The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-03-21

Protect.
Philadelphia Record,
American wooden manufacturers
last year used 24o, ,OOO, 600 pounds Of
meriean wool and $1,000, ,o00
pounds Of foreign wool, whilst En-
gIish, French and German wcolen
manufacturers used szo, 6a0, ,00o lbs.
OF foreign wool in tie narufactnfe
of wooien goods that were sold ia
the american marked This gave
tue American manufacturer 52.6
per cent Of the homs market, aud
The foreign manufslctufef 47.4 per
cent, Now, If we Should have free
wool, as the leather men have ffesl
hides. the Amefican manufacturers
and the American @orkmen would
not only have the whole Of the home
market to themselves, just as the.
Heather actnfers aud the boot
and shoe makers have, ut, Re che
Hat would be .le to com
pete With foreig acthrers and
foreign work men IN the open mar
kets of the world.
One of the most prominent woolen
manufacturers in this country has
admitted that under the present
tariff on wool an English mannfac-
turer can land his product in New
York, duty paid, at s1.s9 per yard,
whilst it costs an American manu-
faeturer for like goods s1.51 per
yard bzHence, American mills. are
Importing their goods more than
three -fonrths made, and doing only
the finishing here. This is the reE-i
sultof the protection sjnggle, which
.taxeslbothathe raw and the finished
product, to the injury of producers,
CONSUMERS, manufacturers and la
Porers. Woolen goods are made for
JUS in5 England and in Germany, !.
whilstour looms and our workmen
stand idle. With free wool, the
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cloth we import could be made at
cost in New Y York OF 81 20 per yard,
whilst the. foreign goodsscould not
be landed there at less than S1.39
per yard. ai'
The Tariff Reformers want the
goods made in America, and want
such protection to American indus
try as would insure belter work;
better. wages and cheaper goods.
We should make up nearly the
whole of the 675, 100000 pounds Of
,wool consumed in this country.
1--WE use it, and we should manu-
! faeture it, aa - taa ~ =
Observation-Disclosures has
answered the resolution Of inn iaiiily,
into the alleged present Hnsatisfacs
I tory mail lgseryice, He says that
! ! earefuisinqdia,y!sandl close eKalnina-
4 ton of the Complaints made from
time to time to the Department., or
Through the several divisions of the
railway mail service; as to theIser-
vice In Kansas and geieralIy yin the
region west Of the Mississippi, fails
| to disclose any tenable ground fer
the complaint quoted in the resoln-
! tion. In no section ofssthe country
embraced in the systemzof the rail
| way mail service khas there been
during the past three years more
prompt and liberal response ON the
part ofsthe Department to tho need
lofthe peoples. General Dickinbop
unhesitatingly asserts that the ens
tire mail service, through tlie whole
field of its operations, is in better
and more,eficient condition thansit
has ever been befores Thus fades
away another Republican attempt.to
belittle the Administration. s
It may prove to be "a false step,
but Clara Foltz, tho womanPlawyer,
\ political oriltor and ex-editor, of
San Diego, Cal, declares her inten-
tionso of Offering her vote at the fall
election and of carrying her case to
the highest court if her ballot is re-