Show CLEVELAND ON WOOL cb dent Diell lie bauc there la xo arnet president cleveland haa a woolly record expressed himself ly telling tho people all about the farm era and their wool in his third annual message to congress dec 6 1887 he i dd not commit himself eo far as to say that he knew but ho thought it may be fairly assumed that a large proportion of tho sheep owned by the farmers throughout the country are found in email flocks numbering from as to 60 upon this assumption he argued that the benefit of the tariff on wool i illusory and proceeded to chew from hi point of view that it wa burden upon the poor the employed and unemployed the sick and IT ell and the young and old he further proved to hi own complete satisfaction that it was a tax which with relent loaa grasp i fastened upon the clothing ol 01 every man woman and child in the land he did not tato upon which part of the clothing it waa fastened or whether fastened with a safety pin relentless grasp this was an senator jone of nevada in his great tariff speech of 1893 took up mr cleve lands sheepishness and estimating ca per cent as being a largo proportion bowed that we bad in 1887 ae many aa separate farmers who owned flocks of 35 sheep each and that there were persona directly and cunia rily interested inter eted in tho wool buriff As president cleveland desired free trade in wool because a largo proportion of tho heep owned by tho farmers throughout the country are found in email flocos numbering from 25 to CO tho inference is that free wool would never have been thought of by him or his party it tho flocks had been largo ones concentrated among a few owners or in fact if there had been a sheep trust a raw wool trust or both such a trust could havo dictated its own terms but tho unfortunate separate farmers must be made to buffer president cleveland and his party aro monopolists nopo lists from tho word go |