Year: 1877

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DEAR SIR:-In your issue ofthe 7th inst,
l find the following: "The New England
Glass Co., of East Cambridge, Mass,
one of the largest in New England have
voted to wind up the business being un-
able to compete with Southern and West
ern concerns; about 200 men will be left
unemployed" What has become of that
man Samuel Harris, who, in your paper of
February 3, 1877, in speaking of the
Southern portion of our country, said:--
"Her (the South) dependence upon dis
tant markets for almost every necessary
comfort, convenience and supply of life
not extracted from the soil in the shape of
raw material was complete, universal.
helpless and disgraceful. This includes
the Diamond State. Her merchants could
not stir in their business; her planters


could not enter upon the routine of agri-


cultural work; her laborers could scarcely
put food in their mouths; her women
could not even arrange their hair without
testifying to the humiliating dependence. ,
In reply to the above quotation, at that
time through your columns said that so
far as it applied to the Diamond State it
was false i'll every respect, and defied its
W pIOQttCC plOOlS W
| tiate his assertions. At the same time l
! said that if the author of the above quota
ton had any knowledge of the facts when


he referred to the Diamond State, he
know he was stating that which was
false; if he did know it he was knave,


and if he did not know it he was fool:


Now at tbs time made the reply to his


quotation only did so as far as the Dia-


mond State was concerned. I now am


going to bring some proof that my Ian
guage toward him was true, even in re-
gard to the South, and as evidence of the


fact refer you to the action of the New


England Glass Compony.'of East Cam
bridge. Mass. Now what will become


of such blatant Yankee protectionists as


Samuel Harris? l do expect that in your


next number he will be out in two


column article in favor of Congress pass
| ing a law that because the Southern glass
manufacturers can undersell the New


England glass manufacturers that some
protection should be offered to the latter
against the former, that the products of
| the Southern glass manufacturers should
be made to pay into the treasury of the
United States so per cent. upon their
productions so that the New England


manufacturers will be able to compete
with this semi barbarous people of the
Southern States, and that these 200 in
telligent New England citizens shall be
put back to work at the expense of the


consumers of the New England manu-
featured articles, just the same as any
Southerner now does who wears any of
that stuff represented to be cashmere,
manufactured at Catskill out of cotton,


old rags, ijute and every other conceivable


textile fibre except what it is represented


to be-wool--which l have been given to


understand never is allowed to get into


the goods except by mistake; at least


citizen of Philadelphia told me so, and


from my knowledge of the man have no


reason to dispute what he told me. There


is one consolation, our Southern people


have learned to know the difference be-
tween good goods and inferior articles,
and the name "Harris'' in connection


with cassimeres at one time in our coun-
try was all that was required of them.
This was in reference to goods made by
Edward Harris, but they have learned
that the goods that have been in our mar
kets of late called Harris cassimeres are
bogus article, and our people cannot be
induced to look at such trash as we now
find under this title, let alone to purchase
them. We are not at this time the vas
sails of New England that such men as
your correspondent wouldtryts make us
out tobe, although wedohappentolivesouth
Mason & Dixon's line. We have both
brains and muscle, and can and do know
how to use them for our own interest, |
and as we have shut up one of the great
est New England enterprises by fair, hon.
orable competition, shall continue to do
so one by one until We expect the real
men who produce the wealth of our
country, the laboring class, will all be
emigrating to our Southern States, and
leave such men as your Catskill cores
pondent there to starve, and in their last
dying gasp will be heard to say it is all
for want of Protection.


Respectfully, WM. DEAN.