The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

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These singularly clever and spirited volumes will be read
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Some of our Tory ;Contemporaries have lately
renewed the war against machinery and im-
provement, which ignorance and prejudice have
waged at all times. That new inventions and
contrivances may injure individuals, is proved
every day. The use of railroads has almost put
an end to travelling post, and postmasters and
innkeepers are suffering very severely from a
change in the mode of travelling, which is of
great benefit to the multitude of travellers. In
like manner, the substitution of power-looms for
hand-looms, of spinning-mules: for spinning-
jennies, of self-acting mules for spinning mules,
has lessened the employment for hand-loom
weavers and spinners, and reduced their wages;
but all the consumers of the products of the loom
are very much benefited by the cheap produc-
tion of an increased quantity of cloth. In all
questions of legislation we are bound to consider
chiefly the advantage of the numerous classes of
travellers and consumers, for whose benefit roads
and weaving exist ; but we are not wholly to
overlook or neglect the few who suffer by such

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THIS EVENING, NOV. 5,
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improvements.
When the question is, therefore, whether the
successive inventions of machinery be beneficial
to society, the answer is to be found in the mul-
tiplied conveniences and enjoyments which- its
use has provided for the bulk of society. The
few sufferers constitute at the utmost a very
small portion of the whole, and their sufferings
last for a brief period, while inventions and im-
provements in machinery, leading one to an-
other, benefit mankind through all ages poste-
rior to the date of the invention. When we
consider this subject, then, in reference to legis-
lation, we must remember that laws which would
tax or repress the use of machinery are perma-
nent, while the distress to be relieved by them is
temporary, and the benefits they would limit
and curtail extend through all futurity. If, for
example, the use of power-looms had been pro-
hibited or restrained by a tax, there would have
been a limitation to the great present demand
for yarn, and, we may venture to assert that the
self-acting- mule would not yet have been calie.l
into existence. With that a great number of
other ingenious contrivances would have been
suppressed, never, perhaps, to have been in-
vented, had machinery been taxed, or the use of
it restrained. The vast future benefits growing
from every useful invention, and such as are not
useful are soon cast aside and forgotten, should
be, in making permanent laws, or laws intended
to be durable, perfectly decisive against taxing
or restraining the use of machinery.
Moreover, it should be considered that even
those who temporarily suffer from' the introduc-
tion of new inventions and improvements, as a
part of the great body of consumers, share in the
general advantages the use of machinery confers
on the human race. Ships, for example, are
some of the noblest machines ever invented, and
the wants even of the suffering hand-loom weavers
are now comparatively easily and cheaply supplied
by importations of food from various places, while
the bulk of their employment is derived from
the trade which those instruments are used
to carry on. Looking at the employment of
machinery under these general aspects, there can
be no shadow of a doubt that society in all
time is amazingly benefited by such ingenious
contrivances as now "abound in England. But
as the general benefit, not special and particular
interests—as the welfare of men in the future, as
well as their present temporary enjoyment, is
the proper rule and guide of legislation, there
can be-no manner of doubt that the invention
and use of Machinery ought to receive from the
Legislature as complete and effectual protection
as any other species of industry, or any other
kind of art whatever. We do not ask for it
patronage and rewards, such as importunate ar-
tists, and importunate writers demand for the
so• called Fine Arts, but we say that it has such
transcendant merits, that the Legislature is
bound to refrain from restraining or impeding
the invention and use of machinery.
That any man should raise a doubt in Eng-
land at this day, whether the invention and use
of machinery, on the whole, auginents or dimi-
nishes employment for the people, excites in us
great surprise. Why, on what does the very
existence of all our sea-port and manufacturing
towns depend but on the invention and use of
machinery ? Ships are machines, and the great
improvements recently made in the modes of
impelling them by the adaptation to them of
other machinery, has much augmented the inha-
bitants and the wealth of our sea-ports, who
owe their very existence to the use of these ma-
chines. " Why, what," said Mr. CouttEN at the j
late meeting at Stockport—
, Why, what are Stockport and Manchester but the
growth of machinery ?—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.)
What are Rochdale and Bolton but the growth of ma-
chinery ? had not the machinery of these places at-
tracted the cotton from India, where- it was spun upon
the wheel and distaff, we should have had no such towns
as these in existence. They would have been in the con-
dition of the small town of Buckingham, and the
wretched and miserable serfs of the landed aristocracy ;
and when those Men tell you that machinery throws men
out of employment, these are my facts ; I point to the
towns of Manchester and Belton, and Rochdale, and
show .that machinery has not been the cause of a worse
state of things, but has been the increase of employment,
and;given increased means of subsistence.
Glasgow, Paisley, Liverpool, Manchester, Bir-
mingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Coventry, and two-
thirds of London, with a considerable number
of other towns, and a large proportion of nearly
all our towns, and no inconsiderable portion of
our agricultural. population, are indebted to ma-
chinery for their existence. Since the com-
mencement of the last century our population,
much of which, as all those then working with
ships, ploughs, and looms, found employment by
using machinery, has increased at least three-fold,
and nearly all that increase is mainly due to the
successive inventions and improvements of ma-
chinery. Although there is now a much greater
quantity of wealth in the country than in 1700,
and a much greater number of persons living at
numbers,
co.
tlieirnu
their ease on their property, employment has in-
creasedmTnl Lein.esuarartee, toin thfaecti,ncar
greater varietyincrease
eucihn
of employments for the people.
Those who take the opposite view seem to
confine their attention
exclusively to the few
persons whom every improvement may displace,
and wholly to overlook the still
greater number
whom it employs. The extensive
new buildings
at time terminus of every line
of railway with
which we are acquainted, the new buildings
along the lines, the great shops or factories
at
Manche4er, Bury, Bolton, London, and other
laces £6-rlocomotives, the manufacture of
P • the
number of men who are employed to guide
them; the watchmen on the roads, the addi-
tional colliers, miners, and smiths, to whom the
construction and use of the road must give work,
independent of the great increase of interchange
by facilitating it—all these circumstances, when
taken into consideration, will prove that the in-
vention of railways has, in fact, though it may
have diminished the employment . for post-boys,
e whole s
added very much to th •
um of em-
ployment.
So the introduction and use of power looms,
the effect of which seems to have been measured
exclusively by the number of hand-loom weavers
whose employment was diminished,. created a
new species of employment for a number of per-
sons who manufactured them, and gave great ad-
ditional employment to" all the -miners, snaditers,
colliers, smiths, carpenters, Scc. &c., whose la-

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