FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TLLOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - $1.50 PER YEAR. FREELAND, NOVEMBER 7, 1892. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. NATIONAL. President, O rover Cleveland New York Vice President, Adlui E. Stevenson Illinois STATE. Judge of Supreme Court, Christopher Heydriek Venango County Congressmen-tit-Large, George Allen Erie County Thomas P. Merritt lierka County COUNTY. Congressman, William H. Hines Wilkes-Barre Senator, J. Ridgeway Wright Wilkes-Barre Sheriff, William Walters. Sugarloaf Township Recorder, Michael C. ltussell Edwardsvill© Coroner, H. W. Trimmer Lake Township Surveyor, James Crockett Ross Township We denounce protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the Ameri can people for the benefit of the few. — DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM . NOTHING lias been more amusing in the campaign which ends to-morrow than the term which nearly all Republi can editors have invaribly applied to Democrats—"British free traders." If they imagine the phrase produces the least effect upon the public they are to be pitied for their ignorance, for every man with common sense knows that one-half of the Democratic party in any part of the country is composed of men who hate with an unequalled intensity anything that would advance the in terests of the British government, and the idea of holding up Democrats as allies of Great Britain is to nonsensical even to ridicule. IT is a disgrace to have a Democratic county like Luzerne represented in con gress by a protectionist. Remember C. D. Foster is a high tariff man and a fol lower of the author of the most infamous measures that ever became a law—the McKinley bill. A vote for Hines is a vote for the repeal of that act which crushes you with taxes. BCUKK COCKRAN, the noted leader of New York, claims 75,090 plurality for Cleveland in that state, and if there is a man who ought to know it is Burke. From Coney Island to Buffalo the party is united as it never was before. There is not even a speck of discord to be found in the organization. DEMOCRATS need not have any fear of the national result. Cleveland will have a majority of the electors, notwith standing the claims of the Republicans that this and that state is doubtful. HARRISON'S cabinet, with one excep tion, is scurrying and hurrying from one state to another in the interest of their chief. The majority of them are howl ing in Indiana, but that state is dead against the Republicans, for our own orator, D. J. McCarthy, is out there whooping it up for Cleveland. IT is dangerous for Democrats to split their county ticket. By voting itstraight hut one (X) mark is required, while if some one is to be cut it will require four (X) marks, and if one of these is mis placed the entire group may be thrown out. Vote straight from Walters to Crockett. WHEN a Republican miner is passing his pencil down the column of candi dates he will come to the name of Wil- 1 liam Lilly, candidate for congressman-at- ' large. Stop and think a moment before ' you place your mark after that name. Do you really believe that a coal opera tor is a proper person to represent you at Washington? Highland and Jeddo men, who work for one of the firms of which he is a member, do you intend to vote for him? So far no Republican or any other ad vocate of the new county has had the courage to question John S. McGroarty's statement that the county taxes on a property in the lower end, valued at $4lO, will be raised from $2.91 to $17.28 if Kline is elected senator and succeeds in his new county scheme. They can not deny this fact, for the figures that will prove it are as plain as day, so do your duty, property owners and tax payers, and vote for J. ltidgeway Wright. COUGH I N<i LEADS TO CONSUMPTION, Kemp's Balsam stops the cough at once. lysine's Mcillclne Moved the RoweU Kiich Day. I n order to be healthy this is necessary. When Baby was sick, wo gave her Caatoria.' When Bhe was & Child, she cried for Caatoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Caatoria. When she bad Children, she guvo them Caatoria. h — - - ADVANCES IN WAGES. INVESTIGATION SHOWS THAT THEY ARE REDUCTIONS INSTEAD. An "Infuut Iml UH try" of the McKinley Protective Tariilites, Which Consists of Manufacturing Campaign Material Out of the Whole Cloth. The Tariff Reform club has compiled a list of about 500 wage reductions which have occurred in protected industries rince the McKinley tariff act began to boom business and raise wages. The | protectionists last spring thought it time to begin to demonstrate the good effect upon wages of their panacea for all ills and they published what pur ported to he a list of twenty-seven pro tected firms which have raised wages since October, 1890. The American Economist has published this same list several times and refers to it nearly every week with pride. It has been copied and recopied in thousands of Re publican papers. After Senator Aldrich and The American Economist had criti cised the list of 500 wage reductions be cause there appeared to be several repe titions of items and because some of the redactions had occurred in industries and states where statistics indicated that on the whole average wages had not de clined since 1890, the Reform club con clnded to see if the protectionist list