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.account Of .ame,ican Manufactures By an
Englishman.-At great Anti Corn Law dinner.
recently given at Manchester, (Eng.) one of the
speakers, in the course of his remarks, made the
following statement that, in 1914, the people of
America consumed one hundred bales of cotton
Last year, the consumption was nearly three hun
dred thousand bales, entirely the growth Of the
short period which has elapsed since 1914. She
now stands, in point of consumption, where we
stood in the year 1916. Sixteen years ago, Low
ell, the Manchester of America, was desert
It's forest echoed no sound but that of the cata-
ract. 1t now spins and manufactures forty thou
sand bales Of cotton per annum. There is con-
centrated water power amounting TO five thousand
horses power, which. equals one-haf of the wa
ter power Of Great Britain which is applied to
the cotton manufacture, and to one-sixth of all the
steam power applied. In 1882, America ex-
ported two millions eight hundred thousand dol
lars worth Of Gotten goods. In 1885 and half 0;
1887, she exported twenty thousand bales Of hel
cotton manufactures round the Cape of Good
Hope to India and China, and thir,y-four thou
sand bales to South America. Neither is il j,
the cotton manufactures alone that she is advanc
ing In 1895, she had seventeen millions {,
sheep and lambs. In 1898, twenty-three mil
lions, which, at three pounds per head, give six
ty millions pounds of wool, the whole Of whic'
is manufactured there. Inferior woollens are soil.
as cheap in New York as in the cloth halls {,
Leeds. For the last two years, our manufactu-.
ers have worked without receiving any profit


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