New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-19

| taking away our protection the demand for wool
| will be greatly increased. Why on tins basis
the cost of domestic wooden fabrics will he so lar
reduced ~ TO give great relief to the consumer aud
| lead To an immediate and largely-lncreased con.
SUMPTION Does not this argument answer ltseli
How ~ the manufacturer To make cloth cheaper an
he does now, unless he buys his wool cheaper now
| is the consumption of cloth TO be largely m
crcased'"-where are the additional consumers to be
found, or have people been only partly clothed.
and are now cold and suffering for garments 70 MAS
| them warm' Is the assumption of the Commissioner
III any way true. that cloth Is now so dea. '" 'uo
| consumer that he should have - great reicil
| All agree that wool il very low IN Piice-SSo low
that wool growers all over the country are gong on.
o the business for the good reason that does nor
paw expenses We are asked. by man who ~ pad
by the National Government 10 gather iiIorin .t
and make Suggestions To submit to sun iu' M
reduction in prices, in the expectation ihat ~ AMI
! bv somewhere in the remote future, people N'I
wear more clothing. and then pay ns more thah ''ey
now do for the wool TO make II. ., .,,
The Commissioner, with considerable com 'iccnoai
refers to his predictions in former reports that WOO
would tall in price If 1t was protected ny va ~ -;
| He saws. :" had he been endowed with tue sit va
nropbccy ne could not in many respects, have spoken
| more truly. Wool from the date oil Tue p3SsasG w
the wool tar IN March 1861 mas conIinhhiS - had
fallen fully sxpcnce sterling or an eighih Oi u9ia.
! in gold per pound, in London, before tue tam VI
1861. compared with the averages on % I'm ~
before and for this simple reason me Va
fine wool in the whole world had outgioWn Tue col-
sumption Aud he learned IN his examinations u,
| Europe that the worlds production had uoup,'%
| more than once in the preceding twelve ,Sens nc
had a very safe basis from which Ia prophesy lor ne
knew that the markets were gut'ed win ,Io @
| produced woods of South America and other coun,
! tries He ascribes 10 our tarh the low prices vi
| wool everywhere; when he knew III lS'' tha' ,ho
Over-prod uction oil wool must lead 10 r. ,r,
that wool raisers would be forced to do as ,leS arc
! doinp-essen their hocks until the suiplls was
| worked of. lie shows that South African Wo P
have fallen OIL from IS or ~ cents per pound AT Tue
pace of export to less than II cents, and he lay TINS
This arglment of the Commissioner ma es wool
! tf,t, nali fla fIle
Free Traders According to hum. Protection maheS
wool bear q low price eycrywhere-in tle oounliS
protected well rs IN the countries pIotecteu
This result had, until the advent oil ths Po ,
economist usually been ascrbed 10 oveI-productloh'
and this is the true reason III the ease oil wooi ~
Wool is now very low III price, anu out ior our
tariff laws, it would have been much lower IN lnIS
country; and the Commissioner shows th,t NE
this i'm giving his reasons for taking the duty on
entirely; for by so doing he proposes To reduce the
cost of WOODEN goods But enough -PcInap9' 700
much-iu regard to this paid olhclM. prefer W. 10
uuote another, who is no enemy oil our JoiIh "
stokes acting Commissioner OF Agriculture Ill MS
report for the year 1861, says:
..The wool. growing interests, involving capital OF
hundreds millions. and underlying tue ProspelS ~
American agriculture IN a degree scarcely appreciated
by farmers themselves has been shNcu rom 49,
humiliation by the action OF Congress ih p,'iuS , 49,
upou the foreign article equivalent 10 the AKA
ton endured by the woolgrowers, though ho ult INC
commercial class, taking advantage Oh e y ,e ~
Of the measure. had inflicted htaSy Oior VI VI. ,
ductiou of more woo'e"s ~ @,',e yea, W"m ne bncd
ported i,i three yenS ~ me Mf "GF' II 10 " w ,P
ihat a premium Will again be gwen 10 IOItlSh
y
higher tax upon American than upon lofeiEh No't
growers aud that the present moderate ana
adjustment barely saving the two classes OF
from loss, and consumers nom Otcon.I'y ~. cye, y
Of fOreigd inOHOpOisiS, may long Oe undtutDeu cNci
j. now more than equivalent to twothrds Of iu sup
ply, and, with lucrens" ~ WOrsteh "oos . NY
initiated and progressing ana more attention 10 ne aol
yarcties of mere will scarcely beocesion
for any imports whatever with the cAccP'lou VI oio
nnnnal rate of duly It's manifestly false system Of
political economy IN nation WIN Cohheh,' uouon,
having unmeasured resources oil annual sroWn !ui5ui
To waste. that sends abroad tor tie raw miertb OF
manufacturer and II Is scarcely less un"ise w .eeulng
popuation, demanding various employment, 10 gnu
nom the country these unwrouehi productions, "AEn
amply able 10 Manufacture To! l"o Va ito
world
This statement of the case made hy Mr.. Stokes ]
commend to the careful consideration 0l all piiuts
interested and congratulate the farmers that mere
are some public officers that cannot ne reached Dy
thr ,onhism, of supposed commercial interests.
