‘A FALSE CLAIM. UTTER FAILURE OF THE ATTEMPT TO DIS- COVER A SINGLE MAN WHOSE WAGES HAVE BEEN RAISED BY THE M'KIN- LEY BILL. Congressman Warner has been making most persistent search for the man whose wages have been increased by the operation of the McKinley Tariff law. In a speech in the House just prior to adjournment he declared that the museum men were looking for just this individual as a most rare and precious curiosity, whereupon the American Economist, the official organ of the Pro- tective Tarifl League, produced a list of twenty-eight instances in which it was claimed that wages had been raised in consequence of the operation of McKinley law. Each individual case cited has been carefully investigated, and the result affords but little hope or comfort for the museum men. whose wages have been raised is still un- discovered. The first claim is that work men in the Haskell & Barker Car Company works in Michigan City, Ind., had obtained an advance of five per cent. the facts: In October, 1888, the of iron-moulders were reduced twenty- wages five cents a day. the wages of all others reduced twelve and one-half cents a day. May, 1590, more than a year later, all employes, iron-moulders included, secured an twelve and one- half cents a day, making the wages just fore the reduction, the moulders, whose were f ol advance were be ose of what they except th wares were twelve and one-half cents All this happened, both the re. duction and the restoration, before the lariff act went int thas the restoratio yd by the of ley y effect. manifest yAUCHE @s a resu there was ar fully app¢ by the strike t in any wa) due to the ope=ation of the McKinley Tariff act. The girls now earn about $4 a week, Very few earn 27. The Camden Woolen Company, ol Camden, Me., was said to have raised wages ten per cent. The company had four lo heavy work than the other and picks to the inch. wr work done or ese | ns. All the band 1 hey h mi does n i from the firm more 3 o slight raise [ other waged e the | started. age rage from 79 cents t The i Company, of Wal wages t e Rider Engine 1 X:, has raised per cent., seems to be whol ‘en 1 Hungarians, . and Russians, ex- Germans, had their vd i ne last from $1 and $1.50 to 90 cents and 81 a day. There is hardly a mill in the State where *‘pro- tection American workman" is than it is in the Haw- of the per ceat, have advanced . in Alfred Dolge's fac. jo, N. ¥. was a slight basis of IAL DAS pays exceptionally low wages, $1.37 to 81.50 a day for hard labor, much of which is skilled, and this makes it essential for the firm to hold out some inducement to persuade the men {0 remain in the mill. This it does by promising to increase annually the wages of such of its employes as have been conspicuously faithful during the year. Between forty and fifty have received this advance in 1891. No one has received anyadvance this year. This gysiem of raising wages was adopted by this firm | before the McKinley bill was thought of. It is abso utely untrue that any advance in this mill is the result of that law, There is a little planing and sorting mill in Sault Ste, Marie, Mich., which is owned by the ‘'Lake Superior Lumber Company,” and which employs from fif. teen tp twenty hands three or four days in the week. There was a claim set up that this mill had increased wages fifteen pes cent, This is simply false. There has been no advance of wages in the estab. lishment, Equally false is the report that there has been an advance of twenty-five per Th : Oils Is mg cent. in the wages paid in the factory of | J.C. Pass, fn Roxboro. N. C. In the first place Mr. Pass has no factory what. ever. He is, however, a part owner ina grist and saw mill run by water-power about two miles from Roxboro, and in which only three men are employed. There has been no increase of wages there, Prices aie a8 ow as tuey ever have been, To what an extremity has the cause of protection sunk when such instances as these are eited to show how the MeKin. ley law has reited the wages and in. creased the prosperity of the American workman! Here is a case that is still worse, It was claimed with a great flourish of trumpets that H. L. Chap. man, of White Pigeon, Mich., had voluntarily increased the wages in bis factory fifteen per cent. because of a wi and a desire on his part that his workingmen should share in a pros. the | | downward, Now these are | The following spring | In | perity that was coming to him in bound. less measure as a result of tha beneficent workings of the McKinley Tariff law, Mr. Chapman manufactures a patent forge and employs just two men besides himself. One is a machinist and the other is a moulder. The machinist is about twenty-one years old, He went to Mr. Chapman and offered to work for twenty-five cents a day and his offer was accepted, After a while Mr, Chapman found that he was worth more and so advanced his wages to fifty cents a day. The moulder was good for nothing so he discharged him and hired another and better man, The most he paid the old hand was $1.25 a day. Another wildly absurd claim was that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- pany had increased wages twenty per cent, in its shops at Grafton, W. Va. Whoever first made this claim must have been the victim of a practical joke. The wages of the Baltimore and ployes there have constantly During the last year been thrown out dreds of hands have The man | of employment, and many have been compelled to leave Grafton for other places insearch of work. The foundry, which employed seventy-five men, has been closed completely, The force of machinists has been greatly reduced, the carpenter shops have been torn down, and nearly all the large number of cer. penters formerly employed have been discharged. Those who have been re- tained have had their wages reduced from $2.25 a day to $1.75, The ral- road hands are compelled now to work fourteen hours a day instead of twelve before they get any extra pay, and tho employed who formerly worked hours a day are eight now and only perm are paid according The m He Cases. inhabit and there there, N J have | wages hav ) withi United State he McKinley became a law, but the claim has made and repeated that no well-s ticated case had yet n increased in consequence ya of that law, r State and in well. wages had bee of the operati over the land, in eve nigh every county, there bas arisen wages have o protected industry. The intry are taxed wages of Am Ww ACS while all Case re. been be increased, have They have in many cases been reduced. What then becomes of the money which the American peo- : to the manufact t rk Worl - on —— “Out of Their Own Months.’ \ ) passage y bill to June 30th, 1531, nts a ton, homp and juts 3 wraage Srust, th, 1 cent a yard, Common window-zlass, 1 cent a pound. Carpets, 55 cents a yard, From 1580 to June 30th, 1891, cotton loths advanced 2 a yard; carpets, rd; pig iron, $5.23 a ton, aad nts a pound. Accepting for the pre argument the statement of the Treasury Depart. find that the farmors are n McK g the period o cents g sent 1 under ved durin tariff, comm receiving 80 mu the act as they the Walker POC abused LY nists as ‘free-trade 1860 the farmers re. to BY cents a bushel for un; in 1801 received 57 In the former period they re- cents to $1.66 a bushel in 1801 tbe price was they ceived from 98 for their wheat; 93 ex The fact is that all nocessaries of lile have increased in price since the Me- t, while the prices of farm have decreased since that ter. trade em.” In other words, the fara ts less for bis wheat and pays more for his wife's calico dress, This is shown by the official figures of a Republiean Administration, —New York World, nts, Kinley ac products rible **free ier ge Taxing Other People. The Hon. William McKinley, in his | essay upon (axation at Council Bluffs, says: ‘We will raise the £400,000,000 necessary for the support of our Govern ment, not by taxing ourselves, but by taxing the products of other people, seoking a market in the United States, We don't believe in taxing ourselves as long as we can find somebody else to tax.” If this propemition is true the gentle. man must be very obtuse, or he would recoil in horror at the inherent meanness of the thing to be done, to say nothing of the violation of every principle of morality embodied in the idea, Hero is the wealthiest and most pros perous Nation upon the face of the globe represented by McKinley as being too mean, too stingy, too unprincipled to pay for the support of its own Govern. ment, Hore is the country where wages aro the highest, where working men all have pianos in their houses and carpets on their floors, and where nature has placed wealth enough for the support of lation, 0 a hundred times the frsvaat Togs represented by Ohio em~ | tended bun- | | seems to promote discontent, does not stand still; it is steadily advane- been reported where | | ern cities at ence. unpatriotic as not to be willing to sup. port its own Government, but desirous of shifting the burden upon the poor, downtrodden producers of the wornout and bankrupt Nations of foreign coun- tries, If he had said, “I (Major McKinley) don’t believe in paying any taxes so long as I can force anybody else to pay my taxes,” he would have been hissed from the platform as preaching immorality and theft, Can the Nation do with honor what would be robbery in the individual? The estential iniquity of our present svstem of taxation is that it deadens the moral sense of the whole people. Of what use is it for teachers of righteous. ness to proclaim ‘Thou shalt not steal” | as an essentia] morality, when Governors are stumping the country crying out and sisting upon the equity of this mighty Nation robbing the people of foreign countries to pay the expenses of sup. porting our Government. —George V, Wells. ant —e “When the Cat's Away the Rats Will Play.” In an editorial on the “Unrest of the World,” the New York Tribune says: “Social unrest is one of the most remark. able phenomena of the modern world. Civilization while it multiplies industrial employment and educates the workers The world ro— ing on the lines of popular education, the greatest good of the greatest num. ber and government by and for the people instead of by and for privileged classes.” Does the Or was one 10W Are pockets of . was the irers — - is Robbery. pe the campaign fund A Hileh Somewhere. in prices of steel billets, structural steel and many other kinds of iron and steel goods, These two tectionist author. tter unde rstanding is one talking theory ther giving facts? nd havo Al ities sh with each other--or and Loe e—————— Trae dayof the “Hello” girl is most past: In other words, It Is that the change is a practical sw automatic telephone and ; mechanism is to take the place of of young women at tel quarters. The machine scribed and fllustrated in ern Electrician, and the about to put it in operation In East. This threatened wholesale displacement of a body of young women who have gone Lh nh, ingenious electrica ut thousands phone head is fully de the Wost. AbD | to the trouble of undergoing a course | | of special training, and have been for! | years the faithful workers Industry which is also a monopoly, is a very serious thing, and unless liv. | ing becomes rapidly cheaper with the | | Increase of the machines that ouss men and women, some solution will have to be found to the question, *What are you going to do about it?” Cn —— Ix the struggle of life the hero and | the coward, the conquerer and con- quered, need sympathy equally. Often the mind which upholds others needs itself to be upheld; the honest heart which seems so bold and true is fainting from secret sorrow, dying from some little wound which sympathy could stanch, the pain of which it could alleviate. “I'v going to