The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-10-29
ESTABLISHED 1876

| worth upward of $7.O00,O0O and paid
$3,340,000 In wages.
In former years New Jersey had
third place In glass manufacture. but
the great increase in the industry In
several other states reduced her to
fifth place, although in New Jersey the
shlue of products increased by 81. 356.-
BI3, or 26.G per cent, between 1899 and
1904 and by $510,S93, or re per cent,
between 1904 and 1909.
Go where ou will you find the prod.
ucts of ttfsSsouth Jersey glass factory.
In 1909 tlfS Eere turned out zoos, $50
gross of pScription walls and drug
gists' waresxalone. enough to stock
thousand drug stores
The glass factory recreateG the sec
ton In south Jersey where 1t was 10.
Gated. 1t made prosperity for the fam.
lilies of thousands of wage earners; IL
made trade for the village store; ii
gave employment to the building
trades; 1t started banks and building
and loan associations; it established IL
braries and reading rooms and halls
and churches; it raised the value of
land and greatly increased the taxable
property; it was a moral as well as
material uplift for south Jersey com
munities and filled them with working.
mems home Steads
The average weekly wage of the
New Jersey glassworker and the aver
age wage Of the English giassu orker
who is the highest paid in Europe are
shown in these comparative figures:
New Jersey sls.14
Difference. per cent ............... 107
There hangs a cloud ever all this
prosperity 1t is the Democratic threat
Of free trade and the Wilson candidacy.
The great principle Of protection, like
a magician's wand, conJured up the
great fabric Of the glass industry. The
Democratic party declares in It's plat
form that that principle is unconstitu-
tional, and Governor Wilson is pledged
to destroy it.
Need one picture the effect of the
Democratic policy If carried out? Re-
move the protective duty from glass or
make any considerable reduction In it
and the door viii Immediately be OPEN
ed for Belgian and other foreign glass.
A reduction would mean the bringing
down Of the south Jersey glass work
er's wage to the level of the Euro
wage, one Of the lowest in Europe.
Abolition Of the duty would simply
wipe out the American glass factory,
for then it could in nowise compete
with the EuroE&an
Blessings frightened for the work
ingmen when the Democrats took their
fight from power In 1894, period we'll
remembered by the veteran glass work
ers. That experience made glass work
ers solidly Republican for many years
after. The shadow of another and
worse disaster which now rests upon
all American industry is warning
enough for workmen to take shelter
under the wing of the great conserva-
tor of American industry. the Repub-
ncan party.
President Taft has stood like a stone
wall against every assault upon the
tariff. He is quietly waiting for work
ingmen and manufacturers and for the
millions of others who have been so
signally blessed by the tariff and so
eourageously defended by him to rem
der their verdict upon his record-to
say whether they choose to sustain his
course and maintain their unexampled
prosperity or blindIy commit the gov
eminent to those who would destroy
what the Republican party has built up.