ABSTRACT
The Cotton Masters should each mind only his own Mill, and recall their resolutions as to the help they have bound themselves to give to prevent dictation. For many years past, the business of the Cotton Mill has given rise to much angry quarreling. In 1810, however, Mr. Houldsworth says, that the Cotton Masters invented their grand nostrum of curing all disputes, by at once shutting their Mills, and starving the Workmen into submission; for to condescend to treat with a tradesman is what a capitalist abhors. Why, just little children—poor boys and girls—naked and unhealthy—the offspring of starving parents, and the victims of the heat, long hours, and tyranny of the Cotton dungeons. The Cotton Masters, therefore, are not entitled to assume any impropriety of conduct against the Workmen since the repeal, save those occurrences which their own driving of the Workmen idle, and keeping them so long m that perilous condition, unavoidably occasioned.
