STACKS OP WOOL
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SUPPLIES 257,000.000 POUNDS
MORE THAN EVER KNOWN.
Heavy Imports Hot Coniomed by Man
ufacturers—Factories and Warehouses
Crowded with Storage — Two Years*
Supply Received In One Tear.
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"On examination of the Treasury re
ports I find that the quantity of wool,
unmanufactured, imported in the nine
months ending March, 1896, was 199,
918,707 pounds, and the quantity im
ported in the nine months ending
March, 1894, was 36,594,124 pounds.
.What has become of all this wool?
j. ‘‘Boevina.
"Reading, Pa."
The figures given by the corres
pondent are correct. They Show 133,
824,583 pounds more wool Imported dur
ing the nine months ending March 31,
1896, than during the corresponding
1894 period, two years earlier. What
has become of all this wool?
^T&e quantity of raw wqpl on hand,
unconeumed, on March 31,1S9S, is esti
mated at over 114,000,000 pounds more
than was ever on hand at the same
time of the year before. This is ex
clusive of shoddy, waste, rags, etc., anci
relates simply to raw wool.
If we take the quantity ol wool on
hand, Including that contained in rags,
waste and all forms of manufactures of
wool reduced to raw wool, the quantity
on hand in the form of either goods or
wool, unconsumed, on March 31, 1896,
was about 257,000,000 pounds greater
than the largest quantity ever on hand
before at the same time of. year. This
readily explains what has become of
all the extra wool imported, being
nearly double the quantity of increased
Imports of wool.
pounds, an increase in the world's sup
ply in four years of 221,000,000 pounds.
The effect of this enormous increase
in the supply upon European markets
was to depress the foreign price of I
wool from £13 Is 2d per bale in 1891 to
only £11 per bale in 1895, a decline of
over 18 per cent. This was In conse
quence of the fact that there were then
221,000,000 pounds more wool in the
world than the woolen machinery of
the world could consume. In 1895 the
effect of the enormous imports of wool
in all forms by the United States be-1
gan to tell upon European prices, and
at the close of the year 1895 the sur
plus of woolens and ,raw wool, which
for four years had been distressing
European markets, had been trans
ferred to America, and London wool
market circulars now state that the old
supplies of wool and woolens in Europe
appear to have been, obliterated. The
word “transferred” “rathti1 than obliter
ated would betted 'describe the situa
tion, for the wool and woolen surplus
of the world has not been consumed,
but has simply been transferred to the
United States, where the most of it is
still on hand, and this is the cause of
the present depression iq the wool
business her(. -f i f j
It is a curious coincidence that the
increase in the imports of wool of all
kinds for 1895, less the decrease in the
American clip, was almost exactly the
same in quantity as Europe’s surplus
of the previous year. As near as may
be the American total supply in 1895,
owing to overimportations, was 223,
090,090 pounds more than the average
of the previous four years; and Europe’s
surplus, which had been exported to
America, was 221,000,000 pounds. It
is therefore evident that the first effect
of free wool was to relieve Europe of its
surplus and cause prices there to ad
vance, and to add to America’s surplus
or to give the latter country a two
years’ supply in one year, causing
prices here to decline.
An increase in the imports of wool
does not represent prosperity here. It
shows the diminution of the domestic
clip, and an enormous accumulation of
wool over and above the capacity of
American manufacturers to use, with
the mills running short time or cloeed.
“The Salvation of Bradford.”
One of the daughters of the Prince of
Wales is shortly to be married, and
through the courtesy of a member of
Parliament for Bradford, the Princess
HOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FEEL TOWARD M'KINLEY.
The news of his nomination was received in the family circle with great
rejoicing.
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There are many circumstances that
go to confirm these estimates. First,
the American machinery is to-dhy run
ning less than half time. Second, many
of the wool dealers who handle the
American clip, and who have large
stocks of last year's wool on hand, com
plain that their sales for the past five
months were less than many of them
have often sold in a single month Un
der the McKinley period. Country
merchants all over the United States
are holding old wool, some of which is
being destroyed by moths, because
there Is no market for it, the usual out
lets for it having been stopped up
with imported wool and imported
woolen goods.
