Show HI WOOL DUTIES they ENERVATE INSTEAD OF FOS TER THE INDUSTRY protection ua has lade the nod flud carcle lc 0 sw O that can not stand honest shameful of ill tho hoolin lien the protected manufacturers who tt put it mildly have had a soft t snap for foi 30 00 years are already beginning to plead for mercy from tho the new administration they realize that to keep its pledges the administration must reduce protective duties considerably and they of cours are aro unwilling to part with their privilege to charge the american people the deal american people two prices for manufactured fact tired goods dy dickering and threatening citing and by pleading the baby act they the hope to make a compromise on a price and i a half one would naturally suppose that with free wool and chemicals chemical 3 our woolen manufacturers ought to compete with will foreign manufacturers if the latter wore handicapped by a 6 duty of 33 35 per cent this especially sinco since labor commissioner wrights recent report shows that thai there is practically no alif difference ference in the percentage of labor cost of producing a yard of cloth here or in europe dotso not so says the wool and cotton Re tile the woolen industry would venial just as 60 booc or try conclusions wit h the foreign manufacturers on a basis of 25 2 per cent as on 0 3 7 per cen cent t the agony of the struggle for existence would lio ile over tho the sooner if the lower rato was adopted then the wool reporter males cs a threat from it a political I 1 standpoint it says one would bo be as bad as this the other it would be a toboggan slide tc ic destruction for any party that adopted adopter 1 such in an extreme measure neasure the democratic ty does not dare for formulate mulato a bill that will menace tho woo woolen I 1 en I 1 industry i n this is simply f frightful lightf ua I 1 to think that in attempting to give the people cheap clothes we must go to destruction on a toboggan slide if wo we approach within 33 35 per cent of E prices of clothing shades of protection 1 what would madison have said in 1790 when he advocated duties on woolens of front from 5 to aj 7 per cent if lie had known that when the woolen infant was 3 years bears older 1 would cry so go hard that its foster parents would give it OS 98 per cent protection and that it would threaten to throw up its mong monopoly poly arms and expire it if given only 35 5 per c cent rations years later not however before making a great scene sc ne by causing the destruction of the new foster faster parents who would reduce the supply of pap madison little guessed the insatiate greed and the spunk wickedness and power of the brood of monopoly infants to which ho he gave birth with duties of 5 to 10 per cent at the timo time that he said eaid the duties on the great mass of imported articles have reached a point which it would not boi be to exceed or ho be would lame havo bacul to spank the lifo life out of the whole lot of embryonic cormorants cut but tho woolen men intend to get as much as they can and they aro are not ashamed of the most shameful pretexts pretests they say for ini instance tance in the wool reporter of feb 23 that the 40 per cent duties of the mills bill though it might have been ample in 1888 would not suffice now because conditions have changed considerably during the past four 3 ears and the foreign manufacturer because of higher duties has been forced to a lower plane of economy while the domestic manufacturer avi with th a wider market than formerly to cater to lias has h had nal less incentive to restrict and economize thus it is admitted that high duties enervate and demoralize an industry instead of stimulating and f fostering it so that it can stand alone and produce goods as cheaply as they are produced in unprotected countries A and ahr n we are asked to continue only on a slightly reduced scale this demoralizing 0 system of protection tec tion 1 I have been drunk off and on for SO 00 years says the man in the ditch as his friends are about to rescue and reform him for the tenth time three years ago when I 1 was accustomed seven or ei eight abt glasses of liquor a lay day I 1 could have stood reforming down to two glasses but now since I 1 havo have become accustomed to 10 and 12 glasses it would mean death on a toboggan slide to try to reform me even down 70 to three glasses there is but one way to deal with ith these manufacturers they constitute less than alian I 1 per cent of our population even after including their employees the they y are sellers of v what hat the other 03 90 per cent are buyers bui ars As they have tor for U SO lo years had everything their own way and have entirely disregarded the rights of the 99 ier cent it is only fair that the latter should have their say and pay no attention to tho the largest and most powerful crowd of woolen men inen aluch the manufacturers rs threaten to send to washington to protest against duties as low as 35 per cent this gang will urill leam when it goes to washington that it does docs not own congress as it d did id in laoo it irin ested in a set of represent ath th cs elected to stay at homo home the chicago plat platform forin declared protection to bo be an unconstitutional fraud the manufacturers need not expect and should not ask the democrats to disregard ga rd their platform and mako make a protective tariff to lighten the ob burdens ur dense of athe the people as much as possible and at tho the same time to obtain sufficient revenue it is likely tha duties of about 23 per cent will be left kcf t on it woolen cooil a mills lills t that ba t have become so slovenly in their methods that they cannot exist under 25 per cent protection ought to die and the sooner the agony of the struggle for eniti nee is over the better it will bo be for the co country an and tho I party arty it is however quite c certain ertain that by far tho the greater portion ol of our woolen mills would remain with us even with 20 per cent duties though of course they are now after all they cin can get and would not admit adinie balch an absurd proposition byros W HOLT |