The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-23
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
IRON ADDIrIoNAL LoeAL IrEAlg SEE oursIpn rAeEs.

THE MANUFACTURERS OF TEXTILES AGAIN IN
COUNCIL AT the Board eff Trade rooms yester-
pay an adjourned meeting OF the Association of
Cotton and Woollen Spinners was held, win
Pres dent Divine in the chair, and j. c. Flem-
ming as Secretary.
The object of the meeting was to agree upon
form of application TO Congress for a reduc-
ton OF the five per cent. tax which hIeatens
TO paralyZe our industrial interests.
Pres dent Divine urged the appointment Of
the proper committees, and called upon the
subject.
There being numerous young men connected
with the Association, the veteran Richard
Garsed, Eqp suggested that they should hrst
oe heard from.
Mr. Dennis B. Kelly read an interesting
printed letter from Dr. Bellows, in reference to
the state OF labor in this country as compared
with Europe.
Mr. Garscd said they asked Congress to do but
simple justice to American manufacture so
that our manufacturing trade may be protected
against the pauper labor OF Europe. lie could
not understand the necessity OF paying so many
custom'bouse officers, who levy a AK OF seven'y
per cent, when comes an additional one of
thirty i've per cent for internal revenue pur-
poses.
The government as at present conducted in
the internal Revenue Department, has a plain
invitation to business men to stop. The speaker
had been IN Belgium, and seen persons engaged
IN Woollen mll's at fifty cents a week in some OF
the lower capacities, and others received prO.
pCrtiOuate wages. How could American labor
compete with This? We can prove that the
policy of inhicling 20 per cent. custom-house
revenue, followed by 80 or 30 per cent. internal
revenue, collected by a force OF men double in
number to what is really required, is suicidal.
There was no hope OF protecting the trade short
OF the total annihllatiOn OF this tax. A half
way measure was not enough.
Agricultural machines are made in this cOun.
try TO compete In Europe against its paupcr-
laborlng women, who are engaged in the fields
in picking wheat. The manufacturer has no
guard Ia
or they would ask no favor of Congress. The
speaker would personally ask nothing but was
DISPOSED 10 see justice done TO the trade.
Mr.. Archibald Campbell thought that the
politicians OF the present day were disposed to
continually take advantage OF the laboring
class.
The idea prevailed that the manufacturing
interest desired something more than it was
their right to obtain. The speaker would rather
take his chance OF doing away with every Gus
tOm'house IN the country than rely uDon the
present system of internal revenue taxation.
| Tue proper course, he thought, would be TO
support no man who Disseminated against the
laborlDg man and in favor of the non-laboring
classes. The producing interests of the country
called for such stand to be taken.
The manutaC turers OF Western cities were
taking this view of things, aud at a meeting re-
Gently held at Detroit the view was taken that
the revenue of the Government ought not to be
taken from the laboring classes. Those who
oppose the labOring classes IN this manner Will
In turn themselves be opposed. We have
Secretary of the Treasury who draws in legal
tenders issued during the war, and Is putting
out ID their place that which manufacturers are
| taxed % pay, He asks no iayors from Congress,
~but desires simply just and discrimnallve
| taxation.
General Patterson said there was no country
| in the world so ground down by taxation as
this. The majority in Congress were res pons ible
| Tor the existing state OF affairs, The chairman
| oI this meeting had been rudely aCCOsted by the
| Chairman of the Ways and Means OF Congress,
| and the chairman now jocosely intmated the
| CONGRESSMAN letter
OF sS mpatby at the result OF the late election.
An army OF officers was kept in office to collect
posed Of The country Is thus covered with
idle men, and not one quarter of a cent of the
tax collected ever reaches the Treasury.
He Gld not accuse the Government Of stealing,
but all they collected was consumed in salaries
of useless officials, The tax cotton was
nearer 4 per cenIum than %, much of which
was ocCasOned by the large expenditures of the
planter We are to-day paying l3 per cent.
mere Tor goods than the British Government,
| and while an additional tariff Is not asked oil
| Congress- lust protection was e,s 3ntal' LABOR
| ers have 10 pay tax on everything they eat,
| and there ore get enormous wages. ltCopgress-
| meu would attend to their duties at Washington,
| things would ne better, and if they would give
attention to the real wants of their constituents,
il stead OF admitting railroad iron free of duty,
there might be more prosperity in certain de-
| paTtments Oi trade
| We sh UId go back to the condition of things
| during The Presidency of John Quincy Adams,
| when $1,000, ,OJ0 was all the expense of the en-
| tIe Government, civil, military, and naval.
MIR. Blakely said that during the time Of John
| Quincy Adams the country and population were
| both small. The application of the national
| expenditures OF that time to the present would
| not do, although he did not believe the officials
| OF that day more honest than those of the pre-
sent (Laughter.) Instead OF talking about
! doing away with the collection of duties, he
| thought it wiser to set about some plan of doing
away with The i've per cent tax.
| General Patterson said he did not propose
asking that customs collections be abolished,
bat he meant to say that it such was the fact,
the manufacturing interest would be no worse
off than IL is to-day.
Mr.. Cursed offered the following resolution: -
Resolved. That the Manufacturers Union OF
Philadelphia ask our members of Congress TO
use all honorable means TO remove all taXotion
on the Industry OF the country, when such in
| dusry requires it to be protected against the
cheaper labor and capital of Europe. 1t was
auOpled.
MIR. Dennis B. Kelly called up his resolution,
| offered az a preceding meeting, providing for
| action with regard to establishing a fixed tax on
cotton bales, the same as the trade bale in Liver
| pooI.
This was referred to the Executive Com
| mittee, with instructions TO communicate with
| organizations throughout the country. Ad-
| journed.
| MEETING OF SAILORS AND MARINES OF THE
| WEST GULF SQUADRoE.-An adjourned meeting
| OF the salors and marines attached to the West