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elect MIR. Heald who has done so much
for the protection of those who sent
him TO Washington as their repre-
sentative. Yours truly,
Richard Young
Senator dupont and Congressman
Heald did not vote to put goat skins
on the free list. They have been on the
free list for 20 years. But they did
vote to prevent the tariff being wiped
OFF Of glazed kid imported into this
country The tariff was reduced from
% TO 10 per cent on glazed kid inn
portations. They fought amy further
reduction of the import duty. for they
realized It would have dealt the indus
try In Wilmington q crushing blow.
Mr.. PatzOwsky's Views.
"Delaware's representative In Con
gress deserves congratulations for the
stand he took against admitting glazed
kid free Of duty. Congressman Heald
is entitled to be reelected and Della
ware people will be ungrateful If they
do not do so next Tuesday This was
the answer given by Richard Pat
zowsky, president of the New Castle
Leather Company which has the big
IdlIOIItN at AaAtN'MNH HHA AHANt
streets. to the question Would free
trade benefit the glazed kid industry
in Wilmington?
Continuing Mr. Patzowsky said:
when the tariff bill came before Con-
eress Mr. Heald asked every manu-
facturer for his opinion. II was a
united one on the part of the glazed
kid manufacturers to oppose a reduc-
ton in the tariff Our men here who
have been shown a little earn Sl2 q
week. In Europe the men who spent
years of apprenticeship are subsisting
on SIS a week. The old country men can
not turn out the hiNh grade product
which we get in Wilmington. But they
could drown out business entirely with
the inferior grades. We could not COM
pete with these European factories II
the bars are lowered. We have to pro-
tect our interests where millions are
invested. Happy homes must be pro-
tected so that men and women can
bring home good sized salaries.
And to go further, the city of VIII
mington needs 10 be protected. Blum
enthal and our factories pay fully S25,-
600 a year in water rents. Seventeen
other factories pay big water rents so
ii is easily seen that should free trade
u,hac uO our factory windows the water
rents would cease and between $4,000
and $4,000 would be lost to the city.
"That is the reason that Congress-
man Heald should be reelected. He
is safe man. he is watching the in
terests of our people and can be de-
pended upon TO oppose all tariff legis-
lation looking towards a reduction Of
duty on manufactured goods. We get
the goat skins free and want glazed
kid barred by a tariff"
An Important Industry.
Wilmington is a manufacturing city
and no greater product is being turn
ed out by skilled workers than by the
glazed kid factories. All that is need
ed to throttle these Industries is free
trade for glazed kid and then the men
and girls now earning good salaries
I'm the Wilmington factories would be
walking the streets in idleness. In adj
dition 70 that condition the city of
Wilmington would lose fully 100000
in water rents annually.
Glazed kid manufactures IN this
city in accord say that free trade
would be the worst thing that could
happen 10 the industry. Factories
NOV MnNiNN Hdf AAilo vi AnOuNdHOh
Of dollars weekly would be thrown
into competition with the goods made
by the cheap labor Of the old world
While the high grade article would
stand show. when il would come
TO the cheaper grades the market
would be flooded and closed factories
and idle hands would be the result.
Men In Wilmington earn S12 week
and put in less hours that the
European competitor who gets a
paliry s..
Congressman Heald especially is
now coming in for his full share OF
praise because he determinedly fought
the free trade advocates who woulC
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