Word: wool
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stock of London street and driving gloves is good-now much better than it will be after a few weeks. The Society has a good line of knit Scotch wool gloves in various patterns...
...woolen trade followed. Business men could not suddenly comprehend the cause of the situation. They sought help from the government, and a tariff more stringent than any of its predecessors-the tariff of 1868, was enacted. That tariff is now twenty-two years old, and as a wool dealer, Mr. Garrison did not hesitate to affirm that it is a disappointment...
...tariff has not built up the wool growing industry. The United States cannot grow all grades of wool. The finer grades of wool must be imported, and unless they are imported we must be contented with an inferior quality of cloth. The bulk of the wool grown here finds its greatest value when mixed with foreign wool; but since the tariff practically prevents our importing foreign wool, we are compelled to import the best fabrics from abroad, and the wool growing industry languishes. The wool grower who procured the tariff failed to procure protection...
...tariff has not enhanced the price of raw produc or of the manufactured article. Neither the wool grower nor the manufacturer has been benefitted by the tariff; and certainly the consumer has not, for he has been compelled to assume the burden of an indirect tax which the manufacturer lays upon him to himself escape injury from the tariff...
...falling off in the woolen industry since the war. In only one line has it grown, and that is in the worsted trade. That branch has been built up, not by the tariff, but by skill and industry. Indirectly the tariff has assisted, because it does not tax the wool used in this industry so heavily as it does other grades of wool...