Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-01

Same time la 1880. ....... 46l $50 $3.50
Same time In 1sf9....,... 3ii.575 3 AIS
Same time IN iS7S........ l4l,26S 1880
THE ADDED COST.
t'Now, as to where this increased cost
Of cents per yard, that have spoken
Of, comes from. A great deal Of il comes
from the printing aud dyeing, and largely
from the chemicals nsed, which arc raw
materials to the cotton manufacturer
The same tables which give the figures 1
have quoted show tEGt thsre are two aEti-
Giles which are essential ia all processes
in which color lie added to cotton fibrs
aud which OF course are raw materials for
everybody who dyes, prints or colors
cotton goods-these are soda ash and the
bichromates of coda or potash. Thepro.
ducers OF these articles In the United
States ere one soda ash factory near Syr-
acuse and one bichromate factory, in Bal.
timore, which together do not employ as
much labor as one good sized print works
/ or wooden factory, and yet the people of
the United States have been taxed for
biohromates. soda ash and caustic soda,
81 496, 6S4.93 IN the lest fiscal year, June
Both, 1855, to June Both, 1887, ]"
FOR M. HASTINGS INFonMATroH.
THE following supplementary letter
will .xnlain iiaAlf \
S1a TapF oct % $50 EFis0r Carr
abdJox'7ai, Htmiugtln, Del. My nlAI!
SIa: am much Obliged to yen Tor the
letter OF Mr.. W. Hastiugs OF 22d inst,
out from the Wilmington Moraisg Mesos,
as it gives me an opportunity OF sayiug
LnA no hnI
iron duties he would probably have told
something of which he knows something
which he evidently does not Of cotton
goods. There are no prints made here
which ere of goods counting less than
100 threads to the square inch, counting
warp and filing, except few very cheap
goods for special purposes, and which
are known to the general trads ss calcoes
and which are rot uusd "a dress
goods at sll. The lowest grades which
| are made into dress eaicUes are what are
known as 60x5B, and which are one
seventh lighter than standard prints, or
what are usually known as calicoes, and
are recognized 0s such when such goods
are spoken Of in this wGy. The lsf0ss.
makers of these lever grade goods are
| the Gasner Print Works ia this stare, sud
their goods are quoted and sold at 64
1 cents per yard TO the wholesale trade ii
1 full case lots npw. II Johu Wauain6k, +
is sel!ipg any regular standard prints 10
| day az cents per yard, they srA either
'plugsn or some old or sof color work
and hoy are bsing sold as what ia known
as "a drive,n to attract trade, as la car
net buy any standard calicoes OF that
/ price himself. I hnYs been taiainu to dav
| With the N. Y, partner in, and agent Of
one OF the largest print works in the
j United States, and asked him IL he knew
/ OF any standard prints berg cold at any
s1ch prices. His reply was jat as /
Lave given 10 you above, and exactly
conarms wbs; told you in o1r c1nvsr,
sation some days ago, He had sold, him
self, lot of "Cam paien WORK" al 81
Cents per yard which is I cent? per yefd
less than he can buy the gray cloth for st
Fail River to day, for 'reA hot cash y
so much for Mr. HastiIgs figures on
@Oalicoss His statement iaat snnn
goods sold for l2l cents per yard in 1857
goes for nothing, 81 they have sold for
more than twice this siuce, ann tie prizes
hae fallen inure abgaGd than It has here
ia tbs mean time Mr.. Hastiugs knows
t~Ss HN Wa NJ JSh Va = Nv AAluN III bnhtH
where foreign gooss are made for
less cost than American qpoiR, and
can be imported at AZ. b.oauaa
the American production viii not supply
the American nlraet, that the ptics of
the domestic goods is raised By Cor nearly
by, the anouat Of the duty on the im
ported goods. II il were not SO there
would be 40 need OF the duty; but there
10 not yard Of cotton g0ods imported
into this country which oompetas With
Anaficpn ealicoss, for the simple reAspn
that we can sell 10 England Gush goods a.
less price than they can make them
selves, are doing SO all the while, as the
articles from the journal of Commerce !
showed you confirm, and the export
tables prove. As showed you, my firm
viii handle this year more yards of goods
than the whole quantity imported in thf
fiscal yesr from june Both, 1885, to june
30tn, 1857, and there are 81 them over
ten million yards Of print cloths, 'tdSed
o. atained;h and J know THAI tue prices
OF these are not raised By this duty, MOI
wou'd it be II the duty were 8 per yard;
but know, too, that there ara other good!
Of which the prise ia raise6 to toe American
consumer by the full account ( the tai 10
duty, BECAUSE lhey ara competed with by
imported goods OF the same kind and
grade. OF these are all the fns lawns and
ss'esns which constituted nearly all o.
the goods as shown in the offcjal table,
of Imports. Is Senator Uhace stated +.
me, hiuse t, NOT long ego. Teks theB,
hns satsens for instance. They can b,
bought, laid down In Liverpool at th'
ships sids, for less than cents per run
ming yard. The price a,ked (9nd OBJ
tAlnedl By the EnIl River and Nav Rad