Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1912 — WAITING TO SHIP WOOL TO THE U. S. [ARTICLE]

WAITING TO SHIP WOOL TO THE U. S.

Australian Bheep Raisers Anxious for Dsmocratlc Victory. From the Glasacow, Mont., Independent The Hon. James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States, has been in Australia this summer, and in a recent speech at Melbourne he cheered the hearts of the Australian wool growers by telling that there was prospect of an early reduction in the American wool tariff. This, he predicted, would mean a large increase in the wool experts from Australia to the United States. The ambassador is right. That is just what will happen If the wool tariff is lowered, and the Montana sheep men know, because they remember what happened in 1894 when wool wasn’t worth anything and when sheep were worth even less. When the Democratic members of the ways and means committee of the house, In the recent session of congress, presented their wool bill for conslderatiqn, they claimed that it would increase the imports of wool into America by 190,000,000 pounds. But there can be no Increase in the consumption of wool and the American grower is wondering; what would become of 190,000,000 pounds of his wool under the Democratic tariff laws. Nearly 30,000,000 of that 90,000,000 is grown right here ip Montana. It is no wonder that England ia urging the election of a Democratic congress and that London looks with favor upon the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson..