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X. FOUR AMENDMENTS TO THE DINGLEY BILL ASKED FOR-Continued.
Reasons for these-Continued.
II. THE PROVISION TO CONTINUE "UNTIL AUGUST 1, 1898".
1. Objection to this, footnote 13..
III. THE DUTY ON RAGS, SHODDY, ETC.
1. Reasons for this, footnote 14.
IV. As to goods remaining in bond..
1. Reasons, see footnote 15..
XI. THE OBJECTIONS TO AMENDING THE DINGLEY BILL CONSIDERED..
1. The President will not veto the bill if amended. Footnote 15...
2. If he does, it can then be changed to meet his views, if they admit
of a bill of any value.
Footnote 15....
Page.
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3. Those who oppose fair amendments responsible for defeat of bill.
4. How the Dingley bill would operate. Footnote 16.
XII. The Wilson tariff ruinous to manufacturers.
1. This is shown in footnote 15..
XIII. THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS DO NOT CHANGE THE RATE OF DUTY.
1. This is shown in footnote 16
XIV. Resolutions adopted by the Farmers' National Congress.
XV. THE DINGLEY BILL..
1. This is more fully considered in Chapter II of this document..
MEMORIAL TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, ADOPTED BY
THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE FARMERS' NATIONAL CON-
GRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA,
NOVEMBER 10-13, 1896.
CHAPTER II.
THE "DINGLEY TARIFF BILL"-ITS IMPERFECTIONS.
SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER.
I. THE DINGLEY BILL AS IT PASSED THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
DECEMBER 26, 1895
II. THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS ON THE DINGLEY
TARIFF BILL-HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, No. 3, FIFTY-FOURTH
CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION..
III. THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE ON THE DINGLEY BILL..
1. The people do not want an expurgated edition of the McKinley
tariff
2. An extra session of Congress..
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3. The Dingley bill as a revenue measure
4. Its offensive discriminations..
5. Why prolong them?.
IV. An "Open letter" by William Lawrence, March 13, 1896, to Hon.
Thomas H. Carter, U. S. Senator, on the Dingley bill.
1. Conditions then and now.
2. Why continue the Dingley bill "until August 1, 1898?".
3. Sherman on the wool manufacturers
V. PROHIBITORY DUTIES AGAINST SHODDY, RAGS, ETC.
VI. THE "SKIRTING CLAUSE" AD VALOREM DUTIES
1. Proposed amendments
2. Reasons in support thereof
VII. PROTECT THE WOOL MANUFACTURER
1. Footnote 20 on the degree of protection afforded to manufacturer.
2. Ample machinery now in the United States to manufacture all
needed woolen goods...
VIII. THE DINGLEY BILL GIVES THE MANUFACTURERS BETTER PROTECTION
THAN THAT FOR WOOLGROWERS..
1. The compensatory duties for manufacturers more than they seem
to be..
2. How the Dingley bill favors manufacturers more than wool-
growers..
3. As to yarns
4. As to flannels and blankets
5. The duty on tops, rovings, etc.
6. How carpet manufacturers are provided for.
IX. MCKINLEY FAVORED BETTER PROTECTION THAN THE ACT OF 1890.
X. How the imports of third-class wools injure woolgrowers..
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XI. AS TO CARPET WOOLS
1-2. Two errors in the report of the Committee of Ways and Means
on this subject
3. The Dingley bill duties less than low revenue duties on wool..
4. Why give protective duties to iron and some other industries,
but not to wool. (See the New York Tribune article, ante)..
5. The decline in the world's prices of wools since the act of 1890
requires more protection now.
6. Four reasons for increasing wool duties.
XII. IN FAVOR OF THE 66
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MOST AMPLE PROTECTION FOR MANUFACTURES..
1. Four answers to the wool circular of Justice, Bateman & Co....
XIII. JUSTICE, BATEMAN & CO. ON THE DINGLEY BILL.
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THEIR NINE REASONS FOR ITS IMMEDIATE PASSAGE WITHOUT AMEND-
MENT CONSIDERED
(1) The footnote 24 gives the four amendments asked for by the
Farmers' National Congress.
(2) Theodore Justice has "no objections to the second, third, and
fourth amendments except that it opens the bill to delay"
To this FOUR ANSWERS are made..
3. Their SIXTH reason for passing the bill without amendment..
(6) Five per cent a year no benefit-protection postponed to the
next century.
2. Ille est niger..
4. The protective benefit of the Dingley bill.
(1) Discussed in footnote 25. Also notes 7, 11, 12, 16 of Chapter I of
this document..
