This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...represented.6 In this instance, as in the case of the Ward Company, the selling house owned stock in the mills. In 1825 W. & S. Lawrence, who had previously carried on an import trade in dry goods, likewise became interested in domestic concerns.6 The selling houses, therefore, had a direct part in 1 N. Appleton, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...represented.6 In this instance, as in the case of the Ward Company, the selling house owned stock in the mills. In 1825 W. & S. Lawrence, who had previously carried on an import trade in dry goods, likewise became interested in domestic concerns.6 The selling houses, therefore, had a direct part in 1 N. Appleton, Introduction of the Power Loom, pp. 11, 12. 2 Ibid., p. 12. 3 Ibid., p. 27. 4 N. Appleton, Memoir of Abbott Lawrence, p. 7. The firm of A. & A. Lawrence was dissolved at a later date; the present firm of Lawrence & Co. was built up by A. A. Lawrence. Wm. Lawrence, Life of Amos Lawrence, p. 269. 6 H. A. Hill, Memoir of Abbott Lawrence, p. 23. F. Hunt, Lives of American Merchants, vol. ii, p. 372. providing capital for manufacturing cotton goods, and this capital had been accumulated in foreign trade. The transfer of the interests of these merchants, indicating what was going on elsewhere, throws light upon the tariff struggles of those days, since it helps us to understand why New England changed its attitude toward protection between 1824 and 1832. The selling house was of assistance to the manufacturer in placing the goods on the market, but the credit which it provided was no less important. The manufacturing enterprises at first involved risks which caused banks to hesitate in granting credit to the new concerns. The selling house, on the contrary, could take a direct part in the management, and with its accumulated capital make advances to the mills, or, what is more important, indorse the notes of the mills so that banks would be willing to accept them. At that time the chief credit was with the selling house. The selling house made it possible to grant long credits to the persons who bought the cloth. Southern and western buyers c...
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