Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1852-06-18
,LNGTON FREE PRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE Is, 1852

duced $500 tons in 1913 they failed, and as
signees worked up the stock. OF all that have
risen, and struggled, and sunk down in that
valley, but one remalns--;hat of Plnhed, Ham
mond g. Tower. They have $4,000 invested
in their works, managed by the owners on the
SPOT with wise and practical s1gaclty. They
have one Of the beet mines, making the best
iron in the land, as shown by repeated trials at
your navy-y I'd. Their coal, ore, labor, and
transportation is as cheap as can be found any
where yet they cannot compete with the ms
cradle FOREIGN iron without loss of from S.
10 81 per ton Go by their wharf, and you
may see their iron, piled as high as human hands
can lift 1t, measured by roods and acres. The
gentleman from Massachusetts may ask, "N ny
don't they give up" Sir, the hard earnings of
past life are invested in that house. in Adj
rondack mount inns; invested under the solemn
promise OF protection by the Government, pied.
ged by the law of the land. That promise was
| kept by the tariff OF 1912. You promised them
better tariff IN 1916. and, trusting you,
they went on. Now they, and thousands of
others IN the Ncr,h east, are ike mirIncrs ona
wreck--hfung up their signals ot distress, and
calling on the Government to redeem their
promises under winch they entered upon the
voyage.
Look a little further into three countless of
Clinton, Essex, and Franklin, New York. The
properly, real ana personal. invested IN turna-
ce3, rolling mills, nail factories, ore beds, 1nd
wood lands, for making coal, was worth, IN IL
as, at least ?3,OOOOOO. Now 1t is not worth
one fourth Of that SUN. Two hundred forge
fires and SIX blast-.urn,ce5 produced, in 1915,
from the orc, 80 coo tons Of pig and wrought
iron. The forgcs produced, in ISIS, $4,000
tons of wrought Jon, ut : 10 per tuu, : 49,
I > .Ntt i-,r, la,
$50 per ton, equal to $jl0,O00. In lSJi the
same worns mide only l2OO0 tons OF wrou Lht
IRON, at SIS per ton pig iron, , 500 tons. at
$el7 per ton %3i2,500. Only ninety out vi
two hundred were III operation in December
last probably less now. Five thousand men.
sustaining one third Of the entire population
of these coun.cs--1}, O0U-were directly or
/, indirectly connected with the iron business
while made at compromising prices, arc now
thrown out Of enploymcnt Whl: Is the cause
of this change, from competency to penurv. in
so many human beings? Thc chnnga trcal
the tariff of l3I2 to 1916. The value of iro1
: made there in 1916, was 2l,9S0,Ol1 in iejl
$342, o.. The difference IN the products Of !
, single wear, is : 637 $40. Let the gentIen1r
| from Mass ,chusetts 90 and sing his !ree-trade
lulubys at the deserted iorges, and furnaces
ana haniets, on the ba Ks oI the .iusub!e. Lee
: Us know the answer lie will get, when, with Ii.
= usual vlvacl'y, he tells them, he tells Us, th1
9 the iron interests, meklny the most = pd pro
' 'gress, always Cry cW;. m0at Justly, that they
are terribly distreSsed.'
: En- Gland understands the science Of rrotec
> ton in forty years, preceding SO, she chan
II ged her tariff on iron lilteen times, rising ttou
s2 los. to & per ton she was not free
trader till she had made her artisans Sklltu
: enough, and her labGrers poor enough, 20 coua
i pete with the world. Our policy seems to b.
: different; under the tariff o! !cl., more III.
: provemeut WAS maLe in the modes Of manu-
. featuring and machinery, than IN any oihe
= ionr years OF our history. " C break up tina
y system, put the niachlnc on short allowance
L. and starve HIM INTO submission 10 an uuin
$ proving round Of toll for his daily bread.
e Ia e it on broader field. In New Jersey
>' 81 100000 are invested in the manufacture q
= iron; one half OF that is now unemployed, an
fast wasting away. In new York more tha
y $l5,900.0O0 are invested in the same manYac
! ture, and three iourts Of it &. 80 900 ci,,
T. en- million tco hundre ani. !Ey thousand do!
fdrsl IS entirely unprnductlvc. | have Iettt
Al from an eminent citizen of Boston written T.
y the honorable member. Mr. Appeton,i Stain
y that 40 600 bales less Of cotton are taken f,
II consumption IN 1850, 81 than in 1919, 80
lr CONSUMPTION has fallen OH twgn,v-liyc Der @
y Many ton mills entirely, Others partially sus
e pencil. Ofei,ht mills under his charre, tuu
Or have been stopped eighteen months. Th
= four in operation, medium sized, from G 600 t
x = % splndles. have lost Sj4OC; add til
ID interest on capital. $4,000 and yon have, i
r, one year, loss of SlU2OGO. besides ipiui
g and loss by machinery living idle. Wolfe
9r mills have suffered equally with cotton mills
80 More than an hlu tired millions Of property j
n New Enuland. invested IN woo,en and coito
ID manufactures are now entirely useless 10 +,
It. proprietors, ane made so through the act of At
D. commend that fact to the gentleman fro.
v Massachusetts. peunsylyanlt in one wear To-
he torty-threo ncr cent. Of her enornou, invo;,
z ments. Two OF her mills that took the n.a,,
/ lum at the Worlds FAR have been cnm5elic
10 to stop but purposrlv leave pruusy, vaYiY il
teres ) to the defence OF her sons. In Isl.
u the Treasury received IN revenue from iron or
le y S3ll go more than IN lSiJ. while TWO me
}! lost III rolling NILS by the tarltf0ilS IS, S35
,, 600. Il those two men had paid out Of the