Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-24


washed wool costs about forty-six cents
and half--making over seventeen cents
in gold difference in duty. The loss in
duties on Buenos Ayres wool alone since
the present tariff went into force APP
proaches half a million of dollars. We
might refer to other invasions of the tar
if like the "blood theory" which allows
East India wool OF unmixed bloods to be
entered in the third class, and others.
But enough has been said in this article
to show that it is the evasions Of the tariff
and not the present tariff itself, that are
the cause of the depression. 1t only needs
that the bars be put up around the pres
emit tariff, to make the wool and wooden
clause effective.
We have full confidence in the wool
and wooden tariff as the best legislation
that can now be devised to benefit equally
the ultimate and permanent interests OF
the wool grower and manufacturer and
the consumer. We are opposed to any
amendments of the present tariff, except
ing those which are necessary for the bet
ter carrying out of its original intent and
objects. circumstances which could
not be foreseen nor anticipated, have
opened an opportunity to evade the OBJ
iects of the law, by importing competing
woods on the skin at greatly lower rate
of duty, which is entirely non-protective
to the United States growers, and we
NEST cordially approve of the amendment
of the act introduced into the House of
Representatives by the committee Of ways
and means, providing that woods imported
on the skin shall pay the same rate OF
duty as other woods. We hope our Yer
mont representatives will, in justice to
their constituents, vote for it.
There is another amendment that
should be added to the bill, declaratory of
the original and evident ineent of the
tariff act of 1867, that no clothing or
combed woods shall by any theory of off
cial instruction be classed in class three,
or carpet woods from whatever country
imported.
We can but in justice to ourselves, the
Joint committee and the wool growers OF
Vermont, Indignantly repel the imputa-
tions cast by Commissioner Wells on the
motives of the representatives of the wool
producing and manufacturing interests
who framed the present wool and wooden
tariff; that such imputations are as I'M
called for as untrue.
1t cannot be that the representatives i'll
Congress from Vermont can so disregard
the industrial interests of their thousands
of friends and constituents as to vote for
modification of the present tariff IN such
a manner as that fine wool may come into
the country at as low rates Of duty as the
carpet woods now do.
A revision of the revenue laws OF the
country are under consideration, and the
question is raised whether our own Ameri-
can producers and workmen shall be re-
duced to the condition of those in the ola
world, or by protecting them i'll the enjoy
ment of the prosperity to which they
have been somewhat accustomed Of late
years, it shall not materially add 70 the
welfare of the foreign producer and work
man, for protection to American industry
means protection to the producer and
workman throughout the world, and this
nation will be held responsible for the
good or i'll that we mete out to the work
ing classes.
The shifting policy of the American
government in relation to the imposition
of import duties upon articles of foreign
production has hitherto rendered IT uu
safe for capitalists to invest largely in The
development of our country. Since the
Anglo-Saxon first secured firm foothrld
upon American soil, our country has never
quite stood stationary in the race OF Ma
lions for wealth and power hut ita grand
est strides were the results of the higher
tariff.