Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-19
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duction upon iron will curtail the
market for coal and ore to such an
extent as to prevent the development
of coal fields and ore beds.
Potatoes and all vegetables, as well
as beans and peas are placed upon
the free list. The present duty on
potatoes is - cents per bushel, and
on beans, peas and other vegetables
10 per cent nd Ualorem. The value
of such importations last year was
81 ,650,312 and the duties collected
1924, 53l. Should this bill become a
law, the potato raisers of Nova SEQ
could ship their produce of all kinds
here and undersell it right before the
| eyes of our own agriculturists. At
the same time the Canadian duty of
ten cents per bushel on potatoes, 10
cents on beans, and 10 cents on peas
remains in force to exclude our farm
ers from competing in Canadian mar
lets. Here is fine illustration of the
love for the farmer so often and so
vehemently professed by democratic
statesmen in and out of congress.
If our farmers cannot use their
| land to advantage for growing pota-
toes, to what use can they turn it
Certainly not to sheep-raising, for
this bill puts wool upon the free list,
and the demand for mutton would
not warrant such a step.
Timber OF all descriptions, sawed
boards, planks, laths, shingles, clap
boards and saw logs nave also been
placed upon the free list. This strikes
directly at large class of our popu-
lation which finds remunerative en-
ployment in the woods during the
winter and III saw mills during the
summer. An Ottawa paper says that
Canadian lumbermen are delighted
with the clause in the bill making
lumber duty free. 1t will if enacted
enable them to handle low grades of
lumber hitherto not touched and add
greatly to their business. But it will
not add to the business of our lum-
bermen or furnish employment to our
labOrers.
The clause putting upon the free
list marble of all kinds, rough or
quarried, and all building or monu-
ment stone will destroy the marble
industry of Vermont and the business
of the granite quarries of Barre,
Quincy and Cape Ann. But what
matters this to the leaders of the
democratic party? Vermont and
Massachusetts are republican states.
But sugar, which is more common
ly and largely used than any other
imported product, and which pays
duties aggregating as much as the
entire saving of duties claimed by the
Mills bill, is not freed from tax
Why? Because the southern demo-
cratic states produce sugar. To make
sugar free would jeopardize demo-
cratic votes. The duty is reduced
upon an average of only p per cent.
Oranges, another southern produc-
ton, are not placed upon the free
list.
The proposition to put wood pulp
upon the free list is manifestly I'M
just. 1t is a new and growing in
dustry in the northern portion of this
country. 1t requires an expensive
plant, immense water power, heavy |
and costly machinery and buildings.
Canada, Norway and Sweden will |
reap the advantages gained by the
removal of the duty. They would |
furnish the supply, and our water
power, capital and labor lie idle. Our
farmers are deriving profit from pop
lar trees that are of little use for any, |
thing but wood pulp. The free list
ing of wood pulp would result in send
ing the capital now employed here to
foreign countries, where cheap labor
can be obtained.
The cost of salt per capita of the
population of the United States is
eight cents per year. Mr.. Mills pro-
poses to destroy this industry by put
ting it upon the free list. There is
no demand for this except from Brit
ish producers of salt.-Sentinel.
1t is reported this morning that