The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-11-10

1t is small wonder that the Re
publicans are greatly concerned re-
garding the repeal of the wool duty.
There are those who contend that
wool was always, even more than
iron, the pivot upon which the whole
infamous system revolyed. Certain
it is that the Wool Association was
from the very beginning most active,
not only in protection propaganda
ism, but in raising for the Republi-
can party the immense sum of mon
ey it has year after year employed
in spreading the protection heresy
among the working people, with all
the tricks and deception of the pro-
fessional demagogue reduced by
long practice almost to a science.
Years ago one Of the best known Re
publicans in this county admitted
to the writer that the wool duty
could not be defended on any prin-
ciple of right, and when asked why,
then, his party supported it so
strenuously, he replied that if the
wool duty were let go, the entire
structure would quickly fall to
pieces. Thomas Dolan, the million
aire carpet manufactures of Phila-
delphia, and always one of the heav-
lest contributors to Republican cam
paign funds, has never made any
special secret of his belief that that
wool duty was wrong in principle
and hurtful in operation. All the
carpet manufacturers and others
who use wool as a material in manu-
facture have been of the same opin-
ion. But they have been given com
pensating duties on the finished pro-
ducts, and that has helped to keep
them quiet, though it was always
the political influence of wool and a
handful of wealthy wool growers, IN
holding up the monopoly tariff as
whole, that was the chief considera-
tion with them. The Wool associa
tion was largely an Ohio concern,
the home of the only fraudulent Pres
ident we have ever had, and of Nc
Kinley, the author of the greatest
tariff monstrosity of the age. Co
lumbus Delano and men of that ilk
led it and grew immensely rich up
on it. And, being men of great nerve
sometimes and more properly called
cheeky, they gave the Republican
party, in return for the share it had
had in the building up OF their fort
unes, the full benefit of their active
service on the stump and in the
halls Of Congress, and especially in
raising the monster funds which
have SO shamefully debauched our
elections for many years back
When, therefore, the Democratic
party came to power, it was natural
that the wool duty should be among
the first to be repealed. Because it
is wrong in itself, because it never
was of any benefit to the average
wool grower, because it tended to
make carpets and blankets and
clothing dearer without adding one
penny to the wages of the working
men, and because the few who did
make profit out of it made too great
profit and used it and all the 9th
er influences they possessed at all
times to deceive the people into vot-
ing the Republican ticket, the Dem
ocratic party was unit in desiring
its repeal and Democratic represen-
tatives in Congress almost SO in re-
spending to their wishes.
1t is known to all who have stud
led the subject that the raising of
sheep for the wool product is not
and cannot be made profitable upon
the high priced lands of the Eastern
States. 1t is further known that on
cheaper lands, with f orable climat-
conditions, wool growing may be
made very lucrative without tariff,
especially when the wool products
of different texture from other coun-
tries can be had by manufacturers
free of duty for mixing with it.
These foreign woods we want. Keep
ing them out is the hurtful thing,
not the letting them in. Editors
who think to fire the heart" of the
American farmers on the wool ques
ton by telling them that such woods
are coming here, are simply "talk-
ing through their hats And if
they imagine that workingmen are
angered by the free wool that prom
Uses them better clothing for the
same money, then they are good
deal greener even than they assume
the workingmen to be.
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