The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-20
A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY MEANS
CLOSED FACTORIES AND IDLE
WoRKMEN.

CLOSED FACTORIES AND IDLE
WoRKMEN.
Leading manufacturers OF southern
New Jersey have lately been requested
to answer the following question:
In case Cleveland should be elected
to the presidency in November and the
democrats should have majority in
congress, and free trade speaker in
the house, what, in your opinion, would
be the effect on your business?
Plain answers to this plain question
are given below. The writers know
what they are talking about and mean
what they say:
We believe it would be a serious loss
to US by causing q depression in our
business from the fear of having
reduction in the tariff and thus causin
the market to be crowded with foreign
bottles, which necessarily would result
either IN reduction of wages to cor
| respond or our factories lying idle.
MOORE Bros,
| Glass Manufacturers, ClaytoD,N. j.
In my opinion the effect upon the
| business of window glass mannfactur-
ing. would be that we should be COM
PEELED to shut down our factories-that
is. if the free trade policy should pre-
vail. G. ALBERTsoN,
| Bridgeton Window Glass Works.
1t would do more to depress our
business than anything that could
happen. Our business is already very
dull, and the only hope for the future
we have is that the increase of conf
dence caused by Blaine's election will
affect us as it will all others.
STARR s. Bro,
Fenwick Canning Works, Salem, N. j.
| believe it would be great damage
to all kinds of trade and have the effect
of closing at least half of the factories
throughout the United States for the
next Elk months. THos. III. HAWKINS,
Shoe Manufacturer, ,Vineland, NJ.
, 1t would greatly injure the glass
business and have deplorable effect
here. ROBERT MOORE,
, OF the firm of Moore, Jones & Moore,
, Window Glass Manufs, Bridgeton-
Disastrous; would have to close half
our works. j. E. GETsINGER & Son,
Glass Manuf's. Bridgeton, N. j.
It would reduce wages largely or
stop our factories.
BoDINE, THOMAS Il Co,
Glass Manuf's, Williamstown. N. j.
1t would undoubtedly depress our
business very much. Wages would
have to be materially reduced or we
should have to stop making glass.
W. WARRIcK,
Window Glass Manuf's Glassboro.
We believe the effect would be bad.
= 1t would injure our business seriously.
. ID. o. GAvIsoN,
: Clark, Shoemaker & Co.'s Glass Works.
The effect on the iron and nail busi-
ness would, in our opinion, prove dis
astrous, q. j. BUCK,
, Cumb. Nail and Iron Works.
In my opinion the effect would be
f stagnation in business and q reduction
of wages and bear heavily on labor.
j. Nixon BoDINE.
, OF Bodine Bros, Cohansey Glass
i Works, Bridgeton, NJ.
1 The effect would be disastrous; it
+; would lead to renewed tariff agitation
and the consequent unsettling of all
values III manufacturing, but chiefly
that OF labor. WHITNEY Bros,
Glass Manufacturers rs,Glassboro,N.J j.
:. We should be compelled to shut
, down our works. Cox u Sons,
Engine Builders, Bridgeton, N. j.
q One branch of our business would be
\ entirely stopped (the shade trade) and
: the other branch materially injured.
, JOHN GAYNER.,
n Glass Manufacturer, Salem, N. j.
t Very unfavorable would have very
t bad effect on the glass business.
DAVID MCBRIDE.
East Lake Glass Co. ,Bridgeton,N. j.
Now. four years later, an even more
desperate attempt is being made all
a over the country to induce democratic
: workingmen to vote the republican
y ticket by arguing that a continuance of
o the democratic administration will
cause them to lose employment or suffer
:. cutting down OF wages.
Cleveland ,ods "elected to the presi-
J dency" In 1884; the democrats did
. secure majority in the house of rep
resentatives, which they have since
. held; the speaker Of the house has been
> what the republican press and orators
y class as a tree trader; the senate is
;, slmost tie, and what the republicans
call "free trade" bill has passed the
= house. There has been full time and
= opportunity, therefore, for some of the
dire effects of democratic rule, which
:, these New Jersey manufacturers an
:, u nounced would follow, to take effect.
In order to ascertain exactly how
much ground there was tor their
=. expressed apprehension, the Evening
3 Post last week sent a careful CORES
y pondent 10 South Jersey to inquire into
- the affairs of each of the establishments
. named above, if any of them was still
y in operation. The following is his
. report:
- ''Moore Brothers, of Clayton, have
. . been doing good business for the past
= four years, and have increased the size
= of their works. They are to-day very
prosperous, and the election OF Glove
>. land, if it has had anv effect at all, has
:. been beneficial.
Z "The Bridgeton Window Glass
. Works are . new concern started a llt-
Il tie before the election OF 1884. They
y employed at the start some forty men
y aud boys, beginning their first blast i'll
. December, 1888. In December, 1856,
" the works closed. There was consid-
:! erable trouble with the manager, q.
- Albertson (the signer of the letter and
= the board of directors charged that the
< reason tor the closing was the misman-
u sgement OF the man who had them in
charge. The buildings are now held by
y Albertson on lease which will run out
y next summer, and il is said in the town
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