The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-11-05
ESTABLISHED 1876

fancy feathers, three for sole leather,
three for leather uppers. Grouped with
these factories in Newark are sixtxeen
factories for the manufacture of Ieath-
er fancy goods and scores of other fac
tories for making articles of leather of
all kinds. There are seven large shoe
factories, two of which are famous for
the quality of their make and sell
largely abroad. There are six large
trunk factories and seven travelling
ba gand suit case factories also using
leather and seven tanning establish
ments.
The goods produced by these factor
les go all over the world. Patent leath-
er, Newark made, is sold in regions as
remote as Van Diersans Land and
throughout Oceanica.
Seven-eighths of the American pro-
duction Of patent leather is in Newark.
The industry is of all most distinctive
~ Newark industry.
Prior to the war Newark's charac-
teristic industries were carriage max
ing and clothing, for which the city
r-->>@ - NCAJ CAbCAcANC tA00C IA Lie SOulu.
The war broke up that trade The en-
Rctment of the Morrill, tariff compensat-
ed Newark. 1t opened the way for the
introduction of new industries, and one
OF the earliest was that Of patent leath-
er, which was the invention of Seth
Boyden, a Newark inventor.
There could have been no nonopoly
OF manufacture for Newark. Foreign
capital was ready and cheap foreign
labor was available for it. There
would have been little chance of New
ark to profit by the invention but for
the Morrill, tariff and its protective
duty.
CLder the fostering wing of that tar
III factories began to multiply as the
demand for patent leather grew It
was introduced into carriage making
and shoemaking and other industries
and stimulated them 1t brought new
Industries into existence to make re-
munerative labor and give opportuni-
ties to capital
By the census of 1910 for the year
1909 the total product of leather In
New Jersey was $28, $50 so as against
$2l.495.329 in 1904 and S13, TAI, 155 In
1899, an Increase of more than 100 per
cent In ten years under the protective
tarifr. In 1909 the product was 81 per
cent of the total in the United States.
The largest increase was during the
last half decade.
AS matter of detail 1t may be stated
that IN 1903 the census showed 523, 495
sides of patent and enameled upper
leather, 1901 ,020 tanned and finished
sheepskins and 6.34O.O36 tanned and
finished goatskins. In 1909 carriage.
automobile and furniture leather was
the product of greatest value, being
BIZ per cent of the total products of
the state. The value was s8.S36 TAO or
more than double the product in 1899.
Patent and enameled leather increased
It's product In the same time about 15D
per cent, tarned aud finished sheep
skins nearly 800 per cent, tanned goat
skins more tar 100 per cent and other
feathers In nearly as great proper
tons.
- 4>-~SNASA 0AtA every man VINO is
interested in the various forms of leath-
er industry. whether in the making of
the leather or the making of the goods
out of leather. and who sees this won
derful progress under tariff protection.
Is this
Shall we change our national pol-
ley? Shall we abolish tariff protection
and adopt the free trade policy of a
tariff for revenue only2 Shall we elect
Woodrow Wilson president, with
Democratic congress back of him. TO
iarry out the program which the Dem
ocratic party adopted at Baltimore and
which Mr.. Wilson is advertising in his
speechesf
Or shall the nation hold fast to the
sheet anchor of tariff protection by
President Taft, the cham
pion of the great protective principle.
and electing him and a Republican
to preserve what has been
built up in the last fifty years. the
magnificent prosperity that makes our
nation the envy of the world.