The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-29 00:00:00

eflE STOURBRIDGE OBSIIRVETI

—h-fOt. only will the branches above reiern;l So saffei-itut we
are ccutinced Met a greet imam of the home trade will
&lit Into the hands of foreigunrs, as the demand will be ter
Ito Ligest qutlive., Which we principally inanittrieturcd
abrrolel

So hr from this tax tending to insure a superior and sated
match bang too d, it sill /lave quite a contrary effect. Price
with the million, to whom farthings are of itup,rtsnue, will
cor the day, and nine-tenths of the routnima bold will be of
the very man:ooziest deacrlptnds.
sing II this propowd tax become law—which we can
loudly Ming ourselves to believe- the tea 11l to hu,drude of
fain I es to the E of Load MI wit be amply Imo and
se crouut think Mr. Lowe c hare au y Idea of what the
real affect will be, or tine amount of misery It will produce.
Alm, thousands aro, directly or Indirectly, dependent I r
their dolly bread on this manufacture : and why a large
Industry should be parabmd out so much manly cauacd,
to enable the Chancellor of the Excilequer to (quoin g lila
own words) •• present tide tax to America as a trl ode of my
admiration if her certainly requires a nue explain-
rt

Mr. Lowe peens to treat the shots question as a joke. If
ho would may visit t! a Emit sad 44 Loudon he 'read gaol
toot 'this Minute of li' admtration of American "
meant starve' I4n or the Union for tnous anis of Kuglishmeu.
Of on. Individual interetts we wilt simply remark that we
foil to see the justice or attalom of a course of lesitiallai
which Is retrograde and deals a deathblow to a rising
14.1 11411 manufacture, and one which promincs to rive
ports anent teoployment to many thousand., who I,ut, for this
w oil find it difficult to obtain an honest livailhood—we
refer peed :duly to that lar4e eats phyaically unequal to
heavy walk.
lowa holds np America as at/lode'. What Is the state
of the trade in that country P htsrriy thlst—woo matt:hos are
not aside at all, and the wooden matches are of the rely
low eat dmeription.
Ihe arrnmeat addrested to the I:111111.311CA C .nipaides Is
heard on a traimpateat talaey, unless it Iv intended to
exempt the "safety" matcties from the tar, which does not
appear to be the este ; and, if not the duty will so enor-
mously enhance the price of matches of this chum that,
losteal of reducing the number of fires, the revels° sill be
the cart, tecause safety matches" will, on account of
Flee, only he used to a very limited extent, lii fact, the
trade aid probably become so email us not tu be worth
attention.

Again, the match-boxes of the future wil! be of the cheapest
anti most fragile descrlps!ou, so as to reduce the cost of pro-
duction as her as pouoble. ibis alone will be a great
element of daug r, se what can be more obpctlohab!e than
a common phosphorus match in a box that will hardly bold
together? Or what can be more dangerous than the carry-
ing shout of lighted paper, splits, tiro, from room to room,
wntch will Inevitably be done to ecauotnia, the use of an
article of hourly heed, taxed on the average 00 per cent. ?
I rhere tea great deal la these bee latter suagestl gill, and
heads of feud lies and employers generally will as well to sue
extra plecautions to flout the extra danger from lire a filch
will be Inevitable—Ed. j
It will be better for the public to know what the duty
Costly Ir. Tho following ex insole will Illustrate It minds oily
for the present purpose :—Oa the w,,olesale price of Mgt
w wth of the commonest matches the duty will be AS 000 or
newly to per omit , and Ili a on an al:sus:ate necassary to
overy house thrcu;hout the I.7Llted Kit glom.
To elm u the mutter, the tax Is in every way object' In
able. lc will tend to the detadoration matche.; It will
del:ogre thousand. of persons of holiest employ Mellt ; it W,II
VV.,/ a I srge portion of the manntaoturh g trade WWI-reign
hands ;sot It Is of such a character as 01 accent., to fall
m, it heavily on the poor, as cl,sses.
lialtflald Works, Bow, London, April it.

-clisasiieue collision, cijd]bj aflportiei mos be folly satisfactory. Like a the other divisions of
cerium!. We have seen police di play a 1:f a similar the undertaking, it will be international in its cha-
kiol on other occasions since the rh.y when the liaforin rioter, ant the such by have nriala tx:.ol.loiVe provers.
I,sguera weie Cr. shied with the demolition of the Park thins for the purpose.
railir-!s, and were naturally surmised to tind a more Asi ry plod t time only remains prior to the °pee ing of
parade of force than at any provione public the Exhibition. A crowd of ,:arpenters are still at work,
gathering. Perhaps the bumble match-makers were more an I num -roes feminine hands are engl,l,ed in the se wing
dangerous than they looked ; at any rate, the fact of carpets and draperies—all diligently emid r-od.
remailis that the police mustered yid+ an unusually
formid dile front in Westminster Hall, Palece.yard,
the Thames Ethhanktromt, and in I'alliateent street.
What detail el acts of violence took place we cannot
say ; in the confusion, liko many another bystander,
we were borne about like a leaf on a therce tide, amidst
cries of terror from the crowd, and peremptory coin.
wands from big policemen, who no doubt acted under
the orders of their superiors. In one thing the match.
makers thoroughly suarreested ; they kspt Westminster
in a It rnicut for to. hours, and proved that during
the short inter mil that has idapeed since Budget night
they have k.orly comprehended the position in which
Mr. Lowe would place them.