get a hair cut ths afternoon.” “You'd better get sev. eral.” Several hair cuts?” “No; sev- eral hairs cut. "Puck. inventor isl large | been enacted in all | prot ction | to the spread of in a great | EE GOOD JUDGMENT, A rminy or a drouthy spell will alarm | some men and drive away their good judgment, and they will plant or sow or harvest before the proper time. Grain cut too early may mold. Hay cut too carly is less in quantity. Ground piowed too wet is cloddy, the animal weaned or bred Agriculturist, too early is stunted. American PREPARING LAND WHEAT. After plowing tho hly it is important to h FOR ntended to b sown to fall at it be prepared in The inches as Loo yc 1 48 possible, 801 to the should OniyY Cut suits, in scribed means for preventir number and varietios of These have ya farmers, and the losses by them far surpass the tota have gullered by animal diseases. And ye! there has been for years a special department of the Agricultural Bureau for the suppression of diseases among animals, Laws Lave the States for the of stock from disease spread by carcless persons But nothing has been done in regard insects from of a pe st thoughtless who breed myriads of the pests in their fields or gardens, and permit them soatter abroad without eompunction, The in. jury done ix enormous, and unless some Ase In pernicious insects, become an intolerable burden up ¢ which been live noxious farm to farm in the manner Dy and end ouraged y neighbors, lence, and CAIreieoAs to effective remedy is applied very soon the | burden will become too heavy to be horne. Just now the striped potato beetle may be scen leaving tho early potato fields where the crop has been gathered and swarming over the roads and fences to the fields which have been cleared already of repeated swarms of the pests at large expense, And now the stock is recewed by persons who have themselves taken but very inadequate pains to de. stroy the insects on the'r own flelds and now are stocking fields of their neigh- bors. This is a crime, and with other related offenses culls for effective remedy by law. There is a cortalu remedy for thes: | are soiled when collected. pests and a cheap one, This is | preparations which kill the insects, \ | it should be enforced by law. A begin- ning has been made in the State York, where penalties are provided for neglect to destroy the fungus which pro- duces the black knot in cherry and plum by no nearly so costly a trees, means pest as many others that might be What is most needed, however, men- tioned. is the public sentiment which would in- duce all concerned to take the necessary keep their free from pests of all this is once measures to OWN premis aroused end of the MANURE. root oi wi iron, LIC BOIR roof CREEKS, , and ean Lhe spring. Pe ars sh val : come ealabic The re 3 to market if it is 8 DO N+ The fowls kept { trees bh arrived at the After pear bearing age, there should be but very little trimming done. and fruit yn the sam cannot be very well espe lly ADpioes, Hay grown is this true in the cas land, and with It is better to prevent the growth that vou do not want than it Is to wait until the wood is made and then cut it off, Cochins, Brahmas, Wyaundottes, Leg. borns and Dominiques all have ye legs, which is sn advantage in a market fowl be ma. should woll late hatched P ste pushed to maturity, Unless ured before cold weather puilets will | not lay until spring. Turkeys are in their glory and they secure plenty of intects while forag. ing. The farmer cannot realize the good they do in this way, It very frequently happens that eggs Wash them before marketing, and the chance: are now, | that a better price will be obtained, Good butter will always bring a good price, If farmers would only think of quality instead of quantity, they would be able to make more profit from the cows, After the moulling season begins prices are ily low, for the reason that the hens quit laying and are sent to market on this account, Often by wait. ing until the rush is over better prices may be wn - Wa — low | spraying | CAPTAIN the plants and trees with well known It | | has been proved effective, and the use of | | stats of New ' rived : | | | | WILL HE GET THERE! Great interest centers YWill Captain Andrews, the Sapolio Colum. his little spinrt in the ition, bus, reach Palos in boat? fant week we told of his and how pluckiiy he wrote by sn incoming sailer which pase | miles from shore, Now following hit many hundred we ean add to that report the Hews item just as it was published in the Commer cial Advertiser, of New York SAPOLIO, SPOKE THE ANDREWS MAKING His HUELVA ARD PALOR, Aug. 19 received Dalziel's LOXTON Advices t that the stesmer on Aug thers worted that « J boat named A. An Answer « mm nw ain tation camel wi siatad | written in reply t Editor N.Y. Henan: that benefit Admitting Andrew: { apt YOYARe may not ad thal he that a small SIprrior to an otean prince, I would em tend that every passenger in an Ocean Grey. bound should sleep easier in his comfortable berth when be knows that the great soa has boon sucosssiully orossel in a cookleshell: and may not many lives be saved by this plain object lesson, showing that a wooden boat is unsiakable? On lake, and river, and bay, hundreds go down annually who lowe presence of mind becsuse they fail to re alize this simple fact. And is there not a leswon to be learned in courage, in endure ance md good seamanhip? Does not eny man who mocessiully controls the elements add to man's confidence and benefil the whole community? Visitors to the World's Fair, at Culoago, will eagerly seek out this Amerfoan Colum bus and see for themselves his ttle folding boat, the ‘Sapolio™ with which be is scour ing the seas to show the world that modern men and modern methods are far ahead of the year 1400, W. A. KUBUM, RCV may not convinoe travelers boat is
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