Show A AVAIL OVER WOOL Free wool has decreased the flocks from 47500000 to 40000000 a decrease of 15 per cent and beside this it threw I away revenue of over 8000000 per Year Free trade wool will not much longer be pulled over the eyes of the American people Such is the wail of the Cleveland PlainDealer As wool has been higher under the WilsonGorman bill than it was the last year of the McKinley bill it is difficult to see how free wool has decreased the flocks some 7500000 in a little over a year According to the I above there would have been a j I revenue of 8000000 a year Even in that case It cannot be denied that the foreign wool would have come in just the same and to the extent it did come in would have come in competition with American wool that is supposing it were of the same quality The tariff would have allowed the home producer to recoup himself by adding 8000000 to the price of his product The result would have been that It would have required 8030000 more capital to have done the same business I busi-ness that has been done on the amount I now invested iii woolen manufacture while purchasers of woolen goods would have been charged that amount more A class would have benefited by a tariff on wool while the whole country has benefited by making it free Solicitude for the amount of I revenue a tariff will produce is a thing of new birth among protectionists I I We are of the opinion that the I American people will not again allow the protectionists to pull the wool over I their eyes I |