The diamond drill., 1895-09-28


Sfanntaslurtr's Gieony frrdieflon while
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A. an illustration OF the manner In
which American wooden manufacturers
are faring with free wool. wo have
been advised by a manufacturer at
Franklin, Mass, that had thought
Grover would have allowed such bill
(the German tarif) 10 become law. 1
would have stopped and retired. There
Is nothing In the business to-day for =
worstcd maker.
This manufacturer was IN receipt,
July -. OF letter from Bradford. ac-
companicd by samples OF sergS and
fancy worsteds. The serge Is sold In
grease from the loom by the manufac-
turcr ut twenty-eight cents per yard.
IL Is woven. buried and sewn and
ready TO dye. IL is sixty-fonr inches
wide. The American manufacturer
cannot buy yarn. OF. stock. necessaiy v
TO make similar goods and place IL Ia
his loom NJ the same price. twenty
eight cents per yard at which the
Bradford serge Is sold, the stock alone
costing here thirty-fve cents; yet the
Bradford manufacturer can buy his
yarn, weave IL, sell II at fwenty-cight
cents per yard and figure out profit.
The same is the case with fancy wor-
steds, selling at fiftyrone cents by the
Bradford maker.
AS we haye free wool and the En-
glish manufacturers have free wool,
the mills In both countries can start
upon nearly the same footing as far as
their raw material IN concerned. What.
then, Ia the difference? IL Is, as was
clearly shown in the American Econo-
mist OF last week, in the labor Of spin
ming and manufacturing. which in
weaving Is 1i2 per cent higher in the
United Stateathan In bradford.
This simply confirms the argument OF
protectionists that the bulk OF the cost.
IN this case fully 90 per cent. Of a
manufactured article is the labor en-
ployed In making it. Free wool affords
no protection 10 American labor in the
wooden mills
Our Franklin correspondent states
. that one importing house has sold for "A
Bradford firin, this season, TO the ex-
tent OF 10000 pieces OF fine worsted
ciOih dt ~ per Nafuf Nhh Nv anticipates
that sin less than eighteen months
there viii be more machinery stopped
than In 1898, unless the tariff is ad-
vanced. ta
Confirming this opinion of the manu-
facturer at Franklin, we append, with
ont. any comment. a letter received
from correspondent. at Bradford,
England:
BRkpFonp Aug. IL. isiA
The great manufacturing Districts Of York;
shire. but more especially bradford. hrc full
steam ahead. Work - plentiful. competition
IL keen, wages low. That may seem 20 be
paradox 10 some readers - the E.sopcmist, DGf
Il nevertheless Is 80 nuh must continue On
every hand our merchant princes and the press
claim, a. one of our leading daily papers said
last week, that our manufacturers have taken
your market ny storm. Whether that Dc 80 or
not will leave your readers 70 settle but it
does appear 10 me that when consider the
ahount OF exports that are leaving these shores
destined 10 your market, the EngllAh operators
must be receiving a fair share of patronage,
which patronage your own operators nun en-
ployed have iuat righ, 10 demand. The few
ro1urDs which 1 have hurriedly gathered ana
put together. showing what We sent across
10 your sido Ia June only. n indeed
a Spiondid object lesson 10 all true
hearted Americans II should promote Thought