Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-05-03

at the rate Of three hundred per cent.
Iowa has one and half million, and
the new Northwest an investment of
forty millions in the wool interest.
which can readily and at an early day
be increased to hundred millions
with proper encouragement, which
shall not be detrimental to any inter-
est, rather contributing to national
honor and wealth.
sHoDDy. = h s..
Having shown the just claims If the
wool-grower, and that protection to
him involves national independence
and the welfare of all our industries.
| | pause for moment TO make allusion
to that article inimical to cur protec-
tion and the greatest imposition ef the
age, known as shoddy vi mungo. 1t
has come to be associated with fraud
ulent contracts and 4snobbery, since
furnished through deception in place
of wool. What is it but picked up
mass of broken fbers taken from worn
and rotten garments, imported from
junk-shops, stripped from thelazzaroni
OF the Old World, from hospitals and
pest-houses, with such satanic greed
and cupidity that rebels by the impor-
tation Of foreign rags required but few
devices to bring among us loathsome
diseases and pestllence How gross
the impositions visited on our soldiers
What they bought for, cloth was as
destitute Of fiber as pa.rid flesh of mus
Gle, altogether wanting in strength
and durability. How mortifying to
the gentleman, having innoceutly
supposed that his beaver coat was Of
the best merino staple, to know that
he wore the less genteel than second
hand clothing, segrcgations taken
from pettlcoats cast off 10y South
American barbarians and clothes worn
by Italian beggars, which have crowd
cd the holds Of the vessels touching
onr shores This is no fancy. The
fact OF the imposition and too willing
degradation is known to all our man
ufacturcrs. ..
The imr ortation the last year was five
million pounds, which required at
least two million sheep for it's growth,
almost equal to the number found in
the great State of Pennsylvania. Twen-
ty-scvun million pounds were impor.
ted III four years. And what were
the cash profits of our humiliation =?
Three cents pound duty. Most pitt
iul return for the impositions practiced
for four years on a million soldiers
and unsuspec,ing ladies aud private
gentlemen. As one who would pro-
tect the woul-grower from iudignity,
and cloth-wearers from sham and "a
fraud, i would make no treaty stipula-
ti0n with Canada for its importation,
and prohibit il from abroad, aud place
slioddyite and rebel on the same pro.
bationary plane. o.s
A COMPARISON WITH OTHER ARTICLES rao.
TECrED.
In my argument, If indulging i'm
comparisons shall not be regarded
as inimical to any great interests now
protected, but aSk why hemp and fax
receiving generous protection are more
entitled to it than wool? These arti-
cles impoverish the land while sheep
husbandry cnriches il. We have more
hemp manufactured at forty dollars 4
ton protection than will be tested at
this political junctutc for rebel neck
ties, and our linens for either utility
or ornament cannot be compared with
wool, the common staple, which in ia
cilIty for imparting beauty gives II
thousand lines aud cclofs indestructi-
bic as the fabric itself and as pro-
moter of health can never be supplan-
ted Why should the occupation Of
the glass maker have preference tu
that Of the wool grower who only
takes from the earth to let in the light
the other rescuing from earth's sur
face the grasses to clothe the man, al,
earlier necessity than the light! liz
peace and IN war gunpowder has re-
ceised higher protection than wool,
but Cal, the occasion be found In tho
greater necessity for gunpowder than
covering for the soldier who bears the
gun, or are there compensating con-
sl1erations in favor Of rude coal burn
crs or chemists! sails. n#s*# f.*# ~
Saltboilers ate not more patriotic
aud intelligent than shepherds nor
| can the manufacturers Of this necessa-
ry article make that plea for favor VI
tile wool-grower, that he restores
wastes, enriches lands, and contrib
utes to the promotion of the first great
wants ut the race in furnishing cloth
| ing /; yet a busiel of salt, worth thir-
ty-hye cents, has a protection Of eigh-
teen cents, while pound of wool,
worth City cents, enjoys protection,
of five cents per pound offer nv
apology for the plea | make in behalf
ot our great clothing stable This gi-
gantic interest. representing hundreds
OF millions Of dollars. has had no spe-
cial defenders, and ask, as in the lust
Congress- @n# .a4
Can Government reasonably ask the flock
master, wounded IN our battles, returning
nome 10 his farm, man Of education. meet
ing the responsibilities Of a citizen and ths
head Of n family,to Compete with nomae,s, the
halt-clothed Tribes of South America anil
South Africa, who sleep in hnts, subsist on
tropical fruits, contributing nothing to social
order and the stability of government. races
who now flood orr markets with wool
Ii comparison of the claims Of tho
several great interests shall secure
harmonious and equal justice in our
legislation. the burdens of Govern
ment will be more cheerfully met, and
that new portion of the country in be.
half of which | speak may safely in
aagnfa,e a policy which will attract
population and capital. permit us to
enter upon new era vi growth and
prosperity. ..... ...-- -.
THE NoRrHwEsf.
! The new States Of the Northwest,
: representing five u.illion people, have