Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-26
OUR WOODEN MANUFACTURES,

OUR WOODEN MANUFACTURERS
The Position They are Xlaced in by the Re-
fusal of the Government to Reduce
Injurious Taxes.
Hartford Times.
The announcement on Monday that the
great 81 600. 900 wooden mill at Oswego
had failed, attracted attention. IL Is
| owned by the Riverside mill company at
or near Providence, and employed l2oO
hands IFS failure will undoubtedly al
/ feet others. and possibly some OF the
! ,rool dealers in Boston who dealt largely
with the company. The tallure Vi
wooden mill is not an unusual occurrence
| About every week it is announced tliaC
| wooden mill IS shut up. Inc reason VIZ
| the OswegO mill shut down on d shellt
attachment has attracted more attention
than usual is that 1t was an unuSuailf
large concern, and was operated by ac-
complished managers.
What is the cause of these frequent
failures among the wooden mills! 1he
demand for WOODEN goods Is greater Inan
ever. There is no fabric so use1ul 10 Ile
mass of people as the wooden. Flahnels
are used even in the hot climates; they
are Indispensable. Wooden goods Oh al
kinds. from the finest broadcloths 10 Inc
coarser fibers that make blankets III alI
their great variety, from the morse
hIonl,at of the fine. soft and luxurious
he'd blankets, are used in great quantities
in all the temperate and cold climates,
5 among civilized people. Carpets OF "ooI
. are used IN all countries. me Chlteu
: States do not produce one-nal1 the "ooI
= needed for our people Ihese 0I"loS
t cannot produce the large amounts Oh
coarse woods that are used IN the manu-
T facture of carpets and the mllllonS Vi
, coarse warm blankets. 1t is fair ques-
T tion to ask. ''Why should any WOODEN
e mill fail?'' ''Why is it that any OF them
= oro idle (and there are many while all
:, should be doing prosperous business
d and employing 90 600 more laDoFerS
: than they are now employing, ana pay
|, ING them good wages:
1t The answer to these questions WHICH 81
Is naturally come to us IS apparently d.
or hand. Our national government, when
a does not need the money, Is taxing Tue
/, life out of wooden mills. II puts tnein
te on very unequal ground as competiIo[s
c. with foreign wool manufacturers ]!
ne crashes them with burdens, When
he ebould at least place them on equa
Id terms with the foreign wooden manu1ac'
lis +nrers Cur government makes ou-
Mt manufacturers pay double the amour
ct for the wool they use that the IoreiSl
les manufacturer pays for the same artloIo
ed Our government imposes TINS peHalU.
II. uDon the manufacturers OF our country
Is, IF it cannot encourage those useIul III
he i dustr1es, why load them with DuFuens'
Then let us ask, what is the result q
It'll this DoIicv of our government! Inc GOV
p eminent statistics tell us: IL pI5AHe
ter this country foreign wooden gOoassor III
-y, vaIue of $40 900 900 annually, which aI
Ice sold To our people. 1t would reqhH
he thirty or forty thousand working psSp1
~ To manufacture these goodsIzRssS I'll
rs burdens which our goEernmsnt pu
vas uDon orr wooden manufacturers depTl'
m ali Of these people Of the WORK "HlC
ge, Justly belongs to them. Our maj
ght factllrers ought to make all Oh Ihe
is a goods. and they would, and more, we
ian they placed on an equaIty Will Il
but manufacturers of Europe.
i've inst look at this faot-it tells vel
m significant story: In 1857 the coaT
has Garnet woods came in free. The Hart1o
Lble Garnet company of ThompsonVllle W
gly nrosDerous. 1t was exporting carpet
,as esneciallv to Canada. It's dividends I
He wears made glad the hearts IN many
hrst modest home. But the war came SOU
his and then war taxes were put upon Ia"
lso, well as manufactured SOouS' 1AisA
ion, ruled The people did not complain
ties. Complaints would not have been prot
Will then, for terrible war
cted in progress, and the government neeu
ucn every dollar it could get. Inc ta'
Il be were cheerfully paid. But that sIate
things does not exist now. Our COVER
full ment is at peace, and its treasury
and uniustly continued war taxes, Is D'
cave dened by gold bars and silver uolla
1ong The government is troubled IN the ml
fact agement of the surplus, and TO get Ilo
sibly #. is paying S28. so premium III the p
esort chase of each 500 of its own bonds
i taxing the people % y per cent. III
but l der to get rid of money which use
der and burdensome taxation has piled III
suits the treasury to the injury OF busln
mas generally.
,yac, Now the managers of the Thomps
most Vile carpet company will 1--WE 90
/ has doubtO tell any honest inquirer that
lnder cause of their small dividends and
asso- inroads upon their prosperity are oW
ng TO the burden of taxation upon them
II the the Federal government-taXes THAT
arks. them Is or 90 per cent. upon their cap
It IS stock every year; and that this tax IS
most uDou woods that do not compete Win
y the woods produced III the United States.
; and stock has fallen from about three
sum- dred dollars share to Sll5 bid ONLY
shlng terdav. The same cause Is Dreat
2 at down wooden mills all over the coun
igor II seems to US to be a very cruel pc
that does this. Why should party DR.
ertaln dice continue it?
rope.
guest A superfntendent of Weddings.