Excerpt from Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, 1913, Vol. 43 It is to be noted, in passing, that the woolen industry is essentially, and in a very unusual degree, a legitimate busi ness. Its product is among the prime necessaries of life, food alone outranking it in natural importance, -and this reason, if no other, should induce conservation of an existing instrumentality that can Stipply, without dependence upon foreign sources, all the woolen clothing required by the country either in its civil life or under the exigencies of military defence. But in another sense the woolen industry claims its place among the legitimate businesses of the people, for it was brought into existence in consequence of various Federal laws enacted for the express purpose of developing that business In this country. Its existence has been possible only because of such laws, and the operations and conduct of the business have been in strict conformity with law, the domestic woolen trade having been in an unusual degree free from complaint of law-breaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.