted to place an embargo on wool demand will be made for all sorts of embragoes, and thirdly, because the state department objects to an embargo, em-bargo, contending it would violate the favored nation clause of many outstanding out-standing trade treaties Why an embargo, made to operate against all importers alike, would be a iolation of the favored nation clause of present treaties is mart ' plain. An embargo is nothing more i than a most Affective nrotr-ctivp tar i I Iff. The one Is as Justifiable as the i other. The wool industry Is cripplf-rl and aid, to be productive of good, i must be given before bankruptcy begins be-gins to operate. Failing to get the proper response from congress, Frank 1 Ha-enbarth, president of the National WooUtow-ers' WooUtow-ers' Association, has tuinod to the president for relief, by directing attention atten-tion to the recent sale of Dueno Ayres wool at Boston for 9 cents a pound, a price which, if nut by the western American growers, would net them 3 cents a pound on wool that cost them 45 cents a pround to produce. pro-duce. He cited figures showing thai . sheep, as well as cows, calves and other immature beet' animals, are being be-ing marketed in unparalleled numbers, all sold by growers forced to liquidate at any price they can get. and while this sacrifice of Ameiican livestock goes on Importations of foreign lamb and mutton have increased 1022 per cent and imports of beef have shown formidable increase in percental s In J the case of wool, he showed that im- j ports during the phsI fiscal year were 427,000,000 pounds, and this at a time j j when there is a supply of a billion pounds of wool on hand, enough to Hr supply American requirements for two I normal years. Much of this grief, which Is upon H the woolgrowers, was brought about I j by the unreasonable demands made I j by the manufacturers of clothing and j the extremely high prices asked for j the fabricated articles This last summer, sum-mer, early in the season, retailers were J placing men's suits on the market at $80 to $100 and notifying the public that the next Invoices would call for I $120 6uits. And the suits which were being placed on sale at such high figures fig-ures were of poor material and con tained but little wool other than shoddy. shod-dy. What was the result? The Amer-1 Amer-1 lean people went back to their old clothes, and only the dandy thought of buying as in the past The whole coun- try revolted, and the wool man be- I came the innocent victim of the gouge. V Today the woolgrower should be as- sisted to tide himself over this critical I period I And the cattleman should be given J an opportunity to recover from his reverses. He is selling beef 8teers at 17, cents, while meat is retailing at a high level, and he Is unable to get enough out of hits hides to pay the cost of skinning an animal, though shoes continue to be sold at war prices The farmer, who has high priced wheat in his granary, is fortunate to obtain a market where he can get out of his crop the cost of the labor of j harvest time, plus the price of seed. President Wilson and congress must realize that something should be done to save the farmer, the cattleman and j woolgrower from the disorganizing power of the financial stringency which has those Industries in its grip. (r |