The speculative movement in antici
pation of the Dingley bill facilitated
wool imports, and not the need of the
wool by American manufacturers. The
increased imports of fabrics represent
losses inflicted upon American woolen
manufacturers by the Wilson bill and
profits pocketed by the owners of
European mills. It Is estimated that
the surplus woolens brought in last
year at the duty paid valuation will be
from fifty to sixty millions of dollars’
worth beyond the capacity of the
American people to consume in one
year, and cumpulsory closing of Ameri
can mills is necessary nntll this surplus
of imported woolens can be disposed of.
There Is no question about it, but the
decreased purchasing power of the na
tion offsets the increased quantity of
woolens required by reason of any in
crease of population, so that the in
crease In the Imports over and above
the average quantity imported during
the McKinley period represents to that
extent the degree of lessened employ,
ment for American machinery. The
proof of It is In the array of idle ma
chinery.
Messrs. Burk and McFetridge have
published in Traffic a statement pre
pared by Messrs. Justice, Bateman &
Co., of Philadelphia, which is interest
ing in this connection; hence we re
produce it, as follows:
"Messrs. Helmuth, Schwartze & Co.,
of London, in their March circular,
show that the world's supply of wool
from 1891 to 1895 had increased from
2,121,000,000 pounds to 2.342.000,000
of Wales has given instructions for
samples to be sent early next week,
when she trusts she may be able to se
lect "one or two pieces in the hope of
helping to avert suffering from the
workers of Bradford.” Accordingly the
Mayor has been requested to secure the
best and most attractive samples pos
sible, and accordingly Messrs. Sir Titus
Salt & Co., Milligan, Forbes & Co., A.
& S. Henry & Co., Law, Russell & Co.,
and J. V. Godwin & Co. are to supply
them. One wonders if this is to be the
salvation of Bradford.
This is from the Yorkshire, England,
correspondent of tie Wool and Cotton
Reporter. Trade in Bradford has not
been satisfactory for several months
owing to the decline in the purchasing
power of the American people, who,
earning little or no money, are unable
to buy the cheap British shoddy goods
that are permeated with “pig manure”
and “urine,” weighted down with
“liquid zinc,” also with “flour, Epsom
salts, salts of lead and salts of zinc,”
as our Bradford correspondent has in
formed us. Whether the samples to be
selected by British royalty will savor
of such stuffs we care not. But we ap
preciate that the hard times and num
erous bankruptcies occurring in Brad
ford, due to the impoverished condition
of Americans under the Democratic gift
of Free-Trade in raw material, compels
Bradford's titled manufacturers to seek
the protection of British royalty for
"the salvation of Bradford.”
Democratic Reward la Labor.
Idleness and its consequent poverty
and distress have been the rewards of
labor; distress and bankruptcy have
overtaken business, shrunken values
have dissipated fortunes; deficient reve
nues have impoverished the govern
ment, brought about bond issues, and
bond syndicates have discouraged and
scandalized the nation. Over against
this fearful penalty is, however, to be
set down one great compensatory result
—it has destroyed the Democratic par
ty. The proud columns which swept the
country in triumph in 1892 are broken
and noiseless in 189G. Their boasted
principles, when they came to the test
of a practical application, have proven
nothing but fallacies, and their great
leaders have degenerated into warring
chieftains of petty and irreconcjable
faction*. Their boasted principles,
when put to the test of a proper .appli
cation, have proven delusive fallacies.
—Senator Foraker.
The American Farmer.
There are seven and three-quarter
millions of people in the United States
engaged in agriculture, more than one
eighth of our entire population, far ex
ceeding in number those engaged in
any other profession, numbering twice
those employed in manufactures, and
seven times greater than those em
ployed in conducting trade and trans
portation. Therefore, they constitute
the largest body engaged in any single
calling In the United States, while the
value of the agricultural products of
this country exceeds that of any other
nation in the world.—William McKin
ley. .
