The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-07-26
VOTE AS THEY FOUGHT.
BENNINGTON MANUFACTURES.

BENNINGTON MANUFACTURES.
Hon. James A. Briggs RI views the Past
of Bennington Industries and draws
Some Pertinent Tariff Conclusions There
from.
131 PHILA ST., SARATOGA SPRINGS,
July 80, 1888.
To the Editor of the Banner I'm
recent number of the BANNER read
notice copied from the New York Her
aid, that Mr.. Daniel Robinson, OF the
house of Messrs. CIafin & Co., mer-
chants, of the city of New York, was in
favor of Harrison and Morton. Mr.. Rob.
inson was Bennington born. In 1884 he
was one of the most active Republicans
among the merchants of New York. He
distributed 100000 tariff tracts, He is
again at work in the good cause. He is
in one of the large mercantile houses (if
not the largesD in the country, that is
not in favor Of free trade, but of Home
industry. He stands where the Robin
Sons of Bennington stood in previous
generation in favor of the American
system, as it was called, in former years.
1 we'll remember when the late Capt.
David Robinson, would not wear any
cloth, but of American manufacture.
All the Democrats of an earlier time
were out and out protectionists, They
were not free traders.
remember your old pioneer town,
when the only manufacturing establish
ments in it, if my memory is not at
fault, were the Furnace in East Bennlng-
ton of Mr.. Trenor-Norton's Pottery in
the south part of the town-Walbridge's
paper mill, and Hinsdill's Wooden mill,
and perhaps a Carding mill in Sage
City, ;" now North Bennington. What
has built up manufacturing establish
ments in your town and county, from a
very few and small concerns, to 1876
places in 1880, with a capital of So $685.
796, with wages paid to workmen of
$761, 1856, and total production 81, OO9,.
222, in 1880? What has done it but a
tariff l can remember when all the
products OF your farmers in Bennington,
were carried out to Troy and sold. Is it
so now, or have you Home market p?
can remember when hands worked
for bushel of corn day, or two days
for bushel Of wheatI and by the month
for IS. or SO, by the year. Women
worked for 80, and rs cents week, and
calico was 40 cents yard.
Now farm hands work in England for
81, 90 per week. Do farm laborers work
in Vermont, for such wages
Icopy paragraph from the Sun, a
Democratic paper of New York city,
that shines for ALL" and commend its
truth to all your readers.
SHORT TALK WITH woRKINGMEN.
Free trade means putting all the laboring men
o Al. al la.Nral nf nnTnn
Protection means restricting the competition
among laborers to those living in our own cOuh.
try, and the consequence Of snch restriction s
that wages remain at high level; whereas, II
the competition Of all the laborers in the world
were allowed to operate here, they would stead
lily fall to the lowest level.
That is the reason why the workingmen Of this
country are better paid, are more prosperous,
live in : better manner, are better educated, and
bring up their children with more of hope and
ambition than belongs to wprkingmen IN any
other country.
This is why the workingmen OF the United
States like the American system OF protection,
and dislike the British system OF free trade.
Let US stand by the Republican party,
that saved the UNITED States from dis
ruption, and let the sons of the men who
gave their lives for their country, and
fell in battle with their feet to the foe
and their faces toward heaven, UOte as
tnelT latHeTb lOuRIlt'
With fair vote and an honest count
IN all the States, Harrison and Morton
would be elected by an overwhelming
majority.
Visitors are increasing in Saratoga, the
best summering village on the Cont
nent. Board here for man and wife, is
from $40, slS, $25, $50 week, to $5,and
to $35 day. You pays your money
and takes your CHOICE" There are good
boarding houses and first class hotels
here. None better.
The old and world wide well known
CongI ess Spring is having new lease
of life. Last winter the company bored
the old spring deeper, and has succeeded
in getting a larger flow of water. Some
of the old visitors are of the opinion that
the quality of the water is like the water
long years ago. 1t is most delicious. and
it makes the old feel young again. In a
warm day there is no other beverage
equal to it, 1t is real elixer of life,
The company deserve great credit foI
their beautiful, comfortable and conven
lent arrangement for visitors, in rain oil
sunshine, day or evening.
May the healing waters OF the medicl
| Hal HpTlHbb vi DdidlOBd hSfSi SooSS "
flow.
The wants of the soul of man are pro-
vided for here in series of meetings oil
religious character, as well as the
wants of the body. 1t is becoming q
great place for political conventions, and
for religious conferences, and social
legal, scientific, and temperance associa
tions, and the healing art 10 not neg
lected
We meet here, strangers in boarding
houses and hotels, form pleasant &C
quaintances, during few weeks of So
cial intercourse, in the interchange Of
thought and opinion-and then the lasl
farewell is spoken, hands are clasped in
frien dship for the last time-and we
part to meet no more on earth, but with
the hope that we may meet again in that
higher, better world, where life is ever
upward, onward and forever, in the
light and glory and beauty and peace OF
the Heaven Home of our Redeemer and
our God JAMES A. BRIGGS.