New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-11
WOOL MEN SPEAK OUT.
CAPITAL AND LABOR ARRAYED AGAINST
THE WILSON BILL
ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY REPRESENTED AT
THE MEETING; YEsTERDAY-A VIGOROUS
PROTEST AGAINST IMPENDING

narts OF the country signed the call in answer 10
which upward Of six hundred men assembled al
the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday at Z:0o p ni
and under the auspices Of the National Assoc'a-
ton Of Wool Manufacturers made vigorous prov
est against the Wilson Tariff bill. TWO nuho'eu
thousand wage-workers were represented by the
manufacturers present all of whom regardiess oI
party, regardless of the section they may nave
come from. were a unit on the question OF pro-
lection.
Robert Bleake, Of Hyde Park, Mass who for
eight years has championed the cause OF iree
trade was an enthusiastic member Of 'he party
sorne If the concerns represented We're:
Wendell. Fav & Co. New-York; ETben, Search
G. % Pbiladelphia; Parker. Wilder & Co, Bos-
ton; Talbot Mills, North BNcrica. Mass saw
YER Woollen Co. Dover. y. H.; Concord Manu-
featuring Co. Concord, ~ H.; burlington
Wooncn Co.. burlington, VT; Allegheny d" ofStc0
Mills. Philadelphia; Titus Sheard. Little rams
\. Y; New-Albany Hosiery Mills. New-Apany'
Ind: Elmer :. Titon Tilton, y. H.; fmlipS'
KunNardt & &C., Lawrence. Mass; r. l.. oIot''
Stottsvle, y. Y; Hackett. Carhart * Co.. New
York; Leicester Knitting Co, WoonsocNe'' H. j.
Norfolk and New-Brunsw!ck Hosiery Co.. New
Brunswick, y. j.: RoXbury Carpet Co.. BOSTON
Mass Hartford Carpet Co. Hartford conn.,
.1osenh HoIdsworth. Passaic. ~ J.: Botany
Co.. Winsted. Conn; Bevedere Woolien MILL
Lowell Mass: Commercial Knitting Mills. Troy,
N. Y: +. NJ Aufsesser, Albany, ~ Y; Sand
ford Mills. Sanford. Me; Hnlsboro Woollen
Mills, Hilsboro. n. H.; Newburg Wollen Mills
Nevburg n Y: Lewis Andersen. Skowhegan,
Me and Waverly WoOllen Co, Pittsfield, Me-
The meeting was called to order by Rufus 5.
Frost who read the cali; s. y. ID. North acted
Is secretary. The president appointed the follow
ing committees:
On Permanent Organization: c. A. Stott, Cor
don Dodson, Theodore c. Sheard George L.
Keeney and George Is. Waterhouse.
On Credentials: T. E. Simpson, II. d. PiXley.
J. W. Hines and Sidney Gushing.
On Resolutions: John n. Carpenter, John r.
McColl William r. Cordingly. John Hope
well. jr, and David L. Einsein.
A PERMANENT ORGANIZATION EFFECTED
The Permanent Organization Committee sub
mitted a report naming the following officers
which was accepted For president, Rufus .
Frost: vice-presidents Horatio n Slater, Boston:
William L. Strong and A. d. Juilnard
New-York; Lorenzo Maynard, Maynard, Mass
George Merritt, Indianapolis: Otto Drsser, Pas
sale. ~ j.: Thomas Dolan. Philadelphia; Charles
Fletcher Providence, r. l.; Alexander Crow, Jr
Philadelphia; E. c. Thayer, Keene ~ H.; How
land Croft Camden, N j.; Seth NJ. Miliken,
New-York; Warren o. Arnold, Providence. X. l.
William c. Stul, Philadelphia; Jonathan A
Lain, Boston: stephen Sanford Amsler-
dam. y. Y: H. c. Sturdevant. Norwich
Conn; Louis Anderson Skowhegan, Me;
s. w. Ingalls, Dover n. H.: Isaac Fen3%'
Busel. Laconia, N. H; Charles 4 Russell.
