Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — What Free Wool Would Mean. [ARTICLE]

What Free Wool Would Mean.

Free wool would mean cheaper and better clothing, warmer bedding, better carpets for the people. It is the greatest boon that can be conferred on an industrious nation. The tax on wool, which is a tax on health, on comfort, on the vigor of the nation, is as much a barbarism as would be a tax on food, on water, or on air and light Nor would a reduction or a repeal of the tax work any peculiar hardship to the wool grower. It would lead to a vast expansion of our woolen industries. It would open the markets of the world to our manufacturers. They would perhaps have to change their machinery somewhat, as the grower would change his breed of sheep, but the result would be a vast increase in the demand for wool the world over. A now impetus, and a healthy impetus, wojald be given to wool-growing. By carefully selecting the sheep adapted to his land, his climate and his market, the American grower would soon find that the evils predicted from free wool were largely imaginary, and that (hey were nothing compared to the benefits derived from cheaper clothing, from warmer blankets, from freeing the woolen goods from a large part of their cotton mixture. —Courier Journal.