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Show Tariff Wool And Shoddy Tariff. v covered that there are American Ameri-can manufacturers who make shoddy goods and call them woolen goods. The people buy these goods for what fhey pretend to' be and discover after a few weeks of wear that they have been cheated. '.Congressman Gros-venor Gros-venor sympathizes wth them, and has introduced a bill to. compel the men who sell garments' which are a quaint and curious mixture of cotton, shoddy, mungo and wool extract, blended with a little fresh wool, to label these garments gar-ments so that customers mav lmv thom with their eyes open and not be under the impression that they are buying air wool, durable goods. The practice of deceiving customers as to the goods they buy cannot be defended, but if Congressman Grosve-nor's Grosve-nor's bill should pass and shoddy goods be labeled as shoddy it would be well to add a few explanatory words to let customers know why about all the so-called so-called woolen goods offered them at prices wliich they consider reasonable are shoddy goods. .The Chicago Tribune, Tri-bune, a Republican paper not bound by the ironclad tariff notions of its party, offers such explanation when it says more wool and less cotton and shoddy would be used if wool did not cost so I much. It is expensive because Congressman Con-gressman Grosvenor and several other Ohio gentlemen are resolved that there shall be a high duty on wool for t'he benefit of American wool growers, who do not and cannot produce that article in sufficient quantities to meet the home demand. The manufacturer of shoddy clothing makes it to meet the demand of those who cannot pay the high prices wliich must be asked for all-wool goods. The responsibility for shoddy goods does not rest wholly on the manufacturer. Congressman Grosvenor Gros-venor and other advocates of high duties du-ties on wool should be willing to assume as-sume their share of it. |