was all genuine. It sent a man over into Brooklyn to in quire into the general advance of 5 per cent, credited to the Kings County Knit ting company. After a long hunt the firm was located on the top floor of a building in a remote part of the city. The employees consisted of three men and from ten to fifteen girls. The first person met was the employer, who failed to remember anything about the said "general advance" until reminded of The American Economist article. But even this stimulus to the memory could not make the three factory girls who were interviewed recall a time when their wages had been advanced; they could, however, easily remember times when they were earning more than now. The club lias since continued its inves tigation. It sent another man to Oris kany Falls, N. Y., where Langley& Da vis had advanced wages 25 and 50 cents a day, so it was alleged. It was learned that this firm makes skirts for ladies' dresses and that they employ fifteen hands—seven weavers, fonr carders, two spinners, one dyer and one finisher. The boss weaver's wages were advanced last spring from $3 to $2.25. a day to keep him from going to other mills. The others in his department—five women and one man—were reduced last June from 4isj to 4 cents per cut for weaving. They were then earning about $1 per day, though their average for last win ter did not exceed 00 cents. The boss carder was also advanced from $2 to $2.25 for the same reason. One of the young men in his department had his wages raised last May from $4.50 to $5 per week because he was likely to get the "spring fever" and leave; the company thought it better to retain a man who had been with them through the winter at $5 rather than to break in a new man. The finishers' wages were reduced last spring from $1.50 to $1.25 per day. The wages of the other em ployees have not suffered from "McKin ley" advance, hut remained stationary, from 50 cents to $1 or more per day. The employees smiled an anti-McKin ley smile when they were informed of the Republican material that was being supplied at their expense. Some of them suggested that it might be a scheme of Langley & Davis to attract laborers toOriskany Falls, so that cheap labor conld be obtained when the firm starts its new mill in a few weeks. Other interesting information was ob tained in regard to this firm and the materials used liy it, hut it would bo out of place here, even if tliere were I space for it. Two other firms visited were those of Wilkins & Close, and Close & Christie, glove manufacturers at Mayfield, New- York. Mr, Wilkins said that he had read the report that wages had been ad vanced from 15 to 85 per cent, in his factor}-, but that he did not know how such a statement had got into print, as there was really no basis for it. He said that they employed about 100 men and 25 girls in their glove and leather dressing factories, and that wages were no higher than for several years previ -1 ous. They take on 30 or 40 new hands I a year from the farms round about. These hands are paid 75 cents a day for j the first month, then if 1 for some time, and if they become proficient their wages ure advanced to $1.25. Mr. Wil kins said: "There has been no more ad | vance this year with us, or anywhere in the county (Fulton county, N. Y., which produces two-thirds of our glove prod uct), than has been customary for seven or eight years. The McKiuley bill has had no material effect on busi ness. Five-sixths of our gloves go west, and the demand for them depends on the crops and the weather. A warm winter and short crops will lower wages, | and a cold winter and good crops will | raise them slightly." j The situation at the factory of Close & Christie just across the street was abonl j tho same. The gloves made by botl j these firms are mostly heavy, cheap, un j lined gloves, sold largely in the west ti harvesters, drivers, etc. No similai | gloves are made or used to any extent ii 1 any other country, and there is abso solutely no competition from abroad am therefore no protection to this indnstr} | from any tariff. Close & Christie emploj forty or fifty hands. They both admit ' ted that there was no foreign competi tion in their line of gobds, but they wen 1 enjoying the notoriety they were gettim 1 through the report of the alleged wag< , advances of from 15 to 25 pur cent., am being Republicans did not feel callei upon to deny it. They laughingly sai< ; that they thought wages had been in I creased more than usual in their factor} i tiiis year and that tho McKinley hi' j might have had something to do with it They said that there was foreign compo tion on some kinds of gloves made at I Gloversville and Johnstown, N. Y., hut that thoy had heard of no wage advances in any factory there. It may he ob served that no paper printed in Fulton county had published these reports. The factory of Alfred Dolge, of Dolge ! ville, N. Y., was also visited. The re port said that wages had been advanced 120 per cent. here. Dolge manufactures piano felts, sounding hoards, cases and other piano supplies. He also makes felt shoes and slippers. He employs alto gether nearly 1500 persons. It is the cu - torn at Dolgeville to hold an annual re union. At such times Mr. Dolge, the paternal proprietor of the place, makes an address and announces the promotions and advances in wages to he made for the