American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-12-04
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ed in Great Britain and in 1925 only $50 baes-in 1885,
II % 8 bales This cotton ranks with that ct New 0rlea s
S 'aliy and price, or, indeed. is rather better The
East India at from td 70 ID cheaper than common
upau1s, AID is almost exclusively used for the manufac
lure Of such goodSas manufactured at nir Own
mills and recfy mferferes with our product 10 The whotc
nscdin Great Rrit, epecahy ghen american cotton
6ears liberal Price Avn rKEs ITS IMronTAToN - GREAT
lr Rut for the protection afforded larP"
qua ttv of the cotton cloths consumed in the United States
woi We Of British manufactures of their own East India
cs:on p
9" is fact worthy Of high consideration indeed and
which should not the observation ct any one that
our manufacture OF co ton chg added 10 Me general
uSe IF or ossn peduciion--becase TIA lage par OF snc
course goods make made in England out Of the
inferior material of the Fast Indies Some ago, weu
American conn vas high, the writer OF this sa" large
quantity tf Fast nla cotton of manutac cries,
and informed that the duty Of three cents per nond
COULD be advan paid upon it, when American COT
ton was as he thinks. Is or 20 cents per lb.'
Tin 1915 when cotton was at 20 cents per Id yard of
shifting sold Tor 95 and the Of the cotton G. ID
worth cens being deducted the manufacturers had 20
cents for heir labor and profit and vet very few OF them
made money! because OF the want of machinery or Of
management and skill Yet when the price Of cotton in
o8 vas % cents. and the stock Of ward OF cloth cost
cents the price Of only u cents, leaving Is cents to
he manufacturer, and, with this advance the mate
rial, the most Of them actually ruined.
But, AZ the present time, 1897, when the price Of cotton
- cents the sorts of shrtng sold at 81 cents
leaving only for the manufacturer the cost of
HE cotton being deducted, the business ri making such
GOODS Though made cheaper than they made in England
"pfotecon has caused the consolidated flag 10 fly in
every sea, and, under this honorable emblem. goods
ransporcd promptly and cheapy than under any
ier bearing manufactures To tile most distant
eslons, where thev sold at moderate prices than
the celebrated and long established manufactures Of Eng
and whct hare dr,pen drD,ng, out eusrs
Ar' inn tHch ddmitra payment If the es
q. hs. And thus il be with DOL aud woolens, if
IKE wise policy prevails in respect to them, and
y will furnish mmens, supplies Of the raw material and
manufactured article to pass into the foreign market, and
adj their annual millions the wealth of the United Sta
why should this be so! We know of no against
tn
Many of readers Of the jngglings Of
hls, ministers and agents in McKee, lenos Ayres &c
70 keep of these markets. In of The
new republics they went so f 10 attempt the ex
GIBSON ct all coarse cottons, their own that they
might keep out ours! We recoIlect the fact distinctly
nogh cannot at present possess ourselves of the par
cellars. And is perfectly notorious that they often en-
easor to sell their goods being American-tha they
nave stamped and marked them Hut the cheat is
EASILY detected bv the infrority Of the abrck and grea
YER coatseness and less strength of the materials used