New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30
NEwy WORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 80. 1869.

market, and our ribbons are purchased as freely
the maSnfaCturer will experiment and produce. and
succeed, during the next ten years T. g. Glvenapd OF
York. now turn respectively several thousand yards
OF gros grain silks per week which no man IN tne tIa
Broadway for s. per yard With the present tariff Of
90 per cent American manufacturers can throw ana
now in Philadelphia 80 trimming factories those of Ora
ham, Horstmann carriage and military trmmngs), and
Hensel and Cornet beng the largest. At Hartford and
South Manchester the Cheney Brothers, who have been
engaged In the business 80 yeas employ 1000 hands and
thrown silks 600 lbs OF patent spun" 100000 pieces OF
belt ribbons and 10000 yards Of Wide goods comprising
The Dole Manufacturing Co, which, in 1865 built at
Paterson N j. mill probably as large as any IN Europe
Stories out 5000 MS OF manufactured threads per
mouth 1000 gross OF silk brads 600 gross OF hat BANDS
and 300 yards OF SERGE performing within the mill every
operation necessary To produce the goods from the raw
thread and employing 800 hands mostly children OF Pat
machinists. john N Stems OF New YORK making
yards OF goods per day. and M Gyenaud over
800 Dexter, Lambert Co.. at Paterson, make $1,000 10
$4,000 yards OF dress trimmings per month ana during the
past Spring season, manufactu lO dozen yards OF
bullion trimmings Haml Booths PassaIG MI, beside
making trans and organLines Is employed III Ine manu-
facture of dress goods Nearly all the Paterson mills are
large number OF improved American looms; ana tne
Murray Mil, which burned In May, but VIII DO n;
goods of net warps and spun filings American dyers
succeeding in producing as fine shades OF color as
some OF them from France Is daily turning out $50 ms
OF dyed silk the colors Of which are equal to any pro
mill started at Paterson few years ago failed. New
York City contains probably Tor various
grades OF the manufacture; many OF them are small Az
Schenectady Troy, and YOnkers, are also several Mills
Paterson the headquarters OF the trade and contains
factories The operatives mostly children OF mechan-
les; the majority Of them girls, who earn from TO
week In the trimming and weaving mills skilled opera
brought from Lyons receive as muchas SO week
piece during the Spring season. and girls trained
to the labor earn 20 and $40 week Some OF the MINIS IN
Connecticut and HobOken employ operatives, "a IN Luz
rope TO take the materials, aud weave the goods at nome.
The morals OF silk mills not always good. LaDorng
frorn Tntcln IN ID. NIL
pOyes those OF association with none hgner tna
themselves few boys in Winter attend night school.
some graduate as circusders and stories frequent
ly gosspped to the defamation OF girls put no agGa
tural population boast OF better conduct OF IeWer
disorders than our manufacturing towns.
PROTECTION NEEDED. A..
The enthusiasm with which manufacturers are enter
ing into broad-weaving which just springing up
with promise presages the future course OF e aue
ever selfish they may be in the WISH the results to labor
remain unatered Reduce them to FreeTrade ana three
millions OF silk capital In Paterson alone Will be ami
Inflated Beside This more than three thousand silk opera
tives In that city will be reduced to beggary. Ihree
hundred Of these by tho Generalization OF dleness, will
seek lives Of prostitution in NewYork. Two hundred
more. from the desperation OF id!eness, Will follow IN
their footsteps The farmers lands aud crops VIII con-
se1nentIy decrease in value. Thirty thousand people,
that single city. who depend, however unconseiOusy
upon these operatives will sell goods to them when
they are scattered, and will have money with which
to purchase French silks. Freetrade Is ruin, not
q choice OF markets We have advanced to
that success under moderate Protection, whence
cannot, must not, recede. Even with the fTotectOn
we have tho navy OF Britain aud the army Of Napoleon
are less formidable our national life than the Organza
ton of weayers at Leeds and Lyons and ST. Etenne Not
long ago 10 discOverednOt by the custom officers
but by wachful manuacturersthRt foreign importers
were sending their agents here hollow blocks OF RID
bons with piece outside which paid duty and piece
inside which paid Even they fight us with loss
10 themselves After selling To the European markell
French manufacturers send the surplus 10 America ana
sell IL for less IL cost rather than lose 10 altogether
The American importers OF foreign goods are in league
with the foreign manufacturers. They DO not PROPOSE
IN fair play 10 give the choice Of two markets.
they bring patience and money aud chicaDey 70 break
down our mills and reduce us 10 the necessity OF buying
In Europe The practical logic Of Free Trade Is, one
market. and that market Europe. n few years ago
American importers tried the plan OF assuming TO share
with manufacturers In the production Of American goods
Ofeourse the style OF goods made as they ordered
It Thy ordered IL OF inferior quality labeled ~ Osteh-
tatiOusy American silk" put Ia their warehouses De-
adj. foreign goods and ruined their dupes From acts
such As these and cOufcssedy from the lndcreoh OF
come OF eur manufacturers, stigma attends AmeIl-
can silks A manufacturer recently made lot Oh IIo-
hons and purchased night to use an importers abeIi
lie labeled half the lot as OF foreign make ana the
other half American. Ia the auCuonrOO the goods
uuer foreign Labels brought over seventeen per cent
NOR, than their other half! The only defensive weapon
of the American manufacturer under Protection Is goo4
FiikA DO not make them heavy, with inferior spun
uluzs Use good quality OF wool aud warp, ana make
them simmer II need be. The Tarh prints It's Proecuoh
10 nix as at sixty per cent, but, Win the average OF ue
ductiOas 10 does not amount TO MY. IL, however
strict specific duty OF sixty cent can be We
can Ia years drive the last threads OF Foreign
goods to the hstoca! societies, as relics oi our weak
Bss and unwisdOu.