Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-08-15
Coarse Wool Jugglery.

The Locofocos are still swelling theii throats
about the low duties on coarse wool. The price of
wool is not so high as il was last year, the, say
Well, let us look a little into this matter, What
confidence can Vermont farmers have in Presi-
dent who has declared that "wool ought TO come in
duty free, What confidence can they hive in
party, great majority of whom are for reducing
the duty all articles to the revenue sta,dard of
such men r. J. Walker Of Mississippi, the pres
ent Secretary OF the Treasury and who, fol sever
al years, has been of the most ultra hard mon
ey, free-irade and repudiaiing advocates But
grant for the occasion, that there are few Loon.
focos in Vermont, who really desire the duty in.
creased on the coarsest kind Of wool is there a
man so stupid as not to know that their voice
could never be respected by the majority Of the
partyS Were not nearly all the Northern De moe
racy, short time since, opposed 10 annexation and
they not now almost to a man, in favor OF that
measure Does not the democracy OF New
Hampshire and half of the party in New York go
hand in hand with Southern free.traders in reduc-
ing the Tariff on every article Does not the
democracy of the South rule the democracy Of the
North We do hon., the, Mig. - iAss,. ir'siii.
gent Wings of Vermont. will not suffer this non
sensical coarse wool twa,tle to be cramned down
their throats They might well ask the wolf to
protect the lamb, as Il Locoioco Congress to pro-
tect the wool growers.
As to the charge Of decrease in the price Of
wool since last year, it ought to be borne in mind
that the quantity Of wool grown this year is vastly
increased, which may reasonably account for the
small decrease in the price.
And here, in passing, we would direct attention
to the assertion OF the Wiudham Co. Democrat o.
last week, that the democracy are conlending tina
the interests of the wool grower are not identca
with those Of the manufacturer under the tariff o
1912. Well, neghbor, Withdraw the protection
from the mnnuacturer-stop two-thirds or all GU
large wooden manufactories--and food the countr,
with foreign cloths of all kinds, from the deares
down TO the cheapest, and where would the WOO
grower find valuable market for his wool p
Again aside from the effects produced by unequa
amounts in the different yearly crops, or clips,
you will--what would more tend TO enhance TN
price Of wool than increased demand for thu
raw material land what would more increase thi
demand than the increased activity and exteniol
of the wooden manufactures land what woul'
more tend to increase the activity and promote th
extenton Of these wooden manufactures than tn
protection afforded them by the present Wing Tar
if of 1912 "a Tariff which your party are moving
heaven and earth in preparing the way for de
stroyng. We say-and any one, who will hav
the candor, and take the trouble TO carefully exam
inc the subject, will say, that the interests of tn
wool grower and the manufacturer are Identical
As to the idea which some Locofoco politician
profess to entertain, that the home wool grower
likely to be injured by a competition with foreig
importers of wool, we believe il is all sheer non
sense. And if in fact there was really any truth ]
the assertion, the Locofoco Free Trade party woul
be the last resort for a remedy. No, neighbor, 20
can't secure The votes of intelligent Wing woe
growers, by thus attempting to pull the wool owe
their ewes