The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-11-28

materials as cheap In Delaware as upon
the Clyde. you could still afford to pay
your wOrkmen the same wages and bid
defiance to foreign competition" 81
really believe we could" was his In
slant rejOinder; "fOr what these prOtec-
tiOnists," prefacing the word protection
ist with an expletive more fOreible than
polite, "giVe me with one hand, they
more than take away with the other"
DUTIES ON WOOL.
In regard to the effect OF the repeal of
the duties on wool, Mr.. Wells referred to
letter Of Geo. VIM. Bond Of Boston, the
highest authority on wool In this cOun-
try, the expert relied upon by the treas.
uTy to fix the grades and the prices of
wool for the customs service, to Mr.. A.
NJ. Garland Of Ohio, late President of
the American Wool Growers AssOcia-
ton, and a member of the late tariff
commission. Mr.. Bond says:
High duties on wool are now MAIN
tained as a bounty to states which raise
comparatively small part Of the clip,
for the rest do not require 1t. The Oft
repeated claim that the United States
raise all the wool she consumes Is folly.
You ask, at what point does any tariff
on wool begin to affect the price Of the
domestic clipp 1 should say at that
point which shuts US out from the COM
petition of the world, 80 that we are re-
stricted In the range Of our mRnufac-
lures. Our fine woods have always been
higher, other things being equal, when
we were able freely to import the woods
of other countries at low duty or at
no duty at all. The present
indications are that goods with finished
face will soon again be in fashion. As
yet we have found almost no woods in
this country adapted to this manufac-
ture. We shall again be obliged to i'm
port. and If the tariff should be too high
to allow that, many of our mills must
be closed, for the people will follow the
fashion. Should this come, you may
look again for a decline in the bulk of
the woods Of this country. Looking to
the general interests Of the wool grow
ing in this country, l believe, and this
from careful study Of the wool manu-
facture, its successes, it's failures and
vicissitudes, that the lower the duties
are upon wool, and the closer to the ab-
sOlute requirements under the greatest
application OF energy and skill Is the
protective duty upon the manufactures,
the greater will be the success of these
two great interests.
Mr.. Wells asserted that with these re-
strictiOns removed, this nation would
speedily attain to such supremacy in
Gn6 WOrlQ6 commerce, ana 10 9ucn q de-
gree of domestic prosperity and abund-
ance, as has hardly yet been dreamed of
by the most sanguine OF our country
men. And, as showing that intelligent
and farseeing Englishmen fOresee that
such must be the result IL we once fair
ly abandon our narrow, illiberal, worse
than old Chinese policy, and dread our
competition In the worlds market under
such circumstances. will read you an
extract from a letter addressed to me
under date of August last, from one of
the leading railroad authorities in Great
Britain, the protector, In fact, Of the
proposed tunnel under the straits of
Dover, to whom sent some free trade
publications. He says: 81 have read
your two brochures with pleasure. But
as an islander 1 have never been an en-
thusiastic we'll wisher for free trade in
the United States. For, when you throw
overheard the burden of monopoly, and
walk straight out into the free world of
industry unweighted, then Bull must
look out. It will be a grand day for you,
but after five years, sad day for Bull
So keep up restriction as long as you
like, say l. Save that one would like
as an old pioneer for commercial freedom
in 1S33-tO see English speaking peO-
pie the world over with one free trade
tariff, If only to show to all nations
that all sorts of freedom spoke from
that tongue of their fOrefathers."