, 1876-03-27
Tnol{ah merchants found TINT tho American

cloth could bs sold in Germany, In Holland,
belgium, md elsewhere, In competition with
English cloth. Orlera vera sent, and Fall
River, under tho impetus, turned out 1000
pieces vcok. The orders grow 10 size; the
product increased 10 5000 pieces then, In
rapid succession, to 5000, $4,000, 1900, and
now tho milla Of TINT city ship 10000 pieccs
weekly. Ths cloth needed for export Is Of
tliflorsnt widths from TINT ordinarily made
for tlc domestic market, but mill nftor mill
has changed Ills machinery, and in due time
thcro will bo n capacity TO produce 10000
piecea Of cloth wcok, Mt which amount the
manufacturers Of TINT city have ngrecl to
p1aco their manufacture Of goods for export.
This amount Is equal to onc.foursh of tho Or
dinary product Of tho Fall River mills, and
IL, wo understand, in addition thoroto. It In,
therefore, IN increase Of tho product Of tho
city Of 25 per cent, M increase Of employed
labor 81 per cont, and an increase Of trade In
tho Same proportion.
The nverage number Of yards Is 45 to eao1,
piece, which at 10000 pieces Il week will
give give m aggregate export Of 7o,ooo,0o0
yards year, having an export value at pres
ent prices Of $3,000,00o year. But tho
production for export Is by no means oon-
fined to Fall River. Lowell, Lawrence, Man.
chester, Biddeford, Lewiston, and the Rhode
Island mills arc all engaged in 1t, and the e1-
port trade is full Of yigor.
During the week ending March there
were exported cotton cloths to tho value Of
92C8, 900 from Now York and 9175, 900 from
ak.u nj fnka1.r with
m exclusive freight Of cotton goods. The
great trouble wo havo Is, that NO have beon
30 long excluded from the trade in cotton,
and most other manufactured goods, that We
find It difficult to enter tho lists ngaln. The
trade hos been so protected that the British
merchants hayo tho monopoly, and now, or
dorp for American cottons for tho West In
dies aud South America have to be received
through London. We have not only 60 cut
our goods out Of tho market TINT they are
| comparatively unknown, but We havo lost tho
trade machinery. If We have anything to sell,
We must send it to England to be sold for
us even to our own continental neighbors.
Tho pecu]iarity Of tho commercial relationa
to which our protective tariff has brought us
IL clonrly illustrated by our trade in cotton
manufactures. Our New England manu-.
facturors have certain advantages in the way
Of the raw matarial Of cotton, but are
ta1ed heavily on their machinery and OF
many Of the materials they have to use
Nevertheless, evon o. 1t is, they oil conceds
that they can produce the goods at as low {
cost as they can be produced for in England
at the same time, they ore protected BY I
tariff cqual to 10 per cent. in coini We i'm
port largely from all the countries to which
geographically we are nearer than is En-
gland Wo might pay to q large e1
tont for these imports in gold. w
purchase goods Of Chill and Poru, AMI
pay for them in gold bills on London
and these gold billa ara used to purchaB
British cottons to ba sent to Peru md Chilli.
In 1876 VIC imported from tho countzic
namcd goods to the values given, and sol
thon in return cotton goods, the va1ue o
which is compared with tint Of tho cotto'
goods sold them BY Great Britain. Tho fg
ures nre for 1876: