A PROTECT1VE TARIFF. Story of the Manufacture of Thread in America.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 232, 10 December 1887, Page 12

A PROTECTIVE TARIFF. Story of the Manufacture of Thread in America.

Thk Trenton (N. J.) cone^pondcnt of the New York " Tribune "' writes :— A story of the Protective Tariff may yet be wi.tten with Newark a-, the boene. It would begin about a score of years, ago, when the Coates family of Scotland had established their thread works in Rhode Island, and were rapidly absorbing the Amciican business. In Scotland they had intimate fiiends by the name of Clark, who were their tierce rivals in business. The Chirks found themselves closed from the American trade by a Yankee device for the encouragement of American industry. So they determined to come into the land which their rivals threatened to occupy to the exclusion of all others, and they selected a suburban portion of Newark. There they erected a factory of con&ideiable size and began the making of threads. Two members of the firm came with the business and made Newark their home. Some hundreds of working; people were brought with them, and in a little while small houses were built in the vicinity of the factoiy, then larger ones, and with the thread workers came bakers and butchers and grocers, and exceedingly few saloons, And the bakers and butchers and groceis built themselves houses, and other persons liked their company and built near them. The hundreds of dwellings became thousands, and the owners of the thread works built mansions, thesuporlntendents built handsome cityresidences, and the boom for the Eighth ward of Newark was the principal topic of real estate men and the fortune of many who had owned farms thereabouts. Then another thread company saw there was money to be made, and naturally sought the" vicinity where the population had been educated in the trade, as ib were, and where a labour market had been formed. And soon after still another company came, and each built a great factory, and competition for labour and in the making of good and cheap thread was established, and the prices of labour were kept well up and the price of thread was kept well down, and Southern merchants found that there were new customers for the best of their cotton in the market. With each factory more dwellings went up and more butchers and bakers and grocers found trade, while the oiiginal factory doubled and trebled in size and in 'the number of hands employed. Later a linen bread company saw tho advantage of the labour market, and smaller industries followed. The Scotch are a clannish people, and when a great oilcloth and linoleum maker in Scotland arranged with a big firm of New York dry goods men to start an American factory, he, too, preferred the Scotch colony in and about Newark, and enormous works are rising daily, wherein 500 men, supporting 1,500 persons, at least, will soon be employed. \Vith this comes the announcement that the Clark Company is about to double its capacity by the erection of more mills. These loaders in industry were foreigners, but they are so no longer. They are American citizens and interested in American enterprise, and what protectionists they are !

Lawyer— Your uncle makes you his sole heir, but the will stipulates that the sum of £20 must be buried with him. Heir (feelingly)— The old man was eccentric, bub his wishes musG be respected, of course. I'll write a cheque for the amount. New Yorker : -What fresh air you have out here. It's co much fresher than in New York. Farmer : Jess so ! That's jeet what I was saying to my old woman. Why ain't all these big cities built out in the country ? MnnkincVs a kicker, 'tis great nature's law*. The human beings "shall bo hard to please ; Th c man who six months since bespoke a '. aw Is now kept busy praying for a freeze.