The present very able Commissioner oil A"ridii.
turc Mr.. Horace Capron, appears 10 ih"tIHti9u
something of our interests. la his last Report Hor
me wear 1861 IN discussing the Threatened Rect
procity Treaty with the British Provinces, he SiyS'
page .:
such a treaty Of reciprocity would bear with peculiar
bgrshIp upon the wool growing Interests. and especially
unp the production Of combug wool. the long woo OF
C,n,da a finer m growing demand which our iarners
can readily supply. and at the same time lurnishihc
markets with nation OF superior GialF II no unjust
ta,ia Whntevrr settlement OF question, OF
uayigatlou fisheries may be desirable /" rs Ho,' u,a
advantages may hc secured u! CONCESSIONS I'l"uAi'
10 the farming interest
Thank Won. Mr.. CaprOn: you are a farmer. ana
know something of what YOU are talking about.
The Hon William -. Kelley. member al CongeSs
from Pennsylvania. ~ his speech OF the lth dai Oh
,Jguuary last gives the history and ELECTS oil ihe
laic Reciprocity Treaty with the British Provinces
upon our agricultural interests, and shows the great
advantages derived from 1t by the Provinces ~ our
expense in so full and perfect a manner ma he
deserves the thanks OF every larner III the gram anu
wool proW inc states. 1t ~ rare that to interests
al thc farmers are represented a Washington, that
feel justified in thus calling attention To ths speech
EVASION on THE ThEITT or 1851.
The Hon Henry : Randall, IN NoOJes Rural Ntu-
Yoyie. of the Doth day of last January. publishes
LETTER Of his to the Hon Samuel Hooper chairman O
q subcommittee that has especial charge ol the WOOL
and WOODEN interests. from which letter the following
important facts principally derived - To eNtens
i've pvaSiOns of the law III a quarter ltle expected
when il was framed IN 1854. By That law, duty oil
.O prr cent adj NalOrcm was levied ON sheepSkins
ami AugoTa gOat-sklnS. raw az manufactured iu-
ported with the wool Oh. washed oi unNdslled
IL was little thought by the trainers OF the law
thai fine time would soon. OF ever come. when sheep
would he slaughtered that their wool might he sent
IN tb. fuited States under this lOW dutyOut sol
has turned out: and now the flock owners III buenos
ANres Cane of Good Hope, Australia, ana OtleF
rountrirs are killing McrlnO sheep. on whose SKINS
the wool has been allowed To grow untl 1T Is 10 some
&c. tnir inches in length. Mr. Randall, having OBJ
tanned the necessary information from the custom
Houses ~ New York and Boston, estimates the l~S
Ia the National Treasury by tins evasion ol iho IdN
al nearly half 81 a million Of dollars, the lnpoia
lion ul skins from BuenOS ASieS nav ny Ii>Cn Honl
80 in iC,s TO ~ ~ SKINS by the middle of Noyem-
her in 1862 The estimate in pounds oil WOOL mus ~
married. from th, one country brng. rs gwen ny MI
E,ush the officer who has the appraisal OF woolln
charge at the NeW-York Custom House, al H,'I-
pound, in 1866 and in 1862 al l,i'3:lG pounds.
MANY more figures are given 10y Mr.. Randall, upon
=, L;rb he comments As follows: The rate Ot IN
crease in imports since the enactment of the tar OF
lS, admits 50 lar Is have been able Ia observe oil
bu, one a planatiOn and that explanation Is very
distinctly suggested by the following facts: rake
for example the average pounds OF wool on the
washed BucnOs Ayrcs skins landed between Maich
Isl, and Nov 1G 1889 at 81. so pounds. the Gov
eminent receiving in duties on the same $JI2tl. II
! this same number of pounds had been imported OF