The Press., 1888-02-23
VOIumG 30. NumDcr AS.
(Hartford Post "WOODEN rNECMEGS."

The Boston Herald in nervy ant
 "breezy" little paragraph, disposes of Sen
 ator Platt's speech Ill reply to the presl
 dents message by saying, ''the senato
 will look after the wooden nutmeg indus try" The Herald does itself neither credi
 nor justice in dismissng the industries ol this state with the sheer of wooden nut
 meg" But it is about on 6 level with q
 great deal of the upturned nose at m0uu.
 faotures by Americans indulged ill by the
 anglo-manlac free-trade newspapers. The
 people of Connecticut have placed Senator
 Platt on guard in Washington, in con-
 pany with his colleagues in both houses, to care for the industries of the state and The Herald onght not to need to ] be told that they amount to something they they are more varled than those of any state in the union, and that many of them had their origin in the brains and iadustry Of Connecticut Yankees" who had genius and pluck" "Wooden Nutmegs ?" The sheer is worthy of the dude Senator Platt referrt to in his speech. Connecticut is a manufacturing state, surely, and just now Ia deeply interested iu the attempt to wing the country into line with a free
 rade policy which shall give her industries 8 vital blow.
 "Wooden nutmegs ?" When the needs of the world called for a sewing machine Bridgeport turned it out, ,and she has tnrn- cd out thousands upon thousands since. The revolver, an arm that has become as necessary in private life aS i'll service, c ame from Hartford; the machine gun, of more than one pattern, is made here the silk industry had it's origin in Mansfield, and the product of silk cloths in Manchester is one of the recognized great industries of rhn hc irafO Inf cotton thread exactly adapt. d to the sewing mnchane was made i'll Willimantlc, and nobody knows how many millions of spools have been wound there aud in the various factories that have grown out of the original plant Danbury and Norwalk take the lead ln hat manufacture DO better scythes are made ID the world than up ill Lltchtield county; the Collins axe is as widely known as for ests exist :; the finest wOrsted woOlen goods In America are woven Ill Rockville (Out they won't be long, if relief from free trade interpretation of law IS not granted) the little streams of eastern Connecticut are lined with manufactures where wOolen and cotton goods of the daintiest quality are made, where silk thread and twIst enough is made tokeep tae busy fingers of millions of seamstresses flying. In silver and brl- tannia goods Meriden takes the lead and he ''art goods lH these and other metals made in that city are not excelied.
 Wooden nutmegs ?" Why, Connecticut can carpet the psrlors of the states from Fhompsonville, and furnish coffius enough 10 bury the anglo-maniac free traders in, from the same place, take half the world to ride in carriages made in New Haven, or nament your houses with the finest designs tn hardware and your tables with the best cutlery, better than Sheffield goods, from the New Britain shops. Yes, and Oonnec- ticut will furnish any variety of clock madet In any one of half dozen villages by which The Boston Herald man who sneers At her manufactures can'tell the exact hour when he will read the news dispatches on a coming November night that will send nim and all other sneerers at American in dustry to the rear; and as good bedquiIt as he ever slept under can be furnished from New London county. If that isn't enough, we'll go over into the Naugatuck valley and get shovel and a hoe big enough to dig the grave of any man who turns up nIs nose at the industries of this state. "Wooden nutmegs?" Yes, sir; they are
 made right here in Hartford, and they sell tor dollar piece, and here's wager of as big one as ever was whittled out of bAsswood that The Boston Herald man wouldn't know one from the genuine i'm ported free trade article if he should see it.