The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-05-31


IN the community, and from all parts of our
country, warmly recommending that our ma,
tional industry be protected by Congress, ana
the tide of popularity strongly setting in favor
of the protecting policy, the scales have ia'eiy
dropped from the eyes of many oil the Loco
Foco editors; and they now pretend TO great
zeal in favor of the system. II they arc SIM
ccre ipstead of abusing the wings, those edi-
tors had better admonish their friends In Con-
sress to give hearty support to the system
and although late, both the Wings and the
country generally, will thank them for their
aid in place where it is likely to be of some
service. If they will pursue this course, 1, for
one, shall believe well to tho cause but. on
The reverse, if they attempt TO sow discord be-
tween the wool grower and manufacturer, eve
~ sensible man must conclude that their object
is TO PROSTATE the system, by means of those
divisions. Every one who knows anything OF
the matter, knows; that our manufactures are
the only purchasers of our wool; and 1t is e.
qually we'll known that if our manufacturers
are not fairly protected against foreign compe-
tition, cheapened by the pauper labor of Eu-
rope, they cannot go on, and consequently
that ohr wool growers must lose their only
market. Was 500 per cent. duty laid on the
Importation of foreign wool, it would be of no
service TO the American wool grswer, unless
such protection is given to the American man.
ufacturcr as will enable him to purchase it.
Does the editor of the Patriot, or his quondam
correspondent, think that wool growers of Vt.
are so utterly ignorant cf the day, as TO believe
that the Wings in Congress are going TO sa-
crifice their interests 10 the interests of the
manufacturers The facts have already sta
ted clearly proves the contrary.
But LET US look at it in another point of view.
The state of Vermont sends five Wing mem
bers TO Congress, who have battled manfuly
during the whole session il favor Of a protec-
ting Tariff; the neighboring state of New
Hampshire, from whence theVermont Patriot
originated, sends Loco Foco members, who
have as warmly and as decidedly struggled a.
gainst the protection ofany and every branch
Of American industry; and yet the Patriot
and his correspondent would have us believe,
that these wolves in sleeps clothing are
the only true friends Of the American wool
grower.
The article begins in deception and ends in
palpable falsehood. 1t states that mcrino wool
in Spain costs only 20 cents. This is untrue
to begin with. The ordinary price of me.
rino wool, was TO twelve rails vellons per lb.
"a rial Weldon being five cents, or 90 rails vel
Ions to the dollar.) In the present situation of
Spain it may now be somewhat lower it prob.
ably may be as low as eight, possibly seven or
six rails Weldon per h., (say from thirty to forty
cents But TO show the falsehood of his as
sertion, that the interest of the wool grower
has been sacrificed to the manufacturer, we will
take his own price of twenty cents; four cents
specific duty per Id. on twenty cents cost will
amount to twenty per cent adyalorem duty, add
to which the twenty six per cent. advalorem
duty, as reported, will make the duty on wool
costing twenty cents per pound, forty-six per
cent. ad valorem. Now the duty recommen.
ded on foreign wooden manufactures by same
report was only forty per cent SO we see that
ny taking the statement of this veracious wri-
ter, the wool grower is better protected by 6
per cent, than is the manufacturer, without
including the advalorem duty on the charges,
which, from its bulk. will be greater on woOl
than on woolens. But if his whole statement
Is taken, it makes more against his assertion-
Ills calculation is, that wool which costs twen-
~ cents in Spain, will be subject to twelve
and half cents per pound in addition. being
Tor the freight, &C., specific duty of four cents
per pound, and 26 per cent. ad valorem; that
Is, meruo wool which costs 20 cents per pound
iii Spain, with all charges included, will cost
IN our country 80 2 10 cents per pound, which,
unless my arithmetic deceives me, is, 81 per
cent upon the cost, actually 81 per cent more
than the duty reported on manufactures. As
regards the wool costing eight cents or under, !
me writer displays gross ignorance, or palpa. !
bic intention to deceive. Woods are divided
INTO two classes, the long or combing woods,
and the short or fulling wool the foreign
woods imported under the minimum duty are
all coarse, long woods, and do not come in
competition with our own wool. This class
of wool is imported from Smyrna, from NIGGA.
dore, from Buenos Ayres and the other South
american States, and commonly costs from
four to eight cents per pound, and is used for
making negro cloths, coarse baize, bookings,
duffels, blankets and other unfued wooIens
whereas our woods, the Spanish and Saxorfy,
are only fitted for fulled cloths, and are always
used for fabrics. The expense of maintaining
these large, coarse wooded sheep, is pound for
pound of the respective carcases, as great as
for the ma intenance of the fine wooded sheen;
and as the long woolsed sheep do not produce
much wool, weight of the carcass, as do the
small fuing woolled sheep, never can be in
PRODUCED into country where they are obliged
to dryf odder the sheep five months in the year;
so that the expediency ofimporting these kind
IF woods or not, involves the question of manu-.
acturing coarse woolle ms ourselves, or of de-
, ending upon foreign countries for those coarse
abrics. These coarse woods are mostly paid
70 in the productions of our soil; and if we
them ourselves, the profit of man.
lfacturing is received by our own citizens;
'ut, if we prohibit them by high duty, they
must necessarily be purchased of foreigners,
and we must then buy them in a manufactur.
ed state, and in addition, pay the foreigner The
cost of manufacturing.