Daily Republican., 1884-08-04

The Dean WOODEN Company.
On Saturday last we published Mr..
Deans letter in regard to the eating
down of wages in the Dean WOODEN
Company, and in regard to the bearing
4 free trade had upon such action. Mr..
4 Dean says he cannot see what free
trade has to do with the question:
Here is an extract from his letter which
Is very significant, and will bear read
ing closely. Listen We have no
such thing as free trade here. / am
free to say we are living under the
reign of Republican rule for period of
nearly quarter of II century. The party
In power had everything their own
way during all that time they passed
the present revised tariff law in 1885,
IL it is not a perfect law whose fault Is
it? Had the Republican party not
only the President but such majorities
fnCongress that they both could and did
Just what seemed to them best? Now
let us see what this best they could and
did do consisted OF. In the last two
years ,he Dean Wooden Company, with
a capital ofS2ls,0O paid in, has not
paw a. bChy VA AhtNlCNb dIAA III illii
time impaired It's capital nearly 1000
Why is il 90
We will quote no farther for the pres
ent, but will review briefly what Mr..
Dean has said. IL is true we have no
free trade in this country, but no thanks
70 the Democratic party, To which Ntr
Dean belongs, that We haze not. Ii is
true also that The Republican party has
been in power quarter of century,
and it is equally 6ruc that it has left an
impress upon the country for good that
will even take years OF free trade to
4 wipe out. The country in that time
prospered more in material wealth than
in all the years OF its previous exis-
teiice. Manufacturer of all kinds
sprang up all over the country except
In the South, aud even there, under the
protecting genius of the nation, furnaces
and factories have been put in opera
tiOn. In the land once cursed with
free trade slave labor, manufac,ori are
springing up TO compete with Northern
labor, Northern capital, and all that
made then orth prosperous aud wealthy.
There never was Il time in the history
OF our country when capital and labor
brought better rae)mpruse than since
the advent of the Republic IN party to
power. Protection was never more eff
fecJive than during the var, and for a
number of years after rhe war, or JUS
during the time Mr.. Deau made the
most money in manutAc uring WOODEN
goods. Is this not 80, Mr. Dean?
seems, however, ihag the Dean Woolei
Company with a paid in capital OF
$21S,O0O has paid 10 Interest for two
years, and in that time mas actually
impaired its capital 1900. All, in
deed Why dill it pay well before
and not since then? Why is it thai
the capital has been impaired $1,000
within two years past ?
Has Mr.. Dean no reason to assign 70
This ? His company grew rapidly il
wealth until two years, and then i
took back track. There must be
cause for it. Mr.. Dean simply state
the facts in the case, and assigns n
cause for the change. We are not pre-
Bumptuous enough to think that W
can give the true cause, but our uien4
DRY comes To our aid and tells us TIA
there was reduction of the tariff Of
wool and WOODEN goods just about tw
years ago If our memory serves u
right the Democrats OF the House ,
Representatives had within fifteen vo I
OF :. majority in that body, while it W,
about tie in the Senate, and they,wI
the and of a few free trade Republi :,
w eS reduced the tariff Wool WI
one of The things put Oh the free lis
and the tariff on wooleL goods was all
materially reduced. Since this ste
was taken towards Tree trade, it seen
thai he Dean Woulen Company hi
tt,en going backwards. But il is to {
backwards no longer. Mr. Dean ii
forms us thai he has taken the matt
in hand, and in order to make en-,
meet, he has anuuunceda cutting-dov
of the wages OF his employees ten p
cent.
As his Company pays S63, 900 anuua
ly IN wages to employees, ten ce
shave woul1 make 81, 800 saved, fro
which deduct the loss of 81, 900 yea
and the Company viii ,hen make 81, 8
clear. We are finding no parlicul
fault with the Dean WOODEN Colnpal
trying to make ends meet, even il by
reduction of wages, bua the point
since the tariff was changed, two yea
ago, there has been II stagnatlon in blu
ness all over the country, and there h
been cutting down OF wages in
wooden and cotton manufactures.
lowering Of the tariff cannot help b
result in the lowering Of wages OF =
pll yees. A reduction OF the tariff IA
enables English manufacturers W
employ cheap labor to pay the low tai
rates, and to compete with the maj
factured goods Of this country. Doe,
Mt stand to reason that the only W
to c)lnpete with imported goods at
the tariff has been reduced, is TO maj
facture them here as cheaply as Ii
Ae manufactured in England?
Does it not appear PLAIN then that
orde TO do his the wages of employ
must be cut down TO level with
wages paid in English manufactori
This is just what the Dean Woo
Company is doing, and nobody {
blame H. particularly for doing it.
Dean admits that he has been over
England, and has been through mt
Der OF English manufactures, and
far as he could see the employees tn
were as happy and comfortable as
employees are here, hut utility
economy iii the way of purchases hat
be pra ;ticcd.
We will enter into no dispute "
Mr. Dean in rppard m tho on,,,,,o -,