Ponola [sic] weekly register. (Ponola [sic], Miss.) 1843-1843, 1843-06-03

that no English mills produce any thing
like that quantity.
To be sure, they work rather longer
hours than we do here. They work at
Lowell 73A hours week, in other mills
in America about 75t hours. got a
return only last week from friend IF
mine, who has bean al Lowell, of the
work performed in the last new mills
which have been butt there.
We are familiar 18th the coarse drills
that we all used to make immense guam
Titles Of at once to supply .panlaloon
s,ufTs for the India and China markets,
aud now they are used all over Ameri-
ca, and which, not very many years ago
the house in which am concerned used
to make and ship TO great extent
The new mills at Lowell produce those
at Sad. per pound from the cotton, 81
cts, lin the other mills cents) which,
with the cotton, briggs the cost TO Cad.
per pound for those articles.
As to the advantage they have over
US, do not exaggerate when | state it
at upwards of Id per pound in cotton
alone the freight to the American mills
being about half the average freight to
England, and there is our duty and other
expenccs. In the concern in which
am Interested, the extra tax paid, ow-,
ing to the high price of -four, amounts
to tax of $1,000 year Upon our
mills as compared with their mills in
America. Then their water-power costs
at the highest rate 8 pounds los. per
horsepower, while the lowest rate in
this country is IL pounds per horse
| power.
| have not the smallest doubt, indeed
! am prepared 10 prove, that they can
! produce coarse domeStics, drills, and
every thing of that kind. at least I'D.
cheaper than we can. They have bca-
ten US out ofthe India and Chinese mar
kets; OF course they produce for all their
own consumption, and after little while
| have little doubt that we shall have
them introduced very largely here.
The last thing they will do is TO at
| tack the enemy in his own camp; but
am quite sure we shall see 1t by aud by;
Ofhat Think there cannot be doubt.
The rate Of wages is considerably high
er there; but the great obstacle 10 the
rapid spread of production in the Ameri-
can mill is the difficulty in getting more
spinners. When they gel the seLf-act-
ing mules that difficulty raniShe:. We
must make up our minds to prepare for
the loss Of these markets.; it is ONO use
TO disguise the fact; it is of no use any
of us saying, Il can hold out as long as
my neighbor; there is nothing for it
but TO push the weaker ones 10 the
wal.n
That is an idle and selfish way OF ex-
preston, Ito say no worse of it, which
regret too many of US have INDUCED
in. Let US take care that the strong be
not also pushed to the wall; because we
may depend upon il that, in production
there are stronger countries than we
/ are; and II we are, as u country the YEA
i ker- one, spe shall go all to the Tzif TO.
gether."
"When they get selfacting mules
4 they will compete with us in our own
markets! Well--we have them. And
phat is more, the prediction OF Mr..
Gregg is being verified for ressef has
cleared from Boston for London, w,th
four hundred bales of drillings on board!
The truth is, the old idea about high
wages is erroneous That offers no OBJ
stacle. II is blessing and a benefit
to all. Give The laborer a spring, let
him feel that the 10, which his eye
I. cpvets may be his, and, that he may
erect there his neat dwelling place, and
cluster around him his loved ones. and
be independent, through his toll, and he
will do more for his employer than the
strongest pauper who lives without hope
and labors without motive. 1t is NOR
al energy after all which builds up ev-
Eery thing. Without it We are power
less. But the facts which Mr.. Gregg
mentions speak for themselves and put
at rest this poor and idle fears
"But another reflection forces itself
upon the mind Whence this success
Why is it that, young as we are, we
are able to compete with so rich and SC
powerful people? 1t is because our
manufacturers were helped by the ma.
ton in the hour Of need-it is because
the great and the good who foresawwha
we could do, If we had the opportunity
gave US that opportunity. How are ali
their predictions verified! How truely
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