Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-03
UOPE FOR NEW ENGLAND.

In recent lecture in Boston, upon the Re-
lations Of New England to the Northwest,
Carleton(C. G.. Coffin spoke as follows of
the prospect for New England when the North
Pacific Railroad shall be completed When
that line is completed the manufacturers of
New England will have it in their power to
hit John Bull blow where he will feel it,
England has made London the banking house
of the world, and herself the worlds great
commercial centre, by bringing every other
country
"Swift Ships" said one of her ablest states
men, "bring swift orders for goods!'
Look at her policy and see how she builds
herself up at the expense of every body else
She has expended $500, 100000 on railways
in India, and the Government has guaranteed
5 per cent on the interest in order to bring
down the raw cotton from the uplands of the
interior to the sea coast, that they may sup
ply the looms of Manchester and Rochdale
With the cotton from India and that from our
own country in 1869 she manufactured 32s,
900, 600 yards of cloth, which she sent through
the Mediterranean, down the Red sea, across
the Indian Ocean, and up the China sea to
Hong Kong and Shanghai.
The value of these cloths amounted to S43
100000. During the same year our own
manufacturers exported $2,327, 900 worth of
cotton goods to China England is forty
seven days distant from Shanghai by steam |;
but when the North Pacific Railway is COM
pleted, Boston will be only TWEEN three days
from that port by steam. 1t has already been
demonstrated that with our water power we
nc ma Coz t,,ra .la al,
England can with her steam power. We can
raise our own cotton more cheaply than she
can produce it in India. Every shipper who
has sent cottons to China knows that there
has been great loss on goods damaged by mil
dew while going through the tropics. Eng
fish shippers are compelled to encase their
bales in waterproof canvas with the seams
covered with gutta-percha to keep out the
moisture which saturates everything in the
equatorial regions. The new American line
will be far north of the tropics, and all extra
expense in bailing will be saved. The ques-
ton is one of distance. London is IL 800
miles from Shanghai via the Suez canal.
Boston is 1886 by land and $3.50 by water.
With 1864 miles of distance and 20 days in
time in our favor, raising our own cotton
more cheaply than England can produce hers
in India, we can see that the time is near at
hand when we can drive our antagonist out of
that distant field, and take the trade of the
500,000,000 of people into our own hands.
1t is an increasing trade. Iu 1860 England
sent 224, 900, 900 yards to that country. She
has increased the traffic by more than 100,
100000 yards since then. The prize is $50,
900, 900 per annum for our manufacturers
1t means the dotting of New England all over
with towns, cities and villages-of new Low
els and Manchesters-of thrifty, industrious
population. We can make these New Eng
land States one great hive of industry, espec-
tally if our Government will adopt the policy
which England has pursued so steadily-that
of subsidising her mail steamship lines.