Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — Effect of the Wool Duty on Sheep Growing. [ARTICLE]

Effect of the Wool Duty on Sheep Growing.

“Who has been benefited by the tariff reduction on wool in the last thirty years?”” The above question is being asked in “protective” journals, and we suppose is asked in good faith. The high tariff was first put on wool in 1867. It remained until 1883, when there was a very slight reduction, which was more than made up by the McKinley bill in 1890. It is not at all improbable that the organs of high taxes are ignorant on this point, ther ;fore wa take pleasure in correcting them. In connection with their statement of an alleged reduction of thirty years’ standing th > organs present the following figures as to flocks: 1875. 1691. Decrease. New England... 1,440,000 1,105,000 335,000 Middle .-tates.. 3.959,200 2,881,900 1,678,300 Wes era states. The Tribune has frequently pointed out—even as early as ten years ago—that the number of sheep in Indiana fell off several hundred thousand from 1870 to 1880, during our highest tariff on wool. But the editor who calls the last thirty years of our wool tariff a “reduction” shows ignorance of the subject.—Bockville (Ind.) Tribune.