Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
WHOLE NO. 258l

cent profit to the importer, and be cheap
enough to have it compete severely with
with our wool of the same grade in our
markets. Well, how will this affect the
manufacturer He would still have the
lions share, for q pounds of this wool is
enough for yard of cloth, worth S5; the
manufacturer would pay but IS cents tar
if tax, while he would receive 81, 2,65 pro.
lection on his yard of cloth, made of this
q lbs of wool, SO that, with duty of 80
cents per pound on this fine British Aus
tralian wool, the manufacturer would
have the advantage of 81 go over the wool
grower. This ought to be enough to sat
isfy an honest man dealing with his fell
low countrymen. The competition in
this English wool is as bad as that Of Eng
| lish cloth.
Having shown by the immense impor-
tation and low prices of foreign wool with
which farmers have to contend, it may
be necessary for me to say a word here
with regard to the foreign competition
which our manufacturers have to meet
1t has been hammered and rivited into
many minds that it is enormous-when
in fact We can make as good cloths as the
dispatch, use more machinery, and en-
plyloy little more than half as many OPP
eratives to accomplish similar results.-
The raw material, wool, comes as cheap
in this country as it does in Europe. A
very large AMOUNT of wool is imported
from the British Provinces, duty free, by
the reciprocity treaty. si.s-
quote from q respectable journal. as
TO the relative cost of making yard Of
broad cloth in the United States and
England in 1851, to illustrats what have
said of foreign competition, as follows.
In England it cost to make yard Of brOsdcloth
~ bs best United States clothing wool. at So
Qtner materlalSs-.-- -.-..-..---.-..----. Sl
fsS ~
Ao9S VI Anselest--....-.. N
Cost Of making in England. SIS
In the United State Jan. 1851:
"a IDS best Saxony wool, at 55 eents..-----Sl3l78
Jt1ef mAterlals Uo
oss Fl i1ts-sSf "a
Cost Of making in the United statss.......S1.s4
Having. .thus.shown the inequality and
outrageous injustice Of the present tariff,
it becomes me to show how we can have
a better one, through which importers Of
wool cannot crawl into port duty free. /
would propose the following bill as an
amendment to the present tariff:
On all clothing wool. herein inelu-
ding all woods less than 3inches IN
average length Of stapls:.,,....;-. 80 cents per
On ali combing wool. herein inelu-
ding all wool more than and less
than 5 inches on the average
lenghth of ofstaple.....-............-..--20 20 do do
or eombing. ......,......:.. -. do do
On all hairy wool. mixed either
with clothing or cOmbing or with
II
The term Clothing Wool is technical,
and well understood by dealers IN wool,
and include our fine and grade wools,
while the term Combing Wool is as well
understood, and includes the woods of all
our long wooled sheep. Hairy Wool is
known at once by its resemblance to
hair, and is not grown in the United
States, it being too cheap to yield any
profit, and is used for filing to carpets, &c.
Had such tariff as this existed the
past two years, the Government would
have realized q handsome revenue to
help to pay the war debt. Wool growers
would have realized from Is to 20 cents
more per pound for their wool, and felt
less their increased public burdens, and
the manufacturers could have divided
large and healthy dividends far better
than are ordinarily realized in England,
and not felt the burden of taxes at all.
Our wooden manufacturers are no long
er in their infancy; they have already ar
rived at gigantic proportions, but are de-
pendent on foreign nations for a supply
of wool. This supply is liable to be cut
off at any time by war or civil commo-
tions, as the cotton supply has been in
England, and maintain that their certain
and permanent prosperity in the future
depends upon their having an abundant
supply of domestic wool, not liable to be
,ut of by any contingency. This can only
be done by developing the vast wool re-
sources of the country by revenue tar
IF on wool which will accomplish this de-
irable and magnificent result within ten
Tears. Such a tariff would be a great
i'd to the Treasury in paying off the war
lebt, and approximate justice to the
Vool grower. .-....
l conclude by saying that the necessi-
les of the Treasury If the United States,
he permanent prosperity of our wooden
the development of the
-ast wool growing resources of our coun-
~, and the constitutional right of every
nan to an equal chance under the laws,
o acquire property and to prosecute his
business with success, demand a protec-
i've tariff equal on all wool and woolens,
N so per cent. duty, sd valorem, on
he home valuation. This would be be-
ow the highest revenue standard.
LOWELL, Mass. II. G. MERRIAM.