New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-07

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cherish and uphold its production among ma vet
apprehend that this unlike several other brancbeI
MANUFACTURED is one of the staples On which Cboa,
labor tells SO directly and powerfully that W. oai
never make it for few dollars as it NAV bo nro-
duced for somewhere else SGI. il seems 70 ~.
plain that our true interest people requires that
we heneeforth produce it far more extensively than
we have ever yet done.
H. Because in a subordinate DEGREE Of the relatiya
scarcity and dearncss of Capital among u.s. We are
still young people and lack the vast Accommodations
of Capital that Great Britain France can boast
We have few or no tewilios that have been engaged
manufacturing for a century OF n:9re ana have
amassed wealth therein. In order to obtain tho
large capital required TO erect and stock great
mandatory we have to form joint stock companies
and drum for subscriptions every side Those who
invest want good dividends, regarding the business
as hazardous while our l0ngestablisbed and we'll
known foreign rivas can borrow at FIVE per cent.
This gives them decided advantage, which they are
not slew to improve,
III. They have disadvantage of u.s. moreover in
an abundance of artisans of eminent experience and
skill We have rapidly gained on them since the
enactment of the Tariff of 1861 STILL we have much
to learn-or rather We need to teach and perfect
good many of our people in arts wherein Europe has
yet the advantage of us.
rapidly extending, is st far less perfect as hand
maid to Manufactures than the British, which con-
meets almost every Ore-bed with almost every coal
mine on the island 1t but few years since that
the great Sterling ron-mines Of State and New
Jersey were connected by rail with tide water in the
Hudson the first railroad from Champlain
bed to the Lake was opened this Summer the
nection of our Copake columbia County, ron-mines
with the Hudson by rail is not yet complete. tOnly
last Winter saw long string of teams drawing on
sleds Iron Ore from the beds in Armenia tDutchess
County, to the furnaces in Connecticut six or Ell ght
miles away. In England railroad would have
been doing the work less than half the cost at least
ten years ago. In Missouri, Illinois, and even in
Indiana large sums are being this year expended 10
bring together Ore Coal and Limestone far cheaper
than hitherto At Pittsburgh, l Steel exten-
siyely made, eighteen months since. from ores
freighted thither from Lake Champlain New
Jersey, and Lake Superior respectvely-none Of
them brought less than 300, and most Of them over
500 miles, We shall shorten and cheaper these
routes we shall find the requisite ores at points
much nearer e2ch other. Every year Of successful
production wears smoother the ways over which our
raw materials glide TO meet each other. Give us
time
V. AS to Textile Fabrics France has great adj
vantage over us as the dictator of fashions the ar
bitter of taste while Great Britain has still greater
in tho fact that her goods obtained possession of the
worlds markets during the great wars which fol-
lowed the French Revolution, when her flag had
nearly swept the seas and her forces held at least
temporary possession of nearly all the isles Of tho
main. To this day, the invisible threads OF Conf
merco center at LONDON if CalicOes or DE LANES
Flannels or Hosiery, are wanted in Australia or
China Venezuela or Peru, the dealer looks TO En-
gland as the natural source of supply, aud is but
dimly conscious that there is any other. Facility Of
quick distribution over vast area is one OF the vital
elements of cheap and profitable production for all
fancy fabrics in day, when wide and eager de-
mand is indispensable to cheap and profitable pro-
duction.
VI Foreign fabrics have great advantages over
ours even in our own markets. because Of the pOpu-
lar presumption that their cOlOrs more durable
or their styles more attractive. We have no such
pride in wearing fabrics as has been patriot
Ically and benefcenty eynced BY other people Too
many of our merchants aud merchant tailors habit
uay disparage American fabrics and exalt those Of
our European rivals which they sell at higher prices
and larger profits because they foreign Some
jObbers having sold foreign fabric fifty cents per
yard till il has lost the gloss of novelty, will order
an American imitation of il at far lower price;
and, when il is 10 be an imitation will say,
OF course il is inferior in style and texture what
do you expect of American fabrics f'-when in fact
it is exactly what they ordered and paid for.
VII. The clues of trade, right here in New-fork.
are in foreign hands and welded in subOrdnation to
foreign interests. Let me give example:
Dr. Crosby of New Haven. Conn. recently invented
most Ingenious machinery for the manufacture of
Fish Hooks, by which they automatically fash
toned from a coil of wire nearly fast cut nails
are made-are bent pointed barbed flattened Mt the
head, &C.. perfectly than could be done by
manipulation. Every size, from pin to cod is made
with equal facility and perfection Having finished
a quantity, he sent sample consignment of them
down to a New-York house which led the trade; but
they were rejected as not of standard excellence.
Again, he sent consignment, with similar result.
A third time he tried. accompanying bis wares, and
expressing hope that these would answer-but no :
they were not up TO the mark. why, gentlemen
he demonstrated, these Ought TO suit you for Gey
are British hooks. bought from yOar Orn store. and
packed in bores 70 test Voa" OF course that did not
signify; the iobbers were resolved TO keep tho
market for their British friends aud they had tho
power.
VIII. Our American manufacturers have not rs a
class made the proper and requisite efforts to
the quality and chcapness of their Wares and
Fabrics 70 be generally known. They have confined
their efforts to the Tradethat u.s. the 0bbcrs of
great cites-when they should have appealed
directly and earnestly TO tho People Ii consumers
generally knew how much DE LANES flor example,
have been cheapened since we began TO make them
hcre-how much this home manufacture has done 20
cheaper them-that knowledge would exert a most
sautary influence. SOof Merrimac Prints, and other
of our standard fabrics. No people who wholly inn
port their manufactures are DO cheaply and
amply supplied with them as ours are at this
moment Dear bought and far fetched is trite
old saw, drawn from the heart of universal human
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