Free Wool--how It Works In Practice

A college processor recently said : The prospects of free wool lias reduced the price oí wool, and now I will get cheaper clothing. The free wool policy Oi (Jrover Cleve'nnd suits me. Just then Jiis mail came with tliree letters from residents of as many different states, each saying in substance : I liad añade arrangements to send one of my sons -and one.of my daughters .to college in whicli you ara a professor, but owing to the low price of wool, I will not be able to do so. If free wool comes, the price will not mr ane for the labor of producing wool. My lands are not adapted to anything but the production of wool and mutton, and with free wool they will be of substantial y no valué. Tliis will render it irnpossible for me Wen in the future to hope to be able to patronize your college. The professor on reflection said : This free wool will consUteraidy reducé the number of our students. 1 see that my salary will be reduced for two reasons : 1, The reductions in the number of students will render ii necessary, and 2, under a tarlff for revenue only all prices for labor and other services will go clown, and my salary with them. And, besides, the resources of otters, in addition to wool growers, will be reduced and with that students will come to us. The free wool and low tarlff party 'is no longr my ])arty- it must be dei'eated. Scables occupet cxtiemuni. Free wool will soon bring free trade, and this is ruin to our college. In frée wool I can now see, in the language of Shakespeare, Shipwrecking storms and direful thuuders break. The poet truly has said : God ncver made an independent man : 'Twouïd jar t)ie concord of hls general plan. The Inquiry now comes home to me: '■What Bhall it profit a college pro'essor if he gains the low prices of the world, yet loses his own salary ?" "Thus endeth the first lesson." Many a laboror who voted for free trade in 1892 and has since lost bis wages is asking the same question.