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raj are from ten to twenty FIVE and fifty per cent above


I.nere very few methods of employing capital
Ia this country more profitable than in the manu-
hcturing business It appears that under the most
Aused average duty many companies have made good
dividends in several instances larger than under the pre-
sent tariff ast Our banks find the greatest difficulty in
squeezing out ak and per cent annually without
ressving asinge cent surplus. Our insurance comps-
nes with lew exceptions do not than return legal
interest their capitals Stock investments range from
A to5 and per cent Trade and commerce. fro year
to year. with all the losses attached to extended sys
TEN for credits do not accumulate those engaged very
rapid fortunes Our agricuurists do not realize the
capital employ more than ten per cent with all the Ia
Dor attached to the business thrown in. Many
mechanical enploymeAts may pay q large per cent on
the labor required, particularly those in which
other capital Of consequence is necessary We
know Of nothing calculated to better returns
for investment of capital than the cotton and wool
len manufacturing establishments Of New England; and
far a. they alone concerned the aid Of protective
duty s not Necessary to insure their producveness The
companie included in the above list have very large
pitss, and have become permanently esabishsd they
do not require the slightest support from government
and should the tariff be reduced to the lowest level Of the
compromise act and the currency Of the country perma
neny established the present basis these companies
could without doubt declare dividends from year to
full large any before made. All the incidental pro.
lection required now is sufficient to place all oiher man
ufacturng establishments throughout the country on as
frm foundation those Of New England, and tho
petition that would exist among them would destroy our
home markets forever for the manufactures Of any other
nation in the world.