The Penn's Grove record., 1912-10-25
The Tariff On Glass.

The Woodbury. Constitution SAYS:
"The New Jersey glass industry pro-
ducestOyer seven million dollars wJrth
of bottles, window panes, etc., each
year and half of t lis goes TO the work
men employed. Without protection
there could be no glassmaking in New
Jea,ey, because European glass could
be sold here for less than the local cost
of production"
LII paying half the value OF the pro-
duct to labor no more is being paid
ehan what is customary i'll other indus
tries. The statement that glass could
not be made in New Jers>y without a
high protective tariff is not proven by
history.
Germans had a glass factory at
Freasburg, Salem county, in !74o.
Glass was made at Salem i'll zoo:
Window glass was made at Malaga Ill
1850. That was before there was a
United States. That was when the
industry was taxe.i by England and
protection was not thought of, not even
a tariff for revenue with incidental pro.
tectiOn was imposed.
Glass works were in operation at
Gl ssboro in 1910; at Hammonton and
Clementon, in 1920 aid at Jackson i'll
1929. That was before a high lrotec
tive tariff like the present was ever
thought of. About % per cent rate
was then considered high.
In 1868 there were II glassworks i'll
New Jersey with 20 fur In 1880
New Jersey ranked first i'll green glass
ware and second in hollow ware.
1t will be seen that the infant indus
try OF glass making i'll This country is
l64 years old. ror the first forty years
of lis existence a tariff was unknown.
AS The infant grew it needed a small
tariff of 25 per cent. Now that the
infant has grown into a seven million
dollar big baby it needs from 40 to 60
per cent tariff protection OF more.
Poor intanti We must now pay a
so per cent fine on sunshine which
comes thru glass into our houses is a
gift to support this 164-year old infant.
The older and bigger it grows the more
governmental Gale it needs.
A former Quinton glassblower once
said that unuel Cleveland his wages
were reduced. Well, under Roosevelt
the glass trust IA formed. The own
ers OF the Quinton fastOry got stock III
the Trust and continue to draw dlvl
deeds. The factory Was closed and the
QuintOn glas-bloWerS got no wages
under the present Trust monopoly aud
they had 10 leave tue town. The oWu-
els retired with about u million dOllais.
What did the QulntOn glassblowels
retire with?
The Re. ublican candidate for the
Assembly i'll Salem county,. a be%neficl-
airy, CAN tell htW the tariff anu tile
GLASS trust has protected Tue worke $
GU OF all wages and their homes.
But if the tariff is reduced on sun
slime i'll your homes The toreign labor
goblin Will get you. Our foreiatherS
WHO made glass more than a hundred
Years ago never feared such COLLINS.
There are 0 her industries besides
the manufacturing OF glass which start.
e III this country before there even Was
d taltf and now claim their very exist,
depends upon all eXhCrLi.ant laliff.
Most OF them are organized lntO Il mo-
nUpOlistic trust winch lave raised pIIces
beyUnI tile Leeds OF paying dividends
oil actual capital invested, yet many
think that They are infant industries
Which need protection.
In speaking of Trusts, Moody mag
azlne, the organ Ot The International
Investors, i'll September number states:
"While no exact figures on the SUBJ
ject are ~obtainable, II is reliably esti-
mated than . more Than % per CEN
OF The eight billions OF capita izatiOn
represents original Investment. The
remaining IS per cent is what Is com
monty called water, but which is more
definitely deScliUed as the capitalization
OF earning power. Thus it is apparent
that i'll tile case of these trusts which
have been built up chiefly ON tariff
benefits, a large part of The net protits
shown, and i'll sunle cases, Two thirds or
three-tourths OF the profits, are the
dlrecs result of the protective legisla-
ton they lave received"