New-York tribune., 1870-12-13
Up MILLER ON UOOL.


SIR: Somebody has sent me "The Rights of
American Producers and the Wrongs Of British FREQ
Trade ReycnueGeform BY Henry Carey Baird. Phila-
delphia 1870" Several paragraphs therein are made
up OF assertion, ending appropriately with string
of odous epthets facts and the teachings OF expert
ence are smarily ignored. Your answer to the qles-
tOns proposed 1st inst by the writer III some respects 10
conceived ON the same level. ,
II is well known that ore "olect" OF Increasing the
duty on imported wool To enhance tie prce or 90
mcstc a fact sustained by your admission that the
production increased by the promise Of an expand
ug ger market" Now, neither this, nor The one
claimed M object" has been gained, the virtue
claimed for @is principle Of Protection isuwhSre'
GOnrs, truly, SAMUEL "hLhI-
Seneca FdYs. ~ J., Dec. 8, 1870
The 1iibunes Response.
NR WALLER: l see not why you should
seek information of those you pronounce In
capable of aiiording it, But. since you ash
questions, and will not look at my careful
consideration of this subject in my little work
on Political Economy. can only answer you
by citing the facts as understand them. They
are az follows:
I. While our farmers are obliged TO sell their
Grain below the prices ruling in Western
Europe, they receive higher prices for their
Wool than are paid in any other country on
earth.
Q. All the Wool that our farmers see fit to
grow is bought and manufactured in onr own
mills, with a great deal more. AT British
prices, many Millions of pounds more would be
"eGgeriy" taken.
3. We are rapidly erecting ncr Wooden mills.
The best bed blankets ever made on earth are
now made at San Francisco. | was at Mime
apolis Gals Of st. Anthony five years ago,
and wooden mill was just getting to work
Il. hn.v cir IN
that State. l was at Denver, Colorado, last
Fall, and found new mill at work there.
Another will soon start at Greeley in that
Territory. SO they are going up just where
they shOuld-among the growers of Sheep,
| Cattle, and Grain.
4. think you blunder because of our slip
perry Currency. Nearly every thing sells lower
in Currency than it did in war-times. Forty
cents per pound Currency with gold at 10 is
equal to 30 cents when gold was 140, and to
81 when gold was 27O. / judge that tun of
Wool would buy more Food or Clothing or
cold to-day than it would four or ten years ago.
). If our farmers are disappointed in any
reasonable expectation Of profit from Sheep
husbandTy, it is because we have not yet
learned to prize Mutton at its full value, or
our farmers have not learned to grow such as
ia suited to the market. In England, Sheep
are bred to profit on land many times dearer
than ours, while the Wool sells below our ruling
prices; but the grower gets So to $40 for the
carcass of each Sheep, while some Of our
growers it would seem, can do no better than
sell their carcasses for % so cents each or try
them up for talow, at the same time that good
Mutton sells in this city for 10 to % cents per
pound, and have often paid 80 to 35 cents
for Lamb. OF course, no farmer in civilized
region, where Sheep have to be fed, can grow
them for Wool only, in open competition with
others who know how to sell both Wool and
Mutton at fair price. Ed.