New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-12
FREE TRADE IN WOOL.
To d. Editor Of The N. Y. Tribune.

To De Editor Of The N. y Tribune.
SIR: Under the above heading notice article 10
your pepper of 22d inst, signed "OnOndaga Farmer"
which opens with the forcibe remark: The long
"threatened blow is about to fall on the wool grow
GERS of the United States Is not that the doctrine
you have long been intoxicating in your paper That
destroying the wool-n0uufacturing establishments
must in the end be felt by the wool growers! The
manufacturer despairng to receive anything like pro-
lection, with the hope that the relief which justice
would afford might be obtained now, asks that the raw
material should not pay greater duty than the manu-
sctued article that the duty now levied on wool and
oyestus may be taken of and they be admitted free
of duty. Wools now pay duty of 80 per cent, and
wooden goods pay an ad vaorem duty Of the same.
But does the 0nondaga Farmer know that foreign
cloths, which he thinks cheap enough at 50 yard,
have paid by means OF foreign invoices duty OF 81
cents instead Of 90 cents that this duty of 80 per
cent is not specifics not on valuation here, but is
eOyetned by the foreign inVoiceI Does he not see
bow easy tits for few German or Belgian manuiac-
tuer to send their agent to New YORK, ana nave nun
secure orders from Importers for such goods as they
NAV REQUIRE and when the goods arrive, send the in
voice of them to this agent at n dollar yard-goods
TINT may be worth two dolas when they Left the fac
toryf And may not suppose that this has been ex-
tsnsvely done, since our Government has made step
Just in the rght-rroRg way to cheek IL; that 49, by
sending instructions TO our Consuls abroad to examine
into this matter and see that invoices are correct
aud education residence and interest. Their interests
may not be supposed to lead them to very rid ad-
herr to their Instructions Besides, hey work Tor
pay" and few perqustee that may perhaps De easily
obsined help amazingly On the other hand woods
and dyestuffs furnish such facilities for managing
invoices. The price of the IA wmateual Is too much 0f
afxed fact--too well known to admit OF It. On these
there is no labor OF making and finish 10 cover up H.
stead Of enhancing the value of the article. Does the
"Faimer not know that wooden cloths have been i'm
ported and paid less duty than would have been col
feeted on the wool of which they were made. Wei
may be cay that the long threatened blow is about TO
fall on the wOoEgrOwers of the United States. O1
me 500 sets Of machinery that under the Tarit
of az broadcloths, how many does he suppose are
khg broadcoths now Does he suppose he could
find G. teuth or a twentieth part of them. IL he does
he is simply mistaken, that is all IL he thinks the
profits Of manufacturing 80 great, why not close up
the Improbable business Of growing wool aud invest
The psoceeds in this profitable factory stock He
find much of it as he may want and that too IN the
best conducted establishments at so cents on the do
paid their hundred cents does be not see that he could
IN this receive the double of their extravaganza profits
Bg proceeds to show by his fgures-the correctness
of which do not propose to examne-that We 40 not
need hne~wUols, because We are exporters OF them;
that the manufacturer in his stubborn blindness to his
own interests "drives the grower to sending his hne
"wobl to England and other countries, where labor
:" and skil cheaper than In the United States
N hi thinks il is more profitable TO paytwo transpor
tat,obs ON there woos-that is, the wool, the
otbe on the manufactured aricle-ihan 1t Is to have
come remedy devised by which they may De maneiSc-
tured here then be mast be satisfied with his argu.
ment And as long as these woods can be exported
without paying any duty abroad, aud returned and
pay less dSty than in the fleece, so long VIII his prof.
table scheme he carried out long will manufactures
continue 10 be crushed out and the farmer may some
morning wake up to fud that the long-threstened
@ blow has fallen" and that "muttOn Is oheap-yes,
CHEAP enough TO feed to his dogs. This may be good
news TO the starving thousands who unable TO pay
"thd 60 or 100 per cen, advance on grain and meal
AM; the products Of the dairy bat not so good for
fhosa "who have sheep worth hundred dollars each
"to iho world, aud have given years and unweaI1ed
"incrstry to this business" To make fine cloths
there Is wool superior in strength Of fiber to
woos; but the tradesman desires TO the cloth
he ,diers for sale a handsome fnish-ay, and the
sfariner" wants it the coat be wears; but tue
manufacturers Of country do not know
how 30 nut this on TO their goods without q mixture
of frl. foreign wool-perhaps the "Onondags Fam
or" noes and before get through viii make him
proposition so that he may put bis skull into use. 1t
ss az plain as the wool on the sleeps BACK why We
expert me wool; the cloth be worked through our
Custu-Houses at less rate of duty than the wool;
and ~ the WOOL for beauty Of flush, cannot DC I'M
ported per force the fine WOODS must be exported ana
our mills must struggle along, using coarse wools
making them into fabrics not coming into immediate
compeftion with imported goods. The dement's 20 De
deriS from free importation Of the raw maternal, 10
boiberower and manufacturer, do not think neces-
say here TO discuss; they have been more fully and
shy set forth than have either time inclination to
hestaw and need only 10 say, from practical expert
snce' ia, thew are sound; that the measure would
havi beneficial influence on both parties. The in
teresss of grower and manufacturer are identical; any
ourae Of measures that ten6s 20 injure or parayze
the one must sooner later Affect The Other For the
true interests cf botb probably no sys%sa was peter
elspsed than thS Of az, 20 fg a. SSoiea goods ere