From the NasAriiie Union.
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0N HALLS AND COTTON GOODS

 RISE

 The protective tariff policy is evidently losing strength. As time developes facts bearing upon the system, 1t must continue to grow weaker. Il is now established by evil dence that il Is not to be conlroverted, that so far as the Cotton manulactures are con cerned, the present high rates are mere dead letter. IL IS so well settled that our l!annElc- tufers ot Cotton can compete successfully with the British iu all the markets of the world, d,thatthe English capitalist are calling on thelr government to remit the duty on our raw cotton. This has not been the result of the tariff of l842, but is the result of the en- terPrise and skill of ouR people. enjoying su- Peflor advantages over the English manufac- tnrers without the aid of the present tariff

 But whilst facts have made perfectly cer- tam that our own Cotton manufacturers can exclude Brush goods from our markets with out the help of the present tariff, two other facts oi deep interest are to be kept in mind. It IS fact that since 1913 the prices of Cot ton goods manufactured in the United States have risen from 20 to 90 per cent. lis also fact whilst this rise has been going on in the goods, the raw cotton has been declining ill price. This IS an anomaly which needs ex- Pianailon. Foreign competition is excluded, and the tarillites have theorized upon the doc trlne that the competition at home would 1nng down prices as low as they are abroad. Bqt the theory IS contradicted by the result. Heretofore experience proves that as raw cotton has declined ia price, themanuiac,ur- ed Cottons have declined in like proportions. This has been the case in the United States and in Great Britain. Nc matter what kind of tariff has been in operation, when theprice ot Cotton has gone down the prices of Cot ton goods have also gone down. As this is a matter of importance in the investigation of the anomalous facts which We are consider ing, we addnce all English Price Current, showing the price of raw Cotton and certain Cotton goods from 1896 to 4844: