Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-07-05
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FRIDAY MORNING. JULY5, 1874.
INFAMOUS DECEPTION.

"My ooioion is that Wool should be duty frec!' -
JAMES X PoiE
We find tins r.1 IN all the coon papers about
these DAYS UH3 f.rv f-.ot to mention that at the
same session If uGLresS ~ which the speech vas
mn (iS33l from winch in"v say this extract = n.
ken, Gov. Polk voted to lay n duy Of FIT ZEN
CENTS A POUND on all foreign coor.e wool. -
But If the opinion OF Col P, that wool should be du
T., tce, founded in ergor 50 aIs' his opinion
expressed by his vote at the s1me session, that for
cgn wool honlI pay duty Of FIFTEEN CENTS
ON THE POUND, for that Is too hlLh according 10
the views Of the coons, who have reduced the duty
something ike two.thrds from what he by his vote
was willing it should Spirit If the Age.
The above is an unmilignted talsrhood,
in all its essential points, uttered with the
delbrate intent to deceive and dclraud the
farmers of Vermont in "A matter Of vital in
porancc. Polk never voted for duty Of
10 cents pound on WOOL and Eastman
knew it when he penned the above para
graph. He did indeed vote for duty Of
Is per- cent--not " Is cents a po"nd'-but
simply an ad valorem duty of ID per cent.
on the cost of the article. Under this duty,
the cheap, or cent. wool, which has done
US SO much mischief, would pay the enor-
nous amount of ONE CENT AND TWO
MILLS PER POUND! instead Of " Is
cents,' or two hundred per centum, as the
Age falsely assures its readers. This, even,
NJ Polk put distinctly on the ground of
reremae :; and accompanied it with the avow-
al Of his conviction {" that wool might to be
duty free" And why freel Mark it: to
enable the manufacturer to get his wool
cheap abroad and thus susiain himself with
out protection. This was his avowed OBJ
eci; and to this end he voted for the II
per cent "A rate Of duty entirely below the
average reUenue point. But, reader, this
was Wing Congress, and Mr.. Folks one
cent and tro mills protection to wool did
not prevail. Pcrceiyiug the drift Of Polk and
his free trade allies, and knowing that they
would have majority in the nest Congress
Mr.. Clay, with a forecast that does him Tho
highrs, honor, took the subject in hand, and
pu, it to res, by the adoption of the cerbra
ted compromise act-an act which this same
! Age has characterized, time and again, as
base betrayal of the wool interest. By ,hi
much al used compromise the duty on WOO
costing cents and upwards, was fixed "A
40 per cent. advalorcm (lnstead Of Polk
Is per cent? and 4 cents specific on eacl
pound. So that from 1888 to 1912 tn,
pound of wool costing s cents, paid cent
,and 2 mills duty, or nearly one hundred pc
cent. in lieu of | cent aud mills, or /,
per cent, as proposed by Polk. These ar
the simple facts, in view of which the Ag
attempts to bolster up candidate univer
sally repudiaed by the good sense of Yer
mont, by fraudulently calling ID per cent
duty of Is cents per pound.
5 Pray who are the readers Of the Age, tina
it presumes thus TO paltcr with and insu
them!
Is the election of Polk matter Of sue
paramount importance to the farmers {
Vermont as TO slnctiiy such means, and in
u duce the people to believe a lie. If not, |,
them look to it,