The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24
ENLARGEMENT NECESSARY
More Doing In Cutlery Business
Than Ever Before-Foreiun
Competition, Even With Re-
duced Tariff, Is Not Affect
ing Any Of The Live Wire
Plants

In a letter TO the New York Herald. |
which the Herald presented conspic- |
housiy III It's Friday issue, Gordon
Mory, of the firm Of Mory G. Thorn.
New York dealers in hardware and |
perfumes. wrote:
IF all the papers in the countr
were like the New York Herald there
would be very few people unem-
ployed. We represent about seven
different factories. EVERY FAC
TORY is RUNNING OVERTIME,
AND EACH FACTORY Is FROM
THREE WEEKS TO NINETY DAYS
BEHIND ON DELIVERIES TO THE
CUSTOMERS.
Il am quoting now part Of q letter
which ! received today from one of
our factories: VIZ HAVE A HARD
TIME TO KEEP UP WITH THE
SALES AT PRESENT. WE MUST
enlarge HI PLANT AGAIN TO
FAKE CARE OF THE BUSINESS
This factory is located in st. Paul,
and it expresses the condition in each
factory we represent. j am writing
40 YOU so a. to confirm the opinion /
expressed through the New York
'ierald about a year & regarding
the tariff situation.
a friend Of mine in the manufac-
tured woollen goods business, pre-
viouS to the revision of the wool
schedule, made a trip to Europe, TAX
ing with him samples of American
made goods TO see il the manufac-
rurerS of Europe could match these
fabrics. After q three months tour
of All the wool manufacturing cen
tres in foreign lands my friend re-
turned TO America. The manufacture
"rs Of Europe could not duplicate d
piece of this cloth. These goods are
manufactured in Connecticut, MasSa-
"huSetts and New York State. The
reason the foreign manufacturers
could not duplicate the material was
"n account of ths improved methods
and machinery vnich my friend has
in his several plants.
IN the cutlery business we were q
little scared for u while, but it was
only q nightmare, and WE ARE Do
ING MORE BUSINESS THAN EVER
BEFORE IN CUTLERY. The Amer.
lean manufacturers are turning GU
articles superior to any other goods
so that foreign competition, even will
The reduced tariff, is not affecting an!
"f the live wire plants"
accompanying this letter, the Her
aid carries an article showing tina
reviVins industry is rapidly absorbing
the army Of the unemployed' il
New York. In this article the Her
aid quotes SEVERN Peterson. of tn
State Department Of Agriculture, ii
ma ~ Va tItC i1iN $1,000
Bureau, at No. II Pearl street, New
York, as saying that conditions hav
improved so much hat he doubt
very much if there is an able-bodieG
capable workman In New York Cit
who is really unable to find a job.
A ho~use-tO-house census made b
the police shows, the Herald say:
that there is no greater nunlbe G
people out OF work in New York no'
Than is usual every winter, and thu
conditions are improving all the TIM
The Enemies Of Business COnfidenc'
Editorially, in the same issue, IN
!Ierald says:
w cannot resist the impulse
revert to the topic of non-empIoymeI
IN this city to which attention was e.
p~ecially called in the Herald yeste,
day morning. The calamity how
erS' and the promoters Of profession
.nendicancy in University Settlement
and, alas. in some of our churche
have put forth day by day as a swe
morsel the statement that there a
325,000 persons in this city who ca
not obtain employment. The inquire
as corrected by the police force, sho
that the total number Of idle persol
Who cannot obtain employment
who have not obtained employment
5000.
FOR many weeks the figures 81!
900 have gone the round of the pre-:
the pulpit and the platform. \
they constitute a libel not only up.
the city Of New York but upon t
United States. The publication
these false and misleading figures
at once a blow to prosperity n
moose for public ~on6dence.
What encouragement these II
nres. until yesterday uncontradictt
have brought to hundreds OF tho
sands of business men! How ma
enterprises have been retarded :.
the display Of this lie regarding ID