ensuing year. The new employees who have been earning what may he re garded as apprenticeship wages and some of the older employees who have served tlieir employer most faithfully, expect to have their wages advanced at this time. Jt is Dolge's boast that in this way he stimulates his employees to do their best. Twenty or twenty-five who have worked hard and overeamed their old wages of' perhaps $1.25 or $1.37 L' per day, usually 1 get an advance of about one shilling. ! Many others are disappointed, hut Dolg' gives them hope by tolling them that if they do their full duty their turn will | come next. At the reunion in February, 1891, he ; tween forty and fifty had their wages advanced a shilling each and the hours of labor were reduced from 10 to with the promise (the supply of promises is never short) that if the employees ac-i complislied as much in 9* £ hours as they formerly had done in ten, the hour would he further reduced to nine at the ! next annual reunion. This advance in wages was slightly more than usual. It may he accounted for by knowing that Dolge, by a gross misrepresentation of j facts, had been successful in 1890 in liav- ; ing the duty on piano felts increased from between GO and 70 to an average of \ about 10ft per cent. Dolge already had | a monopoly of American made felt and : this would cut off much of the foreign ! competition. Besides, he had from a free trader in : 1882-3 become a most ardent protection ist, and had told his employees in hi- i speeches that higher duties meant higher I wages. The men intended to take him at his word. In the next place Dolge had been figuring to get the Repul lican nomination for congress in his dhtrict,! and knew the value of such a move in I politics. Then, also, he appreciated the j advertising that his business would get j tlironglf Republican editors who were ! scouring the political and industrial • horizon to find a case of higher duties i followed by higher wages. It is also i said by the very best judges, both in and ; out of his factory that lie is making at j least 100 per cent, clear profit on his I felts which lie sells for about $4 per pound. If he had not made advances in 1 wages his own employees might have I exposed his greed and the falsity of his promises. He has gotten thousands of! dollars worth of advertising and has j had his vanity tickled by having his per- I sonality and his business described in I nearly every Republican paper in the j land, hut up to date he has not captured i the nomination for congress. He is, 1 however, on the New York Tribune's i list of millionaires, and as he has made ' ' his money during the last twenty years j his prospects are good. His standing with the Republican party is now so ' good that from ten to twenty gir); are kept busy addressing wrappers fir the New York state Republican committee, in which to mail copies of the Dolgeville Herald. This paper keeps the public posted about Dolgeville and tells of the American terne plate roofs being put on by Dolge. Competent judges say that J lie could get as good imported roofing | terne for $10.50 per box as ho now gets j for $16.50. But there is another side to this case. No wage advances occurred at Dolge ville this year. Some of those who ex- ! pctded advances have been greatly dis j appoint c-d and have asked for them Moreover, the hours of labor have noi j been reduced I<> nine, though Dolge ad j milted in his speech that as much or ; even more work had been done per hand j than in former years. Nor have the changes in wages during the last few years always been ad- ' varices. Four years ago common labor- [ era in Dolge's employ received $1.50 per ' day: they now get but $1.25. The price ! for hauling lumber to Little Falls has been reduced from $1.50 per thousand to sl, and for coal from 10 to 8 cents per 100 pounds. These reductions affect at least fifty or sixty employees in and out of the factory. During the last year the j price for covering and trimming piano hammers lias been reduced from 23 and 0 cents, respectively, to 18 and 8 cents ' per set. Three years ago the felt shoe-; ! makers got 35 cents per pair; they get 1 |3O cents now. The girls in the shoe de- I partment and many others throughout the mill have also had their wages re , duced. I Two-thirds of the employees are fort igii horn (mostly German), and it is said that only Republicans and foreign ers have much chance of promotion or advancement under Dolge. Certain it is that nearly every foreman and sub boss is a foreigner. Reports said that wages had been ad vanced 15 per cent, at the Hawthorn mills, at Glenville, Conn. These mills employ 210 or 215—about 175 in tlio woolen department, where suitings, cheviots, etc., are made, and thirty or forty in the felt department, where pol | ishing felts are produced. Some of the employees interviewed had not heard of j the campaign wage advance report. 