Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-02-01

TO rely on government for a steady and per-
manent system of policy designed to pro-
protect the manufacturer with ordinary ma
chinery, is out Of the question They,
therefore, have been under the necessity of
forming associations, and giving employ
ment to the most ingenious artizans and
mechanics. They send such to foreign
countries, TO examine the most improved
machinery, and to commune with the arti-
IAN and mechanic of those countries; they
eat and drink with them yea, rock the era
die. BY these means these Yankee emissa-
ries become possessed of the skill of foreign
manufacturers-possess of the skill of the
foreign mechanic.
They return TO their employers with all
this additional knowledge, 90 to work, and
make such Improvements as they consider
necessary. These improvements continue
in the hands of those associated manufac-
turers. The manufacturing of cotton and
wool into cloth by this improved machinery
has so reduced the cost of cotton and wool
/, EN- cloths, that household manufactures of
I those materials are almost out of fashion.
: We farmers, who raise the raw materials,
/: are now, by almost common consent, about
to throw ourselves into the hands of these
: skillul manufacturers.
The history of the past in relation to the
= manufacturing interest in all governments,
: goes to show that capitalists associate to-
) gether for the purpose of securing every
+ Improvement in machinery connected with
their calling and secure the patent. BY
this means they are enabled to make great
gains, when at the same time, those who
5 manufacture the same material into the
same article with ordinary machinery, lose
: their whole capital or labor in short space
: of time. The manufacturer, with ordinary
machinery, for the sake of gain, when un-
} dersold in market by his superiors, first
reduces the wages Of his laborers, then the
price of the raw material, until at length he
too must fail
Government may pursue constant and
= steady policy as regards protection, yet by
means of the great improvement in perfect
i ed machinery, in the hands Of capitalists,
t guided by the artizan and the skill of la
borers, masters of the art live and prosper,
Y while all manufacturers with ordinary ma
$ chinery, as well as those who produce the
c raw material, are under the necessity of sell
S ling at reduced prices, in order to enable
Y the manufacturer, with ordinary machinery,
: barely to live. If a mechanic invents and
4 perlects machinery whereby wool and cot
# ton can be manufactured into cloth for so
= small sum as | have represented, and
d which could not be manufactured into the
, same articl with ordinary machinery, for
s double that sum, certainly it would be for
e the interest of all concerned to have that
c improvement common stock, that all manu-
r iacturers n! -ht be benefited, and the farm
II ers never obliged to sell the raw material at
: a reduced price, in order to enable the
!, manufacturer with ordinary machinery TO
5 make gains by manufacturing.
The ingenious artizan and mechanic, for
II his invention, ought to be generously re-
u Warded out of our public treasury for the
c discovery he has made. He has become
7. a public benelactor, and merits our appro-
d baton.
:. The late perfected machinery for the
s. manufacturing of different varieties of wors-
d ted goods, adds greatly to the value of the
e wool in the hands of those who are possess
;, ed ofthis machinery.
+ For instance Take one hundred pounds
e of our native wool, now worth, say twenty
1t cents per pound let it pass through this
machinery, and thirty pounds is drawn as
IF the longest the remaining seventy pounds
,
g worth twenty-five or thirty cents per pound,
and at the same time the thirty pounds
II drawn is worth much more for worsted pur-
1t poses than half-blooded wool is for common
h purposes.
- Again: Take one hundred pounds OF
l. hali-blooded merino wool, and draw thirty
r pounds of the longest, the remaining seven
d ty pounds will sell for as much as the COM
h mon full-booded merno in the fleece. The
= cheap wool also which is imported from
e foreign countries, next to duty free, does
lie not come in competition with our native
10 wool, except in the hands of those who
l. have the improved machinery for the pur-
y pose of periecting the same. A native Bue-
he nos Ayres bale of wool in the dust no far
s. mers wife would take as gift yet in the
Of hands of Il manufacturer with improved
'r machinery, every particle of this wool has
A. It's proper place. 1t is stapled, by machine
g ry, in perfect manner, into four qualities
Is The fourth will consist of that portion
l. which is not long enough to draw, say ten
s. or fifteen pounds to the hundred, and is
h good wool for all common purposes,
80 Again: Take the halfblooded mernc
e. Buenos Ayres wool, pass it through this
tie machinery, and draw fifty pounds to the
III hundred, and the other fifty pounds j:
s. worth as much as your halEblooded merinC
wool in the fleece There are other grades
lie of this cheap wool might refer to, none Of
in which comes in competition with our native
III wool in the hands OF those who have ordin
lie AIRY machinery, Those manufacturers who
n have the improved machinery for preparing
at and manufacturing this cheap wool, car
u secure all contracts with the Government
is for blankets as well as clothing for our ar
rs my, and many carpets for public offices, &c
c. For this purpose alone, at least four mn
I'd lions of pounds, as now imported, woulc
I'd be annually wanted to supply Government
if contracts. | do not feel as though the III
lie PRODUCTION of this cheap wool has been an
oil injury to our wool growing interest. The
H. machinery by which this wool is prepared
c. and manufactured in order to come in COM
d. petition with native wool, adds to the value
I'd of every fleece of wool shorn in the United
a. States at least twenty-five cents or more, in
to the hands of the manufacturers that have
err this machinery, BY means of improved
s. machinery and low priced material, a