New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-07
TO VOTE FOR PROTECTION
FLORIEN GROSJEAN SPEAKS PLAINLY.
REASONS WHY THE wELLKNOwN MANUFAC1.
URER OF AGATE IRoNwARE CANNOT SUP
PORT CLEYELAND-A GREAT IN

URER OF AGATE IRoNwARE CANNOT SUP
PORT CLEyELAND-A GREAT IN
DUsTRY BUILT Up THROUGH
TIE M'KINLEY LAW.
There is a big factory at Woodhaven, l.. l.,
owned by the Lalance & Grosiean Manufacturing
Company They turn cut agate irOnware and
give employment steadily to about fourteen hum
dred men. The factory building covers six acres
the space of about four city lots IL is hand
bnilding and the people who labor under its
roof take away several thousands Of dollars In
wages for each day Of their toll. The president
Of this prosperous concern is Florien GrosJean. lie
is na'iye Of Trance, and clme to America for'S-
two years ago. Some thirty-one years ago he es-
tabshed spool factory in a basement at Hester
and Elizabeth sts.. employing only three men
That was the nucleus of the large industry OF
which he is to-day the head The city Office OF
the company is at No. - Cliff-st.
Mr. Grosean, who has been lifelong DEM
ocrat, has announced his intention to deposit his
this year for Protection and Reciprocity, and
Harrison and Reid and he has strong. clear
reason for the faith that is in him.
Il am" he said yesterday, "very fond Of Mr..
Cleveland. have always voted the Democratic
ticket, and have done what I could to help elect
it, Both times that Mr.. Cleveland ran / voted
and worked for him, and helped in the party's
hurrah when he was elected but | can no longer
antagonize nv own interests and the interests
of the fourteen hundred men in our employ by
lending encouragement to n Free-Trade propa-
ganda. II is plain TO me that the establishment
Of Frcc-Trade system would eventually force
MS 10 close our factory and throw out OF Work
the operatives. most Of whom have now comfort
able homes on Long Island Personally, would
strain point TO vote for Mr.. Cleveland, but
practical experience has given fear Of the
results of Free-Tradc, which no arguemnt, per-
sonal or political can overbalance. France and
Germany both tried Fres-Trade and forsoo< it,
and now from England come the premonitoiy
murmurs Of a great crisis. Great Britain Will be
forced to adopt some form Of protective tarin
system
What has been the effect Of the present tariff
upon your business -
We'll. on the strength Of it we are now making
nm addition to our factory, and will take SIX
hundred more hands into employment. III
believed that a free-tradc law. anything APP
proximating it, was to be passed in the near
future. | should stop these improvements ana
prepare 10 90 out Of business. We use ABOUT
a hundred tons of iron a week in the factory, ana
RI, now building rolling mill in HARRISBURG
Pa. which will employ six hundred men. we
have never had a strike, and our men seem well
content, Personally could retire from business
and close the factory but do not wish 70 10 80
a. long rs We can pay good wages TO hundreds OF
men and make ends meet
a few days ago had a talk with Congress
man Coombs Of Brooklyn. and told him meant
10 voi, for Harrison and Reid on tarih grounds
He sand That hcs trade tarin for revcnu"
meant duty of 80 per cent after all t"ld
him that such large duty was protection really
end the sooner the Democrats gave the country
10 understand il in that light the better lor
them But somehow do not see IT in The same
way Mr. toonbs does.
In the course " few years we shall De man
ufactnring A. fine = quality OF tin in this country
as they do in Wales Does any one pretend TO
.,y ,ba, Tin could IL made here in opposition
70 the pauper labor which is employed in Great
Hritain, The question answers itself. >''ri
rail, are manufactured here now, yet only II"
v.ars ,pu ENGLAND had a complete monopoly oil
that ndusirr. ~,
Wemn,t reason from effect back 10 cause Dli
frc,-ttnd. bring about that? In looking at tllN
matter admit that form JUDGMENTS more hrg'p
from NY personal experience ana pracucai o"'''
walton than from AN analysis OF theories Ut specu-
lation Under a lrrc-trade provision shouiu
nevr. have been able Ia start my Factory. Ihe
Democratic calamity cry that the Mckinney olii'
II il b.cane a inv would bring disaster upon the
con-utier has Lad two years for vcriiicatlon A.
VET the disa ter has not come. The WORKING man
.tsas rood. and. IT. many cases, better WAGES, and
ia. uric.- Of commodities have not advanced ii
the workingman here pays larSer price ior mp
.arics Than the lab0rcr Of Europe. It liz bal
nnc.J Inv th, fact that his wages are many times
In \ce., of those Of his brother on the other Sue
of the water The protection under when ne
narns and buys is constantly creating a larger de-
mand Tor the product Of his labor
am ont siuarely for protection ana reel
xiii not De- giving away something for nothing
III. Increase in our trade with South American
~, L.. creatcI conservation in England
Ihat in ifscf il eloquent. ! intend to do all |
can 10 elect Harrison and Reid, and shall take
1,'L onnortunitv 10 enin a clear understand
inc Of the questions at ISSUE Ill thls caipais"'