5. The gold premium discussed, footnote 27.
6. The protective benefit to wool manufacturers.
VIII of this chapter.
See Paragraph
XIV. WILLIAM H. B. THORNTON ON THE DINGLEY BILL..
I. Defects in the act of 1890..
1. The "skirting" and "sorting" clause
2. As to second-class wools..
3. As to third-class wools, used in the manufacture of clothing.
4. Donskoi wools..
5. Defects in the act of 1890 defeated the Republicans in Ohio.
II. THE DINGLEY BILL
1. Will only give a protective benefit of 3.6 cents per pound [on
WASHED Ohio Merino]
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XV. WILLIAM H. B. THORNTON AGAIN ON THE DINGLEY BILL.
1. Europe opposed to our protective duties
2. An extra session of Congress.
3. The woolgrowers saved the election of McKinley.
4. How the solid Democratic South was broken.
5. The farmers did the work....
6. The Dingley bill not just to woolgrowers.
7. Promises must be fulfilled.....
8. Defects in act of 1890 defeated Republicans in 1894.
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9. Third-class wools-tariff insufficient
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10. Wool dealers on the Dingley bill..
11. Dingley bill deceptive..
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12. Democrats for the Dingley bill, Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
13. The political situation-no section holds the balance.
XVI. Hon. George H. Wallace, ex consul-general to Australia, on the Dingley
bill..
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CHAPTER III.
THE WOOLGROWERS ELECTED WILLIAM MCKINLEY
UNITED STATES.
SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER
PRESIDENT OF THE
I. THEODORE JUSTICE ON THE ELECTION OF MCKINLEY.
1. His letter of November 9, 1896, to William Lawrence..
2. The Gold Premium protection for woolgrowers..
3. His letter of November 10, 1896, on the subject..
II. FREE SILVER REPUBLICANS VOTED FOR MCKINLEY
I. The Utah Woolgrowers' Association on the subject..
III. Hon. THOMAS H. CARTER'S VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT.
IV. PHILADELPHIA "TRAFFIC”—A PROTECTION JOURNAL ON THE SUBJECT..
1. If woolgrowers are denied ample protection they may be driven to
go over to free silver..
2. The statistics given
V. HOW THE SHEEP VOTED..
1. Figures from the Boston Commercial Bulletin of November 28, 1896.
VI. The Presidentia lvote of 1896....
CHAPTER IV.
THE WOOLGROWERS ASK FOR PROTECTIVE DUTIES ON WOOL.
2. The wool manufacturers better protected than woolgrowers
3. Hon. George H. Wallace on the subject...
II. The Utah Woolgrowers' Association
III. The Ohio Woolgrowers' Association
IV. Other States ask for Protection.
1. Wyoming. Senate Document No. 17, Fifty-fourth Congress, first
session.
2. Texas. Same Document, page 107.
3. Montana. Same Document, page 103.
4. New Mexico. Same Document, page 110.
5. South Dakota. Same Document, page 111.
6. Utah. Same Document, page 113.
V. The National Grange. Senate Document No. 17, Fifty-fourth Congress,
first session, page 115.
CHAPTER V.
THE EFFECTS OF THE FREE WOOL ACT OF AUGUST 27, 1894.
[By JUSTICE, BATEMAN & CO., of Philadelphia.]
I. THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD FOR AMERICAN WOOL MANUFACTURE
AND THE WILSON-GORMAN TARIFF LAW OF AUGUST 27, 1894....
1. It did (1) neither enlarge the American market for American wool
nor (2) for woolen goods, but (3) it enlarged the foreign manu-
factures, and (4) diminished ours, and thus (5) reduced the Amer-
ican market for both ...
II. THE LOSS TO AMERICAN WOOLGROWERS.
III. THE LOSS TO WAGE EARNERS IN WOOLEN FACTORIES.
IV. IMPORTS OF RAW WOOL...
V. THE USE OF SHODDY INCREASED
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VI. IMPORTS OF WOOL, INCLUDING WOOL IN IMPORTED WOOLEN MANU-
FACTURES.
VII. INCREASE IN THE WORLD'S SUPPLY OF WOOL. DECLINE IN WORLD'S
PRICES OF WOOL..
100,
VIII. EFFECT OF FREE WOOL IN REDUCING AMERICAN PRICES OF WOOL.. 102
IX. EFFECT OF Low DUTIES AND OF FREE WOOL IN REDUCING THE NUM-
BER OF AMERICAN SHEEP..
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X. EFFECT ON WOOL PRICES
103, 104
CHAPTER VI.
[From the American Wool and Cotton Reporter, Boston, October 29, 1896.]
AN APPEAL TO THE WOOLGROWERS.
