Show SPEECHES AI 11 s found in dom cr cri i tit theory by a ji s pa lioan lican editor I 1 dev tc lil lilliad p n lIed iu in thu aliu of sept it in al mi 1 account of a POM oia I 1 at the tile hie speakers judge cheary and eugene young mr young being the ahe first speaker spoke on the wool industry now mr editor you stated that ho he showed from statistics that the 0 nor riber of sheep lad ball decreased from forty millions to seventeen millions million under protection the speaker also stated that the wool industry in england hall increased under free trade the period of protected tariff of which lie ile spoke was from to 1690 but we find that great britian started with pounds of wool in asco arid and went down to in ili 1884 great britian had free trade under the operation of the law of protection the wool industry ind atly prospered tile the increase in number of sheep in ili the united states from to 1884 under a protective tariff was 22 to and the wooi wool clip increased from 1 to the largest growth that any agricultural 0 industry ever lidd it in this tin s country front from 18 1810 10 to 1860 ill this county a period of fifty years the wool industry only grew greir per cent while in seventeen years from 1867 to 1831 1834 it increased per cent the effect ofa of a tariff upon this industry is farther shown by the reduction of ofalie the tariff on wool in 1883 and in tile rise since the passage of the me dittley bill between 1883 and goo 1800 tile the number of sheep in ill this country fell from fifty million two million and since the of the sic kinley bill tho the year passed they lave have increased now mr editor you stated that the speakers were attacked by a supposed and a zealous republican but they got away from both the next questions to be asked was this if wool was so high bih through the protection in the united U cited states that manufacturers of woolen good i were unable to coni compete pete with the manufacturer why is it that the democrat when talking 9 to sheep mon men will tell them that they would get a I 1 higher price for their wool if it was on oil the free list 2nd and why does tile the tariff on oil wool retard tile progress of the woolen manufacture and advance the manufacture 0 of shoddy w the tariff on shoddy is double the amount per pound that it is on oil wool any democrat might answer these questions that feel disposed as Is their speakers lid did not have time how did lit en england 0 land become tile bertest wool growing 0 country in ili tile world slie site didat did it by a protective tariff for five hundred years england M grew and prospered beneat berle atil li the benign influences of the highest protective tariff that any nation ever its biad in tile history of the world the export of domestic wool and the use of foreign wool were prohibited no person peron per on could be buried in ili anything but woolen clothes made of coille domestic wool so careful was great Urita iii with her bior wool industry tint that she had on of her stat statute tte hooks at one olle time more than three hundred laws providing n fur for the protection growth and prosperity of this industry J T M |