Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-22

Bags 1897 ton
Gsni11s SGss9n waste saset s4ss5 s4,ssS toms toms
Straw '.''',.''. 0' 245,sss tons.
Corn stock 954 tons.
Esparto grass 264 tons,
Ali other materials ..,........,.... 7,O39, ,497
Chemicals used d..................... 1925, ,79S
Total cost OF production .$42, ,476,652
The total value of the product was
$58, ,109,9l4, and deducting the total cost
of production, including wages paid, we
find that the neat little sum Of $12. 1896, 1862
was left for the employers. Now look
back at the amount OF capital in the busi-
ness and you will see that it earned OVER
TWENTY. SEVEN PER CENT. Each employer
took as his years wages $1S, ,247 IA, while
each of the employed received $349 08
for his years services.-I Albany Union.
4 canvass has been made of forty
three assemblies of Knights of Labor in
Michigan on the tariff question by the
statistician of the State Assembly.
Only nine assemblies were found in
which over twenty men favor protection.
In twenty-fou there are no protectionists
and all the assemblies are strong for
tariff reform.
Do the Republicans see the hand of
fame tracing characters on the wall, or
do they need an earthquake to wake
them up to the fact that their party has
been weighed and found wanting?
The earthquake will come in Novem-
ber.-fN. Y. Telegram.
Nine-tenths OF the Republican orators
cannot agree upon the tariff question, but
all are of the opinion that the Democracy
ought to be hanged and quartered for
wanting to tighten taxation by less than
half the amount suggested by the Repub
lican Tariff Commission OF 1882 Phila-
delphia Herald.
1. The duty on soap at present is; On
CASTLE soap, 20 per cent; on fancy and
perfumed soaps, Is cents per pound on
hard and soft soap, not otherwise pro-
vided for, 20 per cent.
2. The duty on CASTLE and fancy
soaps has not been changed in the Mills
bill.
3. Hard and soft soap have been made
free in the Mills bill.
The importation of all kinds of soap in
1887 was as follows:
Value in Duty in
CASTLE soap value ...,... s2os' '2o;e $4I'sses
Hsrd Hsndy ana sGaapsf Soft soap 1885 ssS5s 0ss9s
Thus it will be seen that the Mills bill
legislation only applies to the importa-
ton of $28,539 in value and $5,707 in
revenue, and also simply intends to give
in some degree relief to tax payers on
the most necessary article of consump-
tion used by the whole population, as
there is no doubt that the duty of 20 per
cent. on laundry soap is source of great
and unnecessary profit to the rich and
powerful soap boilers of the country.
In the last issue of the Hntchet it was
noticed that mass meeting of laboring
men at indianapolis had passed resolu-
tions 6enunciatory of candidate Harrison
as the enemy of the laboring class. This
week the State Federation of Trades,
representing organizations in every coun-
ty and city of the State, assembled in
convention at indianapolis, unanimously
passed resolutions declaring that Harri-
son was no friend to the laboring man
and calling upon laboring men of all the
trades to vote for tariff reform and Cleve-
land and Thurman. And about the same
date the Michigan State Assembly of
knights OF Labor, representing every
local assembly in the State, met at jack
son in convention and passed resolutions
declaring for tariff reform and Ole eyeland
and Thurman, and this, too, by a unani-
NOUS vote. The trades and the Knights
of Labor undoubtedly hold the balance
of power in the doubtful States Wash
ington Hatchet.
1t is true there has been reduction of
wages since Blaine's speech in 1884, and
a most note worthy one, which must be
fresh in his mind as in the minds of the
people of this country. It was reduc-
ton OF 10 per cent. in the wages of 5000
men at the Edgar Thompson steel works,
ordered by Carnegie, just before sailing
for Europe to view with Blaine from the
top of his four-in-hand and from the bat
Elements of Cluny castle, "the pauper
labor of Europe" It is true there has
been another reduction of wages" at
tempted by B. F. Jones, Blaine's chair
man of the Republican National Com
mittee, in the case of 1905 men at his
Pittsburg furnaces Albany Argus.
Advocates of high tariff for the al
legged purpose Of protecting American
labor" have gone over every country in
Europe for the object of finding persons
who work long hours for very short pay.
They succeeded in finding them and de-