WOOL.
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The New Haven Register gays the tariff Of lS42
put only duty of FIVE cents the article
and duty of three cents per lb. and 30 per cent
ad valorem on the finer qualities-of which there
were only 3S6,446 lbs. imported last year-while Of
the cheap kind, at only per cent, there was i'm
ported more than twenty-three million poundsl--
the only article of the farmer which required any
protection!


But the wings will say that all this wool costing
under seven cents abroad is coarse stuff, such
do not produce and that il 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
1t is suitable for all purposes that the wool raised in
this country is fit for Ii is worked into satlnets,
cassimeres, Kentucky jeans, as well as carpets,
blankets, and other coarser uses. The whole
amount of wool raised in the United Statesin lS4l
as estimated by the Commissioner Of Patents, was
about 35 900 900 pounds. II the product up lSi5
had increased AZ 500 900, the importation of for
eign wool would be equal to one-half the domestic
product or the foreign article would amount to one
third our whole consumption.


u What wonder, them that wool here is low, when
il can be purchased for seven cents or UNDER and
brought here, paying duty of one-third Of cent
per poundi Wheat and pork low because we
have a 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
flood of foreign wool is let is 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 %, 16S, ,545 pounds. The law
lately passed increases the duty on wool from FIVE
TO twenty per cent Which party protects the
fsrmer'-H Hartford Times.