Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-11-20

Now, these two descriptions Of exports, domes-
tics and twist, we can manufacture at as low cost
in the United States as ii can be done in Great Bri-
tain, with little more experience and little less
hostility.
II we add the portion Of caicoes, printed or dyed,
being AZ, $50 500 pounds, value 672 O74, which,
but Tor the s.rangng interference of the tariff of
1916, we were in a fair way to furnish for export
as low as the manufacturers in Great Britain, then
il will be seen that all this export, except mere
fragment not worth considering consists of Just such
cotton manufactures as the cotton mills Of the Uni
ted States successfully turn out cheapest in the
end, under the system OF This country from 1916 to
1886. But for the hostile not to say spteul, sui
cidal. and corrupt change forced upon this country
by the tariff act of 1896 the result must have been
inevitable, sooner or later, that the spindes and
looms for the manufacture of these exports would
be transferred to and located in the United States,
and the profits of the manufacture be retained here,
and the profit also Of the maintenance and support
Of all those whose industry would be required in
the process, and all the intermediate movements
o the cotton previously and up its delivery at the
mills.
The sagacious manufacturers in Great Britain
saw this already in their experience. Some of them
had already, it was said, determined to quit their
mills in Great Britain and come over with their
machinery and operatives, and take advantage in the
United States, manufacturers, of tins inevitable
result
Previously, however, to 1916, at the instance of
the manufacturers, the Ministers of Great Britain
took the alarm, forewarned, forearmed" Wehad
already begun to beard the lion in his haunts. Our
manufactured cottons were to be found in almost
every market in successful competition with the
British cottons in the Mediterranean, on the coast
of Africa, in the West Indies, all over South Anne
rica in the Pacific, in the markets of the Dutch East
Indies, in China in the British East Indies even,
such competition was carried on successfully, with
an increasing demand for American cottons. Aye,
at Calcutta her Britannia Majesty's officers wore
American drills as long they could get them.
This may seem Incredible but it is true. The duty
on all manufactured cotons at Calcutta was not ex-.
ceedng seven and half per cent. Under this duty
an opening was given for the import and great
demand sprang up for American drills, and the ex-
port of them to Calcutta increased rapidly. This,
however, did not long continue, as the East India
Government soon interfered, and the result was
what we may always look for in Great Britain,
self-protecfion, not the encouragement Of a trade
upon ,chat Is called free-rade basis, but the i'm
position of a new duty of twenty per centum on
foreign cotton manufactures, and duty OF five or
seven per centum on those of Great Britain. And
so it is now. So much for this trial of Yankee
manufactures evenhanded. and its fate at Calcutta.
took the alarm, as has been stated prior to 1916,
from the manufacturers, occasoned by our success
full competition; and, first, they took off the duty
in Great Britain then existing of about two-thirds OF
a cent per pound raw cotton, thus aboshing this
duty, and annihilang its amount out OF the revenue
from imports, and yielding il up DIRECT PRO-
lection to the manufacturers of the country, well
knowing. as they did, that her manufactures were
TO Great Britain her mine of gold; and, secondly,
these Ministers proceeded to take off all mpost du-
ties on any articles or dyestuffs consumed in the
cotton manufactures They felt the struggle and
its immense importance to Great Britain, and re-
solved by all available means TO retain for their
counry-sagacious men, indeed the exclusive
power of furnishing, far possible, these cotton
exports to the world at large from their own mills,
and proceeded at once to take off all duty and ex-
else by which the cost of these exports could be
diminished as fast as possible, meaning to go into
the struggle Of competition with us with the bare
and free legs of her manufacturers in the strife
for victory and if we can be stulti6ed beforehand
by her freerade opiates, SO that we fail IN the
strife, her end is accomplished.
Our own tariff of $40, on the contrary, to the
great honor or disgrace of the Administration, euen
after this glorious exhibition Of protection on the
part of The Ministers of Great Britain 10 their
manufacturers, enacts new and higher duties on
foreign articles used in the manufacture, prepare
ton, or dyeing of our cotton fabrics, thus loading
them with additional costs to the same extent after
our Administration had seen, or should have seen,
that all such articles had been made free of duty in
Great Britain for the aimed purpose of successful
competition against our own fabrics. What glo-
rious contrast does the course of the English Minis
try present to the world in this great struggle of
competition, to that Of our Administration, re-
presented in that curse to the labor of the country
the tariff of 1916
Let us return again from this DEPRESSION to the
main facts intended to be shown. The profit on
these exported cottons is only portion, not the
whole, of the profit realized by Great Britain from
| her cotton manufactures.
The Whoe numberof pounds of yarn spun in Great Britain
in ls46 we have seen was .........4 95, 033, 100
And the weight exported ............ 354, 29l, I42
Leaving for the consumption Of Great Britain,
and for further export. lac, 1857
|
Now the manufacture of 354, 100000 pounds
exported gave profit or increased value by its
manufacture over the cost Of the raw cotton and
other materials used or consumed of $50 100000,
| tbese 11I 600 600 of mounds for the consumDtion