The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-20

Church.
Wear aud tear Of bed ClOthlng...
Wear aud tear OF cooking utenSIls....","......
Coal and w0od....."............. .''''''''''''' d
/ /
Balance u
$50
Allowance should be made for sun
dries omitted. Our friend, Mr.. Shoenhof
should also have said: Allowance
should he made for mistakes committed
You will notice that he allows this taml
" of five persons One.third stone, or
little over three and one-half pounds oI
flour, ut forty cents per stonei this he
charges at five cents. The total income
OF the family is placed ut $50 per week,
their total expenses at 81 II per week
the balance is placed at 81 so. If my I
year old boy could not come nearer by
twelve cents in ciphering this amount
would feel inclined to thresh him
soundly. You will also notice that there
are three children in this family
Judging from the item, school
pence and books, eight cents, there is
only one child OF school age. Now, us
irmR WIFE WORKS AND EARNS Sl.l0 Pen
WEEK,
what becomes Of the two younger chill
dren while the mother is at work? Nc
provision is,"made for their care. When
this item of expense is provided for
what becomes OF this estimated balance
Now, my fellow working potters ot
Wheeling, you have heard these figures
us to cost Of living. Compare them care
fully with what you have to pay here
for The same articles, and, as in the case
Of the comparative wage lists, ] submit
them to you without comment. They
need none, for they speak louder to yout
intelligence than any words OF mine can
do. Gentlemen, this is not the worst oil
it by any means. II the Mills bill be-
comes n law, we shall have to compete
with the French and German pottersI
who are paid much below the English.
In fact some OF our New York crockery
dealers have built potteries, and are run
ming them, not in protective America or
free trade England, but III France and
Germany. where skilled labor in this in
dustry.is the lowest paid. Men who are
official representatives OF this Democrat
ic government to foreign nations have
stopped so low rs TO engage in this busl'
ness, instead OF building and running
their potteries here, helping to boom
this country. They prefer to pay the
cheaper labor OF Europe, and make Il
handsome profit on the transaction, attel
paving 55 and 60 per cent duty in theil
goods, invoiced from themselves in Eu,
rope to themselves in New York, anG
fixing pretty much their own standard
OF import values. Now, MS to
PRESIDENT CLEvgLAND's THEORY,
that 'the duty levied is an additiona
cost to the consumer" l do not know
of any manufactured article that ha!
been increased in cost to the consumer
by the imposition OF a protective tariff
II there are any such it is certainly no
crockery, for taking our old authority
Consul Schocnhofs report, page Is, y9t
will find that in 1872 just about TIN
time American competition began t
hurt the English manufacturer received
on the 500 gross list sol; in 1852, Si2
in 1885, SS7, and in 1883 he is very for
tunate to get $50, showing that, as tn
American industry advanced, the prlc
TO the consumer decreased. No doub
some OF the older citizens here to-nigh
remember what they had to pay 10
crockery before the war. | am intorme.t
that for six dinner plates 81 was charged
also the same for six cups and saucer
These same goods can now be bought il
any china store for one.hhf the cos
then, and pay good profit to the mo,
chant, md | know it, for have sol
thousands OF dollars worth OF them /
this city. Has the protective tariff o
crockery been any tax on the citizens
Wheeling? l think not, thus provin
that the theory may be very pretty us
theory but ii don't work out very we
in practice.
Now few words on
THE MILLS BILL
and how it will affect us, should it b.
come law. The foreign manufacture
finding that the American potter hi
come to stay, and having been forced
reduce his prices to present figures,
getting alarmed at the prospect OF l0sIn
this, the best market in the world: Ihe
have combined their forces in q final u
tempt to cripple this growing industr.
and have found noble worker for the
cause in the person OF Il gentleman lToI
this little Mountain State--Tho Hol
Mr.. Wilson (who with Mr.. Jones,
Boston, large importer Of Crockery
framed this section OF the Mills bill, an
who on every occasion possible viii
this section was under discussion in Il
, House, appeared as the special champio
and advocate for the importer as again
the home manufacturer,
NV friend, the editor OF the Regisi
4 promised me editorially, early IN Mar,
. last, that he would be pleased TO publi
= a comparative statement Of the pTese
!. tariff on crockery, also the proposed Mi
! bill section, at mn early date, 30 that tht
:, readers would be able TO see Just hC
~ this industry was affected. l have loo
- - ed in vain for it to date. Instead
"a giving this information, by their rep,
OF the DISCUSSION on this section in !
House, they have given a wrong,
preston TO their readers, many OF VII.
NJ belieye that instead OF q most terri