Show tariff on wool to continue editor CLIPPER in my opinion tile effect on domestic wools bools should the duty be taken off would be quite apparent domestic wools are bound to suffer and sell a considerable sid erable lower price than they aliey do today the duty on foreign wools coola being eleven cents a prohibits the importation of all but the very best and finest australian wool this duty of eleven cents a 1 aund acts a in um berella for the wools grown in the united states if we have free wool the manufacturers having the whole world from which to obtain there raw material will naturally bj ba the best wools for tile the least money australia south america an and countries in a similar climate have every advantage in raising sheep and wool they can within a very short time double their clip their pasturage alone is of such good quality and the absence of severe storms are bound to give them a good yield of desirable desirable wool at a nominal cost as compared to the wool gronn in this country A wool grower in this bounly must pasture sheep on land such ns as exists in utah and idaho to have the wool of a similar quality to that grown abroad there is an ail extreme differences in the value of the land of butali idaho and australia this one item in it self makes an emmonse difference in the cost of raising wool here adding to this ibis tile the vast difference in 0 the cost of the necessaries of life and labor one can readily see that for the american wool grower it is absolutely necessary that he be should be protected outside of a very small percentage the wools raised in these united states tates are of a very hi inferior i f air i quality compared to the wools raised on the eastern hemisphere naturally our wools will only be wanted either when wools are scarce or manufacturers will be able to procure proc them at a nominal price from the forgoing we can see that sheep will only be remunerative when raised for mutton wool will be a side issue and it will be only a matter of a few years when the number of sheep will be greatly diminished C 0 ROLLINS Cen centreville treville |