Mr. Barker, but not worthy of the Tariff Board. The "poverty-stric ken nations" of Asia are mainly cotton users, climatic condition precluding the use of woollens to any great extent.
But ae a matter of fact, excepting in China where silk forms the clothing of the well to-do, India and other large cotton. using countries generally wear ap parel made from counts of yam varying from 100 to 200. Some of the finest cloths, undreamt of by the United States mille, are woven is Lancashire, and stil! finer ones are woven in the handlooms in Indis from yarn manufactured in cashire.
Mr. Barker asserta that low ges and poverty in Great Britain, which, he says, are due to the fre trade policy in the country, ar responsible for the scant use of cotton good: the country. The bom trade of the United Kingdom is only £20,000,000 while the home trade of the United States it £120,000,000. Reckoning the line manufactured and consumed in the United Kingdom, which is valued st over £17,000,000, the United King dom consumes £37,000,000 of cetier and linen for a population 44,000,000; while the United States with a population of 90,000,000 sumes £120,000,000 worth whic, will be references to the trade in China and Japan we equally noteworthy for their recklessness. Of all years he picks out 1910 to show how protec tionist Japan is ruining free trade Lancashire in China, After number of years of large imports China merchants curtailed their orders for Manchester goods in 1810 to facilitate the disposing of old ied stocks.
Besides, it was the yest of the rubber boom, consequent which there was a general deprer sion. Lancashire more than mide up for this in 1911, as was shown it these columns last week. stated by Mr. Acland in the Howe of Commons British cotton import have seriously interfered with the Japanese trade expansion, Japanese cottons have serianly injured American piece goods in the North. the China trades and Mr. Barker erate Jay se COM]
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