Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-08-08

William J. Lee has been elected
manager of the Concordia Opera-house
A good selection.
j. F. Slight, of Emmett, has been ap-
pointed principal of the Gladstone Mich,
school at salary of 81 900 per school,
year.
The call for the Republican county
| convention to be held at Jefferson, Satur-
day, August Is, will be found at the head
of our editorial columns.
September Is is WATERFOWL day at
the Milwaukee Exposition. The Phil
harmonic band will give concert in the
building in the afternoon.
The evening service will be dsconti-
nued in the Congregational church dur
ing the month of August. Morning ser
vice and Sunday school as usual.
1t is reported to the eighth annual
convention OF the Catholic Total Absti-
hence Union in Boston that the order has
now 53,755 members, an increase for the
year of 1926.
S. NJ Eaton & Son are now manu-
featuring a new and fine ginger ale ex-
pressly for family use. Pure ginger is
used, and the article produced is the best
to be found in the market, whether for
eign or domestic. As beverage it is
excellent
Next Sunday evening the Milwau-
kee Light Horse Squadron will arrive in
this city, enroute for the encampment of
the Second regiment, w n g., at Ripon.
The company will rendezvous Sunday
night at the fremont house and leave
Monday morning.
The Columbus encampment of the
Robert Chvas post, of Milwaukee, will
take an excursion to this city next Sun
day. Many members of posts III this vi
cinity are expected to meet the encamp-
ment here. The programme includes a
picnic on Concordia Island and an after
noon concert.
"A. E. Needham has purchased the
John Schmidt property fronting Main
street sc feet and extending back 10S
feet, as an addition to his lumber yard,
which it joins on the west. Upon part of
the lot Mr.. Needham has erected large
and substantial lumber shed with iron
pillars and metal roof rendering it as
fire proof as such structure can be made.
The price of the property was $500.
The following "Tippecanoe" voters
are living in Jefferson and Dodge counties:
Beaver DAME. F. Clinton, G. w.
Scoville, Joseph Hampton, E, R. Hoyt.
NJ. d.
Burnett-C. G. Redfeld.
Elba e. Scribner, E. J. Williams,
John Dody.
Fort A tkinson-Wm. Tooker.
Horizon j. w Platt.
Iron Ridge-Vincent Roberts
Lowell-G w. Ames
Minnesota Junction-George Williams.
Oak Grove-Henry Fanshaw.
If it were true that 40 pei cent. of
the cost of all woolens used in this coun-
try is due to the tariff, what would neces-
sarily follow? Just this: That if the
tariff were abolished every suit of wooden
cloths sold for $40 would sell for Sc.
With whole suits of all<wool clothes sell
ing for Sc, how much would the farmer
get for his wool, the mill employees for
weaving it. and the tailors of both sexes
for making the garmentsf When whole
suits of all-woolen goods are sold for Sc,
which Is the object of the Democratic raid
on this Northern industry, God help the
woolgrowers and the poor creatures who
maintain existence by weaving cloth and
making clothing. Clothing is cheap
enough now. To make it cheaper means
to reduce labor to the European level
| Cleveland Leader.
The weekly payroll of the Singer
factory at Elizabeth, J., is about $55,
900. At Glasgow, Scotland, where the
company employs one-third more bands,
the payroll amounts to only $18, 000-an
average of $13 per week per man in Amer
lea and S. per week at Glasgow. Some
difference. That is clear What makes
it? Because labor is higher here. With
out tariff it would be just as cheap here
as there. So long as we keep out the
foreign manufactured article, just so long
our home manufacturer can afford to pay
higher wages. But let the foreign pro-
duct come in free and what do we see
He cannot