New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-09

MANUFACTURES AT HAvERsTRAw, RocKLASD
Co-For two or three years portion OF the capital
lists and business men Of our city have stood with
their hands in their pockets, looking on and grumb
ling at the alleged enormous profits OF Eastern
Manufacturers. But achy EASTERN Why should
not New. York manufacture in her own vicinity the
fabrics she sells as well as Boston, Labor is cheap
or here, and certain TO be kept 80 by the continual
influx of needy Immigrants; Provisions are cheaper;
Water.power is abundant and less affected by frost
than in New. England; Fuel is, and ever must be,
cheaper Every thing that can be manufactured near
Boston might be produced within three or four hours
ride Of New York far more advantageously. Yet
many of our moneyed men regard with envy rather
than emulation the Manufacturing prosperity of the
East and strike hands with the Destructves of all
prosperity 10 break down the Tariff and thus stop
the motion of American looms and spndles, or, at
least the increase of their number! Such is New
York policy as evinced in our Citys position in the
State Councils adverse to Internal Improvement and
our ten miles of Railroad to Bostons hundred
HAvERsrRAw, Rockland County, Sc miles from
our City is en- instance of what might be done at q
hundred places near us-one of those small Manu-
featuring villages which we like better than great
ones Besides the Print Works Iron Works, Paper
Mill, Brick Yards, &c. which have been for some
wears in existence there, and which have been
greatly invigorated and accelerated under pres
ent Tariff there has recently been put in operation
there large Carpet Factory, of $40 spindles, 100
looms using 900 lbs of W DOL aud turning
yards of Carpeting per month, with Worsted ma
oc,p do
The Worsted mill is 40 by 100 feet, three stories
high; the Carding and Spinning mill 40 by 95 feet 3
stories; Machine Shop, 1913 by 30, a Winding Shop,
Dive House, &c. This single establishment employs
a75 hands, w no are fully pard in cash every fort
night and whose yearly earnings amount to more
moro than those of any township in the County prior
10 the introduction of Manufactures. Ne Co unity in
the State has been more sgnally benefited and en-
rched by the Protective Policy than rocky Rock
land : none would suffer more from its rthrow
Blind bitter partisanship may deny this, but the
People in their calmer moments. know and feel it
know that the demand for and reward of their La
Dor, for their Brick, Wood, Fruit, Butter, &c &c.
has been greatly increased by the operation of the
Tariff.
ooh! saws n Loco Foco, ace amt opposed to
Manufacturer We like them frst.rate, only we
don't believe in granting them special privileges.
They don't need any other Protection than a
Revenue Tariff will afford, and will prosper abund-
antly under such one as Messrs Polk and Walker
propose.
Very well, gentlemen; we know you say 30,
and some Of you think So but experience is against
you. We shall see how your policy will work
Meantime, JUS, ask sorae Of your Free Trade Capital
lists show their faith through their works and give
farther employment to our Carpenters, Mechanics
Brick makers, &c BY building and putting in opera
ton a few more Cloth and Carpet Factories, Prin,
Works, &c. If they believe what they assert, the
prese mt is the very time to do Let us see them
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