Sharp County record., 1891-10-15

ufacturers combined t. rob the farm
ers' wives is frankly given by this pa
per; and its article is well worth quot
ing here entire as tariff lessen for
women. The following is the article:
"a Boom In Glass Jars-Grccn Glass
"Houses Resume Work Tuesday After tho
"Summer Shut Down.
Tuesday marked the resumption of
green glass manufactures and it took
place in the midst of the widest boom
in the glass fruit jar trade since 1879.
"The green bottle factories OF d. O.
Cunningham and Ihmsen & Co., were
fired up on Tuesday and Cunningham
& Co. on Wednesday. At the two places
that started Tuesday the entire force
was placed on fruit jars on account of
the unprecedented demand for jars, the
price of which has been advanced from
$50 to Sr15 80 in anticipation of big
run. Whtall, Tatum & Co., of Mill
vile, n. j., started three factories. The
trade outlook is good and busy season
expected.
behind the boom there is most in
teresting story of how Whitney Bros,
the Whitney glass works at Glassboro,
N. j., have scooped up clear profit of
500, 900.
"Two years ago Whitney Bros. found
themselves in position where it was
to their advantage to take the entire
product of an outside factory which
ran on jars for them. The Whitneys'
own mills continued to turn out the
usual amount, and the trade looked
with horror upon the jars, which were
piled up into the thousand gross.
"At the beginning of the season a
com bination was made in which it was
agreed to maintain the price at $3.50 a
gross The Whitncys were in, bat even
this combination did not let the others
rest easy. When the boom came the
Whitncys had about As, 900 gross OF
jars on hand and they were masters OF
the situation. Up jumped the price,
1t rose quickly from 81 to 81, so, to S. so,
to SlO.5O, to S11, and to S1l. so, and still
Whitney Bros. had thousands of jars.
They could not ship them fast enough
to check the rises From five to fifteen
car loads have been going daily from
their storehouscs in Glassboro and
Salem, and yet but small fraction of
the demand was met Prices continued
to jump and Tuesday offers as high as
Sl2 and Sl4 gross were made without
securing the jars. The resumption of
work at the factories will have no ap-
prcciable effect on the market"
How does the tariff come in here?
In this way: If an importer should
order $1,000 worth of fruit jars from
Europe the United States government
would make him pay on landing them
penalty or tax of S4OO, in order to
protect this precious fruit jar trust
This is called by Maj. Mckinley and his
followers encouraging American in.
dustry;"and the jar trust takes the ZEN
couragemcnt" and with it the hint to
charge all that their protection will
allow them. That $500 does its work.
1t keeps out foreign jars so effcctually
that none are separately given in the
government reports as imported.
If there had been no duty on fruit
jars is it not clear that jars would have
come in in large quantities from
Europe last spring to supply our
markets? Would it not have been i'm
possible then for that greedy
manufacturer in New Jersey
to collect S3OO,OOO in tribute during one
brief summer from our wives and moth
ers? Is it not sin and shame to give
man in this way the power to tax for
for his own private greed hundreds and
thousands of households all over the,
land?
Yet such is protection and such is
McKinleyism. The republican party
in this way puts tho taxing power in
the hands of individuals, to be used
for individual gain, and II defends this
system as being of special benefit to the
farmers themselves! Could human fol.
ly go further or human injustice en-.
body itself in q form more atrocious
and outrageous for us? Is it strange,
in the light of this glass jar story that
some men dcnounce protection as down,
right thieving and robbery?