Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-18

in brief, summary manner, that fine wool is
all the product of single family of sheep
Whatever difference there is in lis quality de-
pends on the care, and the breeding, and prob
ably somewhat slightly on the climate and the
feeding. In Saxony their flocks are d,iven un-
der shelter in the hot days of summer. There
are sheds for them TO protect them from the
heat of the sun. That care is not taken in
this country; perhaps they do not need it here.
In Australia the wool made from the English
and Saxony merino sheep is a fine and rather
longer wool than ours. 1t is silky. Some
few of these sheep have been taken to Brazil
and Chill, and there crossed with the native
sheep, producing a rather better quality of
wool, but still coarse wool The great body
Of the long wool, which is combing wool, for
the making of worsted, is English wool. The
coarser wools, which we use for booking. car
pets, blankets, and coarse articles, are the Smyr-
ma and Rio Janeiro woods. The woods cited
in your commerce and navigation reports as
Smyrna wool comes from Asia Minor and the
wool quoted as Buenos Ayres is from Rio Ja-
neiro and other parts Of South America
The difference between us and England is,
that they raise coarse wool, and they may very
well admit free of duty fine wool for their man
uiactures without interfering with the home
production of wool, whereas the great body of
our sheep are raised for fine wool do not
say that it is as fine as the finest Saxony, but
II is fine spinning, fuling, telling wool. Can
it be said for one moment that there is any de-
gree Of parallelism between us and Eng land
We may well let in coarse wool and under
the protective tariff of 1912, all wool below
seven cents pound was let in without duty at
all. 1t is not that tina, troubles our people, but
ii is the fine wool. Gentlemen, then, will sec
at once why it is that we cannot be considered
as parallel to England in this matter, and why
the same law cannot produce the same effect
here that ii did there. The Secretary of the
Treasury says, in his report, that if We put our
manufacturers on the same footing that manu-
iacturers are ln foreign countries. they will sue
coed. That cannot be done until some com
merclal millennium that We have never yet seen,
arrives. How is it in France There are
thirty millions Of people, probably more, in
France. When Bonaparte adopted what was
called the continental system in Europe, he es-
,ablished for France an utter prohibition of the
importation Of manufactured goods from abroad
and especially from England. The object was
to break down England. He said il was the
English looms that met him everywhere; the
English manufacturers furnished the money
that pointed the bayones at him all over the
continent. 1t was to break down England that
he persuaded or coerced the different powers OF
Europe to join him in what he called the con-
tnenia system. He got the whole continent
of Europe united against Great Britain's man
ByaelU Ues,..lh&as. The. backjinG ont q. Russia
convulson and brought on the final catastrophe
but from that day to this, in France, there has
been an utter prohibition against the importa-
ilon OF manufactured woolens. The French
may well bring in wool free of duty, because
they. have thirty millions of people, and their
own manufacturers have the exclusive command
Of the clothing Of them. To talk in this Hall
of so making our tariff as TO give our manufac-
tprers common chance with the manu;ac,u-
rers of France is preposterons Soon after the
late alliance of England and France, the pres
ent Emperor Of France was told that this pro-
hibition in France was illibera, unadapted IL
the age, and ought To he relaxed. He made
his edict permitting the importation Of wool
and agreeing to take off, at a certain time, the
prohibition on the importation Of woolens bu
in order TO reconcile the French manufacturers
10 these proceedings, he decreed that bonu:
should be paid upon all exported woolens o.
French manufacture. Thus the chance of let
ting into France foreign wooens was to be
made up 10 the French manufacturer by paying
him bounty on his expectation. That was
continued until last October, when the com
plants of the manufacturers were such that the
decree was Superseded by an order that ii should
not take effect for six years. No importation
of woolens into France can be allowed for 81,
years. Whether it will ever be aloSed il
point Of fact, do no, pretend 10 say.
The idea which is kept up in the report O.
the Secretary of the Treasury seemed 10 the a
first to be very strange but now it appears IL
be adopted by the Finance Committee. 1t is IL
sacrifice wool. Formerly, the lamb was oiiere.
up as sacrifice but now we are TO offer NJ
wool and the wool-growers, for that is the on
y article of our production al which this FIRE,
list is aimed. From what do you raise reve
| Huc ioih ophhS, sugar. Nuuleuo, Cu''oHS
silks and iron. These six articles yield tn,
great bulk of the revenue. The others arr
mere trimmings. As to the duty on spirits,
do not feel much interested in il. | say tn,
blow is aimed at wool alone of all these class
es of American production. Why is ii.
would seem to be this : we will agree TO log
roll and make peace with iron and sugar, anc
this interest and that and the other interest
we will all strike hands against wool; WOO
must come down.
There are some features in connection witt
this matter about which l should desire to spea
with more particularly, but left my books a
my room, hardly supposing that | should b.
called upon 10 use them. The Secretary q
the Treasury, in order to coax, OF persuade, o
convince the people of the propriety of :akinI
the duty off wool, has made great body of ia
bles, which are presented in his report. H
says there has been large protection on wool
but there has not been an increase of its pro
duciion at the same rate as the increase of pop
ulation. How does he prove il Look at hi
tables, and you will find how he makes it out
He has but Two materials upon which to 60
the census returns of 1910 and of 1850. Ac
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