KiIlingly, Conn: Charles Z. Stevens Ware, Mass;
Bloomfield n. J.. swift Condo, Oswego. \; y;
George Campbell Philadelphia; John sloan
w. c. Brewing and NJ Newborg' New York, York;
Z. d. Barrows, Laporte Ind: J. w; Hines.
Cohoes; H. r. Liston. Jamestown, ~ y; Coy
ernor j. B. Smith. New-Hampshire; A. L.
sayles. Rhode Island; W; G. Ray FT rankin
Ky; '; Timothy X Hopkins Danielsvllle Conn;
New-York; George +: Hall. Newton, Mass:
II J. Libby, New-Yors; Alfred Dodge Dodge
Vile. n. Y: J. r. Mccoll; Pawtucket ,, X; L.;
man, Rockville, Conn; Sidney Cushing. Boston;
W. a. Heddem, New-Albany, Ind; ]. T. Caps
Springfield, ILL.,. and John F. Roy West Troy
N. Y.
Curtis Guild, jr, Of The Boston Commercial
Bulletin" was named as secretary.
SOME OF THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
On taking the chair Mr.. Frost made short
address, and the Committee on Resolutions
then brought in their Protest Of Wool Manu-
fact11rers," Of which this is the opening
serteuce:
THE allied industries represented by this
meeting including all branches Of the manufact-
ure and sale of woollen goods. carpets and knit
goods and the wholesale clothing and cloak
manufacture, speak for an investment Of capital
far exceeding five hundred millions or dollars
embarked In business under the laws or the
United States on the good faith OF the Govern
ment that It's citizens shall be duly guarded IN
their vested property rights AS American citi-
Gems we have assembled TO protest against the
enactment of a law which threatens to destroy
a large part of this capital"
II arraigns the trainers of the Wilson BILL and
shows that "our markets are given as a gift TO
foreign manufacturers" and the protest is made
mot only as manufacturers, but also IN behaI
OF the labOrer employed in these industries. in
Guiding, under normal business conditions no
less than 100000 persons"
The resolutions end with this appeal: I'VE APP
peal to the patriotism Of an American Congress
to prevent the contamination Of this national
misfortune; and we appeal 10 our fellow-ciu-
zens in every walk OF life to second our protest
against Legislative act Of extirpaton."
The resolutions were adopted unanimously
amid cheers.
THE OBJECTIONABLE MEASURE DENOUNCED.
Observation-Disclosures w. II. Halle. of Massa-
chusetts then made forcible argument against
the Wilson bill. 1--WE opposed to the radi-
cal change in our economic system" he said
1.-THE Wilson bill. If passed in 50 far as the
woollen industry is concerned will embarrass,
will cripple and bring distress. The contest be-
tween protection and free trade Is now before the
people and who doubts that should an cleo
ton take place tomorrow the advocates Of Pro-
lection would sweep the land like whirlwind?"
A letter read from George w. Bramhall Of
Bramhall Bros. No. SO Leonard-st., a Democrat.
who denounced In unmedsured terms the Wilson
bill \ letter also read from Cornelius y.
Bliss in which he expressed his regret at being
unable 10 attend the meeting. Jonas NJ Bar
nett, of Troy. made a telling speech in which he
advised all manufacturers 10 appeal 10 their rep
resentatives in Congress to oppose the Wilson
bill
Charles Heber Clark. Secretary OF the Pha
delphia Manufacturers Club was the next
speaker Among other things he said: 1--WE want
the Mckinley bill II stands; will not take
anything less The country demands II. Pro-
lection 10 American industries demands 1t. Write
to your Congressman and your Senator to stand
firm at this crisis. Kill the Wilson bill at all
hazards"
Ex-senator Titus Sheard, amid great applause
spoke in his usual vigorous and logical way
against the bill Joseph w. Green, jr.. offered a
resnliltinn which was adOpted. ordering that