« , , Vfhy McKinley I* American.
1 Vote the Republican ticket, stand by
the protective policy, stand by Ameri
can Industries, stand by that policy
which believes in American work for
American workmen, that believee in
American wages for American laborers,
that believes in American homes for
American citizens. Vote to maintain
that system by which you can earn
enough not only to give you the com
forts of life but the refinements of life;
enough to educate and equip your chil
dren, who may not have been fortunate
by birth, who may not have been born
with a silver spoon in their mouths;
enough to enable them in turn to edu
cate and prepare their children for the
great possibilities of American life. I
am for America, because America is for
the common people.—William McKin
ley.
Knglnml Contemplates McKinley.
We cannot contemplate the election of
Mr. McKinley to the Presidency with
any satisfaction, for it will undoubted
ly mean an attempt to restore the high
tariff once more, but on the other hand
President Cleveland’s Chauvinism dur
ing the last six months has shaken to
its root the confidence which was for
merly felt in his good sense and friend
ly feeling in this country. As. between
the two candidates there is little to
Choose for us—King Stork is as little
agreeable as King Log—and we shall
watch the progress of the contest with
the perfect neutrality which springs
from a cordial distrust of both sides.
But undoubtedly the chances are heav
ily in McKinley’s favor.—The Yorkshire
Post, Leeds, June 19, 1896.
Opinion from Pennsylvania*
We welcome the issue, American pro
tection, American credit and an Ameri
can policy. Let the people in the cam
paign which this convention inaugu
rates determine whether they are will
ing to live through another free-trade
panic. Let the wage-earner and the
wage-payer contemplate the bitter ex
periences which brought hunger to the
home of one and financial ruin to the
other. Let the American farmer com
pare farm product prices with free
trade promises. Let him who has saved
a surplus and him who works for a
livelihood determine, each for himself,
if he craves to be paid in American dol
lars disgraced and depreciated to half
their alleged value.—Governor Hast'
ings.
Lower Wage* In Wales.
A couple of the Welsh tin plate mills
that have been closed since Christmas
started up again last month—but, ns
Ryland’s Iron Trade Circular says, “the
workmen have accepted a reduction of
25 per cent in wages.” Other works
have started with improved labor-sav
ing machinery and our Welsh friends
are about to make a final effort to hold
the tin plate trade of the world.
How Confl'lrnce Cain He Hen to red.
Let American industries of all kinds
be adequately protected and confidence
will be restored. As soon as that hap
pens a demand for iron and other pro
ducts will spring up at once, and that
will warrant the charging of prices
which will prove remunerative to the
manufacturer and permit him to pay
workingmen good wages.—San Francis
co, Cal., Chronicle.
Right Kind of Policy,
Protection is that policy which neith
er asks for bids on bond issues nor finds
it necessary to explain treasury defi
ciencies.—Dally Saratoga, N. Y.
American Sheep Rejoice.
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To all our products, to those of the
mine and the field, as well as those of
the shop and factory, to wool, the pro
ducts of the great industry of sheep
j husbandry, as well as to the finished
, woolens of the mill, we promise the
most ample protection.—Platform of
the Republican Party, 1896.
THE GREAT NURSERIES.
LOUISIANA. MO., ROCKPORT, ILLS.
Visited by Cov. Colman, Ex.-Sec'y Agrl.
and th» Hort Ed.. Ju dg Miner.
"Oh, how Insignificant all my fifty years
of nursery business seems, all combined.
When compared with this stupendous es
tablishment, where they count by mil
lions," said Judge Miller, that veteran
horticulturist, as he, in company with the
writer, were being driven to the various
departments of this vast nursery.
In an experience of over forty years
we do not remember to have passed
through an establishment where so large
a number of hands were employed, whose
duties were so thoroughly systematized,
and where business capacity of a higher
order was manifested.
