The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1852-07-01


they catered upon shs seyags.
Look . little further into three coan.
tjss, sf Clinton. Essex, and Frsnklia.
New York. The prapeuy real and
persoual invested in furnscss, rolling
mills. nall factories. ore beds, and wood
landA for making coai was worth, Ia
i6lS ., least . 5000, 900 Nov Il is
mot worth ono fourth Of iha, sdm----
Two.hundred forge fircs and Elk blasi
fSvnsces produced IN isA6. from the ore
10000 tons ot pig and wrought iron. -
The forges producsd. in 1876, $4,000
IONS of wrought iron. u sl5 per ton,
sl,4t0,000 5000 ions of pig iron,
we're made At $50 per ton, equal 10
S5l0,O00' ln 1881, the same work.
made only $4,000 tons Of wrought iron
a S25 per ton pig iron, $500 tons al
SIT per ton, $342.500.--Only ninety
out Of TWO hundred were In operation,
in December Iasi--probaLly lcss now.
Five thousand men, sustaining one third
n the entire population Of these coun.
Observation-Disclosures directly or ihdi
rectly connected with the irun business 8,
while made at compenssiine prices. are
now thrswn out Of employment. Wha,
Is the cause Of thi. change, from com
potency to penury. in 50 many human
beingss The change from ,he tariff Of
i842 10 1916. The value of iron made
there in ls4G. was . 1880, 900 d, in 1851
e342,500. The difference im the pro.
duets Of single year, is s 1857 500
Let the gentleman from Massaschuset,.
3, and sing his free ,r'de lullabys al
the deserted fo'gss, and furnaces, and
hamie,s, on the banks of the Ausabie
lie, Us know the answer he will gel,
when with lie usual vivaci,y, he tells
them, as he tells US that the iron inter.
es,s, making the most rapii prog
ress, always cry out. most Justify, tha
they are terribly distressed"
England understands the science o
protection ; in forty years, proceeding
1920, she changed hrr tariff on iron
\ fifteen times; rising from 60 los I,
Il per ton She was not iree.,radcl
till she had made her q tisans skillfu
enough, and her laborers poor enough
10 compete wih the world. Our poll
cy seems 10 10 different under The tar
. III Of lS42, more improvements WERE
made In tile modes Of manufactoriu,
and machinery, Than in any other fou
= years If our history. We hToke NJ
, that system, put the mechanic OH shor
allowance, and stsrve him into sul,nis
, sion TO N unimproving round Of toi
: for his daily bread.
:. Take II on a broader field. In Ne,
a Jersey, 3 100000 are invested in III
\ manufacture Of iron one half Of ilIa
}, ia now unemployed and fast wsain
n away. In n. York moro thanl5, 100000
r are invested in the same manufacture 4
three. .four,ts Of |. (1l.250 900. elere
i millions too hundred and fly housan
f doiidrs.) Is entirely unproductive.
!. have letter from an eminent citizen I
z Boston written to the honorable men
!. ber,( Mr. Appleton,) stating that 1000
r bales less OF cotton are taken for cot
: sumption in 1850, 81 than 40. 80
r and &C, 900 thousand less Than in a
e 40 that the consumption has falle
l. off twenty five per cert. Many co,,o
Y. mills entirely, others partially suspe'
l. ed. Of eight mills under his charg
10 four have been stopped eighteen monI'
l. The four in operation. medium size'
N from $500 to $4,000 spindles, La,
'e lost $54. 900; add the inieres, on car
,, tai, $4,000 and you have in one yea
&c loss Of 100000, besides injury ar
i, loss by machinery lying idle. VOL,
h. mills have suffered equally with c",,t
Ct mill. More than hundred millio
So Of properly in New England, invest,
= in w0llen and cotton manufactures "a
re now entirely useless 10 the proprietor
to and made 50 through the act OF 1916
al l commend iha, fac. 10 the gentlem'
H. from Massachusetts. Pennsylvan
! {; one year los. foriy-three per cent,
n. her enormous investments. Two
Is. her mills that took the premium at Il
I,t worlds fair, have been compelled
,t stop but purpossly leave P.nns,
m vania interests 10 The def nee OF her 50
In l849 the Treasury received in re
Ii. .nue from iron only s84l.e20 ms
re than in l84j. while two men lost
n, rolling mills, by the tariff of lSs
ke $3.50, 900. Ii those two men had pa
10 out Of their own pockets the whole ]
nd crease Of revenue, they would la
%. been guiners to the amount Of .OO
ID, Compare the loss Of tho two m
-. with the io.s ef the win4e, 'r,d the 10
ID, Of The whole to the Insignificant gai
ne Of The Treasury.
nd There Is a great deal said about I
IS loss by the South in tile escape Of pro
n euy. but What isi III The eensus sho
al thai. I.0Il.pui of 3,iss,324 persons I
Isl capped in 1850. TIM, is, l-l?,f63 pa
ID, tone irtht housamfh part ese0ped )u
q lost. In answer TO inquiries. the rs
nd mated value ranges from $500 to sS
be per head. Take the highest and il "
~ be $805. 800 for the whole South
Oh sum mol EQUAL to . hundreih part
N the loss in manufacturing in New En-
&c land, under tariff passed by msjo
d. " Of Sos,i.esn votes. We have
70. plsis right 10 proteesico of our pro
~ ery in manufactures, ~ <i,er m
" have TO their poper,yis shve.. I
re frs, Law passed under fbe Prrssnt CO
OK stitvtion, and ty its lesding frame