Rags For Americans

How our high tariff on wool operates toward f orciag us to wear Europe's rags, old clothee and hair may be seen froni a recent Engüsh letter in The American Wool Reporr. The writer, in givins; the exports from London to American cities for ths first week in February, notes that the shipments to Boston were 290,000 pounds of wool and 330 tons (716,800 ponnds) of rags, and that 1,000 bales of rags were in transit. To Philadelphia there were no exports "except 150 bales of cow hair in transit." To Baltimore there vere 24 tons (53,760 pounds) of rags. From Liverpool to Philadelphia 134 bales of wool, 121 bales of goat hair and 116 bales of cow hair were exported. If we had free wool there would be less occasion to bny Europe's rags to make shoddy clothes for so-called "free American citiaens."