New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-20
PREPARING FOR FREE TRADE.


A M.vUFACTURER ADVISED TO ARRANGE WITH
ENGLISH FIRMS IN CASE OF HANCoCKs ELEC-
TON.
YES | have number of Mr. LyalPs cards
tackled up where the men can see them. aud the'
are doing good" said Mr.. Hall, proprietor of Samuel
Halls Sou's Bolt Works. No. 229 West Ienth-st.
" had not finished putting them up when
two of the wOrkmen came to me and told me that
those cards had settled them that they intended
10 vote for Gariield now, although they always hat
been Democrats. An EnglshmaI IN the Shop read
the cards, and SAID that the list of wages printed
there was correct he had worked for Just such
wages, and left England simply because working
man was little better than slave there. aud he
concluded to risk the experiment of coming TO
America because he felt that he could not do worse
here than in England. HIS talk bias had consider
able effect upon the other men, and | think
il aud the cards together have been
instrumental in making Republicans of moi few OF
them who do not like TO think Of supporting their
families on such wages are paid IN Europe. There
are seventy-five men employed here. nave hopes
that there Will be a very large Republican majority
among them OF election day. Just now. however,
do not know exactly how they stand further than
that a number of them have changed and become
Republicans. You might feel interested in talking
with the English workman | spoke of. l Will send
for him."
Henry Brown The man referred TO, is a man Of in
telgence. He said:
eft England because a workingman's condi-
ton there is a hopeless one. He can never get any
thing ahead, but just tolls along. and wears his life
away for a very little TO eat and very little to
wear without any enjoyments without anything
10 make HE worth living. The highest wages paid
in England rarely exceed 60 abont 20 60), and the
average woriIngmau does not make over 20 shil-
hngs a week. When there is a family TO support
maybe you can culate how that can be done
on "a 50 a woek but doubt 1t. Still. II Is done;
bur II Is a miserable living that the poor people get.
An American could not stand II ut all The Amer
lean wOrkngm % has iuXuTles the English iabOIer
does not cream If luXures. however. thdl Tie
American reg Ids ~ ncces,arieS. Tie EngiiShhian
az & "A week has only lttle bread aud butter ana
me. T. aud sometimes the meat Is lacking, ana very
o ,sn fhr butter. The people i've almost worse thah
animals IN the crow ded tenement districts Oui "hai
bettercau he eEDected on less than - week, when
that sum mast pay the rent, The cost Ga Goals ofrad
meat md 30. mig. Tor IRON thTcc 10 bNc ptisouN'
ma vbe} The cessgrles of lfc no England ale Mite
cheaper than ..ty here. Meat is cheauer here
than there and il Ia better mere. we'll Bead i
sold by weight IN England and Is s0mewna cheaper
there. | think. 3alic0c., Goals. and a lev DINER
things are. may a. q shade cheaper in Engianu;
but taxing the cost + the actual neceosarits Hg4t
thrOugu--Or even allowing the American the com
forl, of life winch he enjoys and which the Lng sh
laborer never eXpeIieuces-3nd even then the dter-
eucc IN the cost OF living. Is utterly 0ut OF an pro
norton 10 the din ID tue wages pad M the
Two countries. HE American lanoIer N,.h his
wages cannot only i've better, but can save some
tblug; II is only by the most rgd economy, SELL
DENIAL and otentncS the greatest distress tHat ZIG
ordinary English workman eau make ends meet.
came to America because | could not stand 1t IN
England. worked III "a bolt factory near London
aud there received thirty SnIllings week w. 20
Here Tor the same | get twice as mucI and
boarding. ] find that my hviDg actually costs ne
.in he distressing state of affairs You mentioned
among the ordinary w0rkmeu, what do the people
..gN~s. nj .fra a as
ease which calls for the attendance OF a physician
almost enough TO ruin man outright, b. getting
hlw 10 debt
patient or u case OF q severe accident the hospital
takes charge. Still there are plenty Of workngmen
VINO dislike 10 take advantage of either, and who
do sadly enharTass themselves ny GAZING III uocloiS
After all. Is only difference in the wages
paid the men, sad Mr. Hall Our BUSINESS
needs the protective tarff on that account Otner-
wise We manufacture as chcaplV here as they 90 ia
England. but the only way We could compete WIN
the foreign mauuiaci urcrs would be BY cutting
down mems wages to the wages paid abroad,
and that do not wani u do. received card
from a Grant, Of Grant a. Co. No. 1877 Duane
st. this morning asklng IN about the tariff card
business. He bad read my letter 20 MI Lyal pub
lsncd IN Saturday JBBuNE.U
TIE reporter immediately called upon Mr.. Grant,
whose frm deals ~ xiiic machinery and manuiaC-
tursrs' supplies Mr. Grant said : The tariA ques-
ton Is % ycIy vital one with my business. When
HarCogtrs prospects seemed iait some time ago,
some OF ny friends ADVISED me to correspond with
E9alish manufacturers Of machinery and get their
rates so that II trade broke up NV present ar
ruucrueuts with American manuf tcturcrs might
still DE- first IN the held with The lowprcod English
machines. But dad not do that 1 had consider
able confidence that thIs thing would work Itself
onf al righf, and guess il will am doing first
r,te business as things are now; AN furnish
mo machines for five mIlls-cOttOn factOrcs--
now gong no ia the South. Two oil them are lO-
cated AT NatchcZ Miss aud one az Charlotte, >. &.
Ibe others are in SOuta Carolina and Georgia.
since the publication IN Saturdays lRIBuNE great
a.. amt .fl
Trfcn for me To get then some OF the cards 81 pnt
nm in their shops Most 81 the these manufacturers
are IN New England. some OF them who have
bsen IN the city Lave called here " about them.