The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-11-03

stan To GlOyersyil'e VINO rtDcates seV
IA columns OF statements, many 81
which had been shown q dozen times
before to be false and which were de
MED by the largest ard oldest glove
manufacturers there. Then. after thu
election and after the appearance q
the Reform clubs proposed tariff bill,
the glove liars again claimed the field
The New York Press sat up a how
about the proposed duty Of 25 per cent
on gloves 1t said: This would be q
death-blow to one Of the most prosper
ons industries OF this tate. In Fulton
county alone fully 80. DOC persons de-
pend for a livelihood either entirely OIL
in part upon glove making. The labor
cost of glove making is something like
100 per cent. more in this country thar
in Europe. The reformers propose L
meet this by a % per cent duty. or one
sixth the difference between the for.
eign and American wage rates Under
this schedule the foreign manufactur.
crs would take complete possession of
the American markets and close every
glove-making establishment in the
country"
These statements, like those in the
Tribune and other protection papers,
were made without the advice or con-
sent of the leading glove manufacture.
ers- Thus Mr.. Lucien Littauer. the
largest manufacturer OF gloves in the
United States said, in 1883: 1--WE can do
just as well, pay our employees just as
high wages, and conduct just as pros
porous a business under a 40 per cent.
as under a so per cent tariff. All this
is demonstrable il a man will sit down
and think il out for himself"
Mr.. ID. T. Judson, of Gloversville, the
oldest and greatest and at present. the
second largest manufacturer of gloves
in this country. said in 1883: "Under .
40 per cent tariff we shall still have an
advantage over foreign manufacturers
Of from go to rs cents per dozen. That
is to say. we will continue to pay about
double the wages paid in England, and
turn out gloves and mittens at from 90
to as cents a dozen cheaper than the
English manufacturers. A a matter
of fact, the tariff does not affect the
manufacture of heavy glovcs-thc
gloves for the million. | meat. On the
very finest qualities it does have an
effect, but there are only one or two
firms in this vicinity that make that
class of goods"
Another of the largest ma nufacturers
of Fulton county said. In 1891: There
is 40 real foreign competition on more
than 10 per cent. Of the goods sold here.
Fully t~wo-thirds of the heavy goods
made in the United. States are OF a class
Of goods neither produced nor con-
sumed anywhere else in the world
Gloves to protect the hands Of common
laborers are unknown outside Of this
country. More than 90 per cent Of the
ladies' gloves imported are of a class Of
goods not made here, nor will they be
made here in your or my time
OF course such cruel statements ss
these from the ungrateful manufact~
urers themselves did much to cool the
ardor of over-zealous protectionistA
They were not. however. sufficient to
prevent the protectionists from yield.
ing to the temptation to send up . ca
lamity howl on behalf Of gloves during
the late financial panic This last lie
has just been nailed. as il evident from
the following from the Boston Hers lds
"A few days since the following ap.
peared in the columns of the Boston
Journal: In the cxubcrance Of cam
paign oratory last fall. Da niel Il. Judso1,
Of Gloversville. n. ", promised to give
employment to all persons in that
place who might be thrown out Of
work by reason OF democratic victory.
Now there are about 10000 persons
who are asking him to redeem his
promise: his own factory is shut down.
and at last accounts he was on his way
to implore the ways and means COM
to deal gently with the glove
industry"
A gentleman of this vicinity reading
the above. and having serious doubts OF
its veracity, sem a letter to Mr.. Jud.
son inquiring into the source and re
ceived the following reply:
-GLovERsvILLE. N y. sept %. Isoa-Ne
truth In the above whatever. Factory has no.
been shu, down No such promise made Nor
an application for work has been made Have
not been 10 Washington nor do not inter1 ~
The clipping YOU inclose is a specir el o.
republican calamity bowling with not the leasi
OF fact Yours. etc.
JOHN II JvDsoN.
For u. II Judson
The last remark Of Mr.. Judson's
well TO summar. re facts with re
gard to this precious paragraph. n
well as many of its kindred frauds. II
Is false in general. false ia particulars
indeed. in every item of its asser.
ton. BYRON ~. Hop.r.