६०४ भारत में अंगरेज़ी राज पेज़लो और मैशेस्टर के पुतली घर खुखते ही बन्द हो गए होते और फिर भाप को ताकत से भी दोबारा न चलाए जा सकते। इन पुतलीघरों का निर्माण भारतीय कारीगरी के बलिदान पर किया गया। __ "यदि भारत स्वाधीन होता तो वह इसका बदला लेता, इङ्गलिस्तान के बने हुए माल पर निषेधकारी महसूल लगाता और इस प्रकार अपने यहाँ को कारीगरी को सर्वनाश से बचा लेता । किन्तु उसे इस प्रकार की प्रारम- रक्षा की इजाजत न थी। वह विदेशियों के चङ्गुल में था। इङ्गलिस्तान का माल बिना किसी तरह का महसूल दिए ज़बरदस्ती उसके सिर मढ़ दिया गया, और विदेशी कारीगरों ने एक ऐसे प्रतिस्पर्धी को को दबा कर रखने और अन्त में उसका गला घोंट देने के लिए, जिसके साथ वे बराबरी की शर्तों पर मुकाबला न कर सकते थे, राजनैतिक अन्याय के शरू का उपयोग किया।"*
- “ The history of the trade of cotton cloths with India 15
a melancholy instance of the wrong done to India by the country on which she had become dependent It was stated in evidence, that the cotton and silk goods of India up to this period (1813) could be sold for a proht in the British market, at a price from fifty to sixty per cent, lower than those fabricated in England It consequently became necessary to protect the latter by duties of seventy and eighty per cent, on their value, or by positive prohibition Had this not been the case, had not such prohibitory duties and decrees existed, the mills of Parsley and of Manchester would have been stopped in their outset, and could scarcely have been agaun set in motion even by the powers of steain Thev wwere created by the sacrifice of the Indian manufacture Had Jndia been independent, she would have retaliated would have imposed preventive duties upon British goods, and thus would have preserved her own productive industry from annihilation This act of self-defence was not permitted her , she was at the mercy of the stranger British goods were forced upon her without paying any duty, and the foreign manufacturer employed the arm of political injustice to keep down
