The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-08-02
AGRICULTURAL.
WOOL AND WOOLENS.

II has been a standing accusation against
the New Tariff that it did not sufficiently
protect The Wool growers of this country
Because peculiar kind Of coarse Wool, nei.
Their grown nor rivaled in this Country, was
admitted at low duty, it has been rouhdly
asserted that Foreign Wool was admitted
al little or no duty. and the Manufacturer
alone protected. Now the fact is very diff.
fcrent from this. The New Tariff is more
stringent against the importation of Wool
Than any former one and, although the i'm
poriaiion OF the very coarsest and poorest
Wool for negro cloths, &C., is permitted at
very low duty. yet the total Importation
Of Wool has been far less since this Tariff
was adopted than 10 any previous correspon.
ding period for many years.
But again: While Wooden fabrics are
lower now, than they were before, Hool has
ARRANGED tpenty, fire per cent. This is adj
mitted by the Journal of Commerce. which.
an admitting, undertakes 10 confuse and
sneee down the facts. as follows:
WooL.-Among the articles which feel
the impulse Of prosperity is Wool. very
large proportion of the new clip has been
bought up. and during the operation prices
have advanced FIVE 10 seven cents pound,
or something like twenty five per cent on
the prices of The spring. Certainly this high
Tariff of ours is great thing for the coun
try. To b. sure, tho Tariff men bray that
it hns made every. thing cheaper but they
only mean manufactured good,-not Wool
for to have Tariff make Wool cheaper
would displease the farmers; and it is plain
that it cannot be so, for Wool is really rising.
1t took nearly year for the Tariff TO get
quite hold of The Wool but as soon as its
influences were fairly felt, we see the COLI
sequences. The fact is, that Wool has been
cheaper in this country than in Europe; and
as the people of Europe only ship 10 this
country the odds and ends Of things,
after The markets are regularly supplied,
caring nothing for prices, and rather in fact
preferring 10 sell cheap for the sake OF kill.
ing our sheep, nothing but the Tariff has
prevented u, from having Wool given TO US,
which would have been utter ruin. But 10
be more sober; 1t is Tot worth while TO ex-
ppct that even the Tariff will raise Wool 10
The prices which it has borne IN times pass.
The boundess West is upou US in tais. as
in Oil, Lead, Copper. Provisions and Flour.
Wool can be grown cheaper on prairies at
dollar and a quarter an acre, than on East
ern hills ., ten dolars, or meadows. at fifty
or hundred. We shall grow Wool, as we
fat Pork. dig Lead, and as we shall grow
Hemp for the world. A Tariff TO protect
US against the West is what the farmers
want. The enemy is behind U.s."
The Journal is welcome to its dull jokes
and its poor sophisms, since it admits the es-
sential facts. That Tariff requires some
time to make itself felt in business of the
country-that Wool cannot raise to the high
rates it once bore, since sheep are cheaply
grown on the great prairies on the West and
South West, and money is less abundant and
more valuable than formerly-and that the
natural effect of efficient Protection is Il y
bringing the farmer and manufacturer near
er each other, and thus simplifying and
cheapening their exchanges of products-to
raise the price of Agricultural staples, and
at the same time reduce that of Manufacture
ed fabrics-al this is well understood by the
readers Of the Tribune. If the Journal of
Commerce has any that it can confuse or
stultify by its half-facts and small witticisms,
let if 60 ahead IN. Y. Tribune.