New-York daily tribune., 1843-07-27
VOL. Ell. NO. 93.
For The Tribune.
History of the Silk Culture -. No. Y.

er,ner basis than ever. (a) 1t has outllved the
DISASTROUS revusion here sketched. This surely
besneaks something for It's essential merits BY
actual results in making Silk brought out IN diff
terent parts Of the country the entire feasibility
of the Silk enterprise has been demonstrated to
the satisfaction of intelligent men, who have
paid due attention to the subject. Those who
engaged in it prior to the speculation, and OF
course without any expectation OF large profits IN
trees, and those who have gone into 1t since the
speculation exploded, have generally gone steadily
forward, with confidence increasing with the
increase of practical knowledge.
(b) We have fully established the high charac-
ter of several varieties of the foreign mulberry
tree Their relative claims is indeed question
not so definitely settled. But that the Multcau-
lis, Cantons. Aslatlcs, and Alplnes afford more
foliage, in far less time and with far less labor,
than the white Italian and are, when rightly
managed, every way safe from the perils OF WIN
ter. no intelligent man even affects to doubt. so
also it has been demonstrated, that under our
brilliant skies, and bracing winds, and upon our
fruitful hills, and exhaustess pairies, these trees
grow with unsurpassed Iuxuriance (c) Our Silk
in the state IN Which the lcOrm lcarcs 1t, Is found
to be decidedly superior article On tins point we
have the concurrent testimony OF American and
European manufacturers, some of which you
may see embodied in the First Report OF the New
England Silk Convention. | refer to tins fact
in this connection as establishing another fact,
viz. the peculiar, adaptedness of our climate and
soils for the Silk Culture, IN as much as these
arc the permanent causes that control the quality
Of all the productions of the earth. In open cul-
ture as every body knows you cannot get first
rate product, whether Of grain, grass, fruit. or
vegetable, only where these permanent causes
are congenal. The fact therefore, that American
raw Silk, achen properly reeled, is decidedly su
perior article and commands "a higher price in
the market than any we can get from Europe, IS
full demonstrations of the position IN support OF
which it is adduccd and, with unerrng pre-
cison, points 10 the day when untold millions, in
this land, will be clothed and fed, and educated
from this delightful form of rural industry. (d)
think also, that in the few years we have been
engaged in the business, we have supplaned the
European system of feeding, as first presented to
the American community. Enclosed buildings,
with furnaces, and ventlalors, and thermometers,
may, or may not, be necdful there; but in our
climate, variable as it Is represented to be, the
fact is pretty well established, in the way Of
building, all VIC need is the open shed, or tent
securing heavens pure air essentially unob-
structcd. (f) All our agricultural papers are now
friendly to the Silk culture and most of them
zealously engaged in promoting it. The political
press, also, In many cases. is exertlng good IN
fiuence, and in none, preludlcla influence.
(f) The new Tariff, although needing modifica-
tons, was designed to place this business, SO far
as legislative protection is concerned, upon
level with other great national interests, and
therefore operates to give 1t passport to the con-
fdercc of business men. Cg) Our manufacturers,
in some cases, are now shaping their business in
reference to taking up Silk. Silk factories are
springing up here and there over the country, and
will be multiplied as the times shall seem to US
tify. M The amount OF Silk made in years past
has been constantly increasing, each year just
about doubling upon the preceding year. In the
States where legislative bounties are given we
have the means of showing this increase, with
great precision. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New
York show such an increase. called upon our
State Treasurer in Boston last October, and he
kindly gave me the following statement, showing
how this matter stands in Massachusetts,
In 1896, the first year of the aw, ne paid .! 81
l3o.oo
lS3S...... o.,VoS
1899. ....................... 43462
1910. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l233.59
lS4l 2lll.42
1912 10 Oct. l.......................... 333l VI
~ Our asrculturists now feel. and acknowl-
edge their need of new staple. Cotton, Tobacco
Wheat, and all our other staples are at present
depressed, and no signs OF essential improvement.
The markets of the world arc gluitcd. In tins
crisis, Silk is beginning to arrest attention. and
the hopes of many are fixed upon 1t, AS furnish
Ing a staple of unlimited extent, and one with
Which the market cannot be guttcd for % years.
These remarks present TO thinking minds the
Silk business as full Of hope and encouragement
to those interested, and 10 our country. In spite
of all the multiplied discouragcments which have
beset its progress, it has made It's way along
has worked out for itself name. and that name
commands the respect and the confidence OF our
intelligent business men in other and different
cmployments. The great question Is indeed l
think settled, that our country is to be Silk
growing, and Silk manufacturing country and
if VIC do not, in due time, take tic control of the
markets of the world for Silk goods, 1t will not
be in keeping with American skill, and American
enterprise; nor coming up to the limits OF our
ability.
HIGHTs OF MoNuMEyTs.-Thc Bunker Hill
Monument, although 800 feet high, is $40 below
the level of the cross on st. Peters Church at
Rome; l40 lower tlan the cross OF ST. Paul's
at London; and 135 less than the Pantheon IN
Paris. 1t is Is feet higher than the Monument
in London; so feet higher than the column OF
the Place de Vendome at Paris; 50 higher than
the Washington Monument in Baltimore; lOO
feet higher than Pompey's Pillar at Alexandria !;
and 50 feet higher than Trajan's Pillar at Rome.
Tie President and M Spencer are bound together by
HOOKS Of steel. IN I. aurora
All we ask of them is, that they will not try to
hook and steal into the democratic party, what
ever else they may do, 'by hook and by crook
Pennsylvanian.