New-York tribune., 1884-10-04
TALKS ABOUT PROTECTION.
THE TARIFF AND SILK MANUFACTURE.
GROWTH or TIE INDUSTRY IN TIE UNITED sTATrs
HOW coNsuMEEs HAVE PRoFiTEp - SILK
.crrrnp IN gwIT/TRfkNp

GROWTH or TIE INDUSTRY IN TiiE UNITED STATES
HOW CONSUMES HAVE rRoFiTED - SILK
MANUFAcrURE IN SWITZERLAND.
The views Of silk manufacturers on tho
subject OF protective tahn interesting a. wen a.
significant. G. Lambert. Of the firm Of Dexter Lambert
Co.. Nos 80 and 80 Gre'nest, who have large mills ih
Jersey and Pennsyyana. said In reply u the qies
tion- OF TRIBUNE reT orter; think protection u Tor the
benefit Of the silk trade In this country The PROOF o s
IL found In the fact that silk manufactures nave
grown from about s3.OOO.O0O IN sGi tnosty sewing
sk $50 last gear and this has been the eHec
OF the protection given TO the silk trade ihis Ifo'co
ton has also duced tie price silk goods TO consumers
Plain dess silks. the manufacture OF which was Des
In this country only about six years ago. have been re-
duced 10 per cent IN that tune A sweeping rednc'ioh
of the tariff would ruin the trade As manufactures
believe that ~ the duty levied IN specho iors
such weight duty. instead OF ad vaiore IL "oui I've
better The trouble now is that there Is no marker
value for goods the other side and there Is no wa! VI
finding out what tn cir real valne r..
The effect OF the introduction OF the MOrrisoh
bin for reduction OF the tarin was 10
make everybody ~ our line OF busino's act Win
caution to take ventures ana puy 10 ho"
machinery. People awaiting the result OF 's cic
ton. II the Democrats successful means tan ior
only and If the Republicans succeed IL VIII
protection and then. II the tariff is remodeneo' ="
will lie done In interest OF protection Democratic
success would close up great many manufacturers M"
throw many thousands OF employment, ana III the
case OF the few which could he kept going the proht
would have to come out the labOrers. Their wages
would be reduced more 10 the level OF the wages OF
European labor. We have mills in Paterson n. DE-
and two In Hawley, Penn. employ 1000 hahds we
paying three times much for weaving bbons as
they pay in Basle which place have Just returned
Business there is very dull France and Germany are
protecting their manufactures and shutting out SWISS
goods and about the only open market FOR them s
country They losing ground mere every year
strongest protective argument that coud pe nseu
maker is to get him to visit the llIs anu sec witt
the silk industry s the comfort that our elpolc hdN'
the wel-ventiated aud lighted workshops ana good
In Europe they dL not look out ior tne conor
OF their employees do nor do thcy pay lhen such
wages think operatives are Intelligent enough 10
understand this question OF nlgh or low tiil' anu
vote to protect their industry lheI hre gch,Ia'n
an intelligent class who read and are well-inforn,d II
were an Englshman tfor though ootn III isnslahu
have been III America great many years anu conS'ucl
myself an Americana would want to have itee tiae I'D
this country II would good for the Englsi anu pau
for American manufactures. III II pfeNhlleu mere
would have to take my machinery aud go home again.
England has free trade treaty with france anu nlS
has paralyzed the industry In Maccesird, coventry
Congleton Derby ana all the silk centres IN England:
II the protective tarin In this country were hkcn OH
silk those places would wake rgnt NJ again nhu 'hc III
du-try the United states would 90 down During tne
thirty-two that have been engaged IN SILK manu-
featuring In this country which business was one o
the plonccrs the American sk industry hhs grown Irom
nothing to Sii.0ODUoO year. At hrst we uScu sone
foreign machinery I'm the manufacture. but now all the
machinery used ~ American. aud Ameich ~ hity yehlT
nhcnd of all Dthcr countries In silk producing naohhrN
business II unsettled un account of ths ntupcu rruu
tiun of the tarn aud II viii remain ~ un alt'r 'u't"h
After that II Blnne elected think business VIII pros