Show DOES protection PROTECT A SHORT time ago a wealthy woolen manufacturer of philadelphia named t thomas dolan wrote a letter in the now new york world on the wool question in that letter he said S it is an interesting fact deserving of fe aw emphasis of statement that the prices of p p brool are lower now than they were one year ago this decline was distine distinctly jl promised ased by the projectionists protectionists during t the e 1 which accompanied the framing of the mckinley tariff considering the fact that mr dolan V one of the many influential bust aims chessmen raen who gave evidence before 4 S t the house 00 committee on ways and litmus in favor of the mckinley bill it it supposed that he knows known vi hat he is talking about if the wool clause of the mckinley bill biff meant anything it barely ly meant an increase in price for tho the home producer of wool and it yaa jag bo understood by every sheep Z owner from maine to texas the free traders in ohio have taken up dolans bolans letter and are using it as a campaign document there k j no dodging the question that wool sf cheaper than it wasa was a year ago the wool growers know that without being w add it but to tell them that such was contemplated as am one of the benefits of the libi mo mckinley Kinley bill seems like an attempt tom p t to pull the wool over their eyes judge jadee lawreice Lawr euce president of the ohio wool growers association has rr itten a long letter to the american ae woland and cotton on reporter in reply to dolan the judge was also one of ct prominent persons who paved the 1 iry for the passage of the mckinley in january 1890 before the C ways way and means committee his plea fat tariff on foreign wool was in ader ader that the farmer may make the N wool ool industry more profitable he then that the ultimate effect awaa vc so inore increased aged duty might be cheaper gt foda fur the consumer but the first would be to increase the price rudge lawrence was delegated by the cotoio 0 wool growers to attend at wash angton for months previous to the f e of the mckinly bill for the akle purpose of adopting as high a duty satt wool as possible dolan dolana a utterance jatow W places him in a doubtful position of f course judge lawrence in his re efty denies that the mckinley bill had bad lany jay ou such ch object in view as the imme decline in the price of home pro wools in this he is lively honest though the actual de hinline inline no being before his eyes he is yet economically benighted he knows known teat he worked for increased prices in J iwig the wool tariff these prices avee not come and now his bis opponents bwy hwy t that hat the tariff has injured the awner however the protectionist are not discomfited they hold that the wool produce of the world is immense and that improved transportation facilities have made thabet africa australia and america contiguous j countries that is all right as far as the cheapening of wool in general commerce is concerned but in the united states this foreign wool can not enter without paying a duty of twelve cents or more a pound it is true australian wool has fallen considerably in prices abroad this can be explained by the fact that its exclusion from our markets would cause a glut in other markets and con sequent reduction in price altogether the wool issue is assuming rather a complicated phase for the political economist it to is becoming as i mixed as the silver question qu eption and in fact several of the free silver organs attribute the present decreased prim prices of wool to the silver law of 1871 there may or may not be some ground for this but brt it will be diffin I 1 to make the average citizen believe it at all events the wool issue is taking an interesting turn in ohio and the fate of mckinley and the defence of his bill hangs to a certain extent on its discussion there |