Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-16

that .: E. cent. p-r pound fer steel beams
arre.,rs 10 hin. To be am rNnrhitant price
/ n A. his h1v works IA the steel mill, 10 tine
b nm drp.r,weur. aud that Il figuring over
.r.. s.., d, making steel beams last algai
win bi4 bow ,aey could not make them
pg. t5 rt-t NOR, than 80 or $50 per ton
a, the mil. .haJ FHG per ton gave The Stee.
worEsa yigat @. $50 per tou; ana that he
thought sometime must he wrong; what
/. j, Was he did not ru-t understand,
HINT Yesterday he brought into town
%g bushels OF wheat, inst one ton, and
ne could uuly -. go cents per ndsheI
for it. or / cents per pound, the 'Iu'ya.
lent 10 $50 per ton, and that TINS puce ana
rot pay him the cost OF raising 1t; IN TACT,
he lost money on It instead Of making ~
Der ton profit, ~ the steel works did on
the beams, 70 meet the interest and pay
the MORTGAGE on his farm; that he cOu,I
not understand why he should be Obliged
To raise and sell - bushels OF wheat, OF
over two tons, to enable him to purchase
one ton of steel beams costing ltS7 than
So per ton 20 produce and make. The
answer of the steel-man was, that tins
. con 'liabia ht eA-tltH tAAA ~ W '''t we 49,
pau2er labor of Europe, and the necessity
OF protecting home labor and to make q
home market for the farmers wheat, oats
corn, cattle and hogs The farmer being
unahl. 10 rttute tui- unanswcrahIe argu'
ment, paid 3 3 cents per pound Tor ms
beam and departed q wiser man. In the
evening the son returned, and with the
father began 10 discuss the TRANSACTIONS
Of the last two days, tndeayOrng
to ascertain Why the farmer +
wheat would only command ]! cents per
pound at the steel works, while the lAfnSI
had 10 pay %& cents per pound for h's
steel byaus. The farmer feared he had
made a fatal mistake when he bought the
/ farm; hut he had been influenced IN the
purchase by a speech he had heard IN the
| TALL of is by very distinguished Sta'e7
man, one Mr. Kelley, At the opera mouse
| in BraddnCk, in which that gentleman
ably set forth the advantages Of protection
| TO home labor and elCquently dwelt on
| the nome market it would create Tor the
product, of the farm, while enhancing the
wages OF the mill hands. Hut the 'oa
could not see the advantage OF Mr.. Nel
| lry'S kind OF protection, either To himself
| the mll hand. or his father, the iiTner
! The price of the llttrr's product III tue
| home market being regulated by the price
Mark Lane London, he was OF cours,
| trading in open market, and took nothing
/ whatever hy tho so-Cllled protection. "
[ 10 his own WAGES in the mill, II he got
any share of the iarill subsidy II
the form OF wages, it was 50 small - tC
De- iuappreCjabie eud to count for piac
Ucaliy nothing a. against the prices he
Nls made 70 pay log the "tarltied' ueceS'
saries Of lite; but considering the employ
er's share, and the necessities OF pro
tcclcd" employers life, he was not so sur
prised that the 'hlss rs alleged ~ III,
newspapers. could rent Cluny Castle, ~
Invernesshirc. Scotland, tospend his SUN.
mer in. and as he believed that the net
profits Of Carnegie Brothers on the two
items OF steel rails and steel beams alone,
throwing out Of account all other items OF
their production, were, on $4,000 tons OF
steel beams, 81 .u1O,uOu and on l92,"'~
tons of steel rails, at SO per ton, 81 929,
$50, or 4 total profit on these two items
alone Of nearly $5.UnU,uuO, the son, with
Gn eye to facts aud igurt1, declared his
extreme alnazemeut at the proposition OF
Carnegie Brothers to reduce wages 10 per
cent. Tor the wagv-workcrs OF that es-
tabrshuent, thought they might decently
leave this pitltul percentage IN the hands
Of that labor in whose name aud Tor whose
alleged benefit they receive the enormous
bounty extorted from the consumers oi
the uitcd States upon those two capital
articles; and that while the employees not
only thought they were justly entitled Ia
this IN per cent they were yet lighting fol
"a principle dcarcr to them than mere dol.
lars and cents II was Il principle involving
not only the great economic problem OF tins
aye, but OF past ages, and must be the great
prOblem Of the tuture-0 fair division be
twsan labor and capital; AMI if the wage.
worker ~ Carnegie Brothers works could
he forced into suhiuglijon by Pnkerton
special detectives, their lust rights denied
them, and the imported paupcr labor oi
Eurcp, could be utilized a. means Tor
the subycrsion OF their rights, he could rec
very little hope in the future tor the wggc-
worker ia thus country.