New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-12
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY FEBRUARY H. 1888

while those whose characters were SUSPICIOUS, ny
some peculiar miracle, stuck fast. 1t was an easy
matter in those days to make Dukes and Earls, anu
as soon as the Kings got fairly started at the
business they were "eirdlng on sword, putting
on a cap and circle of gold on your head ana de-
lverng of golden rod" with an injunction that
"yOu shall have, as free as any other Earl the
third penny of the district" and the deed was
done. The De Lacys were not so fortunate as the
Warrens for they were dispossessed of Their barony
for fighting against Henry l.. and it afterward fell
to old John +. Gaunt. But don Z suppose the
present dweers in these busy, smoky towns care or
know much about the old fellows whose distant
" footsteps echo through the corridors of time and
who at the best were little better than their hery
leader who marched with his army in the winter
through the wild hills and the then painless DIS
trict represented In the map above which Is now
rich with modes of industry then undreamed Oh
That terrible Christmas he organized plan OF ven
geance which involved the destruction OF every Nv
ing man. and every article that could minister to
the sustenance of life. The country was leH a
waste and the condition of the people of the West
Riding was described in Edward Seconds reign as
miserable and wretched IN the extreme. Pesllence
and famine aggravated the m'serles OF leuddi
oppression and the caamities of war.
In tbe time of the Stnarts the busting manuiac-
turers of this region were always to be found on the
side of the Parliament and the pcOplc-for by that
time they had learned the value of industries, and
the lesson that war with Its attendant uncertainty
meant In those days, ruin and devastation, where
property had accumulated and industry had dawned.
II is supposed that Henry VII. set on foot the
manufacture of coarse woollen goods in Yorkshire,
aud that Wakefield, Leeds and Halifax We're among
the first towns to start the industry. Alter the ruin
of the trade IN the Spanish Netherlands estab-
lished the fine woollen manu- acture Of Wiltshire.
One of the earliest woollen manufacturers who
to have figured in history was famous Jack Winch
comb In the reign OF Henry VIII. Jack is described
as being "one Of tho greatest cloth
iers that ever was in England, he keeping 100 looms
in his house, and III the expedition TO Floddenfold
against the Scots, marched 100 Of his own
men. all armed and clothed at his own expense
In 1868, the Flemi-h refugees set led
in various parts of the kingdom, and from that
time may be dated the beginning of the wopllen
industry of Great Britain In The reign of William
and Mary the wooIlcn manufacturers in England
turned their artillery that bushes, in Ire
land and all the towns of Yorkshire pciItipned
Parliament 10 suppress all expectation OF woulens
from Ireland and to utterly di courage the prose
cuton of its manufacture there, "l.St,' said this
gene ous petition, "u time they should be- able to
work mp all their own wool and England he tie
pIiyed of its usual supply from thence; that this
was but an act of sclf-prrscryaton in England, the
mother country, which therefore az such had a
right to dictate not only IN that pa tcular, bat in
some others, and moreover TO command monopoly
Of Their raw wool" II rcsul ell IN the prohibition
under severe penalty of the expectation Of wool or
woollcn goods from Ireland, eXceut by way of Eng
land. and IN the cru shng out OF The industry IN
Il Il - fi,.f Il
portation of China and Persian silks. aud Indian
painted. printed or stained calicocs, injured the
woollen manufacture Of England, il was cooliy
prohibited. This of course. stmula ed the business
of printing painting, staining and dycIpg cali
Goes In England. Wher'upon the SILK manu-
facturrrs AMI tho woOllen Manufacturers
brought pressure" on Parliament To ahate
the great and grieyous fashion which abated the
u,e of silk and woollen goods" OIc man actually
had the courage to condemn the course OF the silk
and wooIlen men and Justify the use OF calico a, in
terfefiug he said, with neither silks. which were
dcarer article wOrsta j., which were a cheaper
His argument was denounced by the statesmen of
the times rs extremely confident and foolish" and
an act was passed to preserve AMI encourage the
woollen aud silk manufacture of the Kingdom, and
for the efiectuh employment of the poor by
prohibiting the using and wearing after Deem
Der %, 1922 of all printed. painted stained or
dyed callcoos except those dyed all blue; also all
stuifs made or mixed with cotton. except muslins,
neckcloths aud fustians.' After tho passage Of
this act the silk and woollen interests undoubtedly
felt safe.
But n barber Of Preston, who had invented
hair-dye and was pcddlng it through the country.
and dyeing peoples wigs, who ut the best
rough-manncrrd and coarse, aud whose fri'nls
upon one occasion, in heated election contest, had
to buy him a suit Of clothes in order TO get him out
to vote, was soon to rryolutonize the woocn trade
Of the world aud TO found the great cities the
names Of wh ch are now known all over the civil
lied portion of the earth; and yet rs | have al
ready shown all tins was u be accomplished within
a radius Of twenty-five AMI half miles and IN
district which wa, tossed over by a victorious King
to a couple of his savage alherrnts. The invcn-
tons Of Arwrght, the barber, and of llargrcaycs,
gave the impetus TO this trade which even IN their
time bad reached IN England to the following rcla-
I imDOrtaucs: