New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-03

| upon our market American manufacturers lin w
| been enabled 10 enlarge their own business WINE
competition has kept down the prices OF the goods
the industric, have been developed without cut
| in wages. Many Of the lines Of goods we make
are lower in price than they were before the
Mckinley act was passed and the consumer gets
| the benefit of the reduction Whenever prices
are momentarily higher competition soon carries
| them lower The inventive genius Of the Anefi-
| can is remarkable No sooner does he get hold
of some machine that John Bull has been WORK
| ing than he begins to improve upon 1t III some
way and the result IS cheapening oil the prouuc'
of that machine"
Ieontine Lincoln. of Kilburn, Lincoln q Co..
is member of the firm which makes machinery
for the cotton mills. lie earnestly believes Ill
protective tariff Fall River manufacturers
have all that they care 10 do just now salu lie
to-day and they do not desire 10 take orucls
many months ahead. The market has been ceaieu
Of print goods. and they have awakened TO the
fact that they must supply it. There Is there
fore work ahead for themselves and their oper-
et;vos for uontbs 70 come As look at it the
Mckinley act has enabled the American manu-
facturcrs TO control the home market for thc
finer GRADES of cotton goods. That market they
had 70 divide formerly with foreigners. Some
Of our mI-owners have been drawn into the
manufacture of the finer grades OF cotton goous'
and makers of the coarser goods have seculed' III
this way, a larger market. ri. $3.50,
That the Manufacturers OF fall rINcI nav. - y
fdencr in the future of the cotton industry IL
evident from the fact that they are Dulidlns ne"
mills and increasing the number of their SPIN les
Al the close of 1901 there were ,s93 there
will be 2,4Os13i spincles, or an increase OF w,
600 spindles. Scarcely less remarkabe ~ the
increase in the volIme OF production OF the
mills In 1891 il was valued at Sl9,43O,OO0.
This wear the vallption will he S2l 100000. This
is an Increas, Of Sl,j70,OOO Moreover several
new mills are under constructions Inc most
notable one is the new factory owned by Mat
thew g. d. Borden lie already has "a mill con-
timing 10000 spindles The new one VIII con
tain 10000 spi tGrI mill ihcH Which Mi have
600 In his three mills he VIII have I'o,oOV
spindles, and he will be able to turn OUT ever
week, 1870, 600 yards of standard print cloths
Mr. Borden is the chief stockhOlder in the Amrrl-
can Printing Company, of Fall RIVER, ana uliS
company, doubtless. will take most of the prod;
also is in process of enlargement, a plush MIL
is building, and the llargravcs Company, lor
making fine cotton figured gooIA Is erecting
new mill. ~ s
Arnold 3. Sanford is building large mill for
another line of industry-thc manufacture OF
yarn He already has three mills in operation.
is manufactured Not one Of these mills could
be in operation without the protective tariil.
Mr.. Sanford built his first mill in 1851. IN TINS
mill he makes common waIp yarns for glnghaIs'
In 1886 he built second mil this time for the
mannfncturc Of warn for thread mills and fine
warps for the silk manufacturers Three years
later he built third mill. in which ne makes
plain hosiery yarn. In the new mill now undcr
construction he will manufacture yarn Tor
oolored hosiery. The Englishmen," said Mr..
Sanford to-day, boosted that we could not make
yarn because Of our climate but we have tackled
one after another of the various kinds OF yarn ana
succeeded in making them all. We have bullt
up business entirely with the aid OF the
tariff. Now we intend to make the best kind of
hosiery yarns. in competition with the English
and the Germans. American spinners make from
$l3 to Sl4 a week in England the same class
found girl at work in Mr.. Coatess mill who told
me that her wages amounted TO GO - cents a
day. At the same class of work she would have
made from So to 81 Il week here. Mr.. Coates
told me that he paid 100 per cent higher wages
at Lis mill in Providence, in this country, than
in. Scotland. These Englshmen make desperate
control of it, and especially they fight hari
against American competition. But the Ameri
can manufacturer forces them 10 take lower prices
| remember that first sold a certain grade
Of warn for 81 % "a pound. That was less than
il then being sold for by Englishmen engaged
in the business. The Englishmrn at once
dropped the price to 81 II pound. We responded
by putting ours at 81 10 pound. They dropped
again to 81 a pound. We then cut it down 70
eighty-live cents pound and there we hold the
American market We now give employment 10
900 pc Tsons, 500 men and 500 women. In our new
mill We shall employ 500 operatives. The Ameri-
can protective tariff policy upholds our industries
ana PDdbltS US w pay Eoou NdEfS. antrim '''H
petition with inventive skill in the improvement
of machinery lowers the price TO the consumer
eventually"
The sum Of the whole matter is that Fall River
has been greatly benefited by the Mckinley act
New factories are building: old mills are cnarg
ing; higher grades OF goods have been introduced
The number Of spindlcs has been enormously in
creased since the passage of the act. Business
in the town was never before 50 good az it is
now The volume Of production has been ire
mendously increased. At the same time, the
prices Of goods have been steadily reduced. Skilled
workmen profit by the introduction Of higher
grades of manufacture commanding higher wages
All CLASSES OF operatives have steady employment
Wages have been virtually Increased and are now
tending upward. The working community haa
$l2, coo 900 on deposit in the savings banks, and
has added $32s7ij 81 TO it, surplus during the
first years operation of the Mckinley act. Fail
River is prospcrnc under the present tariff. Every
interest in the town has been benefited by Re-
publican legislation.