Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-01-09
senator >pTngue ON our uanufae-
lures,

. Snatar sprSguo, If Rh,ly Island ought
from his own personal experience, 10 he
h,ttur acquainted with the situation and
PROSPECTS II some lranchs, # mami,rtur-
ing industry, than any other public man.
although it /, possible that hi, deep inter
I 80 m the subject may color hl, view, IN
.r1iaiU respects. The following cNtrcts
trom his recent speech in the United
state, Sena,c are worthy OF general at
Iaitcptiog;
''tr ttEr rITJgv II my VISION | do not
know IT "A single manufacturing interest
that /, uut almost DESTROYED At any rate
Frustrated % The very dust | know that
thousands aud thousand If men, women
aud children, arr to-day suffering for the
want 1T employment ia consequence ol
these taxes and thi, ad,cr,n legislation
toward existing Interests,
Ihrrr Is on, Important iaet which de-
sin, a. iIapus, upon the mind ui every
senator h,rr. would rather whisper il
ta them than speak it in public. Tho
cau~, which Ia, operated 10 dethrune the
cotton The cause wAi,h la, operated
'o destroy II asa monopoly, i, what An
.nrr production Of eu,tn in this country.
y, ,ir, | am Inundated in hcing obliged
20 admit the fac, that with thi, pn.r de-
-piscd, shart->tshl,d, husky India cotton.
t'hrir Is to-day produced by the skin
and hh"r ct Englishmcn, equal 20 IL,
ls',t fabric that American machinery has
Yet been able toProducr, This Is the cau-,
II the present depression OF the cotton
manufacture in this country aud through
out the world,
There i one other point "a which |
think II II important that the Senate
should b. informed and that j. IN regard
10 the different qualities of cotton, We
hoas, Of the Sea Island cotton, ~ being
uncqualled by any, and We feel sure that
We have monopoly, in that from which
nothing can Dust rs. And vet, sir. in my
Judgment, not two years will have passed
over Us when instead of its being cult
waited as il has been in years passed il will
be- known only in some gcntleman's gar
den aS a remainder Of what once had been
and II will be merclya plant Of ornament.
The Egyptian cotton, j. to-day being in
troduccd into sevon-cight, of the finer
qualities If goods that the sea Island cot
ton was heretofore used for"
Arc We richer as a manufacturing
state in Rhode Island than We were he
fore the war say no; and know IN.
TACT myself from experience | know
that seven years of employment of the
machinery OF that State has reduced it,
value seventy per cent: Have We laid
up anything 10 meet that deficiency
Have We more lands, more houses, more
of the ncces>tricS of life; The statistic,
do not show it. We have not. We are
poorer, IN my judgment, by the $1,000
0no,ouO we have spent in this war. Il
may be that 10 offset this you may de-
duet what We have produced during the
seven years; but then on the other side
II the account, you must add that which
fifteen hundred thousand men have de-
troycd"
Now, desire to humiliate myself once
more before ! take my seat. Nv friend
from Kentucky and my tIicnd from iowa ,
nav" spoken of the drawback a, being
,ory beneficial to the American manufac-
-nrrr; and my friend from Vermont holds
to II with a trncity characteristic of. and
r.ditnble 10 him. But, sir, what do the
show In the whole range OF
my oNporicnc" do not know Of an arti-
lie that the American manufacturcl--.f34i
now produce and export and compete
With foreign manufacturers in the mark
It's of the world, even with the draw
back"