The Republican journal., 1888-05-17
The Starch Industry,


the Mills tariff bin is the manufacture of starch.
ArooStook county has from Twenty-Five to thirty
starch factories. with an annual product of
over half a million dollars. These factories
furnish ready market al home for potatoes
which could not be pr"titahly shipped afford
employment to many. and have done much
toward budingu up the northern portion Of the
State. The Mills bill if enacted will deal this
industry a fatal blow. \ prominent New York
grocer remarked the other day to il reporter of
the Mail and Express: Il have been and still
am a Democrat, if ANYTHING. but a> 4 merchant
! can see the injury threatened hy the Mills bill
Take. for example, the article of starch. There
are 200 potato starch factories in this country.
They make about 1a.G0D tons or 2l09OO0o
pounds Of starch yearly. With the duty of
two cents 4 pound these factories have given
employment to 4 large number of persons, in
GLIDING lahorcrS in the field and skilled work
men in the factories. These persons are well
paid Take of the dnty. and what is the re-
suit: German starch viii be Seut over to this
country in abundance. Tllare the labprer~ IN
the field .ct mark. or about II cents IL day.
content with three marks, or q little over
seventy cents day. Thus. YOU see, the cost
Of producing and manufacturing starch in
Germany is 50 small compared to what is re-
quirel here that. With the duty of. this work
in this country would lie entirely stopped, as it
would be impossible to compete with the n-
ported starch.
AYyin fA ti. ,,4,,t fliii, -t,
crop and the high price of This vegetable it has
been us much as the factories could do to fur
ni>h starch low enough to keep out that pro-
duced in Germany. even With the duty now
imposed. lii ordinary times the American
factories can make an excellent starch and sell
little below the price of imported starch plus
the duty. The tariff linkerS rarely tax" into
consideration the difference in the rate of
WAGES and cost Of living here and in the collil-
tries where similar articles are produced"
Bass says ii ha, cot 50 that he ,pc>l't dare
to read his Bible now for fear he'll find he has
been fooled into reading an advertisement of
some patent nostrum OF other before he has
cot through three paragraphs. Boston fran
script.
This does not refer to Has, of the Bangor
Commercials Who is an offender ii that line
himself.
4 couple have just returned to California
from six years bridal trip. bringing with
them twin boys and two Girls. | he twins were
born at st. Petersburg, Russia, one Of the .irl>
in China. and the last child in Brazil The cost
of their journcyin@ WAS about $4,000, and ii is
safe to say that in more respects than one this
beats the record for bridal trips.
The new batte-ship, which is TO he about the
size Of the Cruiser Maine. is to be called til,
Texas, in direct violation of the custom Of til,
orators who always put together Maine and the
Rio Grandc. Portland Press.
1t seems to lis the phrase is, from the l1>>a-
maluoddy to the Rio GrAnde, or from Quodt,l
Head 10 the Golden Gate, and not the coupling
of the name of State with that OF river.
Speaking Of EN-GoN. Bullock'> conclusion 10
accept the Republican nomination forGoytrnor
of Georgia, the Baltimore sun >',y>; THE cN-
Governor should remember Warmoutli'~ recent
overwhelming defeat in Louisiana" Is thi,
notification that the methods used to carry the
Louisiana election are to be rrsorttd to in
Georgia:
The organization of Republican clubs in the
State is progressing steadily, and large mum
Der of fa' orale responses have been received
from the circulars mailed to the towns by tie
Executive Committee of the state League.
Twenty-Five clubs have reported organization
thus far, anG many are Just forming.
"DeScent of a Medium is the caption of an
article in which the Mail and Express discusses
the now notorious Nine. Dispebar. She was
not, however a decent medium.
\ correspondent in the columns of Il cor
temporary speaks of pure water as a Tdr0
driS,
Drunk a"ain-Bosou'S pet and pride. John