The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-08-25

runs up as The price Of the article run down
thus guarding the farmer against comperitioa
with low-priced wools-his greatest danger.
| am sensible that mach complaint has been
made OF the enormous quantity of wool which
has been imported into this country during
the two past years, as having cost cenIs per
pound and Oh which there has been laid
duty Of only per cent. ad valorem. The
Importatons of wool during the years 1874
and 1915 will appearby the following table:
Wool costing
cents and under. Value.
1874, 1896, 545 lbs. S75A. A4f
ls45, 1862, O97 " I.653.789
Wool costing
over7 cents. Value
1874. 199,763 lbs. $97,Ol9
ls45. 450,945 d" I36. COS
| have no means Of determining what part,
If any, Of this cheap foreign wool has super
ceded the use Of American wool. and thus in
jured our farmers. No doubt the increased
importation is to be attributed in part 10 the
rapid growth and fourishlng state Of our
manufacturers Of carpets aud other coarse
woollens under the operation Of the bencfi-
cient tariff Of l742. But greatly fear mach
wool has been introduced into the country in
of il was ofsuch quality that il could COM
pete in the market with our domestic wool of
any grade no matter how low, il was not truly
coarse WOOL within the intent and meaning
Of the act Of 40. II should have paid the
high rate Of the duty. Ii therefore, any in
jury has been done to wool growers from this
cause, affirm it is owing wholly 10 the inf
delty Of our custome-house ofhcers-to the
lo.. - ha nf
book. This only proves that il is Of little use
TO make tariff 10 protect farmers, mechan-
les, and manufacturers. and then put the ex-
ecuion Of the law into hands hostile TO its
principle. In this way SID hauock has been
made with the act Of AZ Besides if a real
evil is TO be found in this quarter. | would
ask what is the remedy which you have adop-
ted If wool costing cents and and under
can be brought from South America. and
here sold to the prejudice Of American wool
growers, what protection is there in 80 per
cent. ad valurem! Ii will be found BY those
who put themselves to the trouble Of making
the calculation, that the cheep wool imported
in 1874 cost on an average 5 cents 4 mills
per pound and in lS45. 6 cents mills-ihe
duty on the former al 30 per cent. being I
cent 6 mills, and on the latter ] cent 9 mills
per pound. What a mockery is il to tell the
farmers Of this country that this cheap wool
this FIVE six, and seven cent wool, eau really
compete with their wool ; and at the same time
propose to protect them against such an evil
by the miserable piltance Of one cent duty.
and few mills more or lessl To enable
our farmers to compete with wool Ofihis char
acier, under so slight duty. it would be nece
essary TO. them to bring theirclip into marke--
at IL or Is cents per pound. The truth isf
that the 30 per cent. ad yalorenI which the
tariff Of 1916 imposes on cheap foreign wool
is a mere revenue duty. Ii has not even the
merit oil incidental protection, for reasons al
ready adverSed to but in regard to mestizo
wool the fact is otherwise; and in such case
the boon which the new tariff offers them, has
not the responsibility OF shadow. No, the
true policy is 10 re-cstablish the act Of 1912.
and apply rigidly its provisions TO all these
cheap woods. No one can fail 10 detect IN an
instant such wool as is the product Of cross
BY the bucks exported III 1887 and 1873 on
the native sheer O Sorth Ameriea. In such
cases, the high duty OF 8 eeuts per pound and
80 per cent. ad vslorem should be exaeted;
and am inclined to think it will be expedi-
emf, at no distant day, to carry the duty on
low priced woods much above the rates OF
| 1912. But in place ofsirengtheningthe hands
of our farmers. this Administration has visited
them with the evils of reduction. Instead OF
ENJOYING the substantial pri, ilc gcs OF the act
| of 1912. they are turned over to the beauties
of a cliimerical and ridiculous tree trade.
What the result of the experiment will be on
this great staple leave others TO Judge, in
view of the probable improvement IN the
quality Of South American wool by the pro-
cess which has already produced so percep-
tible an elfec,. No doubt wool from THAI
quarter Of the world will continue to grow
| finer and finer and finer. and must at no dis
tant day, under the tariff of 1916, break down
wool growing in the United States.