Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-19
CORRESPONDENCE.
Communicated
Protection to Industry.

Protection 10 AuuusbS' l-
After 1924 when tho result Of the English
corn laws had been fully felt, producing sheir
influence on the agricultural Interests o. the
country, the farmers of the Middle Slatrs
and those of the Northern and western
States were willing to unite their efforts with
those of the manufacturing to induce Con
gress to enact higher duties for mutual pro
lection. The Congress of 1928, after much
discussion increased the duties. The bene-
fetal effects of which were ut once perceived.
We find by the statistics of Massachusetts,
published in 1887, the result of those meas
ures on American industry, particularly. in
the Northern and Middle States, notwlth-
standing the decline in the policy OF protec-
ton after this period. In 1887 Massachus-.
etts alone contained 2S2 manufacturers OF
cotton employing 10000 spindles 1907
males and IA, 757 females hands consuming
thirty millions two hundred and seventy-tive
thousand, ninc hundred and seventeen lbs.
of cotton, making one hundred and twenty
six millions yards of cotton cloth, at the
outlay of thirteen million filty-six thou
sand six hundred and fifty nine doll8rs,
and employing capital of fourteen millions
three hundred sixty-nine thousand seven
hundred and nineteen dollars. OF wooden
manufactures Massachusetts contained the
| same year one hundred and ninety-two fac
tories, five hundred and one machines CIV
ing employment to three thousand six nun,
bred and twelve women, and three thousand
four hundred and eighty-iive men, consum-
| ing ten millions eight hundred fifiy-eight
thousand nine hundred and lightweight
hounds of wool, and making l,000,3lS, i26
Yards of cloth of the value of 100000, 800,
S07, employing II capital of $4,000, 10, $50.
| Other branches of industry tlourished IN
like proportion. The whole manufacturing
industry of the State, exclusive OF ship
building, amounted to $50, 0O0, 900, employ
ing capital of $50, 600, 600. The popula
ton of the State was 70l ,000,33l, of whom
those employed in manufacturing industr,
were 1889
A historian OF those days says in thi
manufacturing population there were Meth
er misery, or coarseness, nor vice in de
gree to demand notice; on the contrary
among laborcrs OF both sexes prevailed th,
most severe morality, cleanliness, and eve
elegance in dress in libraries founded TO
: their own use, were seen books of the mos
instructive character; their labor neithe
exhausted their strength, nor their cheerful
ness their food was wholesome and abun
dant; the most part of the young girls Al
able TO lay up a marriage portion.
Such is the picture of prosperity of sill
gle State, induced by proper tariff for tn
protection of industry Let us look at tn
/ condition of the country at large, and st
the effect of protected industry upon il, an
behold nation in the highest state of pre-
perity, and entirely free from debt. Let Il
advocate of free trade, the modern share
of Democracy, point me to a time when o'
+ country so fiourished as under her highe
:, tariff Of protection.
Such would have continued the State OF Il
II f,r eli III mnr N
y To check the rapid increase of population
{, the North, they struck down, by the aid
Q northern "doctaces," the tariff of lS3
i These g Doefaces" lcagucd with Southcl
a rebels constitute the present Democrat
party oil the country, so says the voice
:, history. A. L. osMoNp.
u CANTERBtlHY. Nov. T.