The Sauk Centre Herald

HOW PROTECTION WORKS
William Roberts, a woolen manufacturer from Bradford, England, has just completed a large mill in Bergen county, N. J., opposite Passaic. It will employ 150 hands. The mill and a long row of cottages for operatives have been built under his direction, and improved looms and other machines for manufacture of the finest grades of woolen goods are being built. Mr. Roberts formerly did a large business with the United States, all his goods being placed directly on the market here. After the passage of the McKinley bill he arranged to transport his entire plant. Two English factories will be brought here in the same way. Henry Lister & Sons of Yorkshire, England, will immediately remove their extensive textile industry to Jamestown, N. Y. One hundred acres of ground have been bought and the erection of the factory will begin. Over 1200 hands will be employed. The removal is said to be due to the McKinley law, which practically shut out the firm's product from the American markets.
Within the last month representatives of four large woolen houses in England have been in New Jersey looking for land on which to locate their plants. One of these representatives said that the report that several large plants were about to locate in South Jersey was authentic, and that worsted manufacturers in Yorkshire, England, intended to come to this country within a short time. They will build here and will employ American hands, as the tariff has stopped their importations.—[Rochester Clothing Gazette.