The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-10

trade orators AID writer's usually put it that
they propose to usher In q state OF affairs in
which very high prices shall obtain for labor
and the very goods that this labor produces
shall be very cheap. Some fools may lie down
IN this kind of hog wash. All that II needful to
bring to this question is common sense and
com mon honesty. Fair price for labor means a
fair price for the product of the same; and
on the other hand pauper labor means pauper
prices for what it may produce
The Mishawaka Wooden Manufacturing Com
pany. of this State, writes:
You ask what We think, from the stand point
OF self interest, of the effect OF free wool. We
could buy wool somewhat cheaper; our COM
petitors could do the same; We would be at no
advantage. have no more orders, no more profits,
because our competitors could follow us just as
close then as now.
Wool is not a raw material; its production il
. great industry in this country, employing
millions OF capital and thousands OF laborers.
We and our employees are interested In the pros
perity OF every industry and every man In this
country who are or may be customers. or VINO,
# driven from their present OCCUPATION, may
become competitors. We want capitalists and
employees engaged in wool growing to prosper;
they are our customers; We want q part OF their
earnines; We want them 20 keep at this industry
and not crowd upon US or our employees, or
npon the industries in which are engaged others
OF our customers In whose prosperity We are
also interested. because we want a part OF their
earnings.
aCspital and labor of every industry is inter-
ssted in the prosperity OF every other industry
in this country. because of the certainty directly
or indirectly Of getting some part OF the profits
Of that other ind ustry in the way OK patronage,
and because every industry shut out compels all
engaged in it to seek investment or employment
elsewhere, thus decreasing the customers and
Increasing the competitors of those who are not
shut out. In short, to rs we see no benefit in
free wool; to our customers we see great detri-
ment; their hurt is our loss; We don't want free
WOOL
Mr.. J. l.. Kerstetter, secretary of the Goshen
WOODEN mills Company. writes:
"a WOODEN manufacturer must be short-sighted
not to see that if the Mills bill becomes q law it
will drive all our sheep-owners. that raise sheep
FOR profit. out of the business, and when the
Bheep are gone and foreign producers have the
market, then the price will go up, and as By
the Mills bill the specific duties are all changed
60 ad valorem WOODEN goods will be passed In
~ duties SO low that the wooden manufacturers
here will not be able TO run their machinery.
bud when We raise no wool and make no goods
there will be q good portion of the wooden goods
disposed of TO the advantage of the cheap labor
manufacturers of Europe. who will be very par
ticular to regulate their prices so as to keep our
machinery from starting mp again
Messrs. G. A. Porter g. Co., Of Auburn. an
ewers as follows:
"Ws think that wool growing would in this
rouutry comparatively disappear. and manu-
featuring would 90 down. aud mechanics would
1ave to till the SOIL"
These replies are submitted from men who
are engaged in the business, as against the
mere theories and assertions of those who know
eothing whatever, practically, about the matter.