The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-20
Nc CullOch Against Home MonOpoIIes-
Not Foreign.
From The Tribune.

Nc CullOch Against Home MOnOpOIIcs-
| Not Foreign.
From the Tribune.
Secretary McCulloch has informed Congress
that Hhis nosion of nice tariff is, one whose
rates of duty shall not be so high as to "build
up home monopolies." Which savors of bun
combe. Which also has stale flavor of free.
trade can't and a perceptible scent of dema-
! gogism.
IL would bother Secretary McCuloch to tell
hcwa manufacturing monopoly could be created
In the United States. Saya monopoly Of making
salt-saline springs and rock salt being on large
deposit in fifteen different States and Terrific
ries. How would you create it? Copper
sheathing for shps-how would you go to work
10 make monopoly OF manufacturing that the
copper OF America not being concentrated in
single hole, owned by one man, or one company
OF men? Pocket and table cutlery--how, Mr..
McCulloch, could you confer on the smartest
Yankee that ever simulated a gunhint. or
cheated the eye with ligneous ham, the mo-
nopoly OF supplying even your town OF Bun
combeville with table-knives and forks, pocket
knives and sclssors?-the road to Buncombe.
Nlie Delng highway by law to all the world
ana the making OF cutlery, good or bad, dull or
snarp, tempered or dstempered, being one of
the nallenable rights of every man, woman
and child in the United States.
The proposition that high duties on imported
goods would ''build up home monopohesr is a
proposition that is absurd on It's face. If the
Atlantic rolled tariff OF fire and birthstone be-
tween us Snd europe, manufacturing monopo-
lies could not be established here. Why? Be
cause i'll the United States OF America iron
coal, copper, lead, zinc, OIL AMI timber are
geographically, dihused, and because man is
1ree, labor is free, capital is free, and land is
cheap. BY way Of charitable subscription to
scanty stock OF economical knowledge where #
Is ofilcially needed, let us mpart that one of the
essential conditions OF monopoly is control
OF LABOR. Not till land becomes as dear in Ame-
rlca as 1t is in Great Britain can American capi-
tal control American labor. What does MIR
McCulloch suppose TO be the average length of
manufacturing life in the textile mills OF Massa.
Chusetts! 1t is only from three to four wears
Tor the men-only from five to six years for the
women. They quit the mills then-for what?
me men for, piece of land; the women tor
husbands and piece of land. The Home
stead law is law of Americal industrial life.
We can't keep operatives at work after they
nave earned money enough to buy and improve
iand. Ihe American passion is to own bit of
the earth to have a home on, to cultivate to
adorn, to welcome children back to, to die on
tact underlying political economy that Il
statesman should know. But where you find
labor without education without the right to
vote, without political representation. without
the power to fix its wages, without the choice of
markets, without access to land, without the
power 10 change It's condition, there you will
una the possibility OF a monopoly. There
money and genius can build one up. England
is dotted all over with monopohes-with respect
to the rest OF the world. There is lovely
monopoly IN the town of Satalre. which town
Mr., Salt owns, the inhabitants of which town
Mr.. Salt owns, and whom Mr.. Salt keeps at
work, supplying the world with Worsted dress
goods, thanks u the knavish free trade gospel
ing Whicn preaches and prays to nations not to
make their tariffs so high as to be prohibtory.
nor to build up home monopolies"-the foreign
ones being all right. Mr.. Salt makes eighteen
miles OF worsted dress cloth in a day Consul
n Ia
THE Model MILL erected by Mr.. Salt at
Saltalre, occupies six acres of ground betwe
the Midland Railway on one side, and the canal
Which connects the Atlantic with the North
Sea on the other. 1t has III acres of hooring.
he 'front.' on the railway is 545 feet long and ~
feet high, and has six stories. The lower floors
are divided in the middle by the engine rooms,
but the Top story runs the whole leugth of the |
building, aud forms one OF the very largest
rooms in the world. The floors are huilt in the
most perfect tire-proof manner. The roof is of |
iron. The windows are formed of immense
squares of plate glass. From the centre of |
the main building the warehouses run back |
to the canal, distance IN all, of $50 feet, !
and rise to height OF 80 feet above the |
canal. On each side of the warehouses the !
space is occupied with sheds |
containing rooms for preparing wool. Below |
these are immense cisterns with filters, holding !
100000 gallons ofraln-water for manufacturing
purposes. On the top Is tank holding 10000 |
gallons OF water pumped from the river for the .
supply of the town, and for use in case of fire
On one side, facing the high-road, are Offices
81 ore-I ooms, etc. The engines are of 1850 horse
power, with eight boilers, supplied by pipes
from the river. In making the engine-beds
2400 tons Of stone were used. The chimney
separated at the corner Of the works is Is feet
square at the base and $50 feet hieh. The gas
works are very large, and yield 100, 900 feet per
day tor 5000 lights the establishment, and
lor the supply OF the town. The gasometer is
go feet in diameter aud Is feet deep. Mr. Salt
employs 1850 hands, who work 1900 looms, and
produce l8 miles OF cloth day.
"Monopoles," Mr.. McCull0ch! Are they
evils! Indeed they are. England is full of
hem. England Is the manufacturing mOnOpo-
list OF the world. Then why did YOU not ask
Congress TO guard the domestic industry of our
country, upon the prosperity OF which alone
,an you depend for the income TO pay our debt
md carry on the Government against foreign
nOnOpoles-the monopolies that do exist, and
10 grind and crush their unprotected conpeti.
ors? Salts WOrsted mill is sample of them.
saltaiTe is prnCipalty. Salt is a monarch in
he markets of the world. Salt tramples to-day
IN every worsted manufacturer in the United
States, ard is turning thousands and thousands
If our laboring men and women out of employ.
nent into the snow. And WHY, MI. Secretary
,f the Treasury Because your tariff practically
: free.trade tariff. Salt walks over II, aud
walks through it, and walks over and through
IFS American competitors,
Congressmen, a tariff is q breastwork for uu-
equally developed industry. Raise ours high
enough and make II tight enough 10 save the
people from foreign monopolsts.