Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29
Wool .GRowRRs' MEETING. - At the

Wool. GROWERS MEETING, - AT the
conclusion of Hon. Justin s. Morrilfs
address at the Wool.Growers' meeting
held at the Island House, Bellows Falls,
on the 18th inst, Judge Colburn OF
Springfield offered the following preamble
and resolution, which were unanimously
adopted by the meeting;
Whereas, The wool growing interest OF
Vermont is in greatly depressed aud
| languishing condition, and must soon be
abandoned unless relief can be extended
| by national legislation TO protect the
| interest from the destructive competitor
of foreign fine wool, grown In climates
of perpetual summer, and where lanu
and labor are of mere nominal value
And whereas, bill was passed by the
lower house of Congress at Its last ses-
sion, and is now upon the records OF the
upper house, purporting to aid both the
manufacturing aud the wool growing
interests of the country, ard though It's
provisions may be more remuneratiVe
and protective to the former than TO the
latter interest, yet as wool growers, de-
sirous of saving this great interest OF
the North from humiliation, we pray
the Senate of the United States TO pass
this or some other protective bill and
let it speedily become the law OF the
land. We ask this because we are will
ing to try the experiment of its opera
ton because the price of farm labor TO
grow this article is more than double IN
! proportion to the price of the article
after it is grown Because the prices oil
this article bear no sort OF proportion "a
=, those of all other commodities Whlch
= we are obliged to purchase to sustain
= our families, while wool is our main re
- lance for a support Because the prices
y of wool on a good basis, have neVeI
y" been so high since the commencement
: of the war of rebellion as they We're II
% the years Immediately preceding, an(
&c are not at the present time more thai
u three-fourths as high, while nearly al
other articles of traffic have been great
" enhanced in price by the advance 1
gold Because before the war the price
20 of . IL pounds of our wool (oroo
y washed,) would purchase at retail q
good ward of cashmere or doeskln q
l. the price of 5 IL pounds will do at tn
g, nresent time; because the taxation upo
@ all other resources for growing wool,
consequence of the war (tOwn, state an
70 national,) is full cents per pound {
L. orr washed wool, which is vastly b
+" yopd what it ever has been before b
- cause we claim to have been as patriot
~ as any other section of our country, al
OF of to have cheerfully borne our share
I'd the public burdens in the loss OF life al
wv the sacrifice of treasure during the Ia
ars six years of our national attllctlon, D
n we claim benefits and privileges equal
os those accruing to other interests L
Oh cause for the last eighteen months
IL have been obliged to purchase cloth
for ourselves and families at exorbita
90 prices. made from foreign wool, VIII
~ our own clips have been lying upon O
IN hands uncalled for at any remunerati
,ity prices, in consequence OF the cheapn'
.oyg, of the Metiza and other foreign d
hat clothing woods Because intelhgt
~, labor in the mill, in the shop or on
hot farm, cannot and ought not to be ms
,or to compete with the ignorant and p:
per labor of foreign countries,
rds finally Because we believe that
axe should be steadily progressing to Il
acIe state of independence as a nation
rter clothe ourselves, so far as wool and
tber ton will do it, and become independ
lit. of all foreign producers Of these a
are cles therefore,
Won 1 Resoyvsd by this convention Of
Nod mont Wool Growers, that a copy OF
bem memorial and resolution be furnished
des. the secretary and presented to the I
,rtsl Luke P. Poland and Hon, George F.
hich munds, our Senators in Congress, and
into they are hereby requested TO presen
the TO Tine oeha% Vi Ihe opl'eu oVaVe
70 of an early Gay Of the coming session.
NAL that they Sustain by their voice,
lman vote the bill pending in that house
nj II any other bill giving protection to
.ath wool SFo"T EN-. ". nr.u 20 ,oee
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