, 1888-09-19
FAVOR PROTECTION.
Ladies Testify Before the Tariff
Committee.
Reported Wreck on the Union
Pacific Railroad.
Odd Fellows at Los Angeles
Elect Officers.
The Ladies Want Protectlon.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.-The proceed
ings of the senate sub committee on tariff
this morning was refreshing in contrast
with the average tor the last two months.
About fifteen well dressed, fresh looking
ladies made their appearance at the doors
of the committee room, headed by Mrs.
j. Ellen Foster, president of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union OF
Iowa. and were introduced by Senator
Allison to his fellow members as a delega-
ton who wished to be heard in respect to
women's especial interest in protective
Tariff. Mrs. Foster addressed the com
mittee eloquently and at considerable
length on the advantages women have in
this country in the way of earning a liv-
ing compared wish European countries,
and she attributed it to protective tariff.
She then introduced the ladies with her,
who, she said, were operatives in cloth
and other mills in New England and New
York whom she had invited to come be-
fore the committee and relate their exper-
fence. They were women who had worked
in England and other European coun-
tries, and were unanimous in declaring
INC Ndotly oupeLloL ConulllouS VI me
which they were able to secure in this
country.
She said she had been into the mills
and workshops of New York and New
England, and, with the consent of the
employers, invited some of the female
employees to come to Washington with
her and tell the committee how they were
situated. Her companions were then
| hrIaHu Questioned hv thu UnannharS Of tha
committee. Mrs. Bonner, a German
lady, who worked in factories in the
fatherland, has been employed about
twenty years in Rockville, Conn, in
| weaving cloth for mems clothing. Her
weekly wages were 50 to $40, compared
with two marks in Germany. She laid
UP money here, and had three times
| visited her birthplace, paying the ex-
penses from her savings.
Miss White, Miss Pitts and Mrs. STAINS
field, all born in England, were also en-
| ployed in malls at Rockville, Conn, but
no two were from the same mill. The
rest told similar stories to that of Mrs
Bonner, of superior wages and the su,
perior advantages of their present condi-
ton to that in which they lived in the old
country, and declared themselves with en-
thusiasm to have become Americans in
the fullest sense of the word..-
Miss Gallagher and Miss Dempewolf
were from a mems clothing house in New
York City. Miss Jennie Cheever, Mrs.
Studd and Miss Clark were from mills of
Ware, Mass. There was but little variety
in the stories briefly and modestly told.
Their positions were those of the average
in their respective localities, and they
were earning comfortable livelihoods by
the work of their own hands. The APP
pearance of the ladies' was, however. the
most convincing part of the evidence re-
ceiyed by the committee, which carried
conviction irrespective of the tariff views
of the committeeman.
Senator Harris, who represented the
tariff reform doctrine on the committee,
CALAMITY contented himself in developing
the fact from each OF the Rockville wit.
nesses that a foreign born element largely
predominated among their fellows. and
from Others that it about euualled that of
native birth in New York shops and the
Ware mills.