The Wool and Woollen Tariff of March 3, 1883 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Wool and Woollen Tariff of March 3, 1883 (Classic Reprint) written by John L. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wool and Woollen Tariff of March 3, 1883 The principal influence which controlled this legislation is declared to be the selfishness of the wool manufacturers of the East. Even the organ of the most influential of our industries, the iron and steel, takes up the cry, and inadvertently, as we presume, stepping out of the sphere in which it always speaks with authority, says, "because the manufacturers of woollen fabrics want cheap wool, the duty on wool must be reduced, although our farmers should thereby lose two or three cents on every pound of wool they may sell." This charge of selfish discrimination is really brought home to the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, as that association was the sole representative of the wool manufacturers in the recent tariff legislation. It is a charge which the organ of that association cannot decline to meet. We propose to answer it with the seriousness and fulness of specification which the gravity of the charge demands; but our endeavor will be to perform this duty in all possible candor, without recrimination or counter-charge, and in the spirit of absolute friendliness which, we are happy to say, has for nearly twenty years characterized the intercourse with our agricultural allies, and which we earnestly hope may be renewed. There is an old Latin maxim, to the effect, that "no honest man becomes suddenly corrupt" (nemo repente turpissimus). Now, what has been the policy of this Association for the last twenty years? Have we not kept without wavering the faith pledged at the Syracuse Convention on the 13th of December, 1865? Have we not stood shoulder to shoulder with our wool-growing allies in every assault upon the tariff of 1867, resisting one after the other the free-trade wool provisions of the Morrison, Wood, and Tucker tariff bills? Did we not, against the immediate interests of our worsted manufacturers, raise the first cry against the proposed Reciprocity Treaty admitting Canada wools free? Did we not urge the imposition of the duty on skin wool? Did not our representative first disclose the error in the revision of the United States Statutes, which would have admitted washed wools at the same rate of duty as those unwashed? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.