The silk goods of America: a brief account of the recent improvements and advances of silk manufacture in the United States . our manufacturers have been continually obliged tosink money in enlarging their facilities, improving their machinery, andeducating their work-people for their tasks; and since prices for all kindsof silk goods have steadily declined, it follows that the business has notbeen largely profitable. Manufacturers have mostly held their own, buthave not reaped riches. The great benefits have accrued to two classes—the consumers, who have obtained better and cheaper goods; the
The silk goods of America: a brief account of the recent improvements and advances of silk manufacture in the United States . our manufacturers have been continually obliged tosink money in enlarging their facilities, improving their machinery, andeducating their work-people for their tasks; and since prices for all kindsof silk goods have steadily declined, it follows that the business has notbeen largely profitable. Manufacturers have mostly held their own, buthave not reaped riches. The great benefits have accrued to two classes—the consumers, who have obtained better and cheaper goods; the opera-tives, who have had steady employment. It is pleasant to know that thework-people who have thus been benefited are of a higher class than theaverage. The work is cleanly, comparatively light, and is not hurtful inany way to the operative. t Hence it happens that respectable parents whowould object to having their families employed in other factories, are gladto have them busy in the silk mills. The contrast between the laboringclasses of this country and of Europe is nowhere more striking than inthis TO THE SILK GOODS OF AMERICA.
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