New-York tribune., 1880-09-27

notice that il the Democratic party gets in power
the tariff laws will be so changed as to enable for
eign competition to drive the articles they make out
Of the market and thus close tue shops, mills ana
factories where they earn their daily bread.
Trenton has one admirable feature besides her
pleasant situation on the banks of the Delaware her
many fine residences and her well-shaded streets
mean the Philadelphia system of small houses for
the working classes There no teuement-houses
here. The poorest man working for weekly wNges
can afford separate house of five or six rooms as
home for his family. Thus the home virtues,
which can have but sckly existence in the condi-
tions under which the laboring population OF New
York are forced to live flourish and the people are
thrifty, neat. temperate aud intelligent.
E.v.s.
THE FACTORIES OF NEW-BRUNSWICK.
GREAT INDUSTRIES IN RUBBER GOODS, HOSIERY.
WALL PAPER, ETC. BUILT UP BY REPUBLICAN
Observation-Disclosures RESULTS OF FREE
TRADE-ErUIvoCAL POSITION OF THE DEMO
CRATIC GUBERNAToRtAL CANDIDATE on THE
TARIFF QUESTION.
IFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNEl
NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j.. Sept. 17-Like the
ar ger cities of this State. brunswick prospers
upon the protective tariff system. Nearly all her
important industries directly protected by the
tariff laws ami could not exist without them In
old times the place was p slow-going, duii httic
trading town, living upon the business OF buying
the crops of the farmers in the region around 1t,
and in return selling them supplies. Before the war
a small beginning made at manufacturing, but
the revenue tariff adopted by the Democrats
in 1916 was unfavoraOle TO such enterprises,
and tow of them got upon their feet.
There was one exception however. The business
of making rubber shoes throve as long as it was
purely American industry; but the English soon
began making .he shoes, ana selling them III our
markets cheaper tnan they could be made here.
Then the business declined and was only saved
from destruction by protective duties. After the
Republican tariff based the principle of protec
ton to hcihe industries was enacted. New-BrGns-
wick improved rapidly, and with the exception of
temporary check following The panic of 1873. her
growth has ever since been rapid and steady, untl
she has become one of the most important manu-
featuring cities in the country. Her population is
now about : 900. More than half of her inhabi-
tants are directly indirectly dependent for their
livelihood upon the factories that ,ine the water
front of the city and look down upon the tawny
current of the Raritan. Statistics lately published
| by The Daily frcdORidn show that the number of
operatives employed in these factories is 1886.
| With the families they support and the shop
keepers and Others who live by their custom. they
make up the bulk of the population. TO all these
industrious people protective tariff means food
shelter ana raDcnt. n ftitdl oi VioitCllNC
would reduce them to poverty. SO the tariff ques-
ton comes straight home to them.
| The manufacture of rubber is the chief industry
of the place. 1t is carried on by three firms. two
| of which make shoes and boots and the third n
multitude oi articles of hard rubber such pipes,
buttons, checks. canes, etc. Over POO hands find
! work and wages in these three concerns. Rubber
| articles are protected by duty of 30 per cent.
| The manu- acturers say ii cannot be reduced with
| ont reducing wages in the same proportion.
! Democratic revenue tariff aiming to get revenue
from rubber articles by encouraging their importa-
ton will obge these l 200 operatives to work for
less than two thirds of their present wages, will
close the factories result or the other must fol-
low find paragraph in little book on the
manufactures of New brunswick which tells the
whole story about the relation of this industry to
the tariff 1t says:
i for the tariff Of 80 per cent there @ would
make at cost of or cents each, while here
| they cost ~ to II cents
| This was written in 1878, when the cost of the
labor that goes into a shoe was doubt somewhat
| greater than now, but the difference between wages
here and in England is still sufficient to give the
English manufacturers control OF our market II 1t
were not for the protective duty.
| Next in importance is PROBABLY the hosiery in
dustry. which employs go hands. single firm
the Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Company.
having other works at Norfolk Conn, continues the
! manufacturing in this line, making both merino
and cotton goods.
"On woollen hosiery" said member of the firm
today. the duty is 30 cents per pound, and 30
pei cent ad vaiOrem; on Gotten goods II ~ 30 per
cent ad vaorem Yet i'll spite OF these heavy duties
we have to contend with a sharp foreign competi-
| ton 1t would be impossible for us to live without
a tariff. unless wages brought down TO the
| English rates. and that nobody wants to see who
cares for the prosperity of this country the vel
| fare of our working classes"
as the tariff question entering largely into the
| political canvass 7" asked.
| ayes. and il IS arousing more and more interest
every day. Our working people are not fully awake
vet to its importance. but an agitation has begun
among them which believe will change enough
| votes to make the State Republican this year."
| The making of paper-hangings is another large
| businesss in New Brunswick Formerly 1t was a
small affair, employing few workmen in hand
processes: but the inventon Of machinery for per-
forming all the operations of printing, drying cut
ting and rolling combined with the benefits of the
| protective tariff, have given it great impetus.
| In old times workman would print 100 pieces
| of wall paper day in one color. Now machine
with one man TO tend il prints 5000 pieces in six or
| eight colors. Two large factories are engaged i'll
| this business, and make all the beautiful new
STYLES OF paper which the progress OF puDllc TASTE
| has brought in fashion. Connected with one of
these firms found Democrat His three partners
were Republicans, he said. lie had evidently
made up his mind not TO let the tariff question
| trouble him. He rather of the opinion that
| the paper-hanging industry, with cheap paper and
| improved machinery could get along without pro-
lection; but whether this were the case or not he
| thought the necessity of raising large revenue
| insured il what aid it needed from the tariff. He
seemed disposed to reconcile the inconcruity of his
| position as Democra and manufacturer of pro-
tected goods by saying that the Democracy of New
Jersey was as much for protection as the Rcpubh-