The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-11-28


OF bad harves That OF 1851 had other
effect than give imp ulse TO the import OF food, and
check of mater ials Not only because the high
price of food in England decreased the demand for
clothing but because the urgent demand for the Of
transporting food the transportation OF bulky
ma erias from a distance, feights high. When
demanded 80 cents per bushel freight for wheat IRON
New York Liverpool the transportation ofraw materials
was costly In that fact recognise the insurmouua.
BILE obstacle which England encounters to her further
progress Steam has done what extend by quick
and cheap transportation the surface of her soil but the
has made cheaply available the great
sources OF western America. The why the Uni ed
States successfully rvaed England is be-
cause here has been absuIdy pracsed tho policy which
her situation compelled her pursue that Is TO say, food
and materials much TO transport them to New
as TO Old Engand-while the latter, having pa,
works them up better advantage after she gets them
Cotton has been via New Orleans IRON Mississippi,
from Michigan, flour from Ohio, iron and coal from
yvania, rice from South Carolina, hemp and fax
from Kentucky-al destined for Boston, for the
mills in the interior, reached by land carriage
They there been wrought into fabrics Tor sale in the
South and West, through the hands OF New York
chants To keep up this waste fu system the New England
gentlemen demanded the imposition by Congress
duties sufficiently high 70 cover all these Interpretations
back and forth, and leave handsome profit to the mill
owner. Internal transportation has now In the hands OF
individuals laid bare the of the West and there
found WOOL cotton hemp, fax COAL ron land and food
In abundance where, without any OF those disadvantages
OF ransportaton which both New and Old England
SUBJECTED they may be wrought into textile fabrics Is
be observed that while England imported in 1919 TO-
100000 qrs grain, worth 500 O0O and also 700 000
900 lbs of other articles OF food worth S40O0O00-
say together an increase Of without ntion
ing $50 900 900 in materalstbs value Of the
textile fabrics exported In 1Si9 E0,44,956, against
Gse In S2so great has been the dimnution of
value In the manufactured articles caused by increased
com eiition and improved machines. Il is now OBJ
vious that the Of transporting the materials bears
continually increasing ratio TO the goods Thus, at
ten cents the present freight Of bushel OF grain
from New York England, the transportation OF grain 10
England cost "a 500 in 1919 than In 1912 The
freight of cotton onc-thd of cent pound. at which
rate the food materials 1000 than in
1912; or other words the gran food and raw mstealsn
1912 cost 81 freight and the articles Ia 1919
cost SIS freight while the ported fabrics brought
no more This was over Sll,O00,0O0, five per cent
the This operation IL Is which has
driven the manufacture Of the goods or those OF
which the material constitutes the chief cost to the To-
cses where they produced, Wis the western county
Now Now England claims protection against fine goods and
requires all duties removed from materials and coarse
goods But the ard southern countries from the
force Of natural advantages wereble successfully 70
compete with long established New England wi'nou. pro
lection why cannot the locality, with It's boosted In
eenuity compete with Old England in mere matters OF In
dustry7 Why should Boston and Lowell demand special
privileges from that government whose laws they nave
spurncd and refused obey In other respects u mey
is ,cir mills kept operation through the influence OF
aer.i laws which tax other citizens of the Union for their
beneH they should least respect other laws enacted oy
Congress. It is they are becoming but burden npon
the county IL they put threats oil secession In opeson
Inc choice of tho other States will be only between New
England and Old England and the former admits that the
latter s the also supply that Of which the people
stand In need. The great West now, with its abundant
materials win, with the South longer receive dctaon
from or psy tribute either England, Old New. While
they NJ Of they ready 70
supply any Of food those countries which wan' u
most and can pay the best for It, .a4 .sl..