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Show Want rrotootion. Wo are in favor of protection to a certain degree, but we consider that products of the country that are yielding the producer a fair remuneration re-muneration above the expenses of production, ought not be protected aud should be put on the free list It is well known that wool is now and has been on the free list since McKinley was knooked out, and we now will cite one instance to show why we think it should be kept there, which, if we are rightly informed, in-formed, can be verified. A certain party who does not live more than & thousand miles from this city, leased 7,000 head of sheep, about a year ago, agreeing to give a pound and a half of wool to a sheep and give an increase of eight lambs on the hundred and kep tho old stock good. This lessee les-see was in poor circumstances and the owner of the sheep furnished him with the necessary means to carry him through till after shearing, shear-ing, and then after shearing the lessee refunded all advances made by the aforesaid owner, and now this fall the lessee is the owner of eight hundred head of sheep of his own, has met all obligation accrued ac-crued in running the sheep herd and has more than enough surplus means to carry him over another shearing, which will not be until next spring. Now we ask you, gentle reader, if you think the sheep industry needs any protection, while the net profits are so large? We think not. Yet we find wool men asking for protection on wool. If any of our wool men can advance ad-vance a good and reasonable theory theo-ry why wool should be put on the duty list, we shall be pleased to publish ife |
