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...Commodities should be produced where they can be most cheaply, but granting that our woolen mills must be maintained, how much protection will afford equality of competition with European producers? (1) Free wool equalizes cost of raw materials. (2) Only other reason for protection is difference in cost of labor (not wages) and the bill more than covers this. (3) If he cannot then compete he should leave the business. Mr. Harter, Ohio. Mr. Warner, N. Y. Mr., Snodgrass, Tenn. Edward D. Page. Am. Cotton and Wool reporter...
...Democratic party is necessarily one of criticism. The Mills Bill was a measure of tariff destruction, not of tariff reform. Notice that in the attempts of the Democrats to get "free trade," free manufactured goods comes first, raw materials second...
Almost everything that goes to make an athletic meeting a success in the ordinary sense of the word was wanting at the meeting yesterday afternoon. To begin with, the weather was unfavorable. The afternoon was cold and raw and the heavy rains for the two days before had left the track in a deplorable condition, - any attempt at fast time being practically out of the question. There were certain regrettable flaws in the conduct of the meeting, - no announcing, for instance, being done at any time. The crowd which gathered to see the games was small - Harvard's delegation...
...serious undertaking to handle, and the large number of entries is a sign of the success which has attended their efforts. We wish that the meeting itself could have gone off rather more smoothly. While realizing the difficulties of managing a large meeting, especially when the weather is so raw that the competitors do not want to stand waiting any longer than possible, we still think that more foresight and better management would have made the waits of the meeting less long. We hope that at the next meeting the Association will put things through with more snap...
Harvard defeated Lovell's nine yesterday, in rather an uninteresting game, 8 to 1. The day was cold and raw, and the attendance was very small...