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Show Wool and Cotton Reporter as "a protection pro-tection organ." We are personally acquainted with the editor , of that paper. He is not a protectionist on wool because he sympathizes with the Eastern .manufacturers who wish to buy their raw material in the cheapest market, but who have never asked that the tariff should be taken off the article they produce themselves. They are as earnest for protection on their product as Utah is for protection on hers." There is nothing of real importance in this latest effusion of 'Pericle's."but we are glad he published it because the public will notice that he has sud denly become very meek and that the former roar of his voice has dwindled down to a scarcely audible whisper. A MEEK REFORMER. Prof. J. II. Paul, alias "Pericles," makes a very meek reply in Sunday's Herald to the complete article published pub-lished by The Times October 1 on the wool question. We wish we had the space to present the public today with The Times article and Prof. Paul's reply side by side. We wish every voter in Utah might read the Republican presentation pre-sentation of the wool question and the Democratic retort at the same time. Prof. Paul tries to' discredit the authorities au-thorities quoted by The Times on the free trade and protection prioes of , wool by saying they are Republicans. We know nothing about the politics of Justice, Baiiman & Company of Philadelphia, but we have no doubt they are Republicans, since this college professor's theory of free trade would ruin tho wool business of the United Htates. Nearly every man engaged in sslling wool is a Republican. Every single one of them ought to be Republicans. Repub-licans. Of course the Rom e, Morris, Sum-Mehiiays Sum-Mehiiays company of this city consists cf Republicans. So do' all other wool-growing firms in this territory that we know of, and every man who owns a sheep, and the thousands of people whose prosperity depends, in a measure, upon the sheep business.ought to be Republicans. We presume they are, since Prof. Paul says himself, "nearly 1,000,000 sheepmen have been voting the Republican Repub-lican ticket for the last fifteen years." Ihis is because thty know protection makes the wool industry profitable and because they cannot forget that the Here menace of free wool, contained in Jhe Democratic Mills bill, sent down Jbe price of the Utah product to a point lhat made the Utah grower a loser" at lhat time. Prof. Paul quotes the American |