The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-10-10


british BOUNTIES TO BREAK
DOWN AMERICAN MANUFACTU.
RES. FORCING BRITISH GOODS AT
AUCTION SALESUPON THE AMER
ICAN MARKETS, A PART OF THE
SAME SYSTEM.
In a letter from BENJAMIN Marshall. Esq
of Troy, long an importer of New York, and
now a manufacturer, to Herman Bruen, ESQ.
ofN. Jersey, is the following important post
script:
"P. S.--Respecting the bounty from the
British government, we were allowed Sd per
yard on all all our printed and stamped goods
imported into this country during the years
1903 to 1912, and, in consequence fre-
q%uently sold prints for less in New York than
We purchased them in Manchester. The
bounty on our imports amounted to S30a
$4,000 pei annum."
This, to as al least, is a new fact, and one
which should forcibly arrest and arouse pub
lie attention. From 1903 10 1912, a period
of mine years prior 10 the late war, it appears
that the British government paid one impor.
ting house in N. York from $4,000 to $50
600 per annum, as a bounty for their. impor-
tation of British goods, so that they could
sell Manchester made goods lower ia New
York than they could be bought for in Man
chester. where they were madei- How ma
ny thousands, if not millions, were paid, or
are now paid, or are TO be paid, we have not
the means of ascertaining. We have, how
ever, in such a fact as this, a clue TO the op-
%erations of the British government upon 9TH
er counties.
This bounty money, we know, too, must
come from the secret service and of the Brit
ish goYernment--for no account Of it has ey-
er appeared in The regular appropriation of
the Legislature, or in the published expen-
dilures OF the Treasury. Thus the Ameri-
can manufacturer and mechanic has 10 con-
tend with two influences in Europe: lst, its
pauper labor, and low wages, and next with
the secret service fund, which is filed by
heavy taxes upon these very half starved la
borers!
We have, loo, in this development from Mr.
Marshall, a clue to the auction system for the
sale of British goods in this city, by which
British fabrics are sold for less than they cost
in England. IL has long been known that
the British manufactures were in the habit of
throwing their surplus goods upon the New
York maIket, i'll Older 10 sell them at any
price, for the chief purpose Of undsrselling
and thus of breaking down the American
manufactures. This auction system, under
The Tariff of 1928, was completely sue
cessful in running a large number of our own
home workmen but il was often a matter
of amazemcnf, as goods were sold so, low,
how the British manufacturer himself could
stand it? The probability is, that be was re-
munerated from the secret servive fund Of
the British Treasury. The Bounty, we know
TO have been paid 10 one house up to the
time of the last war. in all probability is now
continued, and paid in England 10 exporters
of British manufacturers.
1t is of the hiehest4 importance for Great Britain
to break down the rising manuiacturies of the
u. States, and there is no doubt, the Brit st
Ministry consult tlleir Interest in any. any eve
ry way they can The very moment the. Amer
lean manufacturer ls broken down, and his com-
petition got rid Of, up go the prices of British
goods again, and the consumer in America has
TO pay hlgherfor them than ever. So that both
ito producer aud consumer, a Tariff for Protec-
ton rs a matter Of selfinterest, as well as OF ma
tonal necessity and IA tional pride.
Thus IN additon TO the public funds we know
TO have been raised in Manchester, England, to
operate upon the cleo tions OF the United States,
we ha We the secret service fund OF the British
Treasury to contend with. The fact being ex-
posed, The money will be Imperative. The Peo-
pie OF the United States can be conquered nei-
ther by the British bayonct nor British goId,-N.
Y. Express.