Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-02
HERE AND THERE.

If the manufacturers, the farmers, the oil
producers. the mechanics, and the merchants
of PENNSYLVANIA do not find II to their inter
est or recognize their profit in sending OK
hihitS to- New Orleans, il is very doubtful |
whether the Legislature should concern |
itself 10 appropriate money to supply their |
lack OF energy and enterprise
4 PENNSYLVANIA miller tells me he has |
introduced his flour successfully into Cuba; |
aud has so Ear succeeded i'm convincing some
of the papers of Havana Of its excellence and
economy. that he believes there could I've Il
great market for American flour opened there
were some OF the trade restrictions removed.
At present Spanish flour pays SS.N per barrel,
duty and American flour $3.50. If our flour
were put on tho same footing as the treaty
proposes, il could drive the other entirely out
of the market. Tho opinions Of American
manufacturers are not entirely adverse to
! the treaty.
| Neither are the iron and steel makers agreed,
| by any means, upon the tariff question. l
| hear of one of the most advanced of American
| protectionists, who owns n share in a steel
| mill and he is very anxious To have the
| Spanish ores como in free. And | have
| heard of steel rail makers who declare that
! with free iron and free ore they will be glad
TO have all the duty taken of steel rails, that
| they will then enter the markets of South
! Amcrca-ayo, go to London, and outbid the
| English manufacturers to supply rails for the
foreign railways
There is q growing disposition among man
uiacturcrs To inquire whether or not their
labor is more expensive than foreign labor
The per diCm wages are unqucStionahly
greater. but some of the more intelligent of
/ them insist that with longer hours, improved
machinery, and more intense application, the
American laborcr produces more results for
the same money than foreign labor.
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Over at the Allentown silk mills, they want
free raw materials they do not encourage the
; production ofraw silk here, the planting OF
mulberry trees, the culture of silk worms, oI
the womon's annual exhibition they say
that rs soon as the yearly American crop o
silk amounts to 80 pounds it will have to bt
'.protccted' and the duty on foreign raw silk
will close the silk mills of Allentown and
Patterson. Thus would the protection of one
+ small industry crush out many greater cs
2 adjustments. But when it comes to tho man
A uiacturod article, the silk spinner wants hi
f ribbons and dress goods '.protected' by
stable duty upon French goods. made b,
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and there is many Pennsylvania manufac
n turer who is a free trader in the cellar and
protectionist on the uppe' floor. There ar
: tricks in all trades but ours.
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" There are some furnaces running, il is I
u be remembered. Mr. Paris Haldeman tell
c me that at Chiclies they made more iro
/ last year than ever before and the sales wcr
q within $50 tons of the output of the furnace
=, there.
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u The more advanced Lancaster county t,
l. bacco farmers are beginning to forecast IL
days when tobacco culture will not be ii
prime interest that it now is. They do not
$ much lear the Sumatra leaf,-which beil
nj poor worthless stuff to burn, has not the el
during elements foT competition Il
quality and quantity of the Wisconsin crop
e And then perhaps the cultivation of the wee
n and the local trade in il have been overdone
c ~
Discussing this the intelligent farmer fine
a dozen branches of small f.rmug whic
" must press themselves upon the attention
, the tillcrs or the soil anywhere within hu
Il dred miles ofthc great centre Of increasir
= population represented by Philadelphia
Y. New York, Baltimore, brooklyn and Il
es score of other cities grouped around theI
" with from five to ten million people eve
Is. year demanding more market supplies.
~, ~
a, "WhO has tried to raise 800 bushels of |
- tat Dcs to the acre?' And what of the prof
- of onion culturc"" There's fortunes
' ounces" Pear trees may be made To vie
lc from s. to $40 each" celery raising is {
hs most profitable use ground can b0 put to
Is. "The nectarine is the finest fruit grown
'h this climate and the most salablc." "B
I'd | why is it so few of our farmers make pu
re drinking cider, when it will always cOmmal
.s- from S to $40 per barrcl?" oh, farm
70. friends long before you have quit raising
:. bacco you will find ''ten acres enough" al
= wonder that you Were ever satisfied wi
i' crops of $500 To the acre on your garden Ian
ne within two hours of million peoples gapil
10 mouths SINDBAD.
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lit PERSONAL.