1 When shown it they were quick to de ' nounce it as a lie, and began to tell of : the numerous reductions of the last | year. One employee said, "If I had j known you were going to be here I ! could have prepared a list of reductions | a yard long." ! In tin- woolen department about eighty 1 men— all Hungarians, Poles, Russian ; Jews, Swedes and Danes, except six or I eight Germans —had their wages rc j duced in June, 1892, from $1 and $1.15 I per day to tW cents and sl. In the dye room ton men—all Polos—were reduced from $1 to 90 cents, and Manager Hunt has since told the boss dyer not to pay over 80 cents per day. The men .at first refused to accept these wages, but are now back at work. In the felt depart ment all are men and foreigners (same class as above). During Cleveland's ad ministration they got $1.15 a day; they have for over three years been receiving but $1 per day. In the weaveroom sixty-five weavers (mostly women) make about $1.50 a day when they do not have to wait for fill ing, warp, etc., but tlieirjtverage for the year is only about sl. Last fall, when nearly half of the looms (sixty-seven in all) were running on a certain class of goods, the manager announced that he would have to reduce the price of weav ing from 5.2 cents per yard to 4V£ cents or he could not compete with another mill making this same class of goods. The reduction was made. In the finishing room about fifteen women and girls "burl" and "speck" cloth for 50 cents a day of ten hours. In the weaveroom there were five loom re pairers last fall; now four do the work and have received no advance in wages. A boss gigger left the factory Aug. 10, 1892, when told that his wages would be reduced from $1.50 to sl. He came from Broadbrook a short time before, where he had once earned $8.50 a day. Hunt told the employees in 1888 that if Cleveland were elected wages would have to come down. The men think lie intended this for an excuse for a con templated reduction. But Harrison's (lection did not interfere with Hunt's plans, for the reductions began at once after the election. Herman Lieb, a carder, voted for Harrison, and had bis wages cut from $1.50 to $1.25 the next week. It may be mentioned here that there are only twenty voters in the whole factory. •This company violates the weekly pay ment law by paying only once in two weeks—after withholding two weeks' pay. It has a "company store;" it owns and rents houses to its employees; its treatment of employees and tenants is said to be particularly harsh, and it ex hibits mauy other symptoms of a well protected industry. These reports embrace six of tlio twen ty-seven cases of "wage advances" at tributed to McKinlcyism. 11 is now the intention cf the Reform club to investi gate and report on all. If there has been a . case in a protected industry where wages have bevn advanced arid the advance is not due to the demands >f a strong l labor union, or where the members of ! the firm are not in politics and are not writing articles for Republican maga zines or papers, the club will not liesi -1 tate to give full ere lit to the firm that does business upon such philanthropic principles, and the protectionists will I lien have some genuine campaign ma terial, which apparently is very scarce at present, or they would not be com pelled to establish the "McKialey indus try" of manufacturing "wage advances out of wage reductions." GETTING BEDROCK PRICES. How to Beat the Monopolist* at Their Own Game. I Here is a new way for Americans to circumvent the McKinley bill, so that ; they may participate in the blessings | (relative) that this measure showers upon foreigners. It is well known that hundreds of American made goods, such as agricultural implements, sewing ma chines, table cutlery, saws, typewriters, cartridges, etc., are sold cheaper to for eigners than to Americans. The manu facturers here form a trust or have a monopoly, and they fix prices to make as much profit as possible by taking advan tage of tariffs which prevent foreign competition. Now when, as often hap pens, they can afford to sell in the un protected markets of the world they lower their prices for export to this point and rely upon the tariff laws to prevent Americans from getting the benefit of these lower prices by reim porting tlio goods. Up to date the man ufacturers have bad uniform success, but their scheme has recently received a severe Rliock, and unless they change their methods somewhat Americans may in some cases be cursed by prices as low MX fliiiHA whifli riifwriLnA F.nrrmo An American lady of moderate means was visiting relatives in Europe this sum mer. She had heard that American sew ing machines were sold cheaper there than here, and she concluded to bring one back with her if she could escape the duty 011 it and save enough, after paying freight, to pay her' for the trouble of carrying it. She saw the foreign agent ! of the machine she wished, and found that she could save about 20 per cent, by purchasing there and that she could escape the duty by calling herself a seamstress. She was arranging with the agent when he suggested that as she was going to New York, where he got the machines, it would save trouble and expense all around if she would ac cept his 01 der 011 the New York house lot a machine—which she could have at export prices, though she need not ex port it or take any false oaths in regard | to It. The plan worked successfully, i and is likely to bo repeated and extend- j ed to typewriters and other articles if the manufacturers do not put a stop to these anti-McKinloy demonstrations of their foreign agents. Tlio Art of Taxation. Aud.sir.it was Colbert who defined the art of taxation "to consist in so plucking the goose to get the largest amount of feathers with the least possi ble amount of squawking." Now, in the history