Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09


our furnishing merely the rudinents Of
the worlds wealth. Why should We
produce raw cotton, and grain, ana met
ais, for foreign ships to take to foreign
lands, and foreign manufacturers to
work up for a world wide commerce
which We neglect? That is what We
have been doing. But, fortunately, the
day of that folly is past. Our exports
of manufactured goods have been large
ly extended of late. The England pa
pers have teemed with articles express
ing fears of our successful rivalry, and
William Ewart Gladstone, the great
British statesman, has conceded the
formidableness of our opportunities and
incipient achievement. in a recent pa
per, entitled. kin Beyond Sea- which
has evoked such storm of with and
alarm among his countrymen, AMI which
has been SO extensively quotel that
it is unnecessary to do more than ,llude
to it here.
In the dry goods trade, though the
Boston merchants of thirty years ago
had no little export business, the tradi-
ton alone of export was left, the large
profits at home during the war snd the
total cutting off of our shipping interests
having combined to cause its entie loss.
That has revived. So far this year We
have exported from the ports of New
York and Boston alone no less tim
10000 packages of domestics, agaiist
$4,000 in 1871, and against the nerest
nominal shipments, hardly amounting
to that total altogether, of the prced-
ing ten years. We have sold our COT
ton at Manchester itself below the cost
of British goods, and the characte Of
our work has received the high indrse-
ment of having our brands fraudulntly
affixed to the inferior productioIs Of
British and German factories, be
palmed of on the natives of India and
China.
In machinery, etc.. it is very much
the same way. Almost wherever nitro
duced the American goods are recghiz
ed as superior to the European ppduc
tions of the same kind. Amtricar
handiwork in general is ingenious
strong, graceful and very perfectly
adapted to its function; and thus i i
that we have obtained and are constant
ly strengthening our hold on the non
producing markets. 1t is noticeable
too, that it is the better classes repec
lively of the numerous American s,eci
alties that have been pushed the nos
vigorously and have found the grestes
favor abroad. 1t is the McCornic
reaper that lays low the grain fields {
the world, and Buffalo made machier
that brushes the cane and prepares fl
market the rice and coffee of the tope
Steinway pianos occupy the favor'
: position in the private concert rooms
b Queen Victoria's favorite resorts
i Balmoral and Osborne, in the saloons
d the haute no6lesse all over Europe, al
e even make musical the cabinet of L
j. heather Kink of Burmah. Fairbanl
# scales, the standard of our own custo
e houses and post Offices are in gener
e rapidly finding their way TTHffo and q
!. tories, the warehouses and eve- {
e armies of the rest of creation. Our y
l. rious patented lamps illumine the To-
ly hut as we'll as the more preten'io
e dwellings of the South American al
a Australian, and even the bamboo dive
It ing of the mild Hindoo, who clothes
IS wife in the Wamsutta cotton sewn vi
l. Yankee thread upon Yankee sewi
n machines. of which, as every one know
b thousands on thousands are each ye
ir scattered to the ends of the earth. 7
IS old Seth Thomas clocks, from Connec
" cut, hang on the walls of the Sandwi
Of Islander and the Turk. the Russian a
h the Egyptian. and watches from w
1t than are fast supplanting the Sw
Is article in their pockets. The max
J. Patagonians scrub each other VIII
1T with Colgate's soaps. American gu
in and pistols are the reliance of eve
m sovereign and Republic in either he
" isphere. Safes from our promin.
is manufacturers sit in the houses a
It's counting rooms of half the cities in
at world. guarding among their treasures
r. silverware and cutlery of Reed & Bart
ed The summers of the whole world
C. cool by ice from Maine and its whit
a. tempered by stoves from Fuller, War
C. & Co., of Troy. Our arti6cers 6
en- their works are seen everywhere. J
err anese and Chinese of high rank CO
al to study in our colleges, while our G
IT. and locomotives are CARRYING Ii
of compatriots in the howery land or un
It's the shadow of Furiyama, the b
n Mount Of Japan.
~ Is it any wonder than that we
r. called "go-ahead" nation We b
se fairly walked upon this long neglec
subject. and, although we have as
LIST hardly more than relaid the foundat