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Show V V l WIPING OUT AN INDUSTRY There nrj 23,000 persons In Glovorsvlllo and Johnstown employed lu tho manufacture of gloves This Industry is absolutely dependent upon a protective pro-tective tariff. Tho Payne law duties fall to prevent pre-vent the Importation of 12,000,000 pairs of gloves though it Is fixed at ?3.S0 per dozen. These are tho expensive grades, requiring so much lnbor that even $3.80 per dozen will not pny the differences In wages In this country nnd Franco. Tho manu fncturers of gloves aro Republicans, Democrats and Progressives. Lucius N. Llttaurcr, the leading manufacturer of tho country, Is ft Progressive The employes of tho glove factories are Republicans. Democrats, Progressives, Socialists and Prohibition Ists. In November Fulton county gnvo Wilson 2,5,10 votes, Tnft 3,771 and Roosevelt 2,173 Upon tho question of protection tho glove makers ore unanimous. They know thnt their employers hnve made money under protection, that tho business has greatly Increased and they know that they never mndo so much money themso.ves. Regardless of politics, they oppose tho Wilson bill ns a blow at their Industry. They believe that It will wlpo out American glove making. Is President Wilson better bet-ter Informed on thlB business than tho men engaged en-gaged In It? Watcrtown, N. Y., Standard. |
