Show I 1 I 1 I 1 0 1 dt A bat 11 ON 1 T I 1 ill a letter from florenice Fl orelice fl 0 REFUSES I 1 and wants it understood that he will HAVE SO rumination ile think that his running for office would N TOO MUS and that he would be utterly unable to withstand the sary western asad press to anz blain besas it bonic feb 25 tomorrows to morrows world will contain a three column in vi ith blaine cabled from flor ence Blaino distinctly asserted that unter no circumstances whatever would lie allow his name to be used in connection the next presidential nomination ile insists on the sin eerily of his N withdrawal and asserts that lie had made up its mind thereto long ago he considers first that ally man whose nama has been asso c with defeat in a presidential campaign owes it to his party not to allow li linsell to be noal bated aj d 01 ily is unequal W jarug the fatigue wor ry and excitement of an canvass all the more As lie u feel himself bound to work as hard as on the previous occasion mrs blaine and other members odthe most emphatic in their sp of his withdrawal which Is definitive and neither hasty nor recent in ito doc aion blaine will not re turn from europa until june and until after the republican conven tion lie die clines to express himself ont he subject of the republican candidates in the field but asserts he did not retire in favor of any particular one of them ile Is convinced of a republican victory basing his conviction vic tion in particular on the tariff question lr biano said in con fusion you have no idea what reila it is to me to think I 1 am now out of the canvass and that vi hen I 1 colue back to now york in he summer 1 shall not come back to face and to enter into the turmoil of a political canvass I 1 can now come back quietly after the convention has decided the result and enjoy my life in my own way free I 1 hope from further or WOOLEN GOODS Is it Pos aills to manufacture neita aa STA 1 was present at the meeting of the members of the chamber of commerce the other week when chairman griffin presented a report of the committee on lures submitting a proposal for tile purchase of the ogden woolen mills notwithstanding I 1 was aware that these mills have been idle for some years puff lite announce mel t that L farr sons were w IIII 1111 in g to isell out was one I 1 was not altogether prepared to learn in august last when I 1 had the b onor of contributing to the columns of the herald a fow articles on the subject of cooper co oper allye I 1 had intended to adv oca to throng it the press the par chasing of the woolen mills and the promotion of a joint stock co concern to ran them but circumstances arose which prevented pre rented my pursuing the waiter then there fore L need birday say that the pro dosal of the chamber ai commerce committee to alke steps to bring into existence such an enterprise was received by me with more since the meeting referred to above I 1 have given the subject earnest consideration and have gone to the trouble few facts and manufacture of woolen goods ia the United states which cannot fail to interest your ea dersin chamber committee especially the figures are compiled from the united ettes tenth census reports the number of woolen mills in the united states is 1990 and the aggregate capital employed pd Is and the value of the products on nally 2 mounts to 00 the materials used la this enormous pro are at and teetotal the total wages paid daring the year amounts to it will at once be seen by those figures that the surplus tulue of the products after the cost of materials aad wages in which Is included the placing of the goods on the market 14 in this gigantic bust bess uess there are employed males over 16 years of age females over 15 baars boars of age and chil dron and youths a total of men boulin and children all told without going late detail at this to the differences if there are any in the cast of manufacturing fac turing these in the east as against the west it will be fair to as aume eume that there would be no differ ances as the small extra sum paid in wages is more than counterbalanced by the saving ana we and that with a capital of paid up the amount I 1 believe mentioned apo report of the committee on manufactures of course the capacity of our equal to the average tit the eatie our pro action would be wortle about per annum which would realize a profit of about or over 03 poil 1 cont an the capital gnp post ag tho mill mato ft fall city and tha pro samra 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 doubtless be realized it v give employment to 80 hands the year round the greater of A horn would bo malea over 16 years of itie and the wages paid on lite eastek oasis would be 1 it will be urged that this only provides or at salary of on the average first blush this may appear cor yee t but letus see what the actual wages paid are W on sorters receive