Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — For American Wear. [ARTICLE]

For American Wear.

The high tariff keeps out of the country much of the wool which our people need to make their clothes, and hence it

nee4 cause no surprise to hear a leading Massachusetts woolen manufacturer say that a large part of the clothing worn by our people is made of shoddy and cotton. While w’ool is taxed heavily, rags come in free; even woolen rags, however, pay ten cents a pound. A correspondent of the Boston Wool Reporter writes to that journal from London, and gives the exports from that city to various American cities for one week in February. From London to Boston there were 290,000 pounds of wool and 320 ton 9 (716,800 pounds) of rags, and 1,000 bales of rag 9 were in transit To Philadelphia there were no exports “except 150 bales of cow hair in transit.” To Baltimore there were 24 tons (53,760 pounds) of rags. From Liverpool to Philadelphia 134 bales of wool, 121 bales of goat hair and 116 bales of cow hair were exported. Why not give us free wool and less shoddy?