New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-06

3Our annual output of salt IS $500 900 bushels Ihat
,s a vast amount, and can realize the growth OF
the business when he learns that the
OnondaRa Salt Works at Syracuse backed as they arc
nv tho STATE only produced 5Ss5,72s bushels Of salt
last year We shall gain our 500 votes largely from
the Democrats employed in the salt WORKS VINO soc
their bread and butter endangered by the NILS OIL
y : Bcardsley president of the Empire Salt Mining
Company Of this place, who IS also president Oh tho
Harrison and Morton Club, said few days ago Inc
o 600 salt makers Of wyoming Gcnesee ana LiVings
ION counties are much agitated by the proposition OF
Mr. Mills TO put salt on the free list. because they
know that we would DO compelled TO close our SAT-
works II the Mills bill should become law ana they
would be out OF employment we wouio Also hs'o
sunk in vain a large amount Of capital expended 10
build up a new industry in America For 2oo years
the English had monopoly of the salt business ana
charged lust such prices they pleased Then we
opened the Onondaga Salt Works and the Saginaw
works put a protective duty and forced down inc
price OF salt Then this Wyoming salt field was dis
covered. and we set to work TO manufacture sun
cheaper salt We found that our rock salt was OF
much better quality than the English rock salt That
has a reddish tnge. while is white Consequently
ours is OF better quality. At the recent Exposition
in New Orleans. Warsaw dairy salt was declared
the best and received the medal
1t seems II would be wrong policy upon
the part Of our Government 10 crush such rising
industry as ours which gives employment to so many
American aborers Not only are 1000 men directly
employed in the salt works but large number OF mon
arc employed making barrels for the transportation
Of salt and women arc employed in making sacks.
Then think Of the large number Of railroad employees
that get wages from handling our product We soil
two-thirds OF product in the Network market
But despite the duty Of 81 GO ton about third Of
the salt used in tho United States comes from Great
Britain. Cheap labor does that and cheap transpOrta
ton. Frequently the salt comes over from England
as ballast for vessels If the English able in con
sequence Of their pauper labor 10 sell us one third OF
the salt we use despite the duty of 81 GO ton. what
would be the effect Of removing that dutyI Would II
not sweep American salt from the markcti Water
transportation Is cheap. and have said the Eng
lshmen frequently send over their salt to New York
ballast. Railroad transportation. on the other
hand Is dear We have TO paw So ton for the trans
pOrtation Of salt from This place New York and
that is such a low rate that tho railroads make no
profit upon H. II the Mills bill should become law
BUR men would have 10 take 40 or so cents dav for
their labor. or VIC should have TO close our works
"The labor employed represents about the total cost
81 salt Our method is to drill down to the bed
Of rock salt. and then pump up the brine
and manufacture IT into salt We take
svery prccauiion TO keep down the cost Of
manufacture Our laborers receive from IL so to 81
. day. That IS twice as much. and in some cases
three times as much as laborers in English salt works
receive We pay, as j have said ~ ron ior ne
transportation Of salt from warsaw 10 New YORK
Where the Englshmen do not send over their sait a.
ballast they pay about 81 ton. Then they have to
raw Al 60 dufv ION That makes the freight charges
And duty 10 then a total CT 81 go. But they pay
helr al0rers so much less go cents day. that they
are on an equal footing now with us. emoval OF
The duty OF 81 80 a ton would Instantly drive us away
Icnl the seaboad In the interior. too we should ~
,ncc suffer from the competition OF me Canadian sa'
makers who get their worfngren at less wages than
re Day ours. large numoer Of men arc employ ed
Michigan ard indiana making material for bsr1eis
br US Last year the Empire Works used l1OO0Ooo
Raves and a pfopcri0naie amount OF hoops ana hea
ngs. We used also 100000 bags made by AMER
,aa girls In American mills. There are thirteen
aher salt manufactures In Wyoming County besides
his one The salt makers Of Western New-York have