It Is not In the soil of every farm that
one finds qualities essential to the growth
of the different kinds of Nursery slock,
hence It has devolved upon these gentle
men, who were born to the Nursery busi
ness, to select from among the hhls and
valleys of the two Pikes such portions as
arc adapted to their purposes, liut in
this very fact of selection of soil we see
their exceeding care for the future suc
cess of their stock.
Missouri and Illinois have no more
worthy Institutions than the Stark Nur
series, and surely no better or more rep
resentative men than the proprietors. The
business Is growing on their hands, as It
deserves to grow.
They have a system of 40,000 acres of
commercial test orchards located In great
fruit growing regions.
The canvassing force Is being Increased.
B,000 fine outfits ready. Stark Nurseries
always have room for more active work
ers because they have millions of Stark
trees to sell.—Colman’s Rural World
He Took Hle Ha* Off.
He was only a poor little messenger
boy.
When the young woman stepped into
the elevator on the first floor it was
crowded with men and the poor little
messenger boy.
In an instant the boy’s hat was in
his hand.
Rather in a shamefaced way all the
men in the elevator followed suit
The young woman was not hand
some, but was dashing-looking, and
seemed self-possessed. She was neatly
attired in a fashionable bicycle suit
“You are a little gentleman of the
old school," she said to the messenger
boy with a smile of approbation.
The toy looked up at her, took the
message he had to deliver out of the
crown of his hat, but the hat back on
his head and commenced to whistle.—
World.
Fiso's Cure for Consumption Is the only
cough medicine used in mv house.—D. C.
Albright, MifHinburg, Pa., Dee. 11. ’95.
Andre Castaigne, the artist, was re
cently given the unusual opportunity
of sketching Pope Leo from life. One
of the pictures that he secured repre
sents the pope in his private garden at
the Vatican, surrounded by cardinals.
Mr. Casiaigue’s drawings will accom
pany the fourth and concluding paper
of the group which Marion Crawford
has been writing on Rome. Jt will ap
pear in The Century for August, and
will be devoted to “The Vatican.”
To Cleanse the System
Effectually yet gently, when costive or
bilious, or when the blood is Impure or
sluggish, to permanently overcome ha
bitual constipation, to awaken the kid
neys and liver to a healthy activity,
without irritating or weakening them,
to dispel headaches, colds, or fevers, use
Syrup of Figs.
The Review of Reviews for August,
while largely given over to the issues
of the presidential campaign, finds
space for the treatment of other im
portant lopics. Resides the character
sketch of Mr. Rryan, the democratic
candidate for the presidency, the,Re
view has illustraced articles on Harriet
Beecher Stowe and Dr. liarnardo. the
father of “Nobody’s Children.” There
is the usual elaborate resume of the
current magazines; and the depart
ments of “The Progress of the World,”
“Record of Current Events,” and "Cur
rent History in Caricature” answer and
the typical American demand for what
is up to date and “live.”
Personal.
ANY ONE who has been benefited
by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills,
will receive information of much value
and interest by writing to “Pink
Pills,” P. 0. Box 1593, Philadelphia, Pa.
Harper's Weekly for August 1st will
contain an article on the trolley system
of New York City and its environs,
with a map showing the enormous de
velopment of this means of transit; and
many pleasant routes for a day’s or an
evening’s outing will be outlined. The
contributor is Ernest Ingersoll, author
of “Country Cousins,” "Friends Worth
Knowing,” etc. In the same number
will be a capital golf story by W. G.
van T. Sutphen, entitled "The Hong
Kong Medal."
Coe’s Cra|k Balsam
la the oldest and best. It will break up a Cold qutek.
or loan anything else. It la always reliable. Try Ms
For Polishing.
The following is excellent for polish
ing nickel and steel articles: To one
tablespoonful of turpentine add one of
sweet oil; mix them together with em
ery powder enough to make it a pasty
mass that will just pour. Put it ou the
article to be cleaned with a piece of
soft cloth and rub off quickly with a
bit of flannel and use a little dry emery
powder for the last rubbing.
