New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-23

,o.s. and tbov will carry tie fame of American paper
all over the world II they let alone TO WORK out the
own salvation They will be enabled TO do 80 by certain
advantages which they enjoy One - the climate Oh INC
country Climate is important an element IN paper
making, as during the days when yarn was spun oy
hand IL was to the spinner The decacy OF the
cotton webs OF india which would almost 1oat III INC ~
was duo almost entirely 70 the warmth OF the huiah
climate the moist hands Of the spnners enabling them
TO produce thread and fabric 1ner than could DO zone
by INV other nation In this country the dryness Oh tne
climate ia an Important advantage to the paper makers
Tho best kinds Of paper require, Wme haNns'
TO be hung up in lofts and DRIED Dy tno
air 1t "a a slow process, requiring week or zen
days. but Il efectua one the texture OF Inc paper
being greatly improved by It, In England the ar is 50
damp that papers other than the handmade are hnShed
on the machine by heated air. which makes them Soler
than American papers. The handmade papers, "mon
are the only ones airred England, can only be maze
so slowly that their price pats them beyond popular use
The highest grades of papers IN this country such as
bank nOte bond ledger and writing papers which are
manufactured at HolYoke, Dalton, South Adams,
South Lee, and Turner Falls, in Massachusetts,,
and Manchester, Unionville and East Hartford, In
Connecticut are all ardred and they illustrate the per-
lection to which climate enables us to carry tho pro-
cesses OF manufacture We also far in advance Of the
British manufacturers IN tie matter Of machinery
Americans are constantly experimenting and improy-
ing great deal OF money IL wasted In these expert
ments no doubt probably 100000 has just been appa
renty sunk in interesting but costly experiment that
came to nothing, at HOlyoke, by one concern. But
tbers has been marked PROJECTIONS OF processes,
and great deal Of work can be and Is
done on the machine in this country which
"a ne by hand in England The result is that the same
number OF wOrkmen In America VIII produce great
deal more paper than in England enabling the manufac
turer to sell cheaper. Another advantage Is inc equal
ability with other countries to obtain plenty OF raw
material can be obtained In abundance at
equally low prices with foreign countries. Inc
British manufacturers are embarrassed by scarolV
Of material, and they cannot reheVe thelr Cohdi-
ton by the use OF wood pulp. there are no WOODS ID
their country suitable for the purpose The taH also Is
favorable to tie American manufactures. IL enables
him by shutting the product OF the pauper labor or
Europe TO command our own market, end thus, being
enabled to manu- acre in large quantities. 1t qualities
him TO supply our market cheapy as any other
nation can do it, and in fact to Manufacture 80 cheapy
that he can export his goods.
Tho British manufacturers Just now are in singular
dilemma Formerly paper making was peculiar glory
Of British enterprise OF late however the countries,
and especially France desiring to protect their own In
duses have subjected rags and other raw material 10
an export duty before they leave the cOunry and
when the material does go, and returns in the form OF
finished paper it Is subjected to an import duty Ihs
system OF taking toll from England at both ends OF -
turers and they recently went to Lord Derby with COM
paints delegation representing the trade in England
and Scotland waited upon Lord Derby formally Ihey
reminded him that in 1861 the duty taken on from
paper In England, and free trade In paper estaO-
lshed It hurt the trade at fret, but by the discovery
that the csparto grass from Spain could be utilized Tor
making paper; the cost OF the grass had advanced
however aud this material could longer be depended
upon to sustain the manufacturers; America and most
OF the countries Of Europe have protective syS-
tenn some Of them doubleacting one, mainly on eN-
ports of raw material and ports Of paper; that under
the present system the paper trade OF England cannot
exist at ALL and that effort must be made to get other
countries 10 cut down their duties. Lord Derby replied
that he sympathzed with the manufacturers, but that
he had little more 20 say: "The manufacturers were
aware that England did not stand In strong position
with respect TO commercial negotiations with foreign
countries because had nothing next 20 nothing TO
give them" The papermakcrs in fact were forced 10
the point Of admitting that they must either go ont OF
business or else attempt to force upon other countries
commercial policy under which England Is at thi5 mo-
ment In danger Of suffering disastrous losses II Is evil
dent from this fact that American manufacturers have
now ony TO gc ahead and they will receive that share OF
the worlds trade in manufactured goods for which they
are now lifted to compete.