The linen and cotton broad-ware weavers apology: : Humbly addressed to the gentlemen manufacturers of Manchester, and all others whom it may concern. / By a well-wisher to trade.

  • Justice, Alexander.
Date:
M,DCC,LVIII. [1758]
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Credit: The linen and cotton broad-ware weavers apology: : Humbly addressed to the gentlemen manufacturers of Manchester, and all others whom it may concern. / By a well-wisher to trade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    : fore Sales we of the whole’ Creation. “But‘as there _ _ is a great many different Branches of Weaving, moft; if not all, of which are effentially neceffary to human Being, I fhall.at this Time confine myfelf to that of Linen and Cotton broad Waté Weaving, the Utility of which equals if not exceeds all others, if we con- _ fider the great Ufefulnefs and Confumption of it with | _ us at Home, and the:immenfe Quantities that are! ex- ported to foreign Parts, by which this Kingdom in — - general doth not only reap unfpeakable Benefits, but — the Manufacturers of itin particular have acquired, ina — - fhort Space of Time; large and opulent Fortunes, fuch © as has enabled them to vie with the beft Gentlemen in the County. I could fay a great deal with regard to ‘tthe Manufa@tures of this Branch of Bufinefs, but, as -L am not. willing to give Offence to any of them, I fhall content myfelf in apologizing a little in Behalf of the poor Mechanics, by whofe Labour and Induftry they... } aoe found Means to accumulate fuch large, Fortunes. © Tr muft be allowed on all ie that the Viehan Bice andthe reft of thepoor labouring g People are the moft ufeful Members in the whole Community: It is them _who are the Strength and Bulwark of the Nation: It ‘is by them that the Land is cultivated and the Produce thereof brought td the Market, not only to fupply the Needy and Neceffitous with the common Neceflaries of Life, but to feed and pamper the Extravagant and Voluptuous; a great many of whom may fairly be faid _ _to prey upon the very Vitals of the Poor. Forbyhow — -much thefe fall fhort of the common Neceilaries of — ‘ Life (notwithftanding their hard Labour toyprocure it both for them, their Wives, and their little Ones) by _/ fo much do the great Oppreffors wantonly prey upon ~-the Lives of the induftrious Labourer, and innocent “Infants, whofe Cries for Bread, though they are not - able to affeét the Hearts of the Oppredior, yet they a, ! | : | Sy ie