Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-07-15
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" BTy. Some of the British papers have coi
I ssinpsaensl5 remarked that TIE United States
had nothing il The London Fir, and several
OF our citizens after a i,asty walk through the
i the place Of exhibition. and glance at
London pnpcrs came to The same conclusion.
md proclaimed. thai Che show made them
ashamed Of their country. Although there
Z may have been some, there was ectainly very
little ground for either Of ihcsc assertions
u was not true that We had nothing in tho
exhibition uor had our citizens any cause
to blush for their country a little obscrya.
! ton would have consinced them Of that fact.
We do not believe any nation made fuller
I display Of staples than the United States -
Or WOOL, cotton, wheat. corn, -four, minerals
etc. we're uncqualled. In manufactured goods
VS. were perhaps surpassed by France and
England. We form this opinion from various
accounts Of the great Fair. II is true, we
must yield tue palm to other countries for
manufactured goods. Why is it so? As a.
New York paper states, the fault is our own
1t IS want Of proper pride IL aud devotion
70 our own interests. Every sort Of patriot
ism is abundant in America but that which is
most essential--that Which aids to develop
sad strengthen the Nations productive encr-
gies, No other people buy Foreign fabrics
extensively in preference to the equally
cheap and more substantial products of THEN
own looms, yet ours do it haIitually. had
testimony after testimony from American
merchants on the voyage over, ar well os be-
fore and since, that Foreign fabrics habitu
: ally sell in our markets for ten or twenty per
cent. more than is asked for equally good
American products, while thousands Of pieces
OF the latter are readily sold on the strength
q fabricated Foreign marks at prices Which
they would not command, to customers who
would not buy them, il their origin were
Known. Thisis certainly disgraceful to The
seller-what is it 10 tle.buycr?' The mer-
camille interest naturally leans toward the
{ luore distant prediction the margin forpro-A
lit is larger where an ARTICLES brought across
? an ocean, while the cost Of hone made ar
ticie IS SO notorious that there is little chance
I st putting on large prpft. Give American
producers the prices now readily paid through
out our couptry for Foreign fabrics, and they
sill grow rich by manufacturing articles in
no respect inferior to tie former But with
only share of the American market, and
this mainly for the coa,scst aud cheapest
goods, while the Purchasers of the most eostl,
and tancilul, on which the larger profits arc
made. must have 'Fabliouc dc Paris or
some such label affixed to render them cur
rent, cur manufacturers have no fair chance.
While fools could be found 60 buy Cashmere
shawls, costing fifty to a hundred dollars
Tor live hundred to Il thousand. under the ab
snrd dclusion that they came from Eastern
ASA, the fabrication aud the profits we're
European; let an American begin to make
just such shawis aud tl.o secret is out, 50 the
p!re sinks at once to the neishborhood Of
the cost Of production. So wth De LANES
sisCounterrancs, Brussels Carpetngs, aud fab
rcs generally; and yet Americans viii talk
as though the encouragement given by Pro-
teetiye duties to Home lIanufactnres were
given at the expense Of our consumers.
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