The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-06

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before London will become a con-
siderable buyer either Cor invest
ment or speculation. Here, this is
expected; and the effect of this loss
Of the usual London cooperation
has been already discounted and
has no further effect for the New
York market.
HENRY CLEwS.
What IS The Matter With Free Wool?
To the Editor of the Republican.
Under the above caption the Bal
tlmore Sam undertook a few days
ago to assume that free wool was
Just the thing the country had been
looking for, and that everybody was
more than satisfied with it.
The San stated that protection
lists had claimed that with free
trade in wool all manufacturing
would cease, but the Sun did not
deign to discuss that part of the
question which the wool growers
and that very large and important
class of producers, the farmers of
the country, are most concerned
about.
Protectionists never claimed that
free wool would shut up all the fac
tories, but that it would reduce the
price of wool and make it unprofit-
able for the American farmers to
grow it.
There were nearly $4,000, 900 of
sheep in the United States one year
ago, but with wool at present prices
the number of sheep will be reduced
in a short time to one half of that
number, and so you see free wool
means the destruction of the Amer
lean focks and consequently the
destruction of vast amount of
property value. Ask the farmers
Of Garrett county, in the facitious
vein of the Sun, "what is the mat
ter with free WOOL and they can
very quickly tell you. The sheep
products of our section under the
Republican protection system were
not to be despised by any means,
but now with free trade-beautiful
consistent, Democratic free trade
what has been the result?
The cheapening process has been
applied, sheep and lambs are but
half Of their former value and wool
but three fifths; but the taxes and
the debts are not reduced, AMI the
poor farmer with a mortgage on his
property and the value of his prod
ucts reduced one half can readily
appreciate the beauties of free wool,
The present law was a contempt
IDLE pusillanimous piece of trickery
throughout. Taking the profits off
of one mans business in order that
another may live and thrive, is
after all protection in its most obi
Gus sepse-protection of one class
at the expense of another.
Under Republican management
the benefits of protection was shared
by all, but under the nOndescript
bill of sale under which the Amer
lean people must do business the
next three or four years, the great
est injustice and the most crimiDa al
and sepseless determinations will
be practiced in favor of some lines
of industries and against others.
The wooden manufacturers were a
little too strong to down; they en-
ployed large numbers of men be-
longing to labor organizations, and
like the sugar trust, the whisky
trust, the coal and iron combines
and other strong interests, it was
not deemed safe to destroy the
manufacturers of woolens, but the
product of the farmers, who are not
generally organized, and who are
believed by the tariff thinkers to not
have sense enough to know what Is
good for them, is selected for sacri-
flee.
Why must the manufacturers
employing imported labor have IS
per cent. protection, while the
farmer, who is generally patriotic,
handwriting American citizen, haye
no protection?
Why must the mine operator
have 40 cents per ton protection on
his coal, while the lumber manu-
facturer with less profit on his
product gets nothing? VIII such a
sensless monstrosity of law be
allowed to live? Only until the
people get chance at it, when it
will be put on the retired list along
with the party that enacted 1t.
Mountain Lake Park,