Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1912 — On the Free List. [ARTICLE]

On the Free List.

The most highly protected industry in the United States is that of the manufacture of wool (and shoddy). The tariff board reports that of the 35,000 people employed in this work 63 per cent, are of foreign birth. It is no indictment of an American workingman that he was born abroad, but a coddled industry that has had the benefit Of prohibitive duties for more than 40 years ought not to import labor simply because that is one of fthe few things that are on the free, list. ' ■