Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-01-19

Sence il they desired, the bushes, of the govern
ment could not be suspended, out OF compliment
TO the ladies or their advocate TuoYs
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For tho journal
Commissioner Wells on the Revenue
This notable official Is out again, @, be bias ap
poarcl annually. for the last three or four Year,.
in the specinl service of the frec-uador.. This
time he goes directly at the tariff on wool and
woolcns, recommending a total ubrocatlu of 40
duties on foreign woods anl dyc--tuas, and a re
ductiou to twenty-five percent. ad yalorcm on the
fabrics of wool The effect of this would De. if
carried out, total annihilation of the produc-
ton Of all fine wool in this country, and pr,ba-
bic destruction of the manufacture of wool to the
detrment OF the prices Of labor for who is So
short-sighted as TO believe chat manufacturing
can be done in this country i'm competition with
England, France, and Germany, with only duty
of twenty-five per cent. 10 our favor, with labor
at cost of seyentyiiye TO one hundred per cent.
higher here than in other countries?
Fine wool can be grown in South America and
Australia more than 100 per ct. cheaper than u
this country, taking the average of the whole
wool-u1wing regions OF the country. These are
not mere assertions hut facts, capable Of demon
staton, and which have been clncu-sely shown
from time to time within the few past years. and
which there is now neither time nor space TO re-
peat; and what possible use ii, there n wasting
ink and paper in an ondcay3r 70 undcoeiye and
eulighten those who are welded 90 - preclnceiycd
anla determined opinion2
Convince man against lswu
Andhes of tlc SAME opinion st.ll.H
This notable parsonage, in hi. immaculate wis
dom. goes into tie history of the origin OF the
present tariff on woods and w51Ieus and because
an the good results anticipated have not been re-
allied would have as believe that it ha. been the
primary and moving cause of the depression OF
pricoe now existing in these articles. But he is
most egrcgiou-ly mistaken in h. views The facts
are not a. he states them 10 the thrift Of March.
1867, the details OF which were previously arr
ranged by n committee of wool growers and man
uiocturers, though very much more protective %
the latter than to the former, has not been and
is not now, carried out 10 the spirit and intent of
that law. In that act fair protection is given
to three descriptions of wool. ris to merino
blood, and grades. English blood combinr woods.
including down clothing wo3ls, and the hair of
the Alpacca. It then designate. the coarse and
hairy woods in a class. (3l} MS carpet-wool. and
puts but low nominal duty to this class. which
mostly gets iu mt three cents Der pound. IL theu
recitc- rather indefinite clause, the intent of
which was by the committee IN the wJll-growine
interest, TO subject all woods not clearly belonging
to the third class, Carpet wool+) 70 the duty o.
the first class (merino bIood-,) which is ten cents
per pound and eleven per cent adyolorem. This
was designed by the woogrrvers as the "sayng
clause, but 1t has saved nothing. The manu-
iacturers, as Inns ever been The case imam arrange
ment of tariff, were Ton much for tine wool
growers, and this 'qculg clause has amounted
TO nothing. No woods pay the higher duties, ex-
cept the merino, English bIoods and Alpacc-a
comparatively small amount TO the whole im-
portations.
There is Left SOME seventy or more different
kinds Of wool, grown in various countries, much
u9'u ior Cio'n'us P"iloac7 ''' ''''u s'A''' 'u1'
Is importer at tnree ana SIX cents per pound