The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-07-19

Ter perusing q column oil wha' iney eNee"
the true doctrine, the wings cannot bear 10
be drugged with two columns of locoioco-
ism. and so pice rersa with the locos, except
in the proportion. LIE! the editors OF Inc
vermonter follow out these popular ind'ca
,ions. and publish either good wing or
genuine locofoco paper, and their success
would be much more alarming TO the editor
of the PEOPLES Press than Tho periodical o.
verfowings OF their bilious illusions upon
his talents and standing as the oracle OF the
whie party in the County of Addison. And
10 oil this, should these peacock gentlemen
add their high standing as members Of The
bar Of the Addison County court, which
they say we havC never enjoyed, and without
which, in their estimation, no man is quali>
fed for any of the various fields of useful
ness in community, their triumph would
doubtless be complete. And then, ehep! for
Harvey Bell : the Hon. Harvey Bell. that
brilliant star of coon whiegery, who is sup
porting those dovelike specimens Of Polili-
cal superiority. Peter Starr and Harvey
Munsill, and even goes for that contemplate
''Icelandic scholar, George P. Marsh. and
who has long been endeavoripg TO provoke
Us TO notice him in the very nice columns o'
the Vorgenaes Ve.monier; that ego,isiical,
self.conslitu,ed uumpeter upon the walls Of
federal Israel, such a roxious insect as
fatiens most perfectly where there is a pro-
fusioL OF carrion, and whom nothing but an
ti-masonry and the hard cider days of 1889
and 1910 could have rolled up TO the sur.
face,' will shrink into his own ra!ive insig.
ni6cance,' and the Vergennes Vcrmon,er
will take The place OF the detes,ible People s
Press as the organ of tho whig party in Ad.
olson County. And oh, oh, oh. then ''what
large debt Of gratitude will the people owe
10 the sparkling genluses Of The Vermont er
for the brilliant flood of light, which they
will be constantly emitting upon their be
nighted intelects through its columns -
Let not the editors of the Vermonter sta rte
We use the language of your own pnblica.
ton, which we acknowledge as discourieous
as the basest malignity could make it. We
should otherwise despise ourselves for ep-
plying such brainless ribaidry to wantonly
wound the feelings of the meanest miscreant
in the land. But it is even handed Justice
TO commend the poisoned chaIice to your
own lips.
But VIVA: has just now particularly whelm-
ned up the naturally bilious siumachs, and
locofoco propensities of these Vermon,ers,
and subjected US TO the black tide of their
nauseuting abuse, is jurisprudence in dar>
graph in the True Democrat, in which the
productions of The Weybridge Farmer, op-
posed to the present Tariff are urged in fa-
yor Of his election as Senator IN the County
of Addison, and which in our opinion con-
stiluted no claim 10 the office. Indeed we
expressed the conviction that instead ofcon-
siituting him defender of the agricultural
interest, he was virtually its bitter, ST foe for
thus laborirg TO bring the present Tariff
Into disrepute, altho' perhaps unconscious
of the mischief his publications were calcu>
lated 10 in(lict upon the prosperity of the
country. This position we shall b. no
means relinquish, as every day is develop
ing the salutary operations Of the Tariff up.
on the business prosperity of the country
By the publication of Mr.. Slade last week
he great error Of Mr.. Jeweit in Insisting
that the importation of coarse wool was
checked by the Tariff on that article is made
as apparent as The MONDAY sun. Leaving
all theorising to Mr.. Jewett, experience is
the only true test. In 1910 before lbe ex-
isience Of The present Tariff, according TO
Mr.. Jewett's own statement, the amount of
foreign coarse WOOL imported was IA mill
lions. 10 ls41 this amour, did no, much
exceed 10 millions. But now lei every
wool grower look to tie results of 1912, and
see whether Congress has failed in secur.
ing protection TO the wool growing interest.
From statement which, as Mr.. Slade as.
serts in our las: paper. he has just received
from the Register Of the Treasury. i, ap>
pears that during the first h:-lf oflhe present
fiscal year, which commenced one month
after the present Tariff went into operation !!
here was imported
Wool costing 7 cts. or under, 1868
Wool costing over 7 cents, 1882
Which being doubled for the entire year
will stand as follows:
Wool costing els. or under, l,762,7S6
Wool costing over cents, 35l.924