Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-06-20


may he differently valued in different ports. In
reply to this, have already or twice remark
ef that owing to the facility of our communca-
non between one section Of the country and nn-
other, the Same kinds OF goods will rarely for
month together he ten per cent higher in part
IMAM III another, md consequently the difference
oil the duties assessed cannot be more Than from
one TO five per cent, between one port and anoth.
err But is 1t not better and wiser to risk this ine-
quality than to continue to expose ourselves to
the well known frauds Of from thirty to fftv per
cent, which have been practiced by means of the
foreign valuation and which makes the difference
in the duties charged between New York and
those ports where the goods have been fairly Gu
tered, five times great? But you state that ma
ny letters have been received from manufacture
ers against the home valuation this, to me, is
incomprehensble, because, in the reports Of all
the public meetings that have been held upon the
question, where the method of assessing the du-
ties has been mentioned, specific duties, or the
home valuation and cash payments, have been
! recommended. Perhaps Messrs H. 8. md l..
with their immense capital and the high state Of
perfection to which they have attained in their
manufacturing operations, may not feel the want
of protection, provided they can buy their wool
| from the American farmer as low or lower than
the Spanish or Saxon and other German woods
ran be Sold and this may be the case with three
or four or five other establishments in The United
States
witnessed this kind OF collision between the wool
Egrower and manufacturer. Sometimes the wool
grower has complained that the manufacturer has
been better protected than himself, but oiener the
manufacturer has grudgingy conceded the nee
essary protection to The wool grower. 1t is, how
ever short sighted policy in both. If the manu-
tacturer is not fairly protected, the wool grower
cannot find n market for his wool; aud if, from
a want of protection, the wool grower cannot
make a moderate profit from raising wool, he
will give up breeding sheep and leave the manu-
lactnrer TO depend upon the importation of
the raw material from foreign countries. hat
must be the consequence England, always
jealous of her manufacturing industry, and partc-
uary of such rivals are, would profit 10y
her contiguny and her immense capital by send
ing to Spain to buy up all the fine wool there,
and to Saxony and the German States to pur-
chase up their fine wool, and by an order in
council would prohibit The expectation Of fine
wool from Australia to any other than The moth
Ter country and then what would become of our
manufacturers without any raw material to ope-
rate with !? When too late, they become convinc-
ed of their short sighted policy of placing it in
the power of SO powerful a rival to deprive them
of their raw material. 1t was by prohibiting tho
exploration of wool frcm England to Flanders
that Edward Ill. and his successors, crippled
their manufactures. Sheep cannot be raised IN a
day. we have already been between thirty and
forty years raising up our present flocks, and be-
!
factories would be half rotted down. Again:
suppose, by our false policy we destroy the WOOL
growing business and our manufacturing INDUS
uy--for when one is destroyed the other must he
! northumberland country was involved in
| war, what is TO be the consequence? why, as
that war is most likely to be with England from
our numerous causes of collision, we shall be ob
ged to depend upon our enemy for a large potion
of woolen goods, necessary 10 supply the con-
sumption of our people, to clothe our army and
navy, and blankets, &c. for The use of both. The
gold and silver in our country must be exported
to pay for those goods which were surrepiousIy
or crcuitnusly Obtained, as was the case during
The war of from 1919 to 1915. Thus we weaken
ourselves by sending out of the country our gold
aud silver to pay for those necessaries, ~ strength
en- our enemy by furnishing to him the slnews of
war, TO be employed by another Admiral Cock
burn in scientifically burning down the planters
houses on the Potomac and the coast of the Ches.
tapeake and 10 a successor OF General Ross to
! burn down the Capitol over the heads of tho
members of Congress, if they do not anticipate
his coming by fleeing to the Blue Ridge. What
enabled England to continue the twenty two years
war, from 1903 TO 1915, without distress TO the
Government or to the subecls' Why, by levy
ing contributions on all the European nations
through the instrumenality of her manufactures,
which .har necessities compelled them to take
from her, they furnished her with the snews of
war, which she used to destroy their commerce,
and to capture or destroy their naves, and finally
| to beat the greatest captain and to overturn the
most colossal military power the world ever saw.
| If with her breed we had imported her nation
al wisdom and had now sound sense to follow the
policy of which, for 500 years. she has afforded
us example, we not only should free ourselves
from her leading strings, but IN less than half
century, become more powerful than Great Brit
ain now is. England almost touches France aud
Germany, in which countries, for more than u
century and half, the wages Of labor, upon an
average, have not been over quarter to ope-thlrd
! 80 high as paid in England. In France, the pop
ulation is ingenious and industrious; but England
wisely prohibited their cheap labor from COM
! ing in competition with her Geafer labor and,
10y a steady perseverance in this policy has aIain-
ed her present pre- eminence. Germany and
! France, and most of the other States IN Europe,
are now playing her own game against her 10
their national profit and 10 the grea, advantage Of
their subjects, whilst we, good souls, are preaching
upon the text of free trade, and, during our hom-
lilies in and Out of Congress- are allowing our
country TO go 10 wreck aud ruin. Can we expect
that our dear labor can compete with the cheap
labor of France, of Germany, OF Holland, or OF
England? Yet we are weighing with pair of
grain scales the measure of our protection. SAX
ony, Bohemia, Moravia, liungaria, Austria ana
the other German States are now hlling up win
sheen and WOODEN manufactures and IN Bohemia,
Moravia, and Hungarla, labor Is very cheap ana
the population is sparse, and Tho lands well hted
for the breeding of sheep: so that from thence
Find The other German States we may calculate
upon wool being sent in considerable quantities to
compete with our own, unless iair protection is
given TO woods ofAnercan growth. The conse-
quence Of destroying our own weol growing bu-
siness, have already suggested AT the present
prices of labor, and Our long winters combined,
we cannot raise the telling woods below 40 cents
for the inferior, and 60 for the best quality and
as to growing coarse woods in this country, it is
totally out the question, because a coarse wool
led sheep will consume h. weight for H. weight
of tho carcase, as much fodder as a inner ""ol'ea
sheen. Az fey of that breed will yield rs much
wool in proportion 10 the weight Of their carcase
as the finer woolled sheep do we shall be obliged
10 ;mnor, from Smyrna, from Mogadore, from
Buenos Ayres and the other South American
States all the coarse woods needed for negro
cloths and other coarse fabrics These woods
commonly, in their dirty state, cost from to 8