New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-30
FRUITS OF THE TARIFF Id VS..
FLAX PRODUCTS COMING TO THE FRONT.
FOREIGN MASUF, cTrRERs MOVING TO THE
UNITED STATES AND GETTING THEIR
MACHINERY HEEE, TOO.


MACHINERY HERE, TOO.
| So many new industries have been made possible In
The United states by the enactment OF the Mckinley
| bill. and MANY have already sprung Into existence
that il Gems almost supcriuois 10 give than a
casual notice the hundreds OF factories which are
! being built all the country. The Mckinley law
1, doing much than was promised for it, one OF
the many evidences Of thi, j. the fax Industry Last
year thl, country imported max products worth
s.O 600 600 and at The time the farmers OF the
United states DESTROYED 100000 tons OF hay-straw
as bcihs usclc., 10 them and yet il has been shown
iat tn, American flax equals in quality in me and
| in texture any grown Ia Russia. The American
farmer raised the FAX for it, seed only which was
made into lln,ccd oil and after the seed was thre'ed
ont 10 straw burned as being useless. The Nc
| K,nlry bill put duty Of - per cent on imported
naX proincts and has made 1t possible for The United
| state, 10 manufacture fax worth s20.0OOOW
Not only is II possible for the United states to manu-
faciurc IL, own fax tufts but by the Introduction Of
| machinery aud American ingenuity In this new field
this country export 10 all the rest Of the world
\ Tribune reporter Inspected machine recently In
vented In this city by which the fax straw can be
prepared for twenty times fast a Is by
the old hand methods I'm Europe. while a number OF
other simple inventions wers exhibited by mean OF
which the process Of manufacturing fax straw into the
finished article Of ichandsc greatly facilitated
20 TIA, there seems 10 be doubt that with the I'M
surpassed fax fibre grown In the United states. with
the urivalcd American Ingenuity. ilh- country can
become III" rrcare-t Manufacture in these lines in the
world.
In response 10 q letter sent to Government Official
I'm tho west. IT W., learned that amount %:
flax fibre. nofc than ell the paper mills In Am'rica
can possibly utilize. er vn IN Minnesota. Iowa
and m North and -ourh Dakota. while II other sections
II the country wcrr included the supply Is endless"
- far n the p,>-Airtic, 4 the fax fibre Industry
n the t'nit"d state, concerned tn advocates Of
the Mckinley I'm can we'll afford to throw aside NIL
figures. proba' lics ard possibilities. aud imply r"st
their argument 01 had fact>. and these that
English. Irish. scotch ard Welsh ncn factories which
have been established over 100 year, I'm the Old
Country are being moved q the United states;
two 81 them, but many ut tine. - Just
npw The influx takes more 81 The form OF n stampede.
On" scotch Irish firm (the name being purpo~cly with
heidi which has been established In Belfast 200
years. and which during i7oi employed daily from
1000 to Loo hands. came over 10 the United States
not more than two weeks ago. and viii open n linen
factory : Its hine'y b. completed.
And ihi, again shows another development m the
Mckinley hill. ~ instead II bringing thslr ohstyc
machinery with them. the managers q this firm
having n al made IN America ard machinery worth
10000 Is now being manufactured for them In
frtrr-on. y T.
Within three wcohs another Enersh finn which has
been engaged IN the manufacturing Of carpets
cause the American fax straw Irriuccs the best
material for making the d. Is of the carpet For the
.auc reason twlne factory employing from 2Oo TO
300 hands In, been started in Now York and instcai
~ u.iug imported FAX It Will the American article
ju. rs IN" rmcrs learn to prepare It for their
business
y man who has Ind long experience I'm the fax
industry said 20 n Tribune reporter: The develop
mont 81 thi, business which has been made possible
by the enforcement ~ the McHlhcy bill Is almost
LOnndcs.. II Immediately gives the farmer any
where from - 10 go ton for straw that be- formerly
threw away n u~'ce, II causes IN" expenditure In
The United tales lh Of go oOpOOO which here
tofrr had bcca paid To- Europ". II cau~cN krgc
aud Immediate demand for machinery of Amcrt m
make and II ads - the development - the lut"
iWuc. cnTpet bagcing and man, other Kindred IN
du-trc-. uur cp'tpl crIp requires 5000 t,ns Of
haiur California 2l.j0O.OO1 sacks
year. the United state IOstoiice Depart ucn use,
l.lOOnD pound, ~ on" hind u tw!n". and for the
cereals ~ thu country 1000 tons II birding
tyInc. al 81 which made II imported hbrcS costing
~ fio.VI.pOO ANNUALLY. pur naN AMI other nhreS
now thrown away useless coUli be- ID tut rs
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