Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-09-05

n'hNe supeIH"o"s 10 keePlWo SUPERVISORS OH 'h's
North Branch line, perhaps you may as well let
the whole business devolve on him.
With due Respect. I am,
THOS. SMITH.
Tue PASlc.--Mr. Cooper, of New York, IL
brral, intelligent iron manufacturer who owns
the largest Rolling Mill in the country, and whose
letter TO Secretary Walker attracted so much at
tention. has raised the wages Of his workingmen
AMI mechanics since the passage of the tariff OF
1916 II we had few more such men, instead
Of the grasping, selfish, miserly, un?r,ncipled,
despotic, tyrannc iron masters, who employ
their capital for the purpose of oprcsson balf OF
mankind would live happier, and much OF tn,
strife and misery as well as slavery which they
Cause, would never exist -- Reo9inr Dem Press
The above extract is certainly very fatterine
TO the Iron Masters of Berks county-but they
must take care of themselves We copied it iol
the purpose of giving il flat contradiction, which
we are authorized TO do In the beginning
this week, two gentlemen, residing in this plac,
aud Danville called on Mr.. Cooper at Trenton
and inquired whether the above statement wa
true. His reply that the publication wa
! not true and that it was made without his know
/ ledge or authority, On the contrary, after h
| present orders are fulfilled, which will be abou
the first of October, he will find it necessary, an
J intends to reduce the wages at his establishment
| % per cent. The wages of two puddlers VIII
performed extra work, were advanced TO the
! ,ct tbo IA nj
weeks ago which he presumes gave rise to ,h
report Mr. Cooper stated that it was his inter
ton TO contradict the report under his own Sly
natore, in the Trenton papers Miners Journd
An ErRoR Conference.-The following lette'
from Mr.. Cooper, corrects a statement whic
we, among others, copied from another journal
Ledger
TRENTON IRoN WORKS, Aug 3lst, 1916.
To the Editors Of the Pubhc Ledger.
Gentlemen About ten days since my after
ton was called TO paragraph in your esteeme
paper, and which believe has passed the gem
raj round of circulation, stating that the wag'
of the hands employed in the Trenton lro
Works had been raised in consequence of Il
passage of the tariff of lSl6. ] forbore to CO
tradict the statement at the time, as it seemed
me clear that every intelligent man, at all CO
vcrsant with the state and prospects of the ire
bu siness, would see at once that il was an ent
: error and had originated in some misconceptio
} Bu, finding iha, it has been extensively copi
: and widely quoted and commented upon by
advocates of the new tariff, am compelled
! contradict the statement entirely, and TO b
? that ycu will give the correction the benefit
a vour extensive circulation, 1t must be appar,
Y that the reduction in the tariff will and has
+. ready reduced the price iron, and that the l.
C which will accrue must iall alike on cabitdi
i ON labor +; AMI wages so far from being adyanc,
t must, as matter of absolute necessity, be VI
= considerably reduced between this and the
d of December next. so as 10 meet falling mark
= and after that still more considerably, uni,
}, Congress, at its next session, shall make the
d 1uislte mod fcations in the tariff to enable ai
g TO receive lis jus, reward. Very respectful
Il your obdt serv't. EpwAEp COOPER,
s Manager of the Trenton Iron Works
GiGAyric INCREASE OF 1uE COMMERCE. OF
LAkEs-Thc Cleveland Plain Dealer, in an
. ticle on the Lake Country" says that its tn
and commerce in a few years will nearly ca
; the commerce of the Atlantic. At the pres
moment Il exhibits evidence OF gigantic
} crease Ii is known that the first steamb
which reached Maokinaw was in 1919. and
i, 1896 steamboats, ruvisated Lake Michigan, J.
year there were $50 vessels navigating the La
-, above the Falls, amounting 10 10000 tons.
. the same year there We're Lake Ontori
d, stearnbpa,s, : large rropelers, and 100 brgs
II schooners. The tonnage is estimated at ST
r Ia 1919 not less than 500, 900 barrel, of Il
% passed over the Lakes, and $50, 900 passeng
.. At the presen. time the commerce Of the La
!. may be fairly estimated at sl00, 900 900 per
:, mum. This is an evidence of what that c.
merce will be hereafter,
d, BALTIMORE MARKET.