A Blow At Shoddy

There is one feature of the wool schedule in the new tariff bill that will commemd itself to flock masters, woolen manufacturera and consumers, and that is the hipth duty imposed on noils, shodtly and waste. If there is anything upon which. in the interest of both producer and consumer, a prohibitory tariff should be levied, it is this unclean material for flimsy textiles. The duty on this jrrade of wool and refuse under the McKinley law was :ïO cents per pound, and on woolen rass 10 cents per pound. In the fiscal year 1S92, under this tariff. the importa tions amounted to only 87,825 lbs., and in 1S94 they were only 47,522 lbsThe Wilson bill adinitted the stuff free and in 1S0G the iniports arose to 18,71,109 lbs., or nearly four hundred times as rnuch as in 1894. One pound of noils displaces in manufacture about two and one-half pounds of good wool, making a proportionate loss to wool growers. The Dinsley bill restores the duty to the McKinley rate, and that means good-bye to shoddy.