These efforts, especially the first one, is com
mendable anti, reasoning from the wool growers
viewpoint, the second one is no less so. But. to be
fair about this matter, we must consider the well-
far® of the consumer as well as that of the pro
ducer. As there are. perhaps. 1000 consumer* of
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wool to each producer of the wool product, the
interests of the many becomes overwhelmning.
Entered at the postoffice at Scio, Oregon, as aeeond-claaa we should consider only the greatest good (or
greatest number of people, than wool would
mail matter.
immediately, placed upon the free list. However
consumers are w illing to l»e taxed moderately in
order that the wool industry may thrive. Con
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a good profit for his lalior, but not such exorbitant
profits that the wool grower, in a few years, be
comes a millionaire.
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shoddy, both foreigh and domestic.
If we
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should make the duty on importation of ahoddv
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7f. prohibitive and tax the domestic product so highly
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SO that its manufacturer would become unprofitable
Three months in advance.........
tjf. then our wool growers could get along nicely with
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out arty protective tariff whatever.
What is true of wool. is true of nearly every
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other protected product. While th- enhanced price
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member that this profit is, chiefly, at the expend
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the American consumer.
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Ixing time standing a»ts. contracts ma»le or application.
ters. would be a medium tariff duty on all products,
which would not In' oppressive upon the consumer,
yet give the producer a reasonable degree of pro
TARIFF KEVÌSIOX A MATTER tection from his foreign competitor, so that hii-
business would return him a fair profit.
OF JUSTICE
The fact should ever I m * bourn in mind whet
laying a tat iff. that whatever benefits, say one pro
ducer, it is at the expense of 1000 consumers,
NDICATIONS NOW POINT to a revision of the i A product, no matter in what field, should I«
tariff hy the Sixty-second congress. That this worth the cost of production, a fair margin of
rt vision will be downward, goes without Hay profit to the producer and the cost of placing th<
ing. for a revision otherwise, or like the Payne- product in the hands of the consumer and no more.
Aldrich tariff, would l»e the political death of any If by a trust, combine, protective tariff, or w hnt j
congressman who dared to revise the tariff in this not. the price is boosted abnormally high, then th»
consumer is being robbed of the amount the articl»
manner.
Revision then is sure to lie downward and in the is sold above its equitable value.
As a rule, no article should be sold at a higher
interests of the great body of consumers in pro
portion to the degree of reduction. Tne question price than the cost of production, the cost of pla»-
will be. What schedules can be reduce ! without ing it in the hands of the consumer and a reason
bringing down the w rath of the beneficiaries of able profit upon the capital invested. Abnormal!
such schedule or schedules upon the heads of the high prices, which makes the producer a millior -
aire in a tew years, is at the expense and oftime
revisionists?
Nearly every industry which enjoys the benefits suffering of the thousands of consumers. Ar <
of a protective tariff, has so intrenched itself with when this abnormal price is exacted throuvl
a paid lobby at the national capitol, that to talk combination or trust, then the government should
of taking away the rich benefit which that st p in an«l regulate the price upon a liasis of jus
particular industry enjoys, is to arouse a storm of lice to both consumer and producer. Some |»ower
opjMisition which seems almost overwhelmning to should be used to control the grew! of the producer
■ and alleviate the necessities of the consumer. Our
congressmen.
However, there are two sides to the protective excessively high tariff enables the producer to!
tariff question. Of course, an abnormally high practically hold up the American consumer and
price is most satisfactory to the producer but. to dememand near double what the price of his pro
the consumer exactly the reverse is true.1 The pro duct would be with out the tariff duty. We know
ducer cannot receive an excessively high price for this to be a fact, for these same product® are being
his product, without bringing down a hardship up sold in foreign markets at a less cost to the for
eigner than to our own people. When congress
on the consumer.
Next week the National Wool Growers conven undertakes tariff revision, all interested lobbyists
tion will meet in Portland. The purpose of this should I m * barred from congressional committee
convention, is to create a harmony of action for rooms and halls. Our national lawmakers should
the purpose of benefiting the condition of the lie uninfluenced by either producer or consumer
wool grower to show the advantages of raising when the matter is under consideration. Only
high grade stock and to make such showing that the interests of the government they arc supposed
congress will allow the present high duty on wool to serve, which means the whole people, should be
upon their minds.
to remain as it is, when revision is undertaken.
things are tin* whole
store is ihe Christmas
foi the* kind of gifts men
von will find
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Bryift's Servict to Ike Party
A Clock With a History
Newton Crabtree is th«- powssor of a
Rrvan's position at the present time
clock which has quite a history. It is
is unique. There is no doubt that in
of the Seth Thomas variety nisi was
the three campaigns he made for the
purchased by his father in 1825. It
presidency he succeeded in establishing
regulated time for the family in the
th«- democratic party in th»- minds ami
"States” until 1S4’> when, with other
hearts of the American people as the
family treasures, it was brought across
popular party, devoted to the interests
the plains to Oregon. As long as
of the common |»eople, as opposed to i
Uncle Johnny Crabtree lived, it kept
the interests of the plutocracy. It is 1
time for his family and, at h * death,
true that all three elections were lost, |
passed into the hands of his son New
but the fruit of his splendid fighting is
ton. for whom it has been doing duty
seen in the democratic house just elect
since. The old clock keens excellent
ed. When Mr. Bryan twgan his leader
lime al the present and is prised as a
ship the party was very much in the
wilderness on account of the Wilson family heirloom.
tariff bill fiasco, which
President
The quicker a cold is gotten rid of
Cleveland denounced as "party perfidy
the leas the danger from pneumonia
ami dishonor." Mr. Bryan was the
and other serioua diseases. Mr. B. W.
democratic Mosea, and in fourteen
L. Hall, of Waverly, Va., says: "I
years, instead of the forty years taken
firmly believe Chamberlain's Cough
by the great Jewish leader, has led his
Remedy to be absolutely the treat
party within sight of yet the
Promised
to »eleel
the | preparation on the market for colds
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I .a nd. It is too early
have redomn ended it to my friends and
man who ’s to be the démocratie '
they all agree with me." For sale by
Joshua.
all dealers.
"Party perfidy and dishonor” was a
strong statement as to I he principal THE GREAT SPECIAL
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