of economic discussion has there been an apter or more complete defini tion of a protective tariff—William L. , Wilson on Mills Bill. •Triumphant IlemoOruc,." You can road all about it in Carnegie's pages, Where ho tells how high tariffs result in big ' Hut lookouts and strikes as the fruits of pro tection Will he apt to secure Orover Cleveland's elec- Carnegie perhaps by his blatant hypocrisy I May pave the way for "Triuuiphaut Democ racy." —Toronto Grip. "YOU DIRTY BOY." —New York World. Not Race Prejudice at All. In the south the race question is not one of race prejudice. It happens that the masses of negroes are not capable ol independent thought on government. The masses of Russians are not. Gov- ! ernment and business, progress and edu j cation must go on. So the American j leadership must prevail, for that alone j assures peace and confidence. For par- j ty's sake Ingalls would have a force bill, a test oath, a returning board of federal supervisors appointed by a Republican president. He would have ruin to busi- i Hess and bloodshed to now peaceful communities. The Kansas orator spoke i the intention of his party, and his party i —what there was of it at Topeka— ! I cheered. Republicanism would rathei i have negro domination than the present J condition. If it would conquer the ! south with the force .bill it would con- | quer every Democratic state with 'its ; supervisors and marshals wherever it I could. If it would prefer negro domina tion it would prefer any sort of Repub- j lican domination to present conditions 1 where conditions are Democratic. The < force bill is alive.—Kansas City Times. Even Krpublicans Admit It. Hon. Joseph Meilill, editor and pro prietor of the Chicago Tribune, the lead ing Republican organ of the northwest, lately delivered an address before the Agricultural Association of the West, and among other things said: "I under state tho truth when I say that tlio fann ers of the west and the planters of the south are charged $3110,000,000 a year on their goods for the profit of protected eastern manufacturers, more than is fair and necessary on the principle of 'live and let live.'" The Plaindealer calls this statement to tho attention of tlio rabid tariff extortioners and those who by vote have contributed to aid them in their robbery of tlio consumers. —Cleve- land Plain Dealer. Cast "Four Hundred Tons of llallots." ' The paper trust, protected by a tariff of seven dollars per ton on pulp, raised from $2.50 by McKinley, closed a num ber of its mills about a week ago be cause pauper rags from Europe were uot allowed to pass quarantine. It was not claimed that this country could not furnish all the rags necessary to make what white paper is wanted. One result of the stoppage of the mills is that Penn sylvania is short nearly 400 tons of the kind of paper that the ballots to ho used in November must be printed on. Penn sylvania should see to it in November that she casts 400 tons of ballots, or some thing like that, against the party of high prices and iniquitous trusts.—Savannah News. What tho Public'* Servant* Do. Every one is familiar with Commis sioner Raum's candid admission that lie had given preference to pension cases in I districts where they would he likely to help the election of Republican con gressmen. Every one knows that tho entire body of civil servants in the United States are at present spending a large share of their time, paid for by tho jfbvernment, in booming tho Repub lican cause. And now comes Superin tendent Porter, of the census, and pro poses to take the manufacturing statis tics over again, and issue a bulletin to prove that the tariff raises wages.— Sionx Falls (la.) Argns-Leader. Cleveland's Integrity and Independence. What most of all commends Mr. Cleveland to the American people is his integrity and independence. No con sideration can tempt him to abandon principle. Time and again he has ap- ' parently defied policy and invited polit ical immolation in his adhesion to prin- ! ciple. Andrew Jackson never boasted \ of a more rugged backbone; Thomas Jefferson was never inoro zealous in en- j forcing genuine Democratic standards ! ,of government. The value of such a I standard bearer to the Democratic cause in this crisis cannot he overestimated. It inspires confidence and betokens vic tory.—Troy (N. Y.) Press. I.ooks Like a Tidal Wave. Tito present campaign presents many unusual features to any of thoso which have preceded it, and one of the most important is that no less than five Re- i publican ex-cabinet ministers have de clared their intention not only to vote i the Democratic ticket themselves, but | . to use their efforts to induce others to do { so. Cox, McCulloch, Ores ham, Schurz \ and MacVeagh are a strong team, and t hey will bo assisted by a host of other lormer Republicans who have enlisted 1 j under the Democratic banner of tariff reform and honest government.—Scran | ton (Pa.) Times. Blaine's "Love" for KlarrUon. "Will Blaine be the next man to de- ! ; clare for Cleveland?" asks the Muscatine News-Tribune. It is hard to tell. But i Mr. Blaine declared quite pointedly | against Harrison in that brief note of resignation he wrote June 4. He noti ! fled the country that he had no further j use for the autocrat!— Davenport (la.) Democrat. Johnny and Dave. 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