The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-09
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THE BLOW WAS NOT STRUCK.

ration: Elect me governor this fall
over Major Mckinley and you will
strike death blow to protection" The
blow was not stuck. 1t is now posi-
BILE to consider the figures OF the
election with confidence that they have
reached a sufficient degree of accuracy,
and hey show plurality for Mckinley
of more than 21,000, the largest ever
given to any Ohio candidate for gov
ernor since 1S71.-NeD York Sun.
WE WILL MAKE OUR OWN LACEs.
"You put an eXorbitant tariff on
laces," said the reformer" to the
trainers of the Mckinley law, thus
grevously taxing the people, although
we do not produce lace in this country
| We call TO that reformer's" attention
the following extract from the Man
chester correspondent of the Dry Goods
Economist of October Is: " If one were
to credit the stories told of impending
removals of lace-making plants to the
| United States, one would be forced ir-
resistibly to the conclusion that nothing
but bare walls will remain in Noting
ham in few months time" One Of
the reasons why the duty was placed on
laces was because the industry of lace
making was not FIRMLY established in
this country. The trainers of the law
thought it was lime we made laces for
ourselves, aud the measure has already
comprised the end aimed at.
FARMERS AND BEET SUGAR.
Farmers in Cahuenga, a 0ourishing
valley in Los Angeles county, have
concluded that if beet sugar making is
a profitable industry for the man who
buvs and brushes the beets there ought
also to be a profit in it for the men who
grow the beets. They have, therefore,
determined to build and operate a beet
sugar factory under a cooperative
system similar to the one which pre-
walls in Germany, in order that they
may get the government bounty of two
cents per pound, which they claim was
really meant for them. 1t is proposed
to build factory with daily capacity
OF 200 tons of beets. The factory is to
cost about S250,000 and shares are to
be restricted to those who grow b cts,
share of 500 going with each acre.
To assure the cultivation of the land
and the delivery of the beets for five
years, the land will be bonded, and in
that way capital can be secured for the
immediate erection of the factory. 1t
is stimated that this scheme will pay
The shareholders $40 an acre for their
beets and $50 an acre from the fac
tory. San Francisco Chronicle.
PLATE GLASS AND IRON.
The decrease in the price of plate glass
under protection has all along bothered
the free trader. The subjoined news
item will suggest to him how it is done
after the home market has been secured
to domestic producers: articles of
association of the Depauw Plate Glass
Company were filed last week in this
county. The factory will be at Alex
andria, Ind. The company will operate
the old original plant at New Albany,
Ind, and the new one at Alexandria.
The capital stock of the company is
81 200 600. The plant will cover forty
acres of ground, and will employ 1900
men and have a capacity of 1000
square feet of plate glass a week"
Multiplication of factories and increase
Of output beget sharp competition
Prices then inevitably fall from year tc
year. How this is made possible will
| appear III LUG lOllOWlu2 IClndlh maui
by Scotchman who had Just visited
.. The Homestead Works of Carnegie
Pnipps e Co.: "If | were to go back
to Scotland and tell them there what
: have seen to-day, they would tell me
very quickly that | was 'gafling' them
You roll just four plates while we rol
one in the old country. II There
is no use denying the fact, you Ameri
cans have left US far behind in the iron
; and steel mills" That is, competition
begets invention and economy of labO
in production. If experience repeated
9 over and over again in scores of indus
! tries counts for anything, we can con
= tidently look for similar results in The
new industries now starting under TIT
a Mckinley tariff.
i THE TARIFF ON BARLEY.
The Mckinley law increased the dut,
. on barley from ten cents per bushel o
i forty-eight pounds to thirty cents pc
Y bushel. According to recent dispatcl
d from Ottawa, Canadian exports OF bar
:, ley TO the United States have decline,
. by reason of the high duty from 10000,
600 bushels annually to 100000 hush
els. The lessened exports of Canadian
barley nave gwen American farmers
/. home market for their product which
Il very convenient just now, in view q
:, the large crop OF that cereal. Th
" Michigan crop report for Octobe
y places the average yield of barley i
/. the state ct "a 63 bushels, against 1871
y bushels in 1890. Michigan's barrie
d crop, placing the acreage at 10000, wi
# not fall far short of 100000 bushels
>. much larger total yield than the avel
e age. The government crop report fo
A. October says of the United States
!, 1.-The average yield, as consolidated,
O 25.S bushels, figure about four busl
/. els above the normal average. The a\
a erage is the largest ever sown, maxim
!, the crop largely III excess OF any eve
"a before grown" The large deficit i
% importation has, therefore, been con
rs pletely made up by the increased dc
t. nestle crop, which finds market pre-