The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-06-14
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Middlebush, n. j.
Wool and Wooden Industry.

That the tariff act of 1867 was the
salvation of our WOODEN industry, there
can be no just doubt. The opposition the
bill has ever met, before and since its
passage, from the friends of British low.
priced labor, low-priced raw material free
trade anti-Amcrican advocates, is of it.
self sufficient evidence of its worth and
business to every American citizen desir-
ing the prosperity of our own industries
IN preference to the foreign industries
The anti-American free trade) element
OF our country stands appalled, at the
present unanimity Of the American in
dustrial citizens in favoring the contiuu.
ance of the present moderate tariff on
wool and woolens.
There is no other branch Of American
industry in the whole polity Of our indus
trial products, interfered with, that would
so naturally and thoroughly arouse every
industrial citizen, as the one under cou-
sideration. Agriculturists whose special
ties are either dairying, beef raising, or
otherwise than wool growing, know very
well that it is morally impossible to de-
stroy the wooden industry Of our country
without great detriment to their special.
ty, INTEREST and for the very obvious
reason that the destruction of 37,724,2S9
sheep, valued at $50, 139,S79, (see De-
partment Of Agriculture, Report 1868, at
page 46,) or the destruction of any con-
siderable part thereof, would naturally
bring their owners, and capital and land,
into other branches Of agriculture-and
a part into all the other special branches
- and thus become competing produces
with themselves, and thereby most natu-
rally lessen the profits.
All farmers know it is quite as neces-
sary to have diversity of employment in
(all) other industries for their prosperity
and that of our common country. Other
wise, at no distant day, if sheep husband
ry is destroyed or materially lessened,
that they, in common with others, will
have TO pay higher prices for their inds.
pensible WOODEN clothing. This latter
fact has its just influence in bringing to
the support Of the WOODEN tariff all other
industrial citizens, many Of whom have
learned that it is neither profitable nor
agreeable to wear the low or medium
priced English woolens, largely composed
Of shoddy-a manufacture from old cast.
of clothing. BY whom cast of? Echo
answers, by whom English manuiac-
turers have consumed III one year Co.,
100000 pounds OF shoddy-more than
our whole clip in 1860!
1t is apparent to every pers( n that if
the wooden Industry OF our country be
materially lesseued, the supply OF cheap
meat (mutton) must necessarily rise i'll
price. as most certainly meats OF all kinds
will materially rise Tor some time Mr..
Garland said, in his address delivered at
Edwardsville, January 20 1870: THAT
New York City consumes 1900, 900,
Boston 100000, and Chicago about 30.
OOO sheep per annum, about one to each
inhabitant"
All laborers, mechanics, in short our
whole industrial population, have di.
rect sympathy and comprehension Of the
very close intimacy and oneness Of their
own interest with the prosperity of the
agriculturist
Destroy our wooden industry, and the
wooden (mil) operators must become
competitors in other industries Many
other reasons might be shown why not
less than nnetenths of our industrial, in.
habitants oppose any change in our wool.
en- tariff, not demanded by the American
wool grower and American manufacturer
in unison -MesSrS. Glenn q. Brother, in
Bee Keepers Journal and National Ag.
riculturiSt.