from 1172 to day wool tenders or calders carders car ders from 70 cents to 1 0 spinners per day from 03 cents to 11 per day weavers from 07 cents to per day it will be seen from the abovici ahalt th 0 wages paid to A man Is aco the highest the figures of 53 ce ts and upwards being for chil diett s nd foluen th rough the courtesy of A mr enoch farr the managing partner la the firm of L farr sons the present proprietors of the ogden woolen willa I 1 am enabled to give the following statistics as to the wages paid A here woolen sorters are paid an average of per day wool tenders or calders carders car ders about 11 ir day spinners about 12 per day lors 75 cents a day from tj to 1150 it will be seen from the abo v e that th ere Is but very little dille rence between tile aggregate wages paid here and in the east and I 1 think all baying a knowledge of the subject ill agree that the saying in ire ight botta on the raw wool and on the eoanu fractured goods will more than counter balance the extra cost of pr I 1 as it sauld not be forgotten that we are in fi levery heart of the country where the raw wool Is grown and there can be no question that we can woollen in this ma arket in competition mith eastern firm pay higher wages and make more money I 1 do not pretend to know beaber the valuation placed upon the plant and buildings of the ogden n mills by their owners viz Is reasonable or whether it would be advisable to buy their biant in preference to adopting t b 0 most modern machinery cheso are questions chich can only be satis fac dorily determined byan expert exam nation of the pro mims but that the operation of A first class mill in ogden would be successful I 1 think can be no question but my object in laying before your readers thes 9 figures to not merely to advocate the establishment of a woolen mill industry I 1 have some thing more in and to express it briefly I 1 have a desire to side tile people of this county be inter este d that the of profit will crue to themselves and not to outside capitalists we are all doubtless willing to say amen to this a antl ment but Is its accomplishment practicable pon 0 nally I 1 am conal dent of nothing so much as of tag feasibility feas ability of a proposal to organize a a joint stock corpany with a capital of say with paid up the shareholders of which will be composed cof all classes of citizens in the county by placing the shares at a coln para live trifila figure that none could po M ably be de barred from su scribing at least one share of stock in other words I 1 w 0 uld be in fabor of asking the COOP CO OP oration of the entire county in the carrying but of this woolen mill enterprise as there in no doubt properly managed it would be worth to the county in profit and wages it must not be forgotten that if ahe corn pliny by non that te major part of the benefits derivable from it must be lost to us as it will be seen by reference to the amounts mentioned as the iva wages paid and profit realized that there are over of profit in excess of I 1 take the ground air chaa it is just as make more profit than they pay wages that are adapted to co enand should be conducted by the masses of the people and not by exclusive corporations as the ra y ment of dead capita pora than live labor is wrong in principal in connection with this matter I 1 desire to enote from one of my articles published originally in the morning herau of 4 1887 after giving detail figures in tabulated form relative to the twenty tb yes in destries dus tries referred to I 1 make the follow ing comment the foregoing figures show that in these 23 Ind astrie 11 the not value of the productions after paying expenses and wages amounts to the large sum of or that the comparative few men of caal tat representing the shareholders sharp holders of the companies earn nearly 34 per cent more than the iam laborers who produce the goods the following figures will aiple corroborate my that capital re delves too high and labor too low a rate of in 1880 the average number of hands employed in the and manufacturing indus tries in the united states was 2738 SOS the total amount of wages paid during that year was 80 8 i 0 while thi of the pra the total cost of wages and materials was ex acely more than ahe total amount of aws paid to tile army of woi kers 1 I 1 it cannot be expected expect ad that capital late will care to divide a portion of the profits at their enterprise with th 0 workpeople work people and this being so I 1 would urge lite formation of a public company with shares at say 5 that the chamber of Com take tile initiative but invite the entire adult population of the county to join in alie tl by subscribing far stock that all maybe benefited and that the work may receive their lost proportion of tho profits its well as for their ibor 1110 MAN ow feb IM I 1 1 W 1 I 1 e I 1 I 1 1 11 1 I 1 4 r r f I 1 W iyoki L I 1 11 |