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over had an ad
mirer more fervid or a guardian more
protective than the Hon. William Law
rence , formerly an inmate of congress
from Ohio , no mortal eye has seen and
no human ear heard him. Mr. Law
rence is now president of the National
Wool Growers' Association. Ho dis
tinguished himself and made luminous
his knowledge of farming and wool
gathering , as well as wool-growing ,
some years ago by recommending a
cross of the hydraulic ram with the
Southdown ewe.
His most recent fulmination for pro
tection is thus commented iipon in the
New York Evening Post of January (5. (
ISO ! ) :
" 'The vile , iniquitous , and unjust dis
crimination made by the Dingley law. '
Pause a moment , excited protectionist
reader , until you learn who sa3Ts this.
It is not some infuriated foreigner , no
maddened free-trader , but a rock-ribbed
protectionist , none other than the Hon.
William Lawrence of Ohio , president of
the National Wool-Growers' Associa
tion. He is out , as we knew he would
be in time , furiously denouncing 'the
low , inadequate Dingley wool tariff. '
How does he prove that it is too low ?
Why , by the fact that carpet wools
continue to be imported , and that 'it
is a mockery , a delusion , to talk of
prosperity for wool-growers unless
prices are increased. ' As long as a
pound of wool is imported Lawrence
will not cease to rage for higher duties.
As long as fine medium defective do
mestic territory and pulled scoured sells
for only 40 to 42 cents , Lawrence will be
at his post. He threatens the republi
can party with ruin ; he is going ever
lastingly to smash the manufacturers ;
he is going to deluge the country with
free silver , unless the solemn pledge of
the St. Louis platform to give 'full and
adequate" protection to the wool industry
be at once redeemed. Such are the
pleasing ways of Gentle Shepherd Wil
liam. They are an old story now. Ho
always takes a republican congress by
the throat , forces it to give him a wool
tariff , which he vows is just the thing ,
only to be denouncing it with fury a
twelvemonth later , and calling for
doubled rates on pain of scuttling the
party ship.
While the roaring Ohio sheep is thus
going about seeking whom he may de
vour , the blessed Diugloy wool tariff is
also getting a banging from the organ
of the wool manufacturers. 'The Dis
honest Wool Duties' is the title of an
able article in our innocent but valued
contemporary , The Wool and Cotton
Reporter. It reveals a terrible state of
things in our purest and most high-
minded protectionist circles. It seems
that 'when the present Diugley tariff
law was framed , ' a wicked woollen
manufacturer , one William Whitman
( who has since broken the market by
dumping a lot of his goods upon it at
low prices ) , employed'his lobbyist , S.
N. D. North , ' to 'secure the adoption
of certain phraseology in Whitman's
interest as usual. ' This is painful read
ing to us. We , in our simplicity , had
thought of Mr. North only as an emi
nent wool expert and secretary of the
Wool Manufacturers' Association. Is it
true that he was all the while lobbying
certain phraseology into the Dingley
bill ? The Reporter asserts it roundly ,
and even names the 'honorarium' of
$5,000 which he took for the job , on the
specious plea that he 'needed it to edu
cate his children. ' In fact , in the bit
terness of its soul it declares that 'there
has not been an honest schedule of wool
and woollen duties since 1882 , ' all on
account of the wicked Whitman and
his lobbyist North. Oh , Wool , as
Madame Roland said , how many crimes
have been committed in thy name ! "
AKTJFICIAI , KYKS.
The Lancet publishes some curious
facts with regard to the number of false
eyes which are turned out annually by
different factories in Germany and
France. The total of these ornamental
appendages made in the German em
pire is said to amount to the enormous
total of two millions yearly ; and. , at the
same time , one French factor/ , out of
many , makes three hundred thousand
in the same period. But we must not
jump to the conclusion that these figures
indicate in any way the number of hu
man beings who have been deprived of
the sight of one eye , for the artificial
eyes include those used by wax-figure
makers , by taxidermists , and even by
the doll manufacturers. It is note
worthy that the totally blind never wear
false eyes. The person who has been
deprived of the sight of one eye sees his
disfigurement whenever he looks into a
glass , and his sesthetic sense or per
haps his vanity leads him to make
good the deficiency in the best way ha
can. In the case of the wholly blind
such feelings die out , or are submerged
in the immensity of their loss. Cham
ber's Journal.
In another place
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THE CONSERVA
TIVE mention is made of our important ,
inestimable , and enduring interest as a
people in the cultivation of winter
wheat in this state. It is not many
years ago that this great food-grain was
relegated to the rear by our farmers , and
the judgment was that , in the absence
of snow for protection of the seed
against the natural elements of wind
and storm , winter wheat could not be
raised here. It is only about five years
since that great promoter of population
and progress , with George W. Holdrege
in the lead , the B. & M. railway , under
took , of that able manager's own per
sonal motion , the promotion of experi
ments at points along its lines distant
from each other to make practical tests
of winter wheat production. It was
confidently believed by Manager Hold-
rego that , by using good seed and sowing
deep by drill , this great thing might bo
done. With characteristic energy , he
sought and obtained the cooperation of
responsible farmers in making the ex
periment. It is believed that Mr. Hold
rege furnished seed in many instances
for the purpose. Assistant General
Passenger Agent Smith warmed up the
telegraph lines and mails with a lively
correspondence , and was charged with
the work of giving general direction to
the undertaking. A meeting of farmers
ors , railway managers , and others , was
held at Lincoln for a better discussion
and understanding , and the work went
forward to what has finally resulted in
proving Nebraska to be rapidly rising to
the distinction of being one of the lead
ing states for winter wheat production
in the Union.
The writer once heard the late Mr.
Jay Gould say that the day would not bo
so very long in coming when the neces
sities of the bread-consuming millions
would cause the exhausted wheat-lands
from the Hudson river westward to be
restored by science to their old office to
supply the world's demand for bread ,
upon the well-known principle that
western soils for wheat-culture are be
ing exhausted. Unless a good many
signs fail , the granite wash from the
Rock } ' mountains by which our vast
plains have been enriched with this
superior pabulum for wheat of the finest
quality , postpones Mr. Gould's day of
necessity to a very remote period.
The legislators
UKAi.iHJKKK.
now doing busi
ness at Lincoln and at other state capi
tals , too , for that matter , should read
and remember this much , if no more , of
Burke :
"People crushed by laws , have no
hopes but from power. If laws are their
enemies , they will be enemies to the
laws ; and those who have much to hope
and nothing to lose will always be dan
gerous , more or less. "
In Nebraska we have a number of
laws which are enemies of the people
and advantageous only to political para
sites. All those laws which provide
public money for unnecessary officials
ought to be abolished. All those laws
which make taxes taken from the many
mere emoluments and annuities for the
few , who perform as philanthropists on
various boards like that of transporta
tion , oil inspection , agriculture and horticulture
ticulture , should bo wiped off the stat
utes.
The Scientific American says : "the
United States are. "
