The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1844-05-03

pay American labOTers ior Tie same Work
would be not benefit them instead Of the
foreigner! Is not the competition really
between the manufacturers Of Lowell and
the manufacturers Of Manchester, who shall
do the labor which is required, and who
shall be paid for il! If | employ tailor
IN London to make my coat, or bouI ma
ker in Paris TO mike my boots, instead Of
the mechanics Of my own village, do not
really aud truly give them employ meGt IN
preference to my neIghbors Do they not
feel the inconvenience OF that preference
may answer them indeed, as the honofG-
lie Senator has ausweied-lhese clothes
aud boots are my own-the fruit OF my
own industry. They are really and truly
American productions, because they have
been received ~ exchange for American
producllons-.theIe Is 10 competition,
therefore, between you and the foreign me
chanlc. II IS between GU aud me. They
would be quite likely TO reply TO this: We do
no, dispute tina, tho coat aud the boots are
+ your own property, but you hired strangers
10 make them instead Of us. You paid
them in articles which We needed for our.
selves aud our inmhcs, aud should have
been glad to have obtained III exchange for
our woIk--we wanted the employ meut and
/ the profits Of il, bu, you have gwen It 10
others, aud notwithstanding oil YOU say, we
cannot help feeling tina, it is foreign labor,
aud not American, which has come ~ CON.
petition with our own. think Mr. Presi.
dent, they would have rather the best Of
the argument.
The honorable Senator, | will suppose.
sends abroad one hundred bales Of cotton 10
bc manufactured, and the value Of it is 10
Lc returned in the fabric which IS made
from Il. Is he aware OF the immense
amount Of human labor which must be EN-
ploy cd, before It $ returned IN the finished
form II IS increased 10 value ten fold
twenty fold, aud 10 some instances ole
hundred fold or more. Now, ii the Scua
tor, instead Of sending il IN the raw s'ntc,
had employed the laborers in his neishbor.
hood IN advancing II only one stage IN this
process Of incfease--ii he had hired II spun
into yarn, and exported 10 tina, state, he
would have added greatly TO rs salue-he
would have incorporated With the value Of
the raw material, the value Of the labor Of
hundreds of his neighbors, giving them
employment. remuneratlng them for their
labor, enabling them to buy pnd consume
more and better, instead Of bestowIng these
advantages upon the laboters Of other ma I
tons. Between whom is the competition
Is il not between the spinners 10 South Car
olins, and the spinners in Manchester =
He exports the raw material, the very
smalles, part OF the value Of the manulac
tured article. |, is returned, increased 10
value ten fold. His labor IS bu, one tenth, /,
and foreign labor nine ,en,hs Of its Presen,
value. II the work had been done al home
instead Of abroad, the whole would have
been the produce Of American labor, Amor
lean spinning wheels, American shutlles
and looms, aud the whole profit would have
gone into American pockets. Pay where
IS the competitor Take another lllustra
ton. Suppose | am residing upon farm.
In order to gather my crops, want 10 en-.
ploy ten laborcrs in addition 10 those have
already. can obtain them among my
ueighbors, or can obtain item abroad.
choose TO employ the foreigners.
fMr. McDullie: Because You set them
at BALI price,
Not so. The matter Of price have al
readv considered. employ the foreign
ere pay them their wages, which they car
ry home 10 oxpcud Ia advancing their
comforts
10 the meantime, my ncighbors have
been Idle. They have earned nothing
and if they complaln to me, say 10 thrm,
there has boon no competition between
your labor aud foreign labor. These crops
are my property, pad for by my industry,
aud the only competition IS between you
and me. Ii the foreigners have carried Of
my money, have got their labor ~ cX-
change. doubt whether they would be
perfectly satisfied, that they were just rs
well Of as If they had done the labor, and
oblalucd the money, or that they would be-
lloyc there aas no competition when they
wero starving, and the foreigner was feast
Jog. Ii there be no competition, why are
foreign nations SO ANXIOUS TO do our work
+ II not because il is valuable to them
Does it not add to the comforts, the advan
tagos, the gains of their labCrers, and the
wealth of the nation But word or two
moro in regard to the effect Of tho act Of
1912 on the price Of cotton, How does
that &C, diminish tho demand for this sta.
pie. or what is tho same thing, the con.
sumption of cotton fabrics in all the coun'
tries of tho world The price Of cotton,
like every thing else, is governed by the
demand which exists for the manufactured
article, aud the supply Of the raw material.
So far as the policy Of that act promotes
our own industry, and rewards our own la.
/ bofors, i, adds to their ability to consume,
as have already shown, and portion Of
this increased capacity will be exercised in
the consumption Of cotton. This country
consumes already, | think, abou, one quar-
ter Of all the productions Of the planting
S;arcs-or nearly 50. The annual product
is about two millions Of baleu.
! MIR. Sewer said, sometimes it has been
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