Daily Republican., 1881-12-27
MR.. DOBsON ANSWERS Mr.. DEAs.
He shows how mr.. Dean took Ad.
corrected In the P;:bIie Ledger.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. -, 1881.
EDITOR DAILY REPUBLICAN,.

EDITOR DAILY REPUBLICAN,
In answer to your favor of the 22nd
instant containing slips from the
Every Evening and your request that
you desired reply to it, you believing
the statement was erroneous, ! would
state that in the latter your belief was
correct. Life is to- short to enter into
II controversy with Mr.. Dean. will
therefore give you what said at the
Tariff Convention, and neither Mr..
Dean nor any other party can success
fully ConJIOvort the facts there set
forth.
In the first place never said there
were 2O0, 600 people now engaged in the
woollen industry alone. | stated that
under free trade the census showed
that the population Of Philadelphia in
1860 was j3j 600, and there were en-
ployed in the various industries 1O,-
600 peoplo--,r say thirteen per Ceut. OF
the entire pOpuIa'l1u, while in 1850 we
had $40, 600 ofapopllatlou ana there
We're employed over 100000 people
making the per centago OF The people
employed twenty-five per cent, or
nearly double the number employed
under tIcs trade These facts are
taken from official sources, and had
Mr., Dean awaited the uext issue of the
Ledger wherein stated that the
New York correspondent had made a
mistake, he would have seen the error
at once, and that instead of me saying
that 200 COO people were engaged in the
wool.en industry, | said that 200, 900
were engaged in the various Industries
Of the city.
Now as to the statement that there
were used in the manufacture of
woollen goods, 10000, 600 pounds Of
wool, again rea.sert it. There is fully
this quantity used in Philadelphia and
its suburbs. According to the book Of
textile industries, # Philadelphia COM
piled and edited by MIR. Lorin BIodgett
of this city, he says (and have gone
over what he says very carefully, and
believe his statistics are az nearly
correct as it is possible TO get thern)
there were worSing in 1880 wOoilen
mule spiniles in Philadelphia $4,000
In Delaware and Montgomery cum
ties, aCjArcnt, 1000, making in all
500, 600 spiulles. Adding the natural
increase for two year1, say eight per
cent. we have in 1882 which is Eow close
at hand Az 900, spiudleS. 1t vii take
to supply these spindles fully one pound
of wool Or its substitute in the unclean
state per day for each spindle This
will give rs for 800 working days in the
year, 1913 600, OO0 pounds at least. This
sholld not be Construed as the product
but the raw material in an unclean
s'atc While some mills on fine work
will not average so much, Others on
medium and coarse work will far ex-
ctcd II. We have also in addition to
the above, 1000 worsted spindles
and making the same allowance for
TO 1852 we have $4,000
worSted spndlts. 1t will take to run
these Spindles OF wool in the green, one
pound of wool forevery spindle, making
a Caily consumption Of $4,000 pounds
or 23, lCO,GOO pounds annually, which
together with the woOllen mule spindles
l2S, 100, 900 pounds will make in both
III, 300, 900 pounds. We re-
ceive from the Southern and Eastern
States at least II, ,00O, 900 more, so that it
will be seen in my statement before The
Tariff Convention, underestimated the
consumption. Any practical man will
readily see 10y above statement that IL
is fair one. take only 800 working
days to the year, and make no allow.
ance for mills running night and day.
The yield iu yarn from the mule Will
not exceed haDf tuo weight rs wool and
cotton combined, the ahrinkage averag'
Ing fully 80 per cent. from the raw ma
terial. cannot help being an "ignora-
naus' or IA 'jackasS' in Mr.. Deans po-
lite vernacular. Whatever shorteom-
ings have they came with me into the
world, but how profoundly grateful
should Mr.. Dean feel that he alone
should have received the divine bless
ings, not vouchsated to ordinary NOR
tails, his language being 50 chaste and
gentlemanly, that we common mortals
feel after reading his very profound re-
marks all mankind are but pignies
in his sight. Yours Truly,
JAMES DOBSON.