Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-03-05
THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

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| The value of the Manufactured Woollen
Goods annually consumed IN Great Britain is
estimated by Sir f. NJ. Eden at eleven millions
sterling CS48, 1888, 1851 The average value of
the same goods annually exported is seven mil
lions sterling 1881. ,112.] Thus the total
value of the annual produce of this manufacture
in Great Britain is eighteen millions of pounds
sterling 1880, O0O,000.] The value efthc wool
or raw material is given at six millions 1876, 666,
6661 leaving twelve millions ofpounds 1858, 1888,
1881 as the aggregate amount of profits and wa
ges. The amount of wages is estimated at e.
5000 sterlins-[9, 100000 leaving G9, 84O,-
O0O-(S43, 1888 1888 as the total annual amount
of wages
The work people can on an average earn
f15-lS64 81 cents year. five divide the
gross amount of wages E9,84O,0 900, by this sum
we have SIG, 900 as the total number of work.
men and the Ednburg Review thinks it quite
moderate to double the number of workmen to
get the whole number of persons supported by
the wages of labor in the woollen manufacture.
Exclusive therefore of master manufacturers
and those who live by the profits of trade, not
fewer than 100000 or one thirteenth part of
all the inhabitants of Great Britain are support
ed by the Wooen Manufacture of which more
than one third is regularly exported to other
countries.
1t is admitted in the official reports of the
House of Commons that the woolIen trade is on
the decline in Britain, and that they are far from
possessingin the Woollen Manufacture, the same
decided ascendancy that they do in the cotton
and hardware manufactures. We may venture
the opinion that the ascendancy in these manu-
features arises principally from the great capital
engaged in them and of the superiority of their
experienced workmen and of their machinery
&c tod flo De-
that the French, Prussians, and Saxons, manu-
facture fine cloths of superior quality to any
that are manufactured i'll England" Mr.. ia
cob in his account of his Travels in Germany,
in 1920, states that in &c the towns of Eupen,
Aachen, Montoie, Stobling and Malmady, they
prepare from the native wool the finest cloths
| and cassimeres The annual value of which was
about FL 10000 sterling [S5,555,5551 and
they give employment to $4,000 workmen as
well as to every kind of machinery that has been
invented in England and elsewheren A cum.
mittee of disinte.ested persons appointed for the
purpose decided unanimously in favor of the
| cloths of Eupen as 'ssuperior in quality anc
lower in price" than any which can be made in
England.
'sOf all the continental manufactures, saws
the Edinburg Review, the competition, of those
of Prussia aud Saxony is the most serious to this
country. We find their acootlens and linens II
every quarter of the globe.* They come into
contest with us in all the markets Of the cont
nent and in those of North America Brazil ane
China" Orders have been received in Britain
from Russia to discontinue sending them fine
cloths, because they procure them of as good {
quality and at a much lower price from Prussia
and Saxony. The average amount of Wool i'm.
ported into England, for ten years SUCCESSFULLY
amounted to eleven millions of pounds. A duty
of six pence a pound III cents1 has recently
been laid on all wool imported into Britain. This
duty is considered as one cause of the decline o.
the Woolen trade in Britain. 1t is yet however
of great Importance and magnitude.
1t is thought that this statement of facts may moi
be altogether useless, at n time when PROPOSE
ton to lay a duty on foreign wool is before oul
national legislature. Although our Wooller
manufactures are comparatively of little value
yet we manufacture all the wool we grow, and
much that is imported. policy of laying q
duty upon a ra,o material imported for the use
of our manufactures, at all times questionable
maxwell be questioned in this case, even though
at first view, it may hold out promise of advan
tage to our Farmers.
*" Even handed Justice" is now returning the
poisoned chalce to the lips of those who first ADM.
nistcred it. In 1896 the British Government wish
ing to get rid of some hundred Irish rebels made az
| agreement to transport them for Soldiers to thei
august Ally the King of Prussia. There were ac
cordingly, without any trial, some hundred Irish
men shipped from the north of Ireland for Prussia
The King ofthat country then turning his at
tenton to the encouragement ofhome Industry, an,
instead of making soldiers of those Irishnen, pu
them to growing flax and weaving Linen. Hence
it is that the Linens of Prussia and Saxony arr
now driving those ofIreland out of the market.
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