[By WILLIAM LAWRENCE, President of the National Wool Growers' Association.]
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I. WOOLGROWERS WANT THREE THINGS.
1. A market for wool..
2. Fair prices..
3. Payment in honest money
II. A MARKET CAN BE SECURED BY "THE MOST AMPLE PROTECTION FOR WOOL.'
III. HOW FAIR PRICES FOR WOOL CAN BE SECURED?
1. Free wool reduced the price of wool..
2. Statistics of prices....
IV. HOW FREE WOOL HAS RUINED SHEEP HUSBANDRY
V. RAGS AND SHODDY..
VI. PAY FOR WOOL IN HONEST MONEY
1. International bimetallism
2. Free coinage of silver.
VII. AMPLE PROTECTION WILL ENLARGE SHEEP HUSBANDRY
1. How much
VIII. AMERICAN WOOLGROWERS CAN SUPPLY ALL NEEDED WOOLS.
IX. ADVANTAGES OF THE INCREASE
1. Five advantages enumerated
X, SHEEP AND SILVER
XI. FREE-SILVER REPUBLICANS..
1. Sheep and wool have been demonetized in Colorado...
XII. LOOK ON THIS PICTURE-THEN ON THAT.
CHAPTER VII.
[As published in The Quarterly Bulletin of the Association for July, 1896, with additional
comments.]
THE WOOLGROWERS' PROPOSED WOOL TARIFF BILL.
III. THE WOOL SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM AMERICAN FLOCKS. 143-149
1. Exports of American wool to Mexico....
IV. PRODUCTION, IMPORTS, EXPORTS, AND CONSUMPTION OF WOOL IN THE
UNITED STATES...
V. THE COUNTRIES FROM WHICH WOOLS ARE IMPORTED--STATISTICS
1. Three classes of wools imported..
2. Carpet wools used in making clothing goods.
3. How much wool is used in making carpets.
4. China wools-low prices...
VI. NUMBER AND VALUE OF THE FARM ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES,
1880 TO 1896...
CHAPTER IX.
I. THE EFFECT OF THE FREE-WOOL ACT OF AUGUST 27, 1894, ON SHEEP HUS-
BANDRY IN THE UNITED STATES.
I. FREE TRADE IN WOOL v. PROTECTION
1. The argument of cheaper clothing answered.
2. Protection will revive the wool and woolen industries.
3. We need an increase of wool product
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1. Statistics, 1840-1896, inclusive of (1) sheep, (2) wool, (3) wool manu-
factures, (4) imports, (5) values...
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II. SHEEP AND WOOLEN INDUSTRIES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR HALF A
CENTURY
III. How FREE WOOL OPERATED IN TEXAS .
CHAPTER X.
THE EFFECT OF FREE WOOL IN OHIO.
I. The views of candidates for the Presidency in 1896 on protection for the
wool industry.
II. How free wool has injured Ohio woolgrowers.
III. How protection benefited Ohio woolgrowers.
IV. What ample protection would have brought.
V. The reason why ruin came to Ohio woolgrowers..
VI. What can soon be with adequate wool protection.
VII. Production and export of American cereals..
VIII. Free-trade statesmanship
IX. Free silver....
X. Number and value of sheep in the several counties of Ohio, 1891-1896,
inclusive
XI. Number and value of sheep in Ohio, 1885 to 1890, inclusive.
XII. The loss to woolgrowers in Union County, Ohio..
XIII. The loss to woolgrowers in Columbiana County..
CHAPTER XI.
WHAT AMERICAN WOOLGROWERS HAVE LOST BY FREE WOOL-THE RUIN BY
FREE WOOL.
[From an article by William Lawrence in the Portland (Oreg.) North Pacific Stockman and
Farmer (monthly), September, 1896.]
I. WHAT AMERICAN WOOLGROWERS HAVE LOST BY FREE WOOL.
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II. HOW THE STATE OF NEBRASKA IS INTERESTED IN SHEEP HUSBANDRY.
III. THE SILVER-MONEY STATES AND SHEEP HUSBANDRY
VIII. HOW TO SECURE BETTER PRICES FOR FARM PRODUCTS..
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IX. THE EFFECT OF FREE WOOL IN REDUCING WOOL PRICES.
X. WOOL imports for fiscal years 1895 and 1896..
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XI. Imports of wool manufactures for fiscal years 1895 and 1896.
XII. Wool Prices, 1895 to 1896, inclusive..
CHAPTER XII.
THE WOOLGROWERS' BILL AS ASKED FOR BY THE NATIONAL WOOL GROWERS'
ASSOCIATION.
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