The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-09-17
CHEAP PRICES AND SOUP KITCHENS
Both Might Follow Tariff Tinkering By Democrats
Second article

panics was beneraction. the prin.
cipal industries in New Jersey that
have been built up entirely by tariff
protection. that would have never been
started and would not now be in ex-
istence but for the protective tariff,
may be briefly enumerated.
They are the great pottery interests
of Trenton, the glass industry in South
Jersey, the silk industry at Paterson,
the textile mills In Passaic and New
ark. the trunk and bag industry Of
Newark. the rubber goods Industry of
Newark. Jersey City. Passaic, Trenton
and elsewhere. the cotton thread indus
try of Newark and Kearny, the button
industry Of Newark and the Oranges.
the leather industry of Newark, the
shipbuilding at Camden, the sewing
machine industry at Elizabethport and
Newark. the shoe industry at New
ark. Camden and other cities, the
I structural iron and steel Industry, the
saw and tool industries. the great var
nish industries of Newark and Jersey
City.
The detailed figures for the census of
1910 are not vet made public. They
show a phenomenal increase over the
figures of 1905 for the year 1904. In
the latter year the silk industry EN-
ployed about 10000 hands, and the an
nual product was $43,000.000 and the
annual wages paid about $10,OO0O00
the capital invested being $34, 100000.
In the pottery industry in 1904 about
10000 hands were employed with an
annual product Of about $12,000,O00
and with more than $2OOO0,OO0 Of capt.
tai invested.
The glass industry represented
capital of $6.0O0.OO0 with $500 wage
earners getting about $3,4O0.O00 in
wages annually, the product being
$6.50O,000
! The various textile industries with a
capital of 910O0OOO. employing about
10000 people. paying $44.000,O0O in
wages in 1904 and having product
| of about $100.0O0.000, are the most i'm
portant in the state and employ the
largest number of hands, In the period
between 1899 and 1904 they increased
nearly $10.0O0,O00 in capital, 1880 in
wage earners, SO, 1O3,85S in wages and
$14, 149,557 in product The increase
was even greater between 1904 and
] 1909
In hat manufacturing New Jersey
stands first in the United States. The
product of 1904 was $7OO0,000 an in
crease of nearly 81 per cent in five
years; the wage earners increased 20
per cent and the capital 48 per cent.
So it was of all the thirty-one prin-
cipal Industries of New Jersey be-
tween 1899 and 1904 In that period
the number of establishments in these
thirty one industries increased 1853. or
1873 per cent. The capital increase
was $135, 568,72S. or 1875 per cent, and
the wage earners' compensation in
creased S17.989, 1896 or 30.2 per cent
and the value Of the product increased
| $137. 1S5. 1868. or 41.S per cent. In the
! FIVE years from 1904 to 1909 the CEN
sus figures will show that the increase
in thirty-one principal industries, for
which we are indebted to tariff pro-
- bCSbpOiis nus OCCH even 6lOdLcL eAhA AOA
the previous half decade.
The material growth of New Jersey
since the civil war has been In her In
dustries. and that growth ls as mar
velous as anything In Industrial his
tory. Coincident with it has been the
accumulation of vast wage Garner saw
! ings, the units of which while paying
I millions In interest to the owners,
have been invested in large enter
prises and made the benefcent means
of extending manufacturing facilities
and increasing the opportunities of la
Dor. By the system of tariff rrotec-
ton the workingman. through the in
vestments of his savings, has been
made capitalist and partner in
! great financial enterprises. Through
tariff Protection thousands of home
steads of wage earners dot the New
! Jersey landscape. And by the same
means thousands of wage earners
have risen TO be employers or capital
lists and have attained comparative af-