Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1894-01-26
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ENGLISH ANuFACTu RERs JuBILANT
OVER he PROSPECTS.

interested, and how excited even, the
British manufacturers are becoming over
the prospects of securing their lions
share OF our manufacturing industries.
When the Wilson tariff was first made
public, it was considered advisable to
nauzzle the British bulldog, and it was
evidently prearranged that the barking
should be done behind the kennel, at any
rate where it would not attract the eye
OF the American eagle. But the anxiety,
the desire, the eagerness, to snatch our
business from us proved too much for
their discretion, and we learn from one
paper, about the wooden trade, that the
prospect of an increased business with
the States is, however, very hopeful"
Again, further: "Should it (the new
billy pass in its proposed form, it will
make a great difference in the export Of
the lower classes of woolensss1pon which
the. specific or weight duty weighs 50
heavily. This will be crucial point in
the discussion Of tho bill. Nothing can
be fairer than an ad valorem duty, but
the difficulty always exists that there
are unprincipled people who invariably
underdeclare values, and those who make
honest declarations are made to suffer
for the faults Of others"
This will be cheering news to our wool
Ell manufacturers, particularly as the fact
is recognized abroad that there are un-
! principled people who invariably under
declare values" But we like to keep the
best news till the last, and that is what the
| Bradford England correspondent writes
to The Textile Manufacturer. which is
| published in Manchester. This bold
Bradford man throws aside all pretenses
| and hypocrisy. He initiates the straight
forward policy Of Cousin Ben Folsom
| when lie on July 4, 1893, congratulated
| the cutlery manufacturers Of Sheffield
| that they would again secure control of
the American markets, a policy that it
| appears has been also adopted by Mr..
| heeker, the American consul at Brad
ford. The conclusion at which the Brad
ford expert in the English worsted trade
| arrives is that the proposed Wilson tar
| if measure will give to the manufacture
ers of Bradford far easier access than
| they have ever had to q market repre-
senting population Of 100000 peo-
pie"
! Further analysing what free wool
really means to the American nanufac-
| Curer, this English expert says, Glow,
| under such circumstances, can tho free
! wool clause hurt the Bradford nlanufac-
| turert' This expert opinion is renarka-
bly, interesting reading and would en-
tighten the majority Of the ways aud
means committee if they are really capa-
bic of comprehending the actual intrica-
| cies OF the business Of manufacturing
wooden goods. In the hope that some Of
these tariff tinhers, destroyers of Ameri-
can farming Industries, murderers of
| American manufacturing industries and
strangers OF American labor may be able
to SEQ beyond the length Of their noses
and may be able to grasp the actual con-
| dltions Of some subject that exists be-
| yond the country hanlets, whence they
| emanate, we reproduce this Bradford
| correspondents remarks in full as pub
lished in The Textile Manufacturer:
| There is no doubt that the slight in
fusion Of buoyancy into this market has
been the result, to partial extent, of the
publication OF the new tariff proposals
, in America. a good many opinions have
been expressed and some figures given
as to the favorable character Of that tar
| lit from the point Of view Of Bradford
! wool staplers and manufacturers. But
! a good many opinions and good many
valuable figures have been kept back be-
! cause Bradford men fear that capital
will be made of them by American Re
publicans. Some even say that such
statements might prevent the bill from
| passing. There is no adequate ground
FOR this fear, which is entertained chiefly
in fair trade quarters. In the first place.
! Mr. Meeker, the American consul, tells
ME that there is not the slightest doubt
| the bill will pass, and in the second
| place every man who reads his newspa-
| per thoroughly knows that Mr.. McKin-
! ley and other Republicans have dosed
the American public al nauseum with
forebodings as to the injury the new tar
| lit will infiict On American manufacture
ers and the benefit it will confer on Eng
fish manufacturers.
| What is more, the committee on WAYS
and means which drafted the bill took
evidence for weeks, and among it is q
mass Of evidence as to how the tariff
would affect the worsted trade. The fact
is the American farmers and the ordinary
American consumer have begun to see
that protection raises the price of COM
modities and only confers benefits on the
manufacturers OF the eastern states, who
are bound by no human law to share those
benefits with anybody. In short, the deep
set desire in America for an ameliorated
tariff will not be baked by the repetition
OF the stale story that that tariff will
benefit a few English towns. So shall
have my say. III.
To .exemplify what the tariff will mean
| to Bradford trade, will just in a SEN
tence show how it will affect worsted
I coatings, which form half of the Brad
ford exports to America. A worsted
coating costing in Bradford shillings a
yard will under the new tariff in New
York cost 30 per cent more. Under the
present Mckinley tariff it costs in New
York LOO per Gent. more and. under the
tariff which. preteaa1 THE I'll: Einaey du-
ties .i1Sss per cent .inssre. fhese figures
have not been previously stated: asoss;
i.hi7e :others. !. am gclig: to: give.
j .A:good deal has i;een .iiafs' out of the
fact that the American manufacturers
under the new tariff will get their raw
material free, and statements have been
/ matiS that this will almost nullify the
benefits conferred by the tariff in the
shape of reduced duties.
Now, free wool to America--for the
i first time since America has been a coun.
try--must mean to wool staplers in
BTadfgrdand Bradford is the center of
the wool trade Of the world-a large in
i creasesof business. They will have far
easier access than they ever had to a
market representing population OF TO-
/ 900, 600. Free trade in wool with Amer
lea cannot but be to the advantage,
therefore, of one branch of the Bradford
trade. Now, take the Bradford mann
factnrers, and how free wool to the
American manufacturer will affect the
Bradford makers is a question that has
not yet been thoroughly gone into. Six
teen pounds of greasy wool will produce
1Qa pounds of top. That 1Oa pounds Of
top will spin into 0 pounds of yarn. To
/ make q i6 ounce cloth REQ uires is pounds