The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10

AMERICAN GOODS IN ENGLAND.
A Sharp Rap Over the Knuckies for the LondOI
Times.

Times.
One day last week correspondent OF
the Times brought great discovery to
the notice of that journal in the follow
ing letter: 81 CHANGED lately TO go into
a village shop where cotton goods are
sold. On the counter lay large piece
of cotton cloth or calico on which was
stamped an eagle Oh rock, occupying
ten inches, with the words, 'Ihis cloth
was made in America and second
piece, also American, with the name OF
an English firm as agent, both a penny
yard cheaper than the English OF the
same, or rather inferior, quality" We
must say Chat it takes our "enter.
prislng" daily contemporaries a long
time to find out what is going on in our
own country. Their foreign correspond
euce, as rule, is excellent; IL Hlndoo
does not get enough to eat whole Col
umns are sent about the awful incident
from Calcutta; but to events which are
llappening at our own doors they seem
20 pay no attention whatever. A fire,
| in which four creatures are burned
alive in London, is dismissed in three
| lines at the bottom of u column, while
the submarine telegraph and a force OF
special correspondents are led in to
report that a 'drunken Cossack has
| killed a Roumanlan peasant at Para
pam" There appears TO US TO be great
room for a paper which would conde-
scenu to give IA little English news
now and then. Nothing more import
ant has ever happened in the history
of English trade than the threatened
disbursement of our cotton manu- ac-
lures by those of America. Yet we
have for months looked In vain for Il
| word in the leading journals on tne sub
liect. Piece goods from the LOnsdale
Mills, of New York State, are now sold
lin eyery town in England at a lower
price and of better quality than English
goods of nomlnally corresponding
grade, Isnot the failing of OF our Lam
casuLre trade very mysLerlOus2 People
who 20 about The word wltn their eyes
snut thlnA that it ID. The tact is Luat
The Americans are Deat'ng us
IN our own tield--a fact Wuicu IL MAJ
take the political economists and CITY
editors long time u digest, but which,
Unfortunately, viii soon be brought
nome " US all by the specJ"cie OF tuou.
sands OF wUrkiugmen thrown perma.
nontly out OF employment, ana the hope.
less paralysis o. cniet source OF oul
commercial prosperity The disaster
IN gnL sLIll be waruGJ of if our mauufaC.
turers would only bastlr thems elves /,
meet ana dlslouge Lneir rivals; DuL the
are told by the city editor OF the Times
and other authorizes That it SIS only d
passing cloud" and although tAey
nave been tod the same thing 1Ol
three or iour years, and Ine cloud ha.
not passed, yet they go ON believing 1t,
and presently will be rudely suaken out
of the loOl's paradise in which they
have been siumbering We repeated,
tod the pub.lc last year in Lneso col
umns that American manufactured cot
Lon could De b ,ugnt better ana cheaper
in London than the prouucts VI Lhe Lam
cashlre mills. 1t mas taken the Tim Il
till July, 1877, to tind OUT The same piece
Of news. How long will it take our con
temporary Lo apprenend its iull mean
ing and sign. ticance ?-[ London World