27 Feb 1891
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Newspaper
Fair Trade
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 27, 1891
Page
1
A Brussels stir arises as M. Emile de Laveleye declares Cobden Club favors Pair-Trade principles. The Free Trade advocate quotes suggest foreign and honorary members have long leaned toward its ideas, while a satirical take questions the club's digestion of facts and censor's own biases.
The Belgian champion deserts amid news that M Yves Guyot a French government member and former Cobden Club pillar introduced and personally piloted a protective measure through the French legislature The censor will have to ready more thunderbolts The Cobden Club is forced into a controversial stance reflecting the upheaval and possible internal divisions in its ranks
The piece argues that fair traders cannot claim victory as a revived faculty is needed against Free Trade. It cites Sir Lyon Playfair warning of retaliatory tariffs if bread-stuffs were favored for Canada over the United States. The text condemns orthodox free trade auditors for bowing to the McKinley tariff and mocks Cobdenian ideals as a mere national kinship with General Booth's army.
A Manchester Guardian letter argues against claims of falling child labor, noting last year 170,686 half-time workers under 12 and detailing distribution across Salford Bolton and other counties. The writer condemns Factory Acts reform opponents and urges improvements to working conditions and moral welfare.
The piece challenges the view that textiles and cotton are the country’s main employers. It notes over one million workers in textiles with about 70,000 aged 13 to 16. It highlights Lancashire’s reliance on child labor, nearly one fifth of workers, including about half of the county’s 13 to 16 year olds. The Manchester Guardian correspondent’s sharp critique is praised.
The Laycashire correspondent reports that parents push children into mills driven by poverty and poor virtue, noting fathers may drink or idle and rely on children’s earnings. Poorly paid cotton districts send many children to mills as soon as they can work.
A Reynolds correspondent notes the worsening struggle to provide employment for adults displaced from farming and small industries. He argues that permissive child labor floods the market, depresses wages, and stems from machinery enabling easier child labor, creating a broader wage and employment crisis.
A historical remark argues for allowing children under twelve to work in factories as half-timers for two years, predicting that this would produce a more educated working population and curb the trend of workers accepting little reward while doing all the work. The speaker envisions a shift toward shared spoils and a better skilled labor force.
Mr Powrt recalls in the House of Commons a speech on Sir Henry James’s Factory Bill. He speaks of childhood factory scenes and notes beneficent legislation, while warning the Manchester school of economists may oppose further protections for factory children as essential to national health and vigor.
The Cotton industry laments earnings as the Worcester Guardian notes last week's discouraging market tone with small sales and irregular prices. Production declines persist with 18,000 looms idle or underused in the Blackburt district. A plan to curtail output is considered unless July business improves.
Telegrams report Senate action on Kansas land ownership bans and forced sale timelines as national safeguards clash with free trade. From St Petersburg comes word of a commission to foster credit for agriculture, while Russian per acre output lags Europe. Argentina securities draw investors as a trusted committee seeks protection for holders.
The third instalment of three millions of gold borrowed by England from the Bank of France during the Baring crisis has been repaid. The piece notes a shared shame at England’s role and warns that the fiscal system risks future crises by discouraging home industry and fueling dangerous foreign speculation.
A northern trade journal reflects on the vastness of a million sovereigns packed in a cubic chest and the economic ripple of a three million loan. It notes how gold’s mere presence in Shriadneedie Street altered world trade and ends with the saying that in darkness the one eyed man leads.
The Manchester Guardian notes rising Bessemer steel production in the United States. Latest figures from the American Iron and Steel Association in Philadelphia show output increasing significantly, with reported ingot production reaching hundreds of thousands of tons.
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