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

For cent wool three and helC mills! 5 per
cent on all wool costing cents aud under cast it,
REMEMBER, That The cost OF the wool and not
It's fneness. must govern The duty. So, you will
see Col. Benton understands it, by his remarks
published in the Patriot two weeks since.
Now the entire fasehood of this is proved not
only by the language of the bill but even by Ben
ton himselii Benton himself showed that the av-
erage cost Of the wool, imported free under cts.,
was actually seuen cents, and the bill provides
that not single pound, even Of coarse wool, can
be admitted At less than cents pound aud 80
per CENT if costing over seven. Yet here does
the Patriot talk of | l-2 to 3 q m,is rs the on
ly duty which is imposed ION ALL WOOL
tchich ooud be Hkeiy 10 be imported under The reio-
ed Tariff" To prop up this monsrous fraud
upon lis readers another lie is told Of Il still more
aggrnvaled character. Ills lie, too, clothed in
the scmblance Of oGcial authority The assertion
is that no roool costing orer cents is mporiedi-
Read
"Ihe Warchman and Culcdonian are accusing
us of deception on the Tariff, alleging that we
have desiguedly concealed the fact that duty Of
80 per cent. aud 3 cents per h. is imposed on all
wool imported costing cents aud over. Now,
ire haze attempted IL conceal such fact, but on
inc ThIy, nave sthtoO
tended that IL was matter of no sort OF lmpor-
lance 10 the farmers of Vermont, FOR THE
PLAIN REASON THAT NO SUCH WOOL
! is IMPORTED A reference TO few lacts
drawn from the reports Of The Secretary Of The
| Treasury, cannot lail to convince every candid
man facts which show conclusivey that the i'm
purtqtiun of wool subject TO the 30 per cent duty
| has been running down for Twelve years, and that
there is no report or information olany kind show
ing that single dolldr's tcorh Of such ,oooL tcds
! imported IN le4l."
| Here follows table showing that from over
five millions OF lbs. in 1881 the quantity of i'm
ported wool costing oyer cents has been gradu-
ally ,edsced to 574,748 in 1910. Then sOys the
Patriot
"From 1910 to le4l there is no report of any
toooi imported costing orer cents, AND HENCE
! THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE WAS
i NOME
Mark that language It's import, It's intention, !.
10 convey The Impression thSt-ihere IS the uslin
report for 1871, tut that says nothing about wee
and ibis is purposely Iugged in to subslanliate
the lie of The Patriot that pool costing oper
cents is imported! Now mark how plain tale
will expcse the dishonest tricks of locofoco lead
ers. - and --, ocofoco candidates al this
election hunted up the public documents Tor tn,
Patriot. They found the reports down to 1910
all showing that large quantities OF this wool hdl
been annually imported, and that there had beer
an actual increase Of The importntions Of 1910 ove
the preceding year. But the annual report of 1871
had mol been rcceired. What ought they TO have
done, then? Should they not have told the pub
lie that they had found no report al all, and they
could not therefore tell the amount imported? p
But instead OF that, they directly convey The i'm
preston that there lUas no such iCoo imported, SO
the Patriot roundly aaserts, and thus the as
sertion goes to the wool growers, apparently sus
tanned by the official documents that no fine 1000
ipds imported in lS4l. This is done, be it rcmem
bered without having any report for the year 1874
when they we're utterly ignorant whether there
were any mporlaons or nOt-bnt s,ill, when al
the preceding reports show that there always haC
been such importntions down TO 1910 Perhap
these conspirators thought they would escape un
detech.d-- ut least until after election but they ar
mistaken. We have tho FACTS from the book
Of the Treasury Department, aud here we Civ
them Be i, remembered that these conspirator
tell the people that tool costing Orer cents
imported. Now mark how we prove the lie upo
them, from the official returns in the Treasury De
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