Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-08-13

"'''"e" Wy uIe LNeCutNe, through lhe proper Oil
GERS, and that the Presidents signature to the bill
was promised anterior to the veto on the Tariff
queston,-Pok himself ought to have the same
destination. The country would have been the
gamer if neither Of the parties in this controversy
were in power
There was in 1888 no especial danger to our
farmers from the cheap coarse wool, costing cents
and under. But since that time the quality of low
priced woods has entirely changed" and from that
wool, now, and when the act of'42 was passed, the
only danger was and is to be apprehcnGed This
was known 10 the manufacturers. 1t was known
TO the Democrats and every possible chot was
made 10y them, in Congress, to protect the wool
grower against this wool, But they were met by
the wings at all points and voted down.
Vermont Patriot.
The danger from cheap wool ,caS known to both
wings and democrats thanks to the wing delegation
from Vermont; that delegation did their best TO
secure ample protection against this wool. They
presented samples 10 the committee; and they in.
duced them to put the word course into the bill,
with the avowed purpose Of limiting the per cent
to the wool which was previous to 1888, and now is,
harmless, and subecting the cheap fine wool to the
highest duty-beng 8 cents and 80 per cent, and
equal to 81 per cent. ad vaorem, or more than
double the duty of the bill which the Patriot now
susains In addition TO this, they secured abund-
ant guards against frauds in packing in mixing, in
invoicing, and in the valuation And thus a ,rhig
Congress passed the bill in opposition to the votes
of nearly every locoioco in both Houres, who pro-
claimed that the bill was too protective and ought
to be repealed. The Whigs supported duty of
from 40 TO 81 per cent. on all wool except the
harmless coarse: and had the locos succeeded in
voting them down, s cent wool would have been
FREE, and the ad valorem on all other wool wot Id
have been barely 20 per cent. There locotocos
would have left it. The assertion that the democrats
made every possible effort 10 protect the ,ooolgrower
and '0ere met at every point and roted dopn by the
,chigs, is IA base SANDER upon the wings and gives
unmerited credit to the locofocos The only ground
Tor it is an amendment offered by Benton in the
Senate, applicable to wool only, which is as
harmless now as in 1888, and which was voted a.
gains by Messrs Cats and Phelps simply because
it was iniendedto embaraSs and defeat The biH Let
us here say, that RoBERT ]. WALKER the father
OF the new misshapen " bill of denominations" also
voted against Benton'a amendment but for differ
ent reasons. But to return: after the bill was pass
ed and went into effect, the Vermont delegation
applied to the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out
The Tariff Of 1912 by enforcing the 81 per cent duty
on this. fine cent ,coot-backing the application by
the plain words of the law and specimens of the
wool in question: but that work was committed 10
the hands ofmen tainted too strongly with locofoco-
ISM The application was in vain and to this d; y
the Tariff has been openly violated and the wool
growers have been swindcd out of the protection
which Wing Congress voted to them by the tools
of John Tyler and the very Democrats whom the
Patriot now decks out in stolen plumcs for tie adj
miration of the feeced woo-growers. Who has
been at the head of the Treasury for the last two
years, in which probably fifty millions of pounds O.
this cheap wool have come in? Who has neglected
to execute the Tariff of ~, as IL reads and as IL
means? Who has been recreant to his duty, to the
revenue OF the nation, and to the wool growers
1t is nobody else but the author of this new Tariff
And we beg to ask who has been in the Pre- sdent's
chair and tolerated this offending Secretary? and
who in the House to watch over the ool-growers
of the fourth district, and yet has opened rot his
mouth to save our flocks from those wolves whom
the Patriot would fain dress in sleeps clothing
With your Polk, and'your Walker, and your Dill
| bingham, and your majorlues in both Houses, you
have for two years seen the Tariff of AZ violated
with mpunity; you have for two years seen that
wool admitted at per cent, which was legally
liable TO 81 per cent; you have for two years seen
! the ool-growers Of Vermont swinded by these
lderectons of duty, on the part of distinguished
democrats, and now when paltrY duty of cents s;
one mill is all that is imposed upon cent wool
(making it cost 81 ms,) which you say completes
with Vermont wool that ought to be worth at least
% cents per pound, you certainly cut pretty fig
ure singing peans of praise to these fellows. It's
about equal to being caught stealing sheep.