The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-21

shade now used on Government
notes, and this, besides being more pleas
ing to the eye, will save the Government
something like SIC, 900 year by reason of
the difference in cost of the two inks.
The new color will also increase the sale
of stamps. since every one of the legion
of philatelists in this and other countries
will have to purchase specimens of the
new issue in order to make his collection
complete. Thus it will be seen that the
change will not be quite such a matter of
tweedle. dunn and tweedle-dee as it might
appear at first sight
The Manufacturers Record of this week
publishes six pages of letters in reply to
over 1000 inquiries sent to the leading
manufacturers of all parts of the country
as to the outlook for business. These re-
plies. covering every line of manufacturing
industry in every part of the country, in
dictate with remarkable unanimity won
derful increase already felt in industrial
affairs, with almost universal expression
of confidence that we have entered upon
a long period of activity and prosperity in
manufacturing interests.
Through the whole correspondence run
such phrases as more inquiries are being
made, kept busy by the importing of or
ders, new ventures are being made, cap
ital is easy, business has been stimulated,
more hands have been taken on, the num-
Der of employees has been doubled, the
feeling is generally good, plenty of orders
are ahead, addition to capacity will be
made, no man need be.idle, crowded with
work, and industries are in splendid con-
dition.
Combined, these phrases present a
spectacle as glowing and promising as a
rainbow and as substantial as an arch OF
observation-disclosures Record.
The immigration figures for the year
ending June 80 are we'll calculated to
emphasize the popular disappointment
oyer the failure of the restrictive bill al
the last session of Congress to become q
law.
These figures show that twenty three
per cent, or nearly one quarter, of all the
aliens over fifteen years of age who came
to the United States were illiterate. While
the average of those who could not read
or write was 3.6 in hundred from the
United Kingdom, France, Germany and
Scandinavia, it was 3o.oin hundred from
Austria-Hungary, Italy, Poland and
Russia.
These grossly ignorant aliens are class
which the United States does not want and
for which it has no room, especially since
as is well known, ignorance and poverty
generally go hand in hand.
A country that is spending countless
millions of dollars yearly to educate it
own masses cannot afford to become ths
dumping ground for the ignorance o
Europe and the cheap labor which takes
employment from American workingmen
IN. r. Herald.
The Dingley tariff has given employ
ment to a, 500 workmen in the potteries O
this State The Wilson tariff made thes,
same 1850 men idle for the past three
years. During these three years these
men who had formerly been earning from
$40 to $40 week under the Mckinley tar
if, have been on the canal towpath fo
$50 month and board" driving hors,
cars, sweeping streets and thanking Coo
for job that would pay them $I.25 day
In this same three years seven-eighths o
the capt. ii invested in potteries in thi,
state has not yielded per cent. interest
Five of the greatest concerns, with almos
one-half of the money represented in the
business behind them, have gone to the
wall and are still in hands of receivers, o.
have liquidated and gone to new owners
The potteries of Trenton, according to
carefully prepared estimate, had when tn,
Wilson bill went into effect a payroll 0
$4,000 week, and when the Dingley tar
if came to the rescue of the potteries
after three years of the Wilson tariff, thi
pay-roll had gone down to s., 900 week
This means that the Wilson tariff cost tn,
pottery workers of the city of Trenton
also s., $4,000 year. The Dingle,
tariff means the return of s., 1856, 900 yea
to the workmen of Trenton in this singl,
industry, and that is only starter, for tn,
Dingley tariff has features even NOR,
favorable to the potteries than the Nc
Kinley tariff had.-.State Gazette.