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...Machinery, factories, and industry as they are commonly thought of by Americans, scarcely exist, and what there is of them is centered in Manila. There we have factories for the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes, for the refining of a portion of our raw sugar, and for the manufacture of hemp into cloth. But large scale industry is little known there. The development of the country has not reached that stage which requires...
...Imperial Preference" is the policy of favoring the United Kingdom by low tariffs in the matter of manufactured goods entering the colonies and dominions, while the United Kingdom allows the raw products of her colonies and dominions to enter duty free while taxing those of other countries. This of course would have the effect of making the British Empire a closed economic system, fully competent to live in economic self-sufficiency through the variety and wide distribution of her resources...
...century who so soundly berated Americans for not adopting a policy of free trade were now deserted by their own countrymen. Still, it would hardly be pleasant to contemplate a triumph in economic theory which might seriously affect profitable trade which we flow enjoy in wheat cotton, and other raw materials. Since the passage of the Frozenly Tariff the United States is hardly in a position to complain much over unreasonable duties. Consequently it seems that Americans must stand by and observer, with the constant hope that some important dominion will frustrate that whole scheme...
...Washburn's work let me quote at random. "This is another story of the Log Cabin to the White House." "Cal first went to school in the little red schoolhouse." "He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese." "He is as much himself at work in smock-frock and boots as the sometimes effete children of Beacon Street, when they loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli." "Cal he was, Cal he is." "Fate pointed the path...
...that the Northern cotton mills are closing under the effects of a buyers' strike; the consumption of cotton will probably not increase greatly in the near future. But surplus stocks are now relatively small, and present high cotton prices can scarcely be rendered until larger production of the raw cotton is attained...