New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-22
ERTITS or STITESW1NSHIP

The change for which the people voted has
come. TIE TRIBUNE greatly regrets To say, 10
several thousand families in Ncw-fngland dtir-
inc the last week. Two great mills have de-
cided 10 stop operations, not at all because OF
monetary difficulties, for both have long been
known as prosperous and successful, bat ne
cause they cannot yet form any ldca What the
market will be for their goods next year when
goods ordered now would go into consumption.
Their orders AT present are backward ana III
ADEQUATE and liable to be contaminated at
any time before the goods are delivered Inc
prospect Of a change of duties restricts those
who would otherwise order freely. The com
panieS. if they 90 OF 10 manufacture at thclr
own risk and 10 pile up goods. have no means
or knowing what demand there will be for the
Goods hereafter. Still less have they means OF
knowing whether months later, when those who
order the goods come To pay their notes. their
sales will have been such a 10 make payments
pos,iblc. The decision 10 close is hard for
thousands of operatives. But the people, when
they voted for a change, voted for exactly this
kind OF change.
The AmoSkcag Manufacturing Company. OF
Manchester " H.. has Il capital of Si.OO0,oOo
operates 1000 looms and 100000 splndlcS,
and manufactures gnghamS, tckngS, DENNIS
and fine cotton goods. The company is SAID
10 employ 5000 hands. and to have the largest
cotton works in the world lis consumption
every month has been 100000 pounds Of
cotton. and it has paid S225,000 every month
in wages 10 hands. There were only six states
IN the Mon according To the census of 1890.
Oh lrpp SIIm
cotton operatives as is now paid by this one
concern-not a single Southern and not a single
Western State nor even New York, being one
of the six States. The proposition To stop all
the cotton mills in Newly ork or in Georgia
might not have been regarded with favor by
the supporters Of Mr. Cleveland or of Speaker
Crisp but neither event would throw as many
hands out of employment as the stoppagc OF
the Amo>keag mill alone. Ii Is hoped that the
closing will be only temporary. and yet. III view
of the circumstances already stated, there can
not be much certainty as TO the future
The slater Woollcn Mill, of Webster, Mass,
is one of the bc>t-known mills i'll the country.
II has capital of $500, 600, has 3 water
wheels - boilers, II sets of cards, 33l broad
looms and 1920 SpndleS. and manufactures
beavers, brDauClotHS, uotShl1>. HdHH'iN h'"'H'
kerscys ladies' cloth. etc. 1t has been so finely
managed that it is stated, the mill has never
been stopped before. But the sorters have
been discharged and as the work in other de-
partmcnts runs ont the hands will be dis
charged and the work stopped indefinitely. The
suspension or closing OF several other concerns
is also announced the aggregate of hands en-
ploycd being not exactly known. In several
cases it is stated that the mills have never been
obliged to stop before or not in fifty years.
The Amoskcag Company began operations IN
/ $50. more than half century ago, and 1t Is
stated that shiS is the GrSt time that mill has
been stopped for forty six years.
These events bring most unwelcomc change
10 more than ten thousand families in two or
three states They diminish hy more than
So. 100000 yearly the amount which the
opcratvcs have to spend, while the works re-
main closed in purchasing the shoes Of Lynn,
the carpets of Lowell. the hats of Danbury the
tools and implements of Newlork, the milk
and vegetables of Massachusetts, and New
JIampshire the meats and grain of the West.
Thus the evil influence of threatened re-
versal Of National policy, affecting two New
ENGLAND companies, extends in overwhelming
circles all over the land But this is called
statesmanship-in Tammany Hall, Georgia and
Texas.