| Show I 1 CAN GLOVES HOW GLOVE MAKING MAKING I 1 HAS BEEN BUILT UP BY protection thousand people I 1 nt frely do alty lirty upon P this industry A tarr still necessary to protect wee wages and fofe foreign Encroach encroachments ments guard against Ac ut as almost without excer rion tion have been the effects of our protective tariff laws on the industries of the united states there is perhaps no field geld 1 in which their operation tP has been attended st tended with so much success as in the manufacture roof of gloves The american dove glove industry the centers of which are the prosperous rous towns of johnstown and versTille in fulton county N Y is 13 emphatically the product of the american protective system fostered by it by it and under present by it alone en enabled abbea to orist exis t c conditions krubit true it I 1 that gloves were made in this country before adequate protection was extended to the industry by the tariff of ig cut but in those days before the year 1862 the large establishments which pow I 1 line inal the streets of johnstown and clovers olover sIlle ille then towns of from 2000 to inhabitants did not exist glove making wa w is of comparatively small im port por tanco auve and real competition with the proda t cf F european labor was not of it was only in 1802 and under the stimulus of the high protective auti antus imposed on foreign gloves by the act cased in that year that glove making took tk t the position which it occupies at prent pr ent as an important and american industry an industry tb alit a t gives employment to a whole county ou nty furnishes a good lucrative market to farmers for miles around and directly or indirectly supports from to JO joao people since those protective duties were imposed american fachorn have become the most important sources of supply for the home lo market arket and have turned out a product not only of a continually improving quality hut but at gradually falling prices until nw the american glove is just as handsome and more substantial than the foreign article and can bo be bought at a lower price than ever before here however we apprehend that the game same old free trade question may bo be asked if the american industry is in aluch sn b a t thriving condition what need its it of protect tion ion it is because of tha the higher mages wages paid the american workingman wages which enable him to own bis his own home and live in comfort but which under free trade would inevitably have h ive to come down to the foreign level what that level is and the difference in manner of living which it eu tails is by the following table giving the comparative wages paid in eur ih and in in the united states which has bas h hi a furnished us by one who hits enoi althin in this country and abroad this thi i ible compares the wages of table cut t r workingmen of a high grade of kill hut hot the difference between the rates I 1 is the same proportionately in all bran branches clies of work whether more or less okill is w required WAGES OF TABLE CUTTERS europe unit united ed average stat states I 1 ier ler doz dor per doz 2 button glows 1044 1 sa 4 bawa o 0 1 41 6 but on gl laves 1 70 10 1 68 8 button galt ca PO I 1 va 03 1 11 ll antion aloyes BO 90 12 bi boliou it on t cloves nl irest oves I rest I 1 00 X 14 bur butt tj cloves gloves 2 ca H 11 10 but ton elous gloves it 11 1 wn gloves 3 1 I 1 i I 1 on n gloves 1 40 i 1 n gloves I 1 LO t 0 bi I 1 i u glo ulrica I 1 CO U therefore that the wages of ann aw n i an workingmen are on the aver n ai i i 0 percent higher than those paid tr tb sume work in europe the effect ur th 0 o e blither wages have on the charac tr t r 4 f the laboring people is shown by thi th f r t that nowhere in tho the world are the N v and working women lari intelligent or do they live more comfortably and save more thanin these vry towns of gloversville Glove Glovers raville ville and johnstown and the places around about the louira i spatially ally areas are as refined nd happy lu king as can bo be found anywhere tin thi y div is s as well as the wives of their ry rs and in their homes are to be he voi fi L 11 iiii iiii if and furniture such as the ini lo 10 1 liala eilf stat i tined ved working workingmen men of free II 11 td ibid have ilver even dreamed of f in n every side indeed there are c e ol ii i h i i of the fact that so far as jim ji lin iown and Glovers gloversville ville are con arii ii d 1 the cardinal maxim which is ob ta bismil N li ay employers ia is to pay a fair d i v acs ages for a fair days work in tt bt all UK t are not rare of a skilled work ill iii having saved a few hundred dollard d i iii 4 setting up in business for himi himo isi 0 if fur br I 1 0 o extensive plant or great capi t III I 1 i i ro quiren and becoming a er m although ii mall manufacturer 11 in ft co much of the bus business bess in fulton cuu i is carried on by these small man inan ufa i un m so that it is essentially an enli iry that is distributed among mui no combination exists but a li hi 1 11 i hy competition between the various large and small has re lii d 1 and is today gradually reducing an anns in this fact we find another reason wl v ith free trade tho the arric american i rican iu in dm try would bo be destroyed and why lit i n fore protection is necessary tho the fc t cum competitor of the american V tan is tho the great british cor roi rii tum of dent alcroft co the capital of which is almost as great as the capital invested in the whole american I 1 this corporation does not bvm i filloy english workingmen but 11 hi iii A of its work ilone done in italy and arid i a i atries re labor is cheaper ask no liin it nt onh aas the advantage of barong til roii but of cheap labor umi 1 d it is s th evide evident nt that in a it aia t between tx tween I 1 n L nid mid our manefa cr if tn industry will lost fl I 1 lile li le or even according to a hii ii i u ii manufacturer a 20 per cent golu il n in the present tariff would ch tiiu i our industry to dent al aft ft i i co 0 and anal perhaps some few other f fan 11 ak w alio lio would not hesitate to rai pill pi i it pleased them all I 1 alln in i prevented vented by our present prot protects t and therefore ther eforo by that tariff ti 13 buur our industry indu atry cna cria bletl bleil to live |
