Show protecting SHODDY THE TARIFF ON WOOL AND WOOLENS DEGRADES THE STANDARD enormous Enon nou arit of and 1 I alty I 1 goia sittee alto llio wool tarla an caage uc of 2 2181 per pei cent in thirty years Und erthe high tariffs on oil adoo wool I 1 and woolens since ISCO 1860 the growth of tho the shoddy industry lias has been phenomenal shoddy isa is a comprehensive term and in common parlance includes all wool substitutes used in except cotton cows hair etc there are arc two classes of sh oddies the first 14 is made from froin the waste pieces of woolen goods left over in the manufacture 0 of f ready made clothing and tho the secord accord froni froin old woolen rags collected from the asli ash barrec and refuse heaps of our large cities but like other industries the shoddy industry has grown to such an all extent that e have been added nev to the products which fon neily went under the general name of bl ioddy chief among these are extracts which aro are made from mixed cotton and woolen goods by ta tho 10 application of an acid which eats cats out the cotton leaving the woolen fibers intact though much impaired at the same time extracts ire aro subdivided into two classes first farst those made from waste pieces of cloth not in use just as is new sh oddies are produced and second those made from old mixed ra rags gs pic picked keil up from all conceivable places still another term is used to describe a certain class of sh oddies this is mungo which applies to the fibers produced from hard or su sn perfume rags by machinery specially adapted for the purpose so great has been the improvement in machinery used tor for ilig ill up shod dies mungo and extracts that the they y are now low wed used in all classes of woolen woo lell goods and aro are so disguised as to be detected with great difficulty the growth of tho the shoddy industry cannot bo better shown than by a corn coin parison of the census figures since 1800 the f following ol lowing table shows the number of f establishments the capital invested the the number of wor workmen knien employed and tilt the value of the products during each census year establish caal work arod tal nien men ut iw so 30 aln rm rw as S I 1 rr C ESO 90 iso su 0 56 si m I 1 csire I 1 10 73 3 1 4 1115 is IKO xi BI 94 cami from a product of in 1800 1860 this industry has increased until according to the census of 1890 the product is or an increase of 2187 per cent i though the growth of d tc woolen industry as a whole t the shoddy industry lias has been since 1800 it has not been in proportion to the 0 growth crowth of the shoddy industry in 1860 the value of tho the woolen goods produced in the united states was 1 in 1800 according to tho the last census tho the value of woolen goods v was as showing an increase so since 1860 of per cent the value of the shoddy product in 1800 shows nit an increase of 0 sl per cent over that of 1880 but the woolen industry as a whole awhile shows an increase iacre ise of only 23 20 por per cent in ill 1890 1800 over the product u ct of 1860 nothing will show better the great growth of the shoddy industry and its present extent than the fiaui es froni from the census of 1800 in the following table is shown n for each cadi of the large woolen liro products ducts the amount of bool N ool used and the amount of sh oddies extracts cotton hair and other substitutes for wool sub 0 Vc per cent reent wool used lutes used gounde Iou nils pounds wes a BU I 1 worsted yort ted goods qa 7 72 falt 6 7 J A wool hats ia SI 91 caretas ciu af pf ts Mews cd OG 90 knit goods fco odi 1 totals 8 10 M S this great growth of the shoddy industry fully bears out tho the declaration made by the shoddy manufacturers in IS when they pio protested tested against the lie mills bill which put wool on the free list in the circular which tb they e y is issued they eaid our indus industry would be ruined mined by free wool andee and wo and thos 0 d dependent upon us would there is only one way to avoid this loss to ourselves and that is by the he defeat of the candidate of the free trade party grover cleveland we have determined in tho the coming coining election to support the candidates of the alio protection party larri and lor tou their election c wo we consider to bo be indispensable to the maintenance of our bli business iners free wool would b bo 0 the death of shoddy |