Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-28
1ailp iiennebet Journal.
Augusta, Saturday Morn'g, Dec %, 1873
Our Exports and Manufactures.

features of this country Is bright page
in our present material history, amply sus-
tanning the wisdom of the policy which
has made us manufacturing people. as
well as large producers of raw material.
Without the protection which has been at
forded by the government to our strug-
Cling industries. we should now be debt
ors to other countries for manufactured
articles instead of sending abroad our
goods TO foreign markets and competing
successfully therein with the long estab-
lished manufactures of European countries.
What a great advantage it has been to Us
in striving to reach resumption of specie
payments. that we have not only not been
obliged to send gold abroad to pay for the
most of manufactures of cotton, wooden,
and iron consumed by our people, but
have actually been drawing gold from
other countries in payment of our surplus
goods manufactured from these materials.
The following extract from aletter written
nv Gen W. Il. Hazcn, at Vienna, Austria,
inst published in the Tribune, presents a
very gratifying statement in regard to the
increase of our exports and manufactures.
He says:
our exports are increasing rapidly, as is
also the manufacture of such articles bear
expectation The excess of our exports over
imports for the past and present year are
$500. 0OO. 900. and is increasing at rcmarka-
bic ratio, while the causes of this are more
flattering than the fact itself
The Swiss Congress called to investigate
the causes of the decline of domestic indus
tries said their people could not compete with
American Industry" The English press
saws The story that American cottons are
sent out at loss can no longer be urged
They are seen everywhere in the shops, and
they are better, cheaper and please our
customers better than any other and of
locks and housebuiding hardware-"uness
better forms are adopted in our manutactor
les with better finish. the American article
will snppant them" In Germany. il is said
generally. and particularly of mechanics tools
and machines. 1.-THE American article is 50
PRACTICAL tasty. good and cheap. il must come
into general use" And in all European
countries the remarkable adaptabilitv of
our labor saving machines, performing
their work perfectly and rapidly
recDgnlZpu ana cOmncnupU, anu
whenever practicable they are being intro
dnced doubt if it is realized in America
how successful our people have been in
their manufactures | am informed from
the most respectable sources, that with the ex
cepton of Kid gloves. hosiery, fans, fine por-
eelain mantles and a class of hand work.
such as laces and embroderies the 'nted
States can already compete with all European
manufactures; only requiring now the cstab-
fishing of their markets for an unlimited pro-
ducion of an immense variety of manuiac-
tured articles.
Our locomotives already go to Russia. Bra
iii and Australia and for the reason. as given
by the latter country. that they are cheaper,
better and more durable than those of British
manufacture. Our street railroad cars are
sent to Europe because-as the buyers say
they are twice as enduring as those of home
make And our steam fire-engines 90 to Eu-
rope because while much lighter than their
own they can he got ready for action in one
third the time, and then do twice the work.
Our cutlery is coming into use all the world
over on account of its cheapness and good
quality while American sewing machines are
finding their way into every civilized neigh
borhood. Even the American windmill,
cheap and tasteful, may be seen in every
country. Already the annual export of but
Ter ana cHttse amounts 10 anu
that of fresh meat, trade Just upon the
threshold of existence. has become large.
The export of sailed meats has been an inter
est of immense proportions for many years
but recently canned meats and others of a
delicate variety of preparation. have found a
large foreign sale, with reasons for expecting
the export to greatly increase. The sending
l.. = a. a
ure. but il has been proved practicable and
remunerativc. Horses are exported for for
elgn caSa'ry' 1or street railroads., ana oet'er
fac;l;,;es for raising them an our Western
plains the possibilities of this trade are i'm
mense' ~
n,an,s i sln,I, ;ncrao.inr and on,onn,s to
about one million annually. American cleo
uo-p,aten ware IS superior 70 any other IN 'he
demand and is Of acknowIedged sunerority'
while our stoves. hollow -ware and pressed
giaSs are coming INTO use III Europe. we
,''ro '.,r,,ha.is and ax,urn. ''a;,,,s a,as
and chemicals. Our ore-crushers are con
sidered the best IN the world. and our small
csapons anu o"i s ~, are sont ~ s"tp's