Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-08-11

an outing, and, bringing along pro-
visions, would get Of the tenantry, tea or
hot water. The earl forbid them to let
people have such things on pain of warn
ing to quit. At Rosthmere, owned by
Lord Latton, similar orders were issued,
so 1t appears Oakley is not alone in arbi-
trary edicts. There may be a good rea-
son for such orders. | have not learned
it.
Among the manufacturing interests,
the Mckinley tariff is subject of the
greatest interest. | am constantly asked:
"llow long will the Mckinley tariff con-
tinue?' SIS the Mckinley tariff likely to
be repealed or modified - to all of W hich
reply that / do not think it will be
materially modified or repealed. It's eff
feet is severely felt here. In Noting
ham, among the lace manufacturers, it is
felt perhaps in less degree, but here one
manufacturer said to me "If Won re-
fuse to receive our products, and our
market is lost with you, we shall have to
refuse your products here" In view of
the fact of the high price and insufficient
quantity of food in England, and that
The great bulk of our exports are of that
very kind, which is sold here at less
price than the English product, such
contingency as cutting off source of
cheap food supply does not seem alarm
ingly imminenl.
AT Sheffield | received some excellent
lessons on economics. | visited the cele-
brated cutlery makers, Joseph Rodgers
Il Sons, and was shown over their eXten-
sive rooms there, while they have, be-
lieve, four others even more magnificent.
On inquiry if the Mckinley bill affected
their trade, the manager replied sit has
practically ruined our American trade.
Where we sold before its passage an 100
pounds worth, we now do not sell five;
our ordinary goods are entirely stopped,
and all we sell now is of the finest and
highest-priced cutlery and silverware."
had heard from the house; | thought i
would like to hear from the workmen,
so waiting awhile saw an old man come
out whom | accosted, and asked him if
he worked there. He replied he did. |
asked him if he would take glass of
beer with me, to which he assented, and
we stepped into "public" and he de-
scribed the situation in his quaint dia-
lect:
~ am cutler-a cutler talks the parts
of knife and fits 'em and puts 'em to-
gether. | gets from four to five shillings
a day now. | could make eight shillings
if | could have work. I get no work
Mondays. | come out at 4 o'clock to-
day, and shall go in at half-past mine in
the morning, and there may be naught
and there may be summat. We have
been fixed very bad this year. l don't
think have had a pound week this
year, and the bosses are trying to off five
per cent more now. | have to pay six
pence week for power, and shilling
month for gas, and find my own files. |
have house and pay five shillings a
week rent; it is i'll an area, and has four
rooms. | should have to pay more if it
was out on the street. There is bit of
land, and wor tidy place till the gas
house cooms; but now [ can't raise any
thing. Yes, get a bit of meat now and
again; we seldom have butter; we use
beef drippings. The golfers are better
off nor we, but the iron men are very
bad; they can't get but 2S or 80 shillings
a week.
Other workmen had dropped in and
were listening and asserting to the hard
conditions. | was asked of the probable
duration of the tariff, and replying asked
if they felt the effect of it here in Shelf
field. The old man replied with great
''Oh it do hurt us proper"
He said he had worked there 36 or 81
years, and didn't know what he should
do when he could work no longer.
Another workman asked if the tariff
did not hurt the farmers in America.
Another one replied: SHAW, when the
tariff stops out our cutlery over there
they puts oop cutler shops and the men
come to wark; they gets good wage and
buys t. farmers stool at 'ome; it's all
right for they, but its bloomin' ard for
We" 1t occurred to me that the work
ing of the tariff and the value of thrift
ty, well-paid body of consumers, and
home market for products raised at home
were pretty we'll understood here.
Joseph Haywood is another large man
ufacturer, and | visited his establish
ment. He is not so largely affected as
Rodgers Sons, as he has never sent his
goods so largely to America. At Man
chester | made the acquaintance OF
John Wilkinson, very intelligent and
fair-minded gentleman Of 80 years eX-
perience in business in Manchester and
vicinity; a cotton broker and thorough
ly acquainted with business interests in
England; a Radical and pronounced
free trader. In speaking of the effect of
Juc GdIiu Ilc Sdlu IL ldu Jusu L uluSN VIC
trade in Bradford where fine dress goods
were made, and in his own case had en-
tirely cut off certain branches Of his bus
mess.
In one line of goods where he has sold
and should have sold this year twenty to
thirty thousand dollars worth Of goods
for American market, he had not sold a
shilling's worth. Labor of all classes Is
greatly depressed. Seventeen million
spindles stopped in Lancashire district
by lockout; and should the dispute be
prolonged, 1000 hands will be without
employment.
The Manchester Guardian of to-day
MAY 81 says, under head of The Cotton
Trade Crisis: "Nearly all the spinning
firms in Whitworth Valley have decided
to run short time" This will affect the
districts of Manchester, Bacup, Preston,
Bury and Rawtenstall, if not others.
The president of the Bristol board of
trade lately said: "There are some
grounds for gloomy anticipations for
business the coming year." He did not
like the continued falling off of exports.
The Mckinley bill has influenced the