The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-26
MONDAY. JULY &c. 1897.
This paper is Democratic an principles
end is independent IN ats raesos on oil local
questions.
The Tariff In New Jersey.

article, this morning. headed "Jerseynien
Happy Over the Tariff" 1t is one OF
those humorous productions in which the
protectionist organ habitually indulge,
perhaps on the theory that the public at
tention will be diverted from the rob-
berries committed on them by laughter at
the cool impudence of the robbers
one of the things which the Press"
says we are very happy over is because
the paragraph of the Dingley bill IN
reference TO coilodion and celluloid was
so constructed as to prevent extensive
importations of ~fo-eign-made articles.
Now. as there are ten or a dozen CAPT.
talists in the State interested in these
things. it is hard 10 see why the .popula-
tion in general should feel excruciatingly
happy. OF course we will be told-menoa-
ciously, by the way-that the toilers en-
gagged in manufacturing these articles
will share the benefit. Even if this were
so. we believe they number altogether
only a couple of hundred in New Jersey,
while the consumers or users of celluloid,
to whom the price will be raised. number
say a million and a half. On the same
grounds, we fail to experience any I'M
common exultation over the fact that ul-
tramarine blue has been raised from 3A
to 4 cents a pound at the request of Gen
eral sewen. We nave a general impress
SIGN that the change will tend to make
a number Of articles dearer, while hardly
fifty persons will derive any profit.
A great point is made. however, of
Tonka beans. The Press says:-'Tonka
beans, used largely in New Jersey In the
manufacture of snuff, were put upon the
free list, as asked by the New Jersey
Senator. while vanilla was kept at so per
cent" Vanilla is an article of general
use. which we should have been glad TO
see made cheaper; as for the Tonka bean,
we can see in it's being placed on the free
list only a concession to the Tobacco
Trust, which the Lorillard influence was
strong enough to procure. AS a matter
of fact, the price Of snuff will not be
c~heapened- The trust will pocket the ex-
ira bonus. And even if snuff were to
would that fact diffuse in Jersey? Must
not the cause be a very bad one which a
paper like the Press can defend only
by resort to such maudlin drivel as this?
Skipping some minor items of the same
general character, we find
On glassware, especially bottles, the
class was raised at the solicitation of
Senator Sewell to rates correspondents 20
those imposed in the House, while the
duties of the House bill were restored all
together on window glass and on cylinder
and crown glass. This was important
legislation for the glass men of South
Jersey.
The glass trade has always enjoyed out
rageous protection, and, as a result. it is
the most discreditable of all American in
dustries. We are ages behind Europe in
the quality and price of every description
Of glassware, from plate to win bot
ties, and we need never expect improve
ment until competition stimulates it. In
spite of protection, too, the condition of
the glass operatives is simply frightful.
Next to the coal miners, they are per-
haps the worst paid class of labor in the
country. They nave been in a condition
Of chronic revolt in South Jersey ever
since 1889, against bad pay n other
x,+o1a~ob1o oon5i+io,e
We also find in the Press article this
GEM
The New Jersey agrieuIturists secured
everything that they asked for, namely,
rs per cent. on orchids and nursery stocks
and cuttings, cranberries at rs per cent,
and other berries at / cent a quart.
1t is too funny for serious comment.
We are all delirfous with happiness over
the protection of our native infant in
dustry of orchid raising.
The claim is made tina the atrocious
act of placing floor mating on the dutia-
BILE list is an aid to Newark lnoleum and
oilcloth. This is obviously nonsense. The
two articles are not used for the same
purposes at all. Mating would not stand
the wear which linoleum and oilcloth are
intended to bear, and these articles are
too cold and harsh for the uses to which
mating is commonly put. The competi-
ton of mating is the hideous and I'M
sanitary cheap ingram carpet, which is
net produced in New Jersey, and ought
not be produced anywhere.
OF course we should be truly happy be-
cause the duty was forced up to the
highest possible notch on all sorts of
pottery, while it was reduced on kaolin
and bauxite, two of the raw materials Of
the industry. No doubt our happiness
will be intense as we pay fifty per cent.
higher prices for all articles of tableware
and kitchenware. Our happiness viii be
due, of course, to the reflection that some
twenty-five or thirty Trenton capitalists
are making largely Increased incomes.
There are many other articles we might
mention General Heppenheimer, for in
stance, sold out the party, which for
many years heaDed hon0rs on him. for