About The Wool Tariff

In a recent issue of the New York Herald, B. Peroy Clark has tliis conimunication, which all republican rneinbers of Congress ought to read and tliink about. To The Editor of the Herald : I saw by this morning's paper that the tari ff bill was reported by the Finance Oommittee to the United States Senatc, and that it has lowered the tariff on first class wools from eleven cents to eight cents per pound and on second class wools from twelve cents to nine cents per pound. This morning a Iew York paper, in commeuting on the wool schedule, stated that the wool growers were satisfied with the schedule thus reported. I have come on from Montana (the largest wool growing state in the United States) at the request of the wool growers there to look after the schedule, and 1 was oue of theflock coasters at the last meeting of the Wool Growers' Association of Montana, which drew up a set of resolutions, which were sent by itto our United States Senators and Representa - tives in Washington, which United States Senator Mantle had placed on record in the Seuate. It requested a twelve cent per pound tariff on wool in the greasy, twenty-four cents per pound on wool washed and skirted, and thirtysix cents per pound on woolscoured,&c. I wish to state that that the schedule as reported to the U. S. Senate is not satisfactory to the wool growers of Montana, and I believe that I may go further and state that it is not satisfactory to any wool growers in the United States, from what conferences I have held with them, both in the East and West, and this is why I make the foregoing statement. We, the wool growers, demaud the schedule as passed by the House on the first and second class of wool, and we are also opposed to the bill not taking effect until July 1, thus permitting this year's (18S)7) wool clip of Australia and other countries to enter our market before that date, flooding the home market and annulling the effect of the tariff on wool for at least two years to come. We therefore demaud that the bill take effect immediately upou passage and when the President has affixed his siguature. The rest of the sehedule, as far as reported by the papers, seeins satisfactory . The republican party must remember that President McKiuley can, as they well kuow, credit his election to the wool growers oL the couutry, and all of the doubtful States were brought into line by them. In this last election they were his stanch supporters on account of the pledge made at St. Louis by the republican party that it would put a high tariff on wool and give us adequate protection. Ntfw, the wool growers demand of the republican party to fuliill their pledge, and if it does not J will prophesy that the party will sound the toesiu of their defeat at the next Presidential election, and that a free silver democratie President will be elected - a thing to be deplored. We wish it tliroughly uuderstood that we will not accept any conipromise ; we deniand that the Senate change the sehedule to that as passed by the House in the first and second class of wools, and we shall ask our Senators froni the West to oppose the passage of auy bill which does not meet wifch our demands. We have had for years to take the small end of the hom in every tariff bill, and now we only ask a fair sehedule.