The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-12-21
AGRICULTURAL.
LETTER FROM HON. HORACE EV.
ERETT,
WINDSOR, Nov. g, 1872

TO the Editors of The Vermont Mercury.
GEN7LEMEN,-There appears 10 be yet
some misunderstanding as 10 amount OF
protection afforded by The Tariff of the past
session 10 the wool growers, which | desire
TO correct, through the columns of your pa.
per. 1t is subject in which the farmers
Of this State are deeply interested, and as
The repeal fine Tariff is 10 be the leading
object of one of the great parties, it is desr.
able they should know the value of the sub.
ject in contest. Having had some agency
in relation TO the protection of the wool
grower, | cannot feel Indifferent 10 the
danger CT the threatened Repeal.
The Tariff Bill as reported by the Com
mittee of Ways and Means laid duty Of 5
per cent on all wool costing 8 cents and
under, per pound, and 80 per cent on all
other wool on the foreign value and charges
ofimportalion including Commissions lex.
cepting insurances.)
The effect of the last provision is TO raise
the duty on wool costing
cents, from to Ga per cent.
9 80 to 271
10 At S,c
By an amendment none but coarse wool
Is admitted under the 5 per cent duty and
by an other amendment the cost is limited
10 cents. So that now none but coarse
wool costing Z cents and under is admitted
under the 5 per cent duty. The term coarse
will exclude McriLo Wool of all grades, and
the staples of native wool: and was intended
particularly TO NEE: the mixed grades i'm.
ported from Buenos Ayres. Another a.
mendment had the same object 1t provi.
ded that if wool of different kinds, was i'm.
ported in different bales, but in the same
price, the advalorem duty should be levied
on The whole according to the value ofthe
best bale. l! had been practced to impor,
kinds Of wool in separate bales, but al the
same price, viz The average price of the
whole. This enabled the importer TO enter
the whole at price under s cents-Bu un-
der these two amendments, all pelting wool
will be excluded from admission under the 5
per cent duty.
The coarse long wool used principally for
blankets and carpets, do not very materially
compete with any portion of our wool. The
short telling woods, though coarse, do in
some degree compete with a portion of
ours. They arc used in the manufacture
satinets and Negro cloths. There are,
however, two considerations to oppose
this competition. The first is that if coarse
long wool was excluded, the manufactures
articles would come in, in their place; and
The second is necessary 10 yield something
10 other interests 10 strengthen our own
We were alarmed at the great importa-
ton of felting wool in lS4l, from Buenos
Ayres, under s cents and free of duty.
The everage prices before referred to and
the low price there, occasioLed by long
blockade, alone enable the importers thus to
import II, aid | repeat my belief that, here
after no wool that our manufacturers will
Use for making felied cloths can tie impor.
ted from that place as low 7 cents:-nor C.
ven under 10 cents.
BY another amendment specific duty
of3 cents per pound was added 10 the ad'
valorem duty,
The effect of all these amendments will
be TO raise the duties on the low priced fine
woods and including most if not all the felt
ing woods from Buenos Ayres as follows: