Show REVISION Of THE TARiff I IS FAVORED In Address at Omaha F. F A. A EN EI lenwood Protests Against Unfair Treatment of Wool WooI Growers by Manufacturers COMPENSATORY DUTY DUTY DECLARED TOO HI HJ Establishment of Facto Factory y by National Association to Consumer Better Goods at Lower Prices' Prices Is Proposed AWARDS IN SHEEP r C O 31 AHA Neb Dec 15 by p the National Wool Growers' Growers association of a 1 factory for forthe forthe the manufacture of or woolen goods so- so o as tt Inn to th give gi i consumers n n ii f better goods v v A I A. A AI nu i HO Ian un l I of Brown pres president dent of th tha thaI I Minnesota a Wool 0 Growers Growers' rowers association n n an address before the thc forty-eighth forty annual convention cOn of kf the National Wool ool Growers' Growers association today Mi Ir Brown said the thc prevalent t im im- tb that t the thu present high cost of off clothing is IS due to the duty duly on wool ia is erroneous and could be refuted best b by the manufacture of the raw ma into the finished product by the lie wool growers themselves cs so as t to eliminate the profits now v secure secured b by bythe the middlemen He Ho said l Is the only agricultural pro product product duct not increasing increasing- in price o our our r Industry try languishes s st steal l olli InG prosper I While While no wo ar are il In tear fear of ot bankruptcy the time gre greatest est consumers of DC our product are continuing to pa pay their d dividends d d ends A A. F F. Potter of oC Washington D. D C. C associate forester of the tIme United assured the that that- the tIme government govern govern- o erh ment meat desires to re regulate not prohibit the grazing of or sheep on the forest ro re v ro-v serves Mr a aA A wool tariff that will III protect was the subject of ot th the address of or F. F A At Ellenwood of or Red Bluffs Cal Cat Mr lr Ellenwood's El El- lenwoods lenwood's address was Was in Sn- the of a protest against what ho he as unfair treatment of or the woo grower b by the manufacturer Ho lie produced figures ures to show th that than 1 time the so-called so compensatory duty on woolen cloth Intended only to repays the manufacturer for Cor the money monay pai al by him 1 elt either as duty t on Imported WOOl or in n ca price jut ox Jomes-J Jomes tic wool on account of ot th the tariff i too high because It is 18 based on t the lie false falso assumption that the duty lut on on first grade wool ool Is equal to 33 cents a pound computed on a scoured basis H He lie also iho complained that the compensatory com coni- dut duly duy Is paid on goods only small sOlan portion of or which I Is of or wool thus gi the manufacturer an advantage ad to which ho he is not entitled The present law Is based upon th lf supposition n that hat grease wool shrinks shrinks- two-thirds two of or Its weight In scouring scourIng- The rat of or eleven cloven cents per pel pound on grease wool Is supposed suppose to equal v three cents on the scoured product Im Im- b by selecting the less lees dirty portions por per of or the fleece Cleece reduce this shrinkage shrinkage shrink shrink- age ge to an average of or 39 per cent s so 81 that the lie cle eleven cent cent n-cent tariff rUt on gre grease greaso wool equals only about eighteen cents cenis figured on a scoured basis Mr jr Ellenwood Ellen Ellen- wood urged a change chanc In th the thc e law so that the tariff shall bo be computed on tb tbs thai s scoured basis In ever every case caso Wool in iu Suit Milt Worth orth Only 92 Mr 1 lIen Ellenwood produced product d figures t toi to show that the wool In a 50 suit sult orI or ot I clothes brings th us wool grower only about 2 thus refuting the char charge e th that t the tariff on wool ool is responsible for tor forthe the high price of oC clothing Other addresses addresses' were on the practical cal work of or sheep sheel Tho The prize winners In sheep were an announced announced announced an- an toiJa today Among AmonS th the winners winners' Sr were C re Lincoln ram two years old old First U University of or Wyoming Lar 0 I Ewe we on one one- year one ear old ear First t. t M. M S. S Woodcock Corvallis Ore Orel rf second e ond and third of ot Wyoming Ewe Firt second and third University of r Pen Ten of or four First First t University UnIversity of or Wyoming Championship ra ram University rain University Uni o ot of r I Wyoming n l Ig JUI ill n OV ox HOHDER j i 1 Ico City lt pec pee J Iff rt of or a a three three between t federal troops and rebels near 11 cr on the lie border bonier of ot th thy the 1 have e nache hero here j I |