AMERICAN WOOL TARIFF.
The wool growers of America are making a strong fight to maintain the present high protective duty on imported wool, and the bold front they are presenting demonstrates the value of organisation, in which respect American farmers are teaching us a pawerful lesson. The American Sheepbreeder is the organ of the sheepbreeders' societies of the States and it deals with the present problem in a comprehensive manner. It's style at times is most quaint. Here is the way it reports an interview with Captain Crouch, the pioneer sheep raiser and wool tariff expert, who will represent the Lone Star Wool Growing Society at Washington. "As the captain recently changed cars inChicago tie had an office session with Al. Knollin and our editor. We 'lowed we knew the woo! primer, but by the centipede of San Angelo, we've canned more real ideas from that dear old gentleman than from any other travelling sheep encyclopoedia that ever invaded our stuffy little sanctum. For the last thirty years we have lis tened to them all. This polite old genileman from the Texas pen handle made us see new and strange tariff pictures. He also carried us back to the very birthday of our national Mberty, when so sacred and valuable was the golden hoof thai; Pennsylvannia butchers refused to kill breeding ewes for meat, so that their offspring might bear sufficient wool to clothe the patriots who were fighting for the precious boon of liberty. The eyes of the old captain fired as he told the story of the Continental army and the price they paid for freedom. Th°n the old Texas warrior wove fascinating narrative of our sheep history clown to date, where cold blooded politicians stand ready with knife in hand to slaughter an ancient and honoured industry struggling hard to clothe and feed ninety million of people. The captain prophesied that with a worldwide decrease in sheep stock, if our nation dnet! not guard well it 3 stock, the day is not far distant when the Government itself will find it necessary to protect its woo! and meat supply by levying a tax on every breeding ewe sold for slaughter. This statement may sound strange to some of us but viewed in any light you will, it will surely come to pass if our people do not rise to the situation and make laws that will protect and foster | our national sheep husbandry."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 458, 20 April 1912, Page 6
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406AMERICAN WOOL TARIFF. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 458, 20 April 1912, Page 6
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