Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-08-20
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server" in the last Patriot we cut the following
Gle [Ed. of the Watchnnn, so far forgets his
usually gentlemanly bearing as to pronounce a
mere difference in opinion, an unblush'ng false,
hood. | observed that wool costing cents aud
under paid duty Of five per cent and not hm"ea,
and paye a table compiled from the Secretary's
Report mot the N. Y. Post,) o! as, all of which
was literally correct, it did pay duty of per cont
Coarse Wool and fine are relative terms enlb iaclng
all grades provided for in the act Of '42 from the
coarsest kind to superine."
All! you were careful to say that cent wool
simply paid duty of 5 per cent. Well, sir, we
now understand you perfectly. You was conscious
that the Tariff of AZ limited the per cent. to
coarse wool; you knew that this limitation had
been entirely dsregarded, and therefore you was
very caiciu to keep up the Observation-Disclosures
limited and p1id, and to assert simply, carefully
and truly that the cent wool had only paid D per
cent. 1t seems that you well knew the propuety
of the distinction when stating your premises: but
what was your conclusion what was your intention,
in thus carefully discriminating in your language
Your intention was to make the readers of the Pat
riot believe that the Tariff of '42 imposed only a 5
per cent. duty on all cent wool, though it be fine;
anu your CUHClNSlOu, uuStu WI lHeSS pituIIocS
absolutely stated, that the Tariff of 46 affords
three times more protection than The Tariff of '42.
We believe that it is not ungentlemanlH 10 tell the
truth in plain way: and therefore we say TO you,
that according 10 the best of our judgment, you
stand convicted Of deliberate, intentional, cold
blooded fraud upon your readers, in endeavorng to
make them believe that the Tariff Of 42 admitted
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scous that it did no such thing! This is made
still more evi ent by your assertion that coarse and
fine are relative terms embracing all grades and
by your argument to prove, (what every man OF
common sense to be perfectly absurd,) that it
is impossible 10 find what wool is coarse-iust
as though nobody can tell the difference between
black and tchite. A man who did not knoO thatihe
Tariff of 1912 limited the per cent. dy to coarse
wool OILY, would see no necessity for such an ar
gument We set Observer" down, therefore, as
dishonest man by his own showing and shall avoid
him as far as practicable.
A remark as TO this word coarse. That word in
the Tariff of 1912 had a definite meaning, and was
inserted in order to limit the per cent. duty to n
certain known quality of wool. specimens Of which
furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury. In
stead of its being impossible to enforce the Tariff
of 42 on wool, as II reads and as ii tcas intended
nothing could have been easier. A simple letter
from the Secretary to each collector, enclosing
specimen Of this coarse wool, and ordering him to
admit all like that at per cent and all other wool
at 3 cents and 30 per cent, would have done the
whole business Instead of that, our locofoco Sec
retaries from Tyler's Mr.. Bib to Folks Bob
Waker,) have refused ana neglected to enforce the
Tariff of AZ on wool and thus swindled the wool
growers out OF that protection which Wing Con-
gress voted to give them. The Patriot and its cor
respondent engaged in the beautiful business
of defending these volators of the act of '42--aye
and of attempting to make the wool-growers them
selves support the very men who have cheated
them by derectons in duty. Go on, gentlemen:
year two's enjoyment of the fruits of the Brit
ish Tariff will satisfy the wool-growers, and settle
your political destiny. You can cheat them but
little while longer.