Mississippi advertiser. [volume] (Aberdeen) 1842-1848, 1845-02-08
From tho Nashville Union)

| CoTTeN MAKERS AND COTTON MANUFACTURERS.
| The statement contained in the article belo'
from the Philadelphia Ledger may be relied on a
stubborn facts. They will be found of vital impor
lance to the great agricultural interests Of the Scat
and West. We would gladly impress upon tn
mind of every farmer this important fact-tha
whilst the cotton manufacturers enjoy a protective
duty on coarse cotton goods averaging at least flor
so to 100 per cent, the very same goods so pre-
tected 10 this country are taken to China, to Sou
America>and even to England itself, and in thes
countries sold at cheaper Iate than the BIRTHS
goods Of like quality!-Then it turns out to be ru
as We have long suspected, that osr protected man
ufacturcrs CRY their goods to China and sci
them at lower price than they sell them at thei
own doors in this country. The reason is, that ii
this country they have virtually no competition
and by combination the price is fixed upon the wei
known principles of monopolies; but when the.
get to China, there they have no protection--ther,
they meet competition; but in despite of British
competition they sell their goods, and sell them n
lower prices than to their own native American
fellow citizens. They have the home market Sc
cure by virtue of the protective Tariff. and there
fore, they feel none Of the reducing influences o.
competition in that market. IL the American man
ufacturer of cotton can undersel the British manu-
did man tell us why there is any necessity for a
Protective Tariff, unless il be to enable the Amer.
lean cotton manufacturers to monopoize the home
market and arrange the prices to suit their own in.
terestsl Will the reader ser,o sly ponder over the
facts stated below, and give them as wide acircua.
ton as possible
"AMERtcAN AND BRITISH MANUFACTURERS
The news from England by tho Caledonia, if not
politically, is commercially important; and in no
slight degree, rs it shows the progress of Ameri-
can manufactures, in successful competition with
those of Eagand. AT a meeting of the Manches-
ter Chamber of Commerce, resolutions were adop-
ted, urging upon the British Government the re-
peal of the dnty on raw cotton. This duty, being
only 5.l6ths Of penny on the pound of cotton of.
fords now on the quantity of cotton now consul
med in England about ESQ 900, or about 1880
0OO.-This amounts, at present prices of cotton, TO
tax of ten per cent. The English cotton spinncrs
estimate the advantage of the American cotton
'pnners over them in freight, time and other con-
siderations at IA per cent and this added to the
duty. increases the vi hole advantage of Americans
to "a per cent. This difference, according to the
statements made by tho chairman on opening the
meeting, imposed upon single manufacturing
house in Manchester a burden of EGO, 000or $780,.
900 annually, competition which no single house
could longer endure. A member of the meeting
stated that no found American cotton manufactures
in every foreign market in successful competition
with his own. He also quoted Mr.. Thorn upon
the commerce of China, who said, that ofthe "grey
long cloths" imported in China, one-half were
British, the other half were American; and that the
"domest tics" were entirely American, the british
''fnding ii impossible to compete with the American
in that article" A member of mercantile house
in London, n member of the meeting, made some
statements very interesting to American manuiac-
lures. He said that the duty on raw cotton had
rsen in ten years, from f370, 900, or 81, $50 O0O
to 9743 900, or S37 200, that upon recent
sale of cotton at Liverpool, the duty amounted to
ID per cent He added that in 1912, tho con-
sumption Of cotton in the United States was only
about 1884, 900 bales, and in 1914, 1877 900 bales;
md that to the last must be added 100 900 bales
or household manufactures. This quantity ex-
leeds that Of American cotton consumed in Brit.
lin in 1926, and cotton Of oil kinds consumed 1920
He added that in 1871, the American cotton man
fractures exported to China, amounted to $685..
300, and in the first nine months of 1913, to ST..
100000. In 1910, the British exported about
30 900 bales of cotton manufactures to Brazil, and
n 1843, only $4,000; that the Americans sent to
he Market in 1910, 6,l00 bnles, and in 1913, T.
300 bales. Another member of the meeting stated
hat he once had an extensive trade with South
Americans in cotton manufactures and was now
entirely driven from it by the Americans.
"These facts are highly important They prove
hat in coarse cottons we can drive the British out
If foreign markets. Why7 Because we have the
over them in all the elements of manu.
acturng, excepting the price of labor, and our ad.
'an,ages are more than equivalent for their advan-
age in that element They prove that our man.
lfacturors need no protection beyond sound, sta
lie, clear currency, and stable legislation. Even
[arf for revenue docs not aid US in foreign markets
These statements confirm that of the Russian agent
ent to this country few years since by the En-.
'erof Of Russia, TO examine and introduce into
Russia the latest improvements on cotton manu-
acturing. He went first to England, and saw
most of the English mills fabrics ready for market
tamped with American marks. Inquiring for the
eason, he was told that the Americans made
etter article than the English and that to insure
sale in foreign markets, the English were com
elled to counterfeit American marks and sell
heir fabrics as American.-"Then," said the Rus.
ian, america and not England, is the country
Or me to visit in search of Improvements in cotton
nis;" and accordingly no discontinued his re.
earches there and pursued them here.
"But these facts are important to our agricultural
lterest. The leading interests Of England arc COM
,ercial or shipping, and the manufacturing, and |
lese two arc at war with the agricultural, which
assesses burdensome monopoly. IL the govern.
tent surrender this duty to the manufacturing in,
'rests, twill next be compelled to surrender the
orn laws The increase of Gotten manufact uring |
our country and continental Europe, will drive
10 British Government to extremities to save
tal national interest, their own cotton manufac.
Tres; and ior this purpose, they must not only re.
uce the price OF the raw material, but reduce the
rices ofprovisions. Therefore, tho necessity Of |
10 cotton spnners for relieving themselves of the
nty on raw cotton, shows their necessity for re.
owing themselves of the corn laws"