What Washtenaw Men Think

At the meeting of the Michigan Merino sheep breeders' association in Lansing last week, ihe leading men were interviewed rtktive to the effect Cleveland's plan, if carried out, would have on the sheep indusiry in this country. The following opiniona were credited to Washtenaw county men, and to William Ball of Hamburg: Treasurer J. E. Smith, Ypsilanti: I think if the Ifí?1?!?"011! of ". message were to be rieu oui me enect would be to practically annihiW. E Boyden, Delhi Mills: Sheep breedlng and wool growing have prospered uóderjaprotective tanff as they never can nnder free trade or no proteotion Stattstics show the revenue"ncreased materially on thls one import by the reductiqn already made Benj. N. Smith Saline : I earnestly hope that a fanner's club wiU be organized íd everv school district In the state and thlt they will UoioughTy discus the positlon taken by the president on the wpol question, and that when they ome to vote will votó for the United States and noUn toi ïïnterest of anv foreign government. ir m'iñil11,, Y I think the Presl3enfs view, if put in practical operation, would work great injury tó the prosperlty of the country and a very severe blow tothe wool growing industrie, wnièl are now barely self-sustainini. If with ' the rí fnU,CtlOnHOff the .tariff in lm toi revenue on wool ïncreased from 2,000,000 U) 6.0O0.00Ü per year the Burplu. in the treasury in the formPofyr?venu ductfon Tery rapidl5r by a furtue' - There was no opinión given in favor oL Uevelsnd's message. H. H. Hinds of Stanton, president of the State live stock samtary commission, and an ex-state senator, said that the wool-growÏDg industry of Michigan would have to be abandoned ii the tanfF were taken off from woo! He would have the low grades or coarse wooh of the third class, which practically are not grown in the Uoited States on the free ligt, and put all others in the first class at present rate of tax. He says this would wipe out three-fourths of th r,r. enue derived from wool-tariflf. On Dec. 7, the wool dealers and growers of the United States assembled in Washington, and eonsidered the president s message. The following is a part of their protest : "To demónstrate the injusUceof the president's For thyearneducaUaff the ?" V$S!L fcct thaUf thí. T, f the 8arPlQS we PO'nt to the ri X the,wllc1e amount of the revenue demiiSl,! YLwas abollhc'l t would reduce the surplus only about üve millions, or less than ten bv Llf Cpita?i,thS PoPlation, whlch ispaid ty foreignere, while the old war taxes he rptínm Zn mintalned 7leld Oïer one "uftó S sags.r. anf whiS sif