Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-03-05

make their flax and wool INTO cloth by the
domestic process-sOme parts of which, as
before shewD, required the work OF 700 per-
sons 10 perlurm what two will do With the
improved machinery ofthe present day-and
which but for the combination of Tariff and
Credit would not probably have been intro
duced for centuries to come. As well might
we plant an acorn in the middle of Broad way
,-(the principal street in New York. and ex-
pect il TO grow to tree, without u fence tn
guard it, as TO expect that business requlr-
Ing the experience and capital (nr its nearest
equivalent, credit,) that manulactnring by
improved machinery docs, should be abie
without protection 10 compete with the cs'
tabshnents Of old countries surrounded by
oil the necessary cOnyeninnccs and accom-.
pnnyments.
Du. to return from this digression-The
negro cloths manufactured by tho writer. at
this period, were sold at about 80 cents per
ward, both before and for a short time after
The tariff Of Saskatchewan the laborer was
so poorly PAID, there was no proht derived
from the manufacture. The impulse given
by the tariff Of 1916, caused some more labor
saving machinery TO be introduced: and
in 1870, II small mannfactOry for cardng and
spinning by machinery wos erected.-As
labor saving machinery continued to Improve
and to be used, the price Of labor gradually
rose, and the value nf the manufactured ar.
ticle fell. The first female the writer ever
employed in n inanuaciory he paid one dol
lar and quarter per week, and the woman
boarded herself This was IN about the year
1890, from which time until 1885 or 1886
labor Of every description has constantly ad.
ya nd ut Ian lett tp and
family answering 10 the one before described,
would earn as follows:-
Father Of the family would receive
u dollars per month, and boarded, $lGS,OO
Eldest son, 20 years Of age, $l7 per
month, and hoarded-G Gn many in-
stances double this su,n,) 2O4,CO
Eldest daughter, 80 per week and
boarded. I'm many instances nearly
double this sum- 1O1,OO
Daughter ID years of age, 81 so cts.
per week, and boards herself at
home, las betore) l3O,OO
Son l3 years of age, 81 per week,
and boarded, 52,OO
MolIer and youngest daughter keep
house. -
S6JS.O0
Thus showing that the same description OF
family that formerly received $50 dollars Tor
years serylccs,--now under Mt van Bu-
ren's False syElem," receive S66o,C0 or
nearly four times the amount--at the same
time ,bat the wagos Of the lHborer have SO
mach increased, such has been the effect
produced by labor saving machinery, ex-
pericnce and strict economy, stimulated by
domestic competition, that the article oi man
uiaclurc hos fallen more than one half,-the
same article selling for 20 10 % cents per
yard, TINT formerly sold for fifty, while the
cotton Of the planter has been raised, as be.
fore shewn, from 10 cts. to l5 cts. per pound.
and the wool Of the farmer nearly or quite
doubled in price. ]; is true this article has
not fallen so much in price az the goods made
entirely of cotton, as shewn in previous
statement.-rhis is owing 10 so large pro-
portion of IFS value being IN the stock, which,
us before stated, has been much advanced ~
price.-The actual cost of manufacturing the
goods has probably diminished nearly a.
much as that Of the cotton goods before de
scrbed. In fact the whole price paid for the
cost Of manufacture is now, with the cxccp-
ton Of The stock and materials. cons derabv
less ihnn was formerly paid for spinning the
yarn only And should our present wise
rulers invent some plan by which the manu-
featuring laborer cun afford to ,rok for moth
ing and b0ard Mtmstires, ii cannot materially
lessen the price OF the goods 10 the southern
planters, unless the wool aud cotton OF which
they are made, should be reduced in price
also.
The cos, Of labor formerly expended on
yard OF these goods, independent OF the cot
Ton warp aud materials for each yard, wa,