From the New Haven Register.
FARMERS AND A HIGH TARIFF.
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The "lords Of the loom" thought they were
mighty cunning when they got up the tariff Of I842
and supposed they had guled the farmers pretty
sentially by putting high duties all agricultural
products of from 25 to $50 per cent, while they
took the same "protecton" to themselves on their
manufactured articles. This, they pretended was
to "proect' the butter, cheese, pork, &c, Of the
farmer from foreign competition, when all these ar.
tcles exported from this country! On the arti-
Gle of pooi, which the 'lords of the loom' use in
their business and which is the only article that
comes in competition with the American farmer
they put only duty Of fue cents the coarser ar
ticle, and duty Of 3 cents per h. and 30 per cent
ad volorem on the finer quates--of which there
were only 1856 448 lbs. imported last year--whle of
the cheap kind at only 5 per cent, there was inn
ported more than twenty-three million pounds!-the
only article of the farmer which required any pro-
tcctionl


But the wings will say that all this wool, costing
under cents abroad, is coarse stuff, such as
do not produce, and that 1t does not, therefore,
come in competition with wool Of domestic growth
Those who make this assertion know, or ought to
know better. Much, indeed the greater part OF
this cheap foreign wool is Of fair quality, makes
good cloths and enters into general use. The largest
portion Of il is suitable for all purposes that the
wool raised in this country is fit for. II is worked
into satinetts, cassimeres Kentucky jeans, as well
an carpets, blankets, and other coarser uses. The
whole Of wool raised in the United States in
lS4l, estimated by the Commissioner Of Patents
was about thirty-hve million pounds. II the prod
uct up to ls45 had increased to AZ 500 000 the mpor
tation of foreign wool would be equal to one-haf
| the domestic product, the foreign article would
amount to one-third our whole consumption. What
wonder, then, that wool here is low, when il can be
| purchased abroad for seven cents or under, and
brought here, paying duty Of one-third Of a cent
per pound Wheat and pork are low, because we
have vast surplus, and no foreign country is in
| greater want Of them Wool is low not because
we have large surplus TO spare but because a
food Of foreign wool is let in upon us at nominal
duty, filling our land to the extent Of one-third Of
our consumption and taking the place Of American
wool to the amount OF 90, l66 ,545 pounds. The law
lately passed increases the duty on wool from five


to tcenty per cent Which party protects the farmer