New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-12-14
$500 MORE OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.
A letter dated Dec 7. from the owner of one of tbe
largest wooden mills at CohOes, in Albany County.
has been shown 10 us in which the writer says:


A letter dated Dec. T. from the owner of one of to-
largest wooden mills at Cohoes, in Albany County.
has been shown to us, in which the writer says
The knitting mills here are all practically stopped that is
entirely stopped and the Others what term
running out So in week two at the futhest from SOC
al viii be lying idle aud the Government revenue tax from
The COhOcs mills will he cut Of and great suffering and loss
viii We shOttf hare instant relct AS FAR as the
wooden manufacture concerned justice to US and duty to the
country requires the Senate TO pass the tariff voted by the
House last sumner In other localities In this state beside
Coocs the woocn mills are stopping and tue general eennS
Is that with present taxes and insufficient tarin II Is Use.
less for US 10 attempt TO compete with foreign Manufacturers
Begging Congress TO allow our manufactured hye
Think Of it. What an inversion of relations Con-
gress was created to provide for the general welfare,
aud yet the offrom2 600 o2 500 work
ing-people in a single village in Kew-York fall on
their knees to Congress aud pray for legislation to
enable thom to keep at work and 10 1--we
There is not civilized government in Europe
in which tho interests Of Industry are not intel.
lgontly cared for and jealously watched. Our Gov
eminent peerless in neglect Of Labor sits Inactive
with one ear attentive to tho sophstres and pensua-
sions Of foreign importers, while the other gives dull
and reluctant hearing to the cries of wOrkingmen aud
women that thoy will soon want bread if the market
for their labor is not saved to themsts inactive and
lets the food of imported goods silence the looms OF
our country aud drive our cardcrs, spinners and
weayers By brgades into ideness and prospective beg
gary.
The American knii-goods interest has been broken
down by the Senates defeat Of the House Tariff bill
last July. The worsted-gOOds interest has been
broken down. Wooden mills arc falling almost daily
all over the country. II is admitted by those con-
necod with the trade that there has not been such
prostration of business since the terrible year 1851
by predictions at Washington last July, over. and
over, aud over. The impOrtatOns of wool and wool
ems for 1866 have amounted to SCI, 037,957. To
furnish measure for the volume Of this foreign food
poured into our markets. will state that for 20
years preceding the year 1852 the impOrtations OF
wooens averaged only $40. 000. 900 year.
The people in the different States who are threatened
with loss of work this Winter, by the closing of the
wooden mills, may have a desire to represent their
suiIerngs and their rights to the Senators who de-
fealed the Tariff last July. We append list OF the
Yeas and Nays on the vote to postpone the bill;
YFAs-Brown Mo; Davis XIV; Doohttle. Wis; Foster
Conn GRIMES Iowa Guthrie ny; Harris " y; Henderson
Mo: Hendricks Ind johnson Nd KirkwOOd, Iowa; Lane
Ind; Morgan n. " Nesmth Oregon Norton. Minn Pome'
roy Kansas: Riddle Dell salisbury Dell Sumner, Mass
Tfumbull Ill. Wiley. W Va; Williams, Oregon; Wilson
KIs-Anthoby. r. J.; Chandler. Michj Clark N H.; Con.
ness, Cali Cowan' Penn; Crasi1, n. H.; hqm1noss "
Ramsey MINI; sherman, Ohio Sprague, X L. Stewart
Nevada Van Wrinkle w. Va, Wade, Ohio-l1