In cutlery Sheffeld is immensely undersold by the Alsace, and our exports are yearly decreasing.
Simply for this object--that their own manufacturers, who give employment to large numbers of their population, may not be undersold by ours, nor those means of employment annihilated.
Hear Mr Greg of Manchester on this subject, previous to the repeal of the Corn Laws:-- "At present we are undersold by foreigners in neutral markets in all the staple articles of English manufacture.
Corporation laws enable the inhabitants of towns to raise their prices, without fearing to be undersold by the free competition of their own countrymen.
The manufacturer, however, though he had been allowed to keep a shop, and to sell his own goods by retail, could not have undersold the common shopkeeper.
The artificers and manufacturers of such mercantile states, therefore, would immediately be rivalled in the market of those landed nations, and soon after undersold and justled out of it altogether.
Our merchants frequently complain of the high wages of British labour, as the cause of their manufactures being undersold in foreign markets; but they are silent about the high profits of stock.
The price of all necessaries being thus enhanced, the wages of the tradesman and manufacturer must be increased; and where these are high the manufacturers will be undersold by those of cheaper countries.
The French have undersold our cloths, and spoiled our markets in the Levant.
For many years the cotton mills of Bombay have undersold Lancashire in the coarser fabrics, and when, by means of a canal to the Pacific, American cotton can be imported cheaply, they will spin the finer also.
Thus isolated, and favoured by mines of coal and iron, England not only commanded the European and American markets, at a time when production was strained to the utmost by war, but even undersold Hindoo labour at Calcutta.
They are not now exporting trades, and at home, under the new tariffs, we are completelyundersold by the foreigners.
The United States could not be permanently undersold in the English market, and expelled from it, unless by a country (such as India) which offered not merely more than seventeen, but more than twenty bushels of wheat for ten cwts.
But, if so, the opinion is absurd that English producers can be undersold by their Continental rivals from this cause.
To undersell other countries—not to be undersold by other countries—were spoken of, and are still very often spoken of, almost as if they were the sole purposes for which production and commodities exist.
London merchants already began to feel the competition of its cheap and untaxed ships, and manufacturers to complain that they were undersold in the American market, by goods brought direct from the Continental ports.
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