New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-02

In eleven years the importation OF silk into Eng
land has decreased five million pounds while dur
ing the same period the importation Into the United
states has increased nearly million and half pounds.
But this il not ALL While the value Of Imp0rtations
OF silk manufactures in 1880 was about the same In
1850 the value OF the mportations of silk manufactures
into the United Kingdom has increased from about
SO 600 in 1871 to 500 0000O0 ten years later,
increase OF S25 100000.
During the same period the value of the expectation OF
SILK goods from the United Kingdom ha about
the same Here is practical illustration Of free TRACE.
While England's own operatives Qls have shown in my
Coventry letters starving. and her own looms are
standing idle foreign nations supplying the wellto
GO and rich with silks.
Was ever policy more suicidal than this
FREE TRADE RUIN.
Not only Ia this the case in the silk indus
try but with many othor industries With raw
wool ut the lowest price 1t has reached, Sir Ed.
ward Sullivan says Great Britain In 1880 81 imported
81 yer cent wooen goods and exported 81
less than she did years Yet Bradford Hal
fax have Lot enough work to employ their looms, and
Huddersiied weeps the worlds markets close alike
to British goods aud economic truth In the linen
dusry the exports Of line have steadily declined
ten years from 36O00,000 pounds in 1871 to
I650OOOO IN 1880, while her imports have
increased. Thirty-hye years ago Great Britain
possessed $4,000 hax-spnning spindes, four aud
a half times moro than the Continent, which
owned 10000. Now the United Kingdom has
202 900 spindes, and the Continent 1705.000, 80
per cent since 1861. according to writer in this
months Nineieeah Century, 100000 spndles have
stopped In Great Britain, lS per cent OF the whole
and 90 900 persons have been thrown ont OF employ
ment, while tL9se engeged in the industry as have
shown In my Dundee letter, about $3.50 week The
shares OF twelve leading Belfast hax-spnnlng compa-
MES to-day with two exceptlon average % per cent
under par.
Under free trade the producer In England
Is rapidly losing ground because the economic
policy OF the Government is one-sided,
recognizing only the consumer. In the last
few years Lord Granville says the iron industry has lost
900 sterling nave shown that the man
ufacurers living their capital aud the coa-0wn.
ers are making profits Every year Great Britain
has smelt tons OF iron. mine more tons Of coal.
and weave yards of cotton cloth for the same
money While these great industries are struggling for
existence ia the worlds markets, the wo0en industry
the linen industry tine silk industry tho agricultural
industry losing the home markets and the starving
operatives aud aborers are coolly told by the great
oraces of free trade in England to omigrate from THAR
native country. In the words OF an intelligent English
who has awakened to the peril OF the present staA
ton, I'VE say to silk workers GIVE upmakng sik
we can buy 1t cheaper IN Franceake something else
to our wooen workers: Give up making wo0ilens. we
can buy them cheaper in Germany-niake something
else Aud SO on with velyets, and cambrics and
line luen Who can say that In year oil
two we shall not say TO our eo"on
workers. Give up making cotton We can buy IL cheaper
esewhere-make something olse Where Will II end y
From a ak months careful study OF ali the centres
Engllsh industry nfly believe with the writer oil TN
above that the waves Of foreign competition are stead,
on the productive industries OF Great Brit
ain and that unless protected by legislation, many I'm
| portant Industries wa disappear forever
PROTECTION IN GERMANY.
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