Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1894 — Effect of Free Wool. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Effect of Free Wool.

If wool be put on the free list, the American wool grower will have to submit to the disadvantages of raising wool in this climate on even terms with his foreign rivals, who do not have such difficulties to contend with, and so without, adequate protection must nsoessarily ho driven aut of the

business. Our seventh largest agricultural industry, producing anhuaily 000.000; worth of wool and representing Min investment of $1Q0,000,000 in sheep, will be destroyed by free trade. Sheep will be fattened and will then be sent to market as food and flocks will disappear forever Our food supply will in time thus be decreased and our manufacturers eventually wiil be driven to buy their wooly

in London or in Australia—-Gold will, thus be sent out of the country again, increasing the harmful influences that must follow with the balance of trade permanently against us. The wool growers would be forced into some other industry. They would probably plow up their present sheep pastures when the land is suitable and raise wheat, of which we already have an overproduction and a surplus It is to the interest of American farmers to diversify their industries and to produce such articles as will find a market at home instead of abroad. The present administration favors a glut of a few products with their consequent cheapness to the producers. Presidential Prevarication. President President Cleveland’s Message land’s letter to to Congress, Dec- Hon. William L. ember 4, 1893. Wilson, July 2, A measure has I B ** 4, been prepared by You know how the appropriate much I deprecated congressional com- the incorporation mittee embodying in the proposed bill tariff reform on of the income tax the lines herein feature, suggested. It is the result of much patriotic and unselfish work. The committee have wisely embraced in their plans a few additio na 1 internal revenue taxes, including a small tax upon incomes . derived from certain corporate investments. If “I deprecated the incorporation” in the Wilson bill ‘‘of the income tax feature,” why was it necessary to say that the ways and ineans committee “wisely embraced” it? If the income tax were “wisely em-

braced” by the ways and means committee “on the lines herein suggested” --in “my message”—on what grounds can it be claimed * ‘how much I deprecated it? Which is “the result of much patriotic and unselfish work?”

Stronger Planks Needed Here.