Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-08-25

Doubling the amount for the mportations of
the entire year, and they will stand as fol-
lows
Wool costing cents or un-
der, I,762,730 pounds.
Wool costing over cents, 35l,02l
Now compare this with the importations of
the year ending September 30, 1912, which
we're as follows
Wool costing 8 cents, or I'M
der, lO,53s,o9S pounds.
Wool costing over 8 cents 751,3S1 4"
Showing a falling off in the importation of
wool this year, of 0l76,622 pounds And who
will doubt that this is the legitimate result of
imposing duty on the foreign article. This
reduction in the quantity imported, has caused
demand for that which is homegrown, and an
advance in the price, and the American wool
grower now finds ready sale for his wool, and
obtains a fair compensation for his industry
The interest thus benefited is large, and the
facts stated cannot be controverted-and yet
there are presses which, because the tariff was
Wing measure, will deny that any good has
resulted from its operations
+. | should like to hear what Squire Smith
would say this
s. Well, will give you the paper, and you
may take it home end read it to him. But there
is another thing | can tell you. When | was
in New York last fall, my cousin Goodwin, who
is in the Custom House, took me to see large
ship load of wheat which had just arrived from
from Chill, in South America. The captain said
the ship was Of 600 tons burthen, and she was
chock full of as handsome wheat as ever saw.
lie said it was delivered on ship board at FIFTY
CENTS bushel, and that if wheat had been
worth nine shillings when she reached New
York, it would have been handsome spec.-
But as wheat was then only worth about 90
cents, and the duty being % cents bushe it
only did little more than pay the freight.
f. Why did not know that there was any
duty on wheat-why that is protecting farmers
very clearly.
S. Yes, and if it was not for that duty wheat
could be brought here from from Chill and sold
! at handsome profit for SO or 80 cents BUSH
ell, although the voyage is very long one
And it would also come from Europe from the
| shores of the Baltic and the Mediterranean,
where its price seldom rises higher than six
| shillings bushe
+. Well, well, this beats all hollow! Faith
er was about right, | guess, after all. And
when | get home | reckon | shall shut up
Squire Smiths mouth, though know he will
say its all Wing lie.
S. Yes, know Squire, though he has been
as he says, always Democratic has chang
Gu HIS pTlllCpleS anu tuTHcu MS coat AT least q
dozen times. He was for Crawford, for Ad-
ans, and for Jackson. When he was Craw-
ford man, he insisted that Adams and Jackson
were blue-light federalists and had not STEEL
ing in common with the democratic party .
when he got round to Adams, why, then he be-
gan to recollect than he was Democrat since
he had voted for he embargo, and had been in
| Madison's and Monroes cabinet, but old Jack
son he said was at " an Unreasonable distance
from the Presidency, and that his habits were
entirely too summary for civil magistrate'
When the party left Adams and took up Jack
son, then he turned again, and vowed that Adj
ans and Henry Clay were both Federalists
though during the war; and up to that time, he
had agreed with Col. Young and others of the
party, that Henry Clay, of Kentucky, was the
leader of the Democracy. And since then he
has gone ronnd twice as often as the weather.
cock on the old stceplc yonder,which only turns
once year--when the sexton goes up to oil il
and set it right
| F. Thank you for the rap, for though i,
comes over the Squire shoulders know some
of it was meant for me. And will be honest
and confess it was not only well laid on but
well deserved. And il wha. you tell me abou,
the Tariff proves to be true, will try and &c,
on fathers old Jeffersonan coat and then per.
haps we may pull together again.
IS. | hope so. And let it be long pull, a
strong pull and pull all together, for HENRY
CLAY of Kentucky, and Protection to Arner
can Labor.