The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-01
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CANTON claims population of 20. .ooe

CANTON claims a population of 20. 900
CLEVELAND has contributed $7,OO9,-
II to the German sufferers from the
Rhine inundation.
OUR legislative solons reiterate ths
promise of short session of the Gen.
eral Assembly. The shorter 1t can be
made, without sighting imperative
public business, the better.-CClevs.
land Leader.
The Republican .State Executive
Committee met in Columbus last week
Wednesday and decided that the Re-
publican State Convention should be
held in that city on the 9th and 9Th
days of June.
THE present Congress represents
$500, ,OOO, 900. That is hardly the source
to which the laboring, producing peo-
pie would look for the passage of laws
for the promotion and protection of
their rights and interests.
FROM 1s46 to 1861, under low tariff
the price of wool averaged 4S cents per
pound. For 1882, under high tariff,
the average price was about 40 cents
per pound. Protection in this instance,
doesn't seem to protect.
STAR-RoUTER Brady has recently
sold his house in Washington for $685.
900, as is alleged for the purpose Of
meeting the additional expenses Of the
star route trial. 1t is rumored that
Brady and Dorsey have already spent
over $150, 900 in their defense.
The fact that Governor Ben. Butler
ignored the temperance question in
his message gives the Republican pa
pers much concern. but upon the
whole they rather wish that Foster
and their pure and pious Legislature
had been little more moderate upon
the subject.
THE census report shows that the
men in the United States expended
$49S, 900, 900, and the women but $3l7,-
600, 900, the average being $40 year
per man and S37 per woman. And
yet they will continue to keep up the
gabble about the extravagance of the
ladies.
THE Cincinnati Commercial says
that the boxes manufactured at the
State House, and used by the Solons to
carry home their plunder, cost the
State $500 to 81, 600 per year, and sug-
gests that they could be made at the
institution far the Deaf and Dumb for
nothing more than what the raw ma.
tsrial would cost.
GENERAL WALKER expects to be
able to complete the tenth census, be-
gun in 1890, during the current calen-
der year, if Congcess grants sufficient
money. The expense of this census
will be about nine and one-half cents
per head OF the population, against
nine cents in the ninth census. An
appropriation of 500, 900 will be enough
to complete the work.
THE average yearly annual stipend
of laborers in WOODEN mills in the Uni
ted States is stated at $295, ,05 each in
cotton mills, $24O,l2; and in silk fac
tories, $234, AS. Could pauper wages
be much lower? Certainly at no time
under tariff Tor revenue only" were
the laborers in these industries more
poorly paid, while under the present
protective" system the few capital
lists by the partiality and favoritism of
the government are amassing colossal
fortunes.
THE silk operatives at Paterson, New
Jersey, have just held large meeting
In which their situation was discussed.
They decided that the tariff was no
benefit to the employe, that the man
ufacturer got all the benefit, building
palatial houses and stables instead of
increasing the wages of the hands
wages, indeed, had been reduced from
an average OF $40 week .to,$5.-[P Pitts
burg Post.