New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-09


for glass. making. These deposits are generally
surrounded by forests of pine and scruboak, Judi
eating thin aud barren soil. Agriculture cannot
flourish on these lapds and populati m shuns them,
except the community Of pine-hackers aud char
coa-burners, whose profits are about as uncertain
those Of the nd-bilers of CaroliDa Yet, years
ago the glass manufacture was extensively bAgun
in p'any OF these waste places Capital Invested
in large sums ia, tories built long ranges al dwell
ings for vorkmen put up fine maDsi ms for pro, re
tors and ageut., and even fsIms were opened up
among the pines and scrue-oaks. Population quickly
gathered around these industrial centers for wages
were disbursed sufficient to maintain the COM
munity. Then roads were opened through the
woods, and soon the preacher and scho0lmaster
came in. To them succeeded church, and school
house, and post-oflcc. All went on prosperously.
The drifting heaps of white sond were worked up
by busy laborers into a merchantable article of
prime necessity which found ready market all
over the country The labOrcrs lived well, the pro-
prieors grew rich, The whole region fourished.
In 1912 all these glassiurnaces were IN full opera
ton, and new ones We're being erected New
Jersey, if oRly 1T alone, could supply the whole
ULion. Everybody willing to work had work
enough. Indeed there W even a scarcity of COM
mra latorcrs for of the whole cost of making glass,
labor forms very large portion. ..--.-
So things con.ired up to 1850. Two years later
began The decline which has been going on to this
day. Now twO-thlrds OF all the factories which
were in blast ten years ago are idle. Some of them
have been sold by Tie Sheriff ut enormous sacrifices;
others deserted and silent. Hundreds OF work
men have been turned adift, their houses empty
and going TO decay the church and the school house
have been closed, and in some instances even the
post Office has been discontinued. All this loss and
desitution spring from the Democratic folly Of Free
Trade. In 1916 the import OF cylinder glass was
1890 square feet but American labor being struck
down by the renewal Of protection, the amount i'm
ported in 1867 reached the ENORMOUS figure of 30
GGi. 677 square feet nearly q 600 times as much.
The foreign has literally killed the Jersey article
outright More than this The duty on window
glafs is II per cent; but it is notorious that under
our nd yal0rem system such lying differentiation is
pui on invoices that the dnty actually paid is seldom
mere than ger cent In 1912 the duty was specific
at 9 cents the sQuare foot; in 1857. under the ad
valOTUm cheat, the duty averaged only 3 cents
the square foot, though the very men who glutted
our markets with foreign glass were actually paying
higher prices at Antwerp for it, in 1857, than they
did in 1876 1t can be clearly shown that the glass
imported in 1851, under ad valorem duties, was un>
deryaued 40 per cent. How much nearer the true
value has il been sworn to since Then labor
fuel, alka and capital, in Europe, 0Ie all ex-
tremely low. Yet all the alkali used in making
American glass comes from Enp.and loaded with
duty, and burdened with heavy charges for freight
The glass itself comes at very low freight, some
ZINES as low az , cents box. Everything con-
spires TO crush us out, and the last feather to
The burden under which New-Jersey has been stag
gering is added by Democratic Senate. We
have evidently almost lost the control of our own
affairs given them up to British regulation, and arc
lapsng into the old colonial bondage.
New Jersey gees, feels, and realizes this crush
out Of one CT her great interests, and viii revenge
il on the authors in November Our minds are
made I'D on this issue. Count Tx M longer among
the pivot States. If there be any, they must he
sought in some other quarter. l do not know
single newspaper in the State that supports the de-
COY ticket Of Bell and Everett, is there sein
blaDce of organization that way. An effort was
made here n fortnight since to get up club, but
the parties were not able to get up even meeting
Not dozen men attended. know these gentle
men we'll worthy and excellent citizens they are
and felt mortified for them at the total failure they
made. But nothing could so well have showed the
entire absence Of sympathy for that ticket.
The monument TO commemorate the Battle OF
Trenton is now q fixed fact. Funds have been sub
scribed and if viii certainly be erected. 1t will be
located on the very spot where Washington left his
camp-ires burning in that bleak January morning
when he marched, before daybreak to attack and
defeat the British at Princeton.