The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-03-13

time that the township ticket recently
nominated in Burlington is not legal be-
cause the certificate of nomination had
not been fled, and he quotes section 80
as above, to support his idea. If our
neighber will read section so, page A, he
will notice that none of the provisions of
the act from and including section 20 to
and including section 40, shall apply to or
affect town meetings or township cleo
tions.
WILLIAM j. THOMPSON, Duke of Glou-
cester," made a spectacle of himself on
Wednesday In the House of Assembly by
attacking the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics The bill providing
that the American flag shall float over
school houses during the sessions of
schools, was up for final passage. Thomp-
son said that he had no objection to the
bill, but be was sorry to find that the
Junior Order of American Mechanics was
behind the measure, for it was band of
youngsters, who, under the pretense of
patriotism, had come together for the
"avowed purpose of preventing men born
in other lands from exercising the rights
which this country gives them. These
young men talk about patriotism. and one
half of them are not familiar with the
history of their country. They go about
talking patriotism and their secret pur-
poses are against American institutions.
Any one who is familiar with the objects
of the American Mechanics and the A. p
A. must admit this. If they would spend
more time studying the history they
would find the best supporters of the
patriots, in their fight for independence,
were those born in other lands, particu-
larly the Scotch-Irish." He had no OBJ
lection to seeing the flag over the public
schools, but he regarded the advocacy of
the measure by this order as cheap piece
of buncombe. The Assemblyman showed
himself in his true colors. If he thinks SO
much of his native country he had better
skip to it. We do not want him here.
But whether he goes or remains will make
but little difference to the "band of
youngsters" who honor their country and
the flag that gives them protection.
THE new tariff bill is not mystery to
the workers. Each branch knows what
it means for them, and for most of them
it means ruin. But each branch is in the
dark about It's meaning for others. The
sum of them all is the American people.
The bill strikes the woollen manufac-
turer and workingman harder than any
others. 1t is the judgment of the n Y.
Tribune, and of the most competent men in
this manufacture, that about eight or nine
tenths of the workers making mems
woollens, worsteds or mixed cloths would
have to shut up under the bill proposed.
Carpet manufacturers would fare better !;
larger proportion. but chiefly producers
of the lower grades of goods. would be
able to live. Less than nine-tenths. but
large proportion, of the manufacturers of
knit goods would have to close.
The manufacturers of finer cottons,
principally located at the north, would be
ruined. with few exceptions, if any, by
foreign competition. Manufacturers of
the coarser cottons, principally located at
the south, might survive. though the bill
would greatly reduce their profits and
their assurance for the future.
About half the producers of pig iron,
including most of those in eastern and
southern states, would be shut out by the
bill proposed. A part of the Pittsburg,
some of the Ohio and Illinois and Ala
bama works, would fight competition with
success. But these would be crippled by
the fact that most of the branches which
produce lcrge proportion of manufac-
tured iron and steel would be at grave
disadvantage in com petition with foreign
ers, and hence the market for pig iron
would be sucked dry if not entirely de-
stroyed. In some branches the Ameri-
can manufacturer would defy the world.
In many other branches competition on
the basis of the bill proposed would
cripple or destroy the manufacture in
this country.
The so-cslled concessions, made by the
committee in order to satisfy Democratic
Senators, in every case so far as the Tri-
bsile has been able to discover would fail
to meet the necessities OF home indus
tries. If Senator Murphy is satisfied, the
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not If Senator Mcpherson is satisfied,
the potters and glass workers and silk
workers of New Jersey are not If Sena-
tor Brice is satisfied, he will find that not
only the wool-growers, but great multi
tude of workers in Ohio regard the pro
posed tariff as an abomination. If the
Senators from Wisconsin are satisfied,
they will find that producers of iron ore
know that the difference in rates would
be no compensation for them for the diff
ference between American and Canadian
wages, or for the difference between
American and Cuban wages measured by
the price at Pittsburg So of other indus
tries the duties proposed are nowhere
enough for protection, but are good for
nothing unless as pretexts and shams
The arrangement with the sugar pro-
ducers is not to be considered as of the
same character, but it is difficult to avoid
the conclusion that it was intended TO de-
fraud them. 1t is known perfectly well
that if the American producers of re-
fined sugar cannot meet the market they
are left in the Iurch, and in that case the
producers of American raw sugar are also
shut up and ruined But the difference
between the rate on the higher grades Of
raw sugar and the lower grades Of refined,
according to estimates of officers of the
Sugar Trust, is about eighteen hundredths