The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-22

i've genius.
Don't misrepresent the Mckinley bill.
THE TARIFF GIVES US OUR OWN.
A London newspaper has been at the
pains to collect statistics showing the
British manufacturing concerns that
have moved their business to the
United States since the present tariff
law became operative, because they
found it impossible to sell their goods
here il they were made there. 1t is a
rather impressive showing, but is not
complete. We give the list as it was
published in London:
Sir Titus salt. Son & Co., manufacturers OF
silk plushes, from Saltaire, now located at
Bridgeport Conn, Employ about 300 people.
Hind a Harrison Plush Company, capital
S50Uo, SILK and cotton plush, from Brad-
iIord, now located at Clsrk's Mills. n. y.
Lister a sons, formerly of Bradford, manu-
facturers OF plush goods, now in process of
moving their plant to jamestown, y. ".
Shelly Manufacturing Company. manufac-
Iurers of imitation fur and seal plush, from
England, now located at Bemis, Mass
Probably employ twenty-five people.
Frank Wilkinson Manufacturing Company,
from Nottingham, now located at Tariff
Vile Conn, manufacture dd lace curtains.
Scranton Lace Curtain Manufacturing Com
pany, formerly of Nottingham, now at Scran-
ton "a Prebably employ 400 hands.
the United states, lace curtains, propably
employ seVentV-tYe hands.
Cleveland, Campbell q Co.. Scotch firm, ha 5
completed it's arrangements TO locate its fac
tory az Columbia, Pa, ana Is reported To en-
ploy 500 hands.
smith q kaufman, from England, now loca-
ted In New YORK city, manufacturers of silk
ribbons, seventy eight looms. Probably en-
ploy 100 hands.
Gieaves Brothers, now in Philadelphia, for
merly of England, manufacturers OF wooden
dress goods; employ about 100 hands.
Pardoe Yates and Charles Marshall represent
ing firm of carpet manufacturers of Will
ton. southampton aud Manchester, closed
in May, 1892, n contract with III. III. lsham,
architect of Elizabeth, n. j., for the plans
and erection of two factories, each to be $50
by 30 feet, three stories high, of brick.
William Roberts of England, formerly manu-
featuring for American market alpacas.
mOhatrs. woolens and worsteds, is now
about TO have built three large buildings In
Bergen county, \. D., at point opposite
passaic.
Atcheson, Harding & Co. from Belfast, have
n. J..t
facture, linen, and cotton handkerchiefs.
Probably employ twenty-five hands.
Ashworth Brothers, from Manchester, manu-
facturers of cotton machinery and card
clothing, are building a factory in Fall
River, Mass, which will probably employ
100 hands.
There are unthinking and sentimen-
tai persons who shake their heads at
such showing as this, and declare that
no country can profit in the long run by
the misfortune of another, nor ought to
thus prosper.
This is an argument that has no force
whatever, though it has been tacitly
allowed by some advocates of the tariff
who have been content to rest their de-
fence upon the selfish theory Of every
body for No. 1.
The sufficient justifc alton of this pro-
cess of drawing the manufacturing of
Great Britain to America is that it
properly belongs here, and that for as
long as Great Britain has been supply
ing us with goods that could as we'll be
made here she has been def rauding us
of our own.
Great Britain has employed operatives
at a rate of wages below the American
standard IN rnh America of ba, o,,,,, -,
dustries. The Mckinley law has merely
put a stop to the robbery.
England has built mp her greatness
and power by filching from weaker pow
ers. America is too big and powerful
and resourceful TO endure the process
longer. She once rebelled and fought
a long and bitter war to vindicate her
right to trade in the markets of the
world in her own way.
The Mckinley bill merely specified
and enforced the results of the war for
independence. 1t brings to America
its own, which England has unjustly
held all these years.
That is all there is to the whine that
the Mckinley law is taking bread away
from the English. II does not take all
the bread that belongs to us, but some.