New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-18
ECONOMIC CONTRASTS.

wuIIuANrIC. LEEDS AND OTHER MArrEHS-PKo-
rrcrIoN AND COMMON SENSE INCLUDED
TO the BditOr Of the Trt6Hne
SIR: Edward G. BOVINE, In The Eren'R9 oSf
nj April o. SAYS OF wilimantic, Conn;
The happy operatives. the school, me npl%I3, ,,
,nade nnouesronably an exceedingly attractive pC'uto
TINS what seen What MADE 81 ,h iare .nut-
on competition from abroad BY putting tax on Ore'sH
thread Of at least ia cents spool
Wnlinantc is only OF thousands OF tnriV'hg 10"
and villages that owe thrift to Protection through
ont this broad land To show the effect OF free tIade
contrast the description OF Leeds England By ko'er' l.
Porter That city owes Its condition not 10 fTo'ecio"
bat to the lack OF it. Mr.. Porter says;
sosma are the earnings OF these men that they can
To ay ing each night at sort Ol DON-Oce te ID
P5hic6 know in one instance l. capable Of accom-
,uoda ng no less than sixty guests The manu-
quarters of the city Grade higher than hlGtsac
In the hborhood works the hands lve III
small houses, consisting o. one general Iooh scu
and couple bedrooms. f)r which they pay At
one.seventn. sometimes one-sixth OF ther Weekly
earnings the actual earnings OF skS S T9I n H.
rarely leach Sc %, and seldom ever exceed - %
lives on the cOarsest food bacon al 10 cents onl'
buooks liver heart at 10 cents or ~ cents p0udu
liable WITHIN his means besides potatoes. AIer inc
10, and the club dues ana The Burial society and The
Trad Union paid he has hardly anything eit 70
the nr1ces of clothes are he cannot afford to do
any more han keep his family shod and ihey are
Zen tls, i'm cotton gowns-Doth OF which articles oil
cothi aye no cheaper here than in the United states,
exc ptiig possibly in mot inIrequeup wleIe
wooden worn.
rulber ON MIR. Bowne says, after an elaborate cal
culati1u: 49,
In rouYd numbers 81 200, 900. at the least possible
hgnre pcr wear are paid the Amerc AZ people 10 tne
Niininlc Linen Company TO save ~ III IRON lue re.
OF an English corner cotton thread ana 10 nave wa"
Inaenihc ut phantnr0pic Institution csIaonshcl III
Windham County, Conn.
This ne must surely know, is missatenent, 10 say
the least Duues are paid goods imported, not on
those manufactured II he had said that the cotton
thread IL made in England and imported. would have
pnid our Government Sl,200000. II would be nearer
correct Now that he is using many MS suppose tuat
the cotton grown soil, shipped twice across the
Atlanic C. 900 miles, TO be manufactured FOR u.s. ana
that the inhabitants OF Wlllimantic and the thousand
other tr wing should go into agriculture anu pay
for those goods-not only thread-in crude
products like pork and grain. in Increased amount
aud at lower prices transported across
the Continent and the Atlantic; does he suppose 1t
would cost us less, that our towDs Woud DC more
thriving -, -, 1890. 4
Americs uphold this system OF legaized Communism
II nothing else i'll It's principle IRIS poser ne
American people not FOOLS and VIII not be scared py
lie bugbear Communism which Las as much TO DO
with Protection the man In the moon something
NOR. terrible must be invented Maybe Professor Sum
l,r has had a vision and can help bIin out
Neu. Fork, april 81, 1888.