Word: cottoned
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...textile fabrics and other goods of that class were now manufactured in factories rather than in household industries. In the tariff act of 1816 came a more direct application of the spirit of protection. Duties still remained moderate, ranging from seven and one-half to thirty per cent. On cotton and woollen goods a duty of twenty-five per cent. was laid, designedly a protective duty, but intended to be only temporary. This tariff was the most scientifically arranged of any of the tariffs of the country, being much superior in that respect to our present tariff. The highest duties...
...Vincent, State treasurer of Alabama, is a defaulter to the extent of $227,000. The misappropriated funds are supposed to have been lost through speculation in cotton...
...Enterprise Cotton Mills at Manyunk, Pa., were burned yesterday afternoon, the property loss aggregating $85,000. Sixteen of the operatives were injured in making their escape from the burning building...
...without protection. Then he considered the course of industrial history and of protective legislation during the period from 1816 to about 1840. Before the tariff of 1816 there was no effective protective legislation, hence it is only to the period after 1816 that the question under consideration applies. The cotton, woollen and iron manufactures were then examined in their history during this period. The conclusion was reached that protection had, perhaps, benefitted the cotton manufacture while it was a young industry, had hardly helped the woollen manufacture, and had certainly had no beneficial effect in assisting the rise...
...York Times claims that Cotton Mather invented the marking system, and says that it "soon after came into use at Harvard College, where the Mather name was potent, and thence spread to other colleges as fast as they were founded. Whatever the vicious or bad effects of the marking system - and it is generally acknowledged that it fosters more and worse kinds of meanness than any other educational or civil law to which young men can be subjected - it must be preserved for its founder's sake...