Show T yi M SST RBT RIGHT in more democratic light 11 I 1 ator caiper iu in your last issue on oil nur prominent local republic r it attempt to refute of one of our latr late di geratic arkers on t tle c wool woo 1 1011 WP corta certainly admire the v 1 liick lie attempts to support t life ilic made by liis ills cot col lp if brues unfortunately y J T M 1 11 vir lie lias has not examined the abstracts of the united e or he would not have quoted T figures and nd made the remarks them which lie ho did rhe ilie first protective law of any an importance that applied to sheep r cussed in I 1 sra now from to 1867 the number of sheep was increased from 22 coo coo to 39 35 coo coo or they increased at a rate of more than ten per cent per annum during those seven years buriff during the next 24 years from 4 1807 1867 to 1832 1892 under protection the increase was 14 per cent or a little over one half of one per cent pet pel annum this appear as though the wool industry in the united states iu increased creased very rapidly ly under the influence of protection 31 the statement that from 1807 1867 to A 1884 1881 tile wool industry increased ISO per cent is also incorrect as the statistics show the increase reave was only so 30 per cent during that time ti tile only oaly a slight difference of loo per I 1 cent cheso figures are taken from I 1 01 statistics gotten up tip by republicans so that they will not be purposely arranged to reflect on the tion the zealous republican ask the rile question if wool was so high through the protection in the united Sta states teis that manufacturers of woolen goods we were re unable to compete with the hie shoddy manufacturer why is it ki that the democrats when talking tal kinor to sheep men will tell them that they would get a iti higher olier price for their wool if it was on the free listle list according to a table of wool prices furnished ilk by george for the forty years from 1847 to 1888 the average price of wool was higher during I 1 the 20 yearb of low tariff than during the 20 years of high 0 tariff the average price from froin 1847 to 1867 was 18 48 cents that was a low tariff period during 0 the next 20 years of high tariff froal to 1888 the average 0 price 1 rice wat was 42 cents per pound bond is fa a republican publican Ite wool dealer the lowest foreign price ot wool imported Im portel I 1 into tile united states is over 22 cents cent sill a pound when the tariff is added the price becomes over so 30 cents our wool growers bein being too nume marons rons to protect themselves by a trust sell their wool for about sixteen cents a pound they ge get such protection as vultures give to 0 o lambs it if woot wool an and woolen goods were free our manufactures would have to put more wool anti and less shoddy i into their goods in order to compete with the all wool cloth of other countries the demand for wool would be thereby increased an and the price of wool would go up lip and our wool would ile be placed on an equal bootin footing with that of other cot countries atries if J T af M will examine ills his pet law more closely lie he will fill find that the tariff on tle the articles used by our shoddy manufactures to mix mis with their wool will come for short of doubling irl tile the tariff on wool per pound lie ile may the then be eble to answer his second question for himself next the zealous republican BE nil how england became the greatest wool growing country in ill the world lie ile an answers site did it by protective tariff and then proceeds to re late liow how 1211 england gland grew and prospered for years under the benign influence of the digest protective tariff that any nation ever had in 1 the history of the world if englund prospered so intA L densely under so BO high a tariff wai why i abolish protection al bogath and institute free trade if she wilin so pros prosperous s under tile the influence influence 1 of nf protection how is it that t riches s of her wealthy class have I 1 creased several thou thousand coill 1011 per capita and the number of 1 as e paupers haupers also decreased many tb in nd ince aiace she cast aside 1 afan protection 1 hla we are glad J T ill bas 1 gun in to investigate 0 the hie political ishii istock confronting us lie ile may tarn j the right side yet while th atlis lAg life theres hope if lie has lia saV j more points on winch which lie he is not D at far if clea cle arand we think he lins hasl a ji r will maket liem known w fcc va in i able to assist him ou out oil dilemma ll Iem democrat |