Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1882 — KNIT GOODS. [ARTICLE]

KNIT GOODS.

The knit goods people are still clamor' ing for “more protection,” although they admit that they produce $70,000,000 worth of these goods with a capital ot s4o,ooo,ooo,|and haye ready sale. They also work on a shoddy basis very extensively. Here is a little fact about this protected and want-to-be-protected-some-more interest worth reading from the Boston Herald: "A gentleman relates a curious little incident which took place a few mouths ago in one of the leading hosiery and knit-goods establishments in Boston. Mr. Bosson can have the name to use before the Senate if he desires. The proprietors of tbe store were expatiating on the advantage and blessing the knit-goods makers have been to the country; how a man would be clothed in woolen flannels from his feet to his neck for sl. This assertion was proved by showing the goods, the common blue or mixed underflaimels so much worn by people of moderate means within the oast half dozen years. ‘We call them all wool,’ remarked the proprietor. “‘All wool?’ queried the gentleman incredulously. “ ‘That’s whnt we call them. Feel ot them. Don’t they feel like wool?’ ” The gentleman owned that they did feel woolish, but, still incredulous, put the following direct question: “ ‘Really, how much W’ool do such goods contain?’ “ ‘For your own information,’ answered the proprietor, *3O per cent.’ “Enormous quantities of these goods haye beeQ turned out within the past six years, because they are cheap and warm, but they have been sold as ‘all wool’ in the retail trade instead of on their merits. The knit-goods people ought not to be surprised if tbe Government should refuse to grant them protection on such goods against foreign goods made ot free wool. They should not feel chagrin if when the pinch comes, and they ask the public, through the people’s servant, the Government, for protection of their interests against gooes likely to be more free from adulteration because made in countries where the raw material is not assessed 50 per cent., more or less, for the sake of protection—ts the people question the genuiness |of the goods they haye been wearing under protection.”