Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-08-29


1886 10 1897 9,4sO,l95 703276
1888 TO 1889 7,3o8.5l9 $4,000
1889 to 1910 03O3992 675,OO9"
The total is 81 1925 lbs costing 1854 ,G04-or
ouer cents mills per pound Figure each by
itself, and in every instance it will he found that
the cost is over seven cents. By their o1n shoD-
ing then, The most of This COARSE WOOL,
,eh,ch noio comes in FREE, piH be subject 10 a
duty Of three cents pound and thirty per ceni. ad-
udtorm by The neto bill because il costs over.
cents. We ask, then, what truth or honesty
there is in the assertion of the Patriot that no
wool will be imported which will be likely to pny
over l-2 or 3 I-2 mills per pound
| We now take up the assertion that the price of
tho wool, and not the fact whether it is coarse or
fine, controls the duty This is utterly contrary
10 the plain language Of the act, and contrary to
the fact During the past week we have seen
| Henry Stevens, Esq. of Bernet--a farmer who
defended The wool growers at Washington, and
who was on the spot during the discussion and
decision of this wool question. smd !.c.; .ii,n We
have received iu statement Of the facts. they
are briefly these. On his way. hn examined this
South American wool the manner Of importing it
and fitting il for rs3, and learned all that could he
learnt from The importers, the invoices aud the
manufacturers. lie examined lot Of $50 bales
| of Buenos Ayres WOOL aud found il divided into
three kinds, ono thrd as fine us our average
rno after being washed and buried one third rs
good as the wool OF our Irish sheep, aud one third
Coarser then any OF ours. This is Imported with
all the burrs and natural drt-lhe different kinds
in separate bales--bH all h' bales under he same
inroce.
None of ill., car be used until buried and CLEAN
sed, in which operation it loses from 80 10 GO per
cent. in weight; and moreover, the finest is so in
| iured by burning Iuuless done Ivy hand, at cost
of about cents pound that it cannot he used
to advantage for supcrhnu goods Manufacturers
had tried it aud given it up Improbable, except
for ,plor rod 1pItt 40 In
sta,e in which it was imported, was ordered TO he
sold for what it would bring; it had been offered
for IL cents and could not be sold AT TINT !
fact which perfectly demonstrates that this wool,
though fine in lis quality when prepared, will not
answer the same purposes MS ours OF the same
fncness. This is fact equally demonstrated by
the price current the BuenOs Ayres picked bring
ing less than half the price of ours in the same
market Nevertheless yankee ingenuity ney SO
improve machinery to cleanse the fine without
injurng the staple, and we should be protected at
any rate. SO Mr.. Stevens zealously urged so
did our Vermont delegation. Day after day did
they consult together to devise protection against
this cheap fine South .4merican toool; day after day
did they besicge the committee and finally plan
was proposed to accomplish the object. Ii was
proposed 10 put The word COARSE in the bill,
for lie very object of suhlectng tins wool to tho
highest duty OF the bill and agreed TO, every bo-
dy at Washington understanding that TO be both
Tie design and the actual effect Of the provision
So it is understood everywhere, except by the To-
cniocOs in this vicinity and by II correspondent oil
the Boston CulliNaor- may be neighbor
Baldwin himself or even } r. Marson. Next it
was known that hy putting The three Kinds IN one
inuOice the OhOle, coarse well us fine, came III at
the average price. and came in duty Tree, too, by
the existing law: TO meet this, the provso was Of
fered requiring that in ease OF such invoices The
tcioe should he appraised At the value OF the best
and that agreed to- for The very purpose Of pro.
al th..n lny
testimony of the rnnn who himself suggested the
necessity Of protection against this wool, and who
himself advised in framing the amendments, that
this wool aiIftA,line wool no maer what It costs,
Is subjected to The Rfg4eSl duty, ana moreover
that it CANNOT hereafter como n, Sflile chea-
pened in price by an average invoice. Such, too,
is the testimony of members OF Congress from
Vermont and so is il understood by all the depart
mcnS of the government which are 10 execute
this law.
But the farmers are told that This is MT protec-
ton enough. Perhaps this is who to
blame if ii : not Is it the Wings of the North
who asked for more, aud were prevented from
getting it by locojocos of The .Norh lining 10Th The
anti tan ID men Of The South We do not know
whether this gives protection enough or not: nor
can be known until il tried 1t docs give some
thne-aye mucii-nUre than the present law. -
On this South American wool it does give cen,s
Il pound and so per cent. on every dollars worth
more than the existing law; and it does also pre-
vent the cheapenug OF the finer grades by inyoi-
cling these wiki the coarse. in addition, MIR. Ste
vens gives us this fact: the loss Of the Buenos
Ayres wool in weight, 10y cleaning, Is sc per cent
of ours 30; the difference is 81 per cent. il
our favor. Take 100 lbs OF that which completes
with our Irish. The documents show that It's for
egn cost aud charges is Z l2 cents.
IOC lbs at l.2, 81 so
Specific duty, 3 90
Ad valorem duty 9 25
Profit and commission, 90 per cent. so
Burning, cent pound, W
, Sis %
Deduct 81 lbs. for shrinkage more than ours
and we have 60 lbs Mt rifle over % Gems. a
present the cost would he only ii - cents.
5 Take the finest, which cannot under the new
bill be appraised AT less than H. il the official doc
, uments are right.
100 lbs. al III is ST. %
Specific duly, 90
Ad yalorem, 3 30
Profit &c. 2 20
: iurrng 8 cents,' 8 90
S27 80
Deduct loss in weight more than ours, and w
;. have 60 his costing fraction less than 40 cents
pound. BY the present law that is permitted Il
come in precisely as the former, by being nyoIce'
with the coarsesI grade of the same wool, Whlc
does not compete with ours. Allowing for ia
q exDense of burrnu this wool can he sold al II J.