Show Silk cud he Tariff New York 17The tariff question is i coming to piominently befjru ibo people bat the Tribune rrportor interviewee the secretary of the > ilk Afgoci tion of Aiccnc at his cffice 44 Howard street and asked how tbo silk hcsociiition cloud politically Manufacturing of silk is peculiarly dependent upor the tariff he said and there arc few branches of it manufacture which could be cjotinuei profitably wore the tarifl lowcn d Tariff upon silk goods really dooj not press with narasuip upon any cuss or the community commu-nity Silk goods ale a luxury nnd if the tariff was reduced only the wealthier people would benefit by it Silk good are now cheaper in this country than eve before acdtbis is owing to the great compel in among our own nufactur era I bl eve our silk manufacturers arc fully alive to their interests in this controversy and that there il i a baits knowledge of the whole subject among their working people than ever before in i the history tho business The injury which would be CAUeod bya sudden change wou d be most severely felt hy the working men ard the small manu f cturer < > of whom there is a large number num-ber empoc perhaps a score ot hands ilpiace Their enterprise would have togo to-go to tho wall at once while the larger manufacturers would escape such fatal disaster only by devoting themselves to tbo making of certain lines of goods and < by greatly reducing the rtes of wa le paid to tLeir employees |