Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-09
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Manufactures aid waterfall
Leather. making and shoemaklnl
are two industries dependent upo'
each other; one supplies tho materis
that the other consumes, and IN
cheaper that material Is the better
viii be, not only for those who max
shoes, saddles aud harness, but for al
who use them. Tho leather-makin,
establishments in tho country emplo.
SPAS handle, paying out annual!
$i7,S05, IT'S In wages, and yielding 1
product, less the value of tho mate
rails used, Of $Ss.667,s6s; and th'
shoemsking establishments emplo,
81, 702 hands, pay out S~42,5ol,444 IL
wages, and yield an annual product
less the value Of the materials used, o
SOC, POI 1897. We might suppose tina
shoemaking is rs worthy a calling q,
leathcr-making, and entitled 10 al
equal recognition with il. Shoe,
makers are American workinymcn
as well as tanners and curriers', aud
there is no. good reason why tho in,
dustry Of the former should not have
the same chance with that of the
other. But the tariff levies q duty OF
IS per cent. or lcatlyr fOr the protcc.
tion OF tho s5,aN leather makers,
and thus Expresses the business
Of 9l,702 sheemakcrs. 1t make.
the greater industry subordinat.
to the less, on tho plea o.
building up home manufactures,
If we were to include saddlcry and
harness and leather. betting, all OF
them using leather as their chief raw
material, we should find a still great.
err disproportion between the number
of workingmen taxed and the number
protected. Papcr-making and prin..
ing are two other industries closely
allied, for the former supplies the raw
material which The latter works into
the more elaborate forms of ncwspa.
pers, books, magazines, maps and al
buns. Paper-making is q rude art,
while printing, in oil its manifold
forms, is one that demands the high
est. skill and intelligence; aud it
would seem that if either is entitled
to special favor it is the latter. But
the distinction which the tariff law
makes is Just the reverse; it imposes
aduty oftwenty per cent. upon print
ing paper for the encouragement of
the home paper-lnaker, which, duty is
q encouragement to the home pub
Usher and printer. There arc 6s4
paper mills i'll the country, employing
1879 hands,.paying SAT-, 7so in an
nual wages, aud yielding an annual
product of$5O, 842. AS. There arc n,
the same time 2,177 printing c<iab-
lislments, employing 30,92I hands.
paying $1s,8s2,91S in wages. and
yielding a product Of $66,s62,4i7 So
then, the SO,924 printers arc taxed 20
per cent. on the material they use for
the protection of Is, 779 paper-makcrs,
md an industry that pays out amnu-
lily SIS, 1882, s1S IN wages is taxed to
'"i'd up IL that pays out only ST.
III, 7so.
Pig-iron making is the rude basis of
Ill iron manufactures ; it suprlics tho
'aw metal as it runs from the |,
'educed ore; which is the mate
'ials for rails, rods, bars, hoops,
wire, nails, screws, hinges aud cast
manufacture of each of
Ihcsc forming a special art, an.i all of
Them together constituting the lar
sest and most important industry of
civilized people. The easiest meth
ID of stimulating and building up
my manufacture is to supply ii with
cheap raw material to work OH,
hereby chcapening its fabrics and ell
ouraging the consumption of them.
Tut II tariff does the very opposite;
t leviesa duty of so per cent. upon
'ig-iron, and thereby increases the
rice of a raw material that is the
'asis of the whole system of iron
manufactures. In doing this it again
hows its disposition to tax three
American workmen for tho benefit (;
# one; for willie there arc only $3.50 S
establishments in the coun- s
ry, employing 27,554 hands, paying :
annually $12,475, $50 in wages, and
ielding an annual product of the
alue Of $~24,7i5,445, there are 1913 s
ron manufacturing establishments in |,
he country, employing 1855 hands, I
aging out annually 73,O27, 776 in
'ages, and yielding a product of 1922 /,
% 1888; and even this docs not in =
lude the tens Of thousands of black t
miths in the country, who also are
axed OH the iron they work.
Summing up the analysis of these a
'ree great industries, i'm which leath- :,
:, paper and iron constitute the raw S,
laterials, we find that there are s1.-q
q persons engaged in working these s
aterials and 26O,171 persons engaged Of
manufacturing them into the high W
forms in which they are used: and .
at the tariff taxes the industry Of b,
re greater number for the encourage A
ent of the lesser, and calls the pro- re
IS the protection of home manufac- ID
res.-Republican. ed
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An express train of nine cars re- W
ntly ran from Meriden, Conn.,, to z
g Junction hear New Haven, M
stance OF seventeen miles, in twen- be
three minutes. This is said to be tr
Q tasted railroad time on record. sc
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The Orange societies of New York n
'piied to the board of police for of
emission to parade OH the 18th of nj
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John Weatherby, one Of the "Ga,. ali
Mt Six Hundred" Of BaIat,ov, =.