Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-31

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having the largest pay roll Of any eri-
ployers in New jersey, and contrib; in-
more to the welfare and prosperity c the
city than all lis financial institutions
combined, we hear less in the newsra PER-
of this world Of wealth makers than OF
some second class money lending hop
on Broad street. 1t would be useless ior
any one to attempt to trace to their
source all the varied industries Which
have entered into the production Of
Clark's 90. n. T." Spool Cotton, which
Is sold by every merchant dealing il; dry
goods, fancy goods, HOSIERY, notions, etc.
in the United States, and contains two
hundred yards of that indispensable az
ticle, strong, smooth and beautiful. IL
il made up of
NEARLY FORTY-TwONILLIOND DO BIZ N,,r.
and yet is so fine as to be hardly Visible
few inches from the naked eye. The i'm
mense capital invested in the Clark
Thread Company's Works and The vast
volume OF business, amounting 70 several
millions per annum, extending to every
part Of the United States, is one of the
principal sources of Newark's r-osperity.
what 1t Is and the blessings which Tow
from 1t, are not realized by one in thou
sand OF the people who dwell within the
sound OF their tower bell. Notwi.hs,and.
ing the large amount of money " nicl,
the establishment was TO rour into tho.
hands OF every merchant and trader i'm
the city. as events have shown, the trst
thing which the City Fathers did when
these works were being erected was to .ax
the bricks and material not vet SHAPED
into buildings. 1t was on par with The
intelligence and appreciation of The
REAL SOURCES OF WEALTH,
usually exhibited by the average pciiti-
clan. Had 1t been some trust company or
curbstOne broker that asked exemption.
it would probably have been -rartc,l.
Some idea of the value Of these works 10
the community may be had by an illus
tration of a thing which might really
happen at any time. The Clark Thread
Company employ, az stated, about fif.
teen hundred persons, paying out to
them sixteen ito twenty thousand
dollars every two weeks. These hun
dreds Of hands pay out that money to the
butcher, the baker, the grocer, the cloth!er.
the dry goods merchant, and all WHO have
anything 10 sell get part of it in some
way, either directly or Indirectly. From
their hands it goes to pay debts, NEE. ob.
legations and fill the channels of trade
with the circulating medium called
money, and which ie to business wha,
blood is to the human system, giving it
life. animation and power. Suppose to-
night these works were
DESTROYED By FIRE.
They are fully insured. The CLARK Thr.ad
Company receive their insurance in cash
from their underwriters. They say to
themselves; Business is dull salep are
uncertain, profits are small, the future is
unknown, and our task are heavy. The
vast business requires close attention AMI
persistent energy. We will not take thi,
money and rebuild the works. bit adort
the plan pursued by most moneyed men,
viz: go to Washington, buy government
bonds, bring them home. put them in 81
tin box, pay no taxes, and sit down to
take our ease, eat, drink and be merry,
with no though of care, supported in lux
ury without risk by the interest On our
bonds, paid by taxation of the producing
classes Can any man calculate the wide
spread ruin which would follow such a
calamity and course of action by Tie
Clark Thread Company? 1t would be
incalculable. All those people who earn
ed money to purchase what they wanted
to bury, would be added to the list of
paupers who to-day clamOr for work or
bread. Misery, want,
-TARvATION AND CRIME
would I've the fruit of such course. But
thisisexactly what has been done through
out the country, rnd explains why one in
twelve in Newark are to-day supported by
the city. The productive capital of the
country, which employed our now idle
millions, has been put into government
bonds, and appalling restitution and want
are on every hand and increasing at fear
full rate. Labor is the source of all wealth
and prosperity, and there is no loss equal
cotton, which when ginned weighs about
seventy.fivc pounds, or one to FIVE The
negroes without doubt will eventually
to that which follows enforced idlencss OF
the producing classes. There is no music
20 full OF joy and peace and good will 10
men as the song of labor and the music OF
machinery. Better far that all other
songs be hushed and every note bc titled,
rather than those, and to them we nCw
introduce the reader.
ON THE DOCK
of the Clark Thread Company, VIII ch i
five hundred feet long, is a mountain of
! two or three thousand tons of coal drawn
out of boats at the wharf by donkey en-
CINE, and the bales of cotton find their
way from the same wharf to the briA
house, for storage of that precious m.,-
terial, one pound OF which will make one
HUNDRED miles of thread, containing about
forty-two million doublings. The mind
cannot graspthe numerical fact. But four