The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-10-10
MIR. Blame ON the Cotton Goods
!. m.. . Trade. AZ Il

world. lie c0uldnL ueny ~, LOT " "
Ia very stu oborn fact; II Is, too. an
able document. Some of Mi. B!aina's
foolish frien9s--and the gentleman
really has more than bis share OF fool
friends--hava however seen fit to
question the .gennineness Of the re-.
port, All such Efforts are perfectly
useless. One might just as we'll at
tempt to deny the existence Of the
sun at noon on . clear day There
is no forgery about this business.
IL is just what ii was when Ii was
first published; the language II,
word for word, the same; II Is found
in exactly the same place. So that
people who seek to discredit II are
not under the necessity of following
1t in various aud elusive forms
through the London Times, the Sun.
day Times, The Spectator, The Econ
onlist, The English Ir0a Era, The
Irca Era, the speeches of some mn
known Englishman. of the Marquis
Of Salisbury, of Mr.. Congressman
Butierworth, and so hack in a vicious
circle to the London Times. Noth~
ing of the kind. When frat made
public, il was known as "Report of
James G. Blaine, Secretary Of State
on the Cotton Goods Trade of the
world, dated Department ~ Stale
Washington, June %, 1884," Its
tue same thing still. As 1t has never
been impeached, as Mr.. Blaine has
never attempted even to explain it,
and as it is very instructive, we ap.
pend an extract from the report,
showing the conclusion which Mr..
Blaine drew from the facts which
we're before him. And We recoms
mend that the gentlemen who are
wasting 50 much valuable time in
trying 10 verify" the unverifable--
that Is. those dear old quotations
from the Times and elsewhere-turn
themselves Loose upon the following
MR. BLAINE ON WAGES.
Extrac. from Report Of james
G. Blaine, Secretary of State
on the "Cotton Trade of the
World" dated Department oi
State, Washington, June, 1881, pages
80 and 80. ~~
Owing to the different arrange
ments Of the English and American
tables Of wages, il is difficult to give
comparative analysis thereof. which
would show at . glance the differences
in the wages Of the operatives Of
both counties. - @ H
The wages Of spinners and YEA.
yers in Lancashire and In Massa
chusetts, according to the foregoing
statements, were as follows per weei
Spinners, Englbh. 81 20 70 s8.4t
(mast2r spinners running a. high a
Sl2); American, 81 OF 10 $1,000.
| Wesyers. English. 1884 tc sS,64
subject, at the date on which thes,
rates we're given. t. reduction of II
per cent: American, s4,82 to 1878
! The average wages of employees
in the Massachusetts mills as follows
according to the Official returns: Mer
$3.50. women $500. male childrel
Is3.11. female children s30S. Ac
cording TO Consul Shaw's report. Oh,
average wages OF the men employee
In the Lancashire mills on the 1st o
January, 1880. was about sS pc
week. subject to a reduction of 10 pc
cent; women from % 40 to s4.30, sub
Jet to reduction of 10 per cent.
| The hours Of labor In the Lancas
hire mills are fifty six, in the Massa
chusetts sixiy per week. The hour
/ OF labor 10 the mills in the other Ne,
England States, where the wages ar
generally less than in Massschuselt
are usually sixty.six to sixty-nine pc
I week. Undoubtedly the inequalitie
10 the wages Of English and Amer
can operatives are more than equal
red By The greater efficiency of The lal
Ter and their longer hours Of laboi
! III this should prove 10 be fact /
practice, a. il seems 10 be prove
from statistics, ii would be q very im
portant element 10 the establishment
, Of oar sbility 10 compete with Eng
! land for our share Of the coston-good
} trade Of the world.
, How TO TscRrAsE oUR corTos.ooop
TRADE.
In the Two prime factors whieI
may be said 70 form the basis Of th
, cotton.manuiscturiBg industry, nam,
~, raw material aud labor, we hol
the advantage over England in I'll
first, and stand upon az equality sUit
ter in Tie second.
] Having the raw material at GU
e doors, il follows that we should b
able 10 convert Ii into manufacture.
all things being equal, Nth more econ
! my asd facility than can Be done D
b England, which imports our cotto
and then manufactures ii In her mill
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