It costs more to keep a bicycle In repair
than it does to keep an o.d gin looking
youn?.
The Greatest riedical Discovery
of the Age.
KENNEDY’S
MEDICAL DISCOVERY,
DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS.,
Has discovered in one of our common
pasture weeds a remedy that cures every
kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula
down to a common Pimple.
He has tried it in over eleven hundred
cases, and never failed except in two cases
(both thunder humor). He has now in his
possession over two hundred certificates
of its value, all within twenty miles of
Boston. Send postal card for book.
A benefit is always experienced from
the first bottle, and a perfect cure is war
ranted when the right quantity is taken.
When the lungs are affected it causes
shooting pains, like needles passing
through them; the same with the Liver
or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts
being stopped, and always disappears in a
week after taking it. Read the label.
If the stomach is foul or bilious it will
cause squeamish feelings at first.
No change of diet ever necessary. Eat
the best you ca.i get, and enough of it
Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed*
time. Sold by all Druggists.
The New Tomato.
The new tomato ia % half or entirely
rrozen salad. When it la entirely frozen
It ia cooked and sweetened, first, much
is if for its old time sphere as a vege
table, but there is no butter put into it,
and no pepper, only the merest dash of
lalt and the usual quantity of sugar.
Then.it is frozen in a freezer, like any
ice, packed in a mould and hardened in
Ice and salt and served in mayonnaise.
This is the usual way, but I have a
little thincr ot my own that I fancy to
bo even nicer—I may be deceived by
vanity—and it is respectfully submit
ted.
Take half a dozen 'tipe, firm toma
toes, peel, pour over them a syrup of
me pint of sugar and one cup of water,
brought to boiling—no more Drain
ind cool. Pack in freezer in layers,
with rounds of white paper between
the layera Let them stay about an
hour. Remove carefully and serve on a
bed of lettuce and nasturtiums, with
mayonnaise.—lioston Globe.
If you swallow anything hurriedly, you
bolt it, and if you re. use to swallow "at all
fou bolt it.
Do you know that people believe, if you
ire a gossip, that you are not very nice
Course f I
Peop'e cheerfully pay 25 cents for a 6
ent cake of soap, if it is well advertised.
.FIT# stopped free and permanently cured. No
Its wrier l:r»t day's tise of Dr. Kline's Great Kerrs
Restorer. Frets .$31 rial bottle auti trt»ati<%e.
Bend to Da. Kuan, S31 arch 8b, Philadelphia, Pa.
Be as good to people as you can be; you
pass this way only once.
Bow to Grow «0e Wheat.
Salzer's Fall Seed Catalogue tails
you. It’s worth thousands to tha
wideawake farmer Send 4-cent stamp
for catalogue and free samples of
grains and grasses for fall sowing.
John A. Salzer Seed Co., LaCrosse,
Wis.
The trouble is, when a preacher ie inter
esting he never knows when to stop. .-'
Borne women cry as easily and often as
some men grumble.
Woman’s Writes
Believe in Woman’s Writes?
Of course we do. Who could
help it when women write such
convincing words as these:
“ For seven years I suffered
with scrofula. 1 had a good
physician. Every means of
cure was tried in vain. At last
I was told to try Ayer’s Sarsa
parilla, which entirely cured
me after using seven bottles.”
—Mrs. John A. Gentle, Fort
Fairfield, Me., Jan. 26, 1896.
:! Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
..cures..
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“A Bicycle Built for Two.”
Five cents' worth of
“BATTLE AX" will serve two
chewers just about as long as 5 cents'
worth of other brands will serve one
man. This is because a 5 cent piece
of “BATTLE AX" is almost as
large as the 10 cent piece of other
high grade brands.
Columbia
Bicycle
Experience
Nineteen years of it—have made more
bicycles, better bicycles, and bicycles lon
ger, than anybody else. Columbia riders
ride on the certainty of experience. One
hundred dollars is right for quality, safety,
surety—the trinity of Columbia excellence.
When you pay less, you get less.
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