Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — Wool and Silver Dust. [ARTICLE]

Wool and Silver Dust.

Indianapolis Journal. Five years ago the quotations of wool, that is, in 1891, averaged 24.89 per cent, a pound higher in this country than at the present time, while the average price of foreign wools in London, was only 6.59 per cent, higher than now. The difference in the loss of values in wool is due to the present tariff. Yet during the fall of 1894 Senator Voorhees predicted that long before this time American wools would be higher than they had been under the McKinley law. In 1892 Indiana had 1,080,383 sheep. In 1895 the number had fallen to 836,217 and|the product of wool from 6,482,208 pounds to 4,701,210 pounds. The average price of the grades of wool raised in Indiana in 1892 was over 30 cents, so that the value of the clip of 1893 would have been §1,944,662. The present price is 17 cents in the eastern markets, making.theclip of 1895 worth <799,205. Here is a loss to the wool growers of Indiana of $1,145,667 by the free wool blunder of the Democratic party. That is not all. The [Republican house passed a bill and sent it to the senate, restoring about half the duty of the McKinley law on wool. One would have thought that Senators Vorhees and Turpie would have been eager to make amends for tljeir great blunder by voting for such a bill. It would have strengthened prices, and, more than that, it would have •checked that importation of wool which has already displaced a third of the American clip. But they would do nothing of the sort. Instead, they joined the free silver senators in preventing consideration of the bill. Very naturally, yiese men, wht>

have been instrumental in depriving the wool growers of Indiana of over a million dollars a year in the value of their wool clip, are anxious to throw silver dust in their eyes during the next campaign, Which is the cheaper? money at 6 per cent int. and 5 per cent commission, or money at 7 per cent int. and 3 per cent commission. Call on Warren & Irwin for answer. During’the winter of 1893, F. M. Martin, of Long Reach, West Va», contracted a severe cold which left him with a cough. In speaking of how he cured it he says: “I used several kinds of cough syrup but found no relief until I bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, which relieved me almost instantly, and in a short time brought’ about a complete cure.” When troubled with a cough or cold use this remedy and you will not And it necessary to try several kinds before you get relief. It has been in the market for over twenty years and constantly grown in favor and popularity. For sale at 25 and 5Q cents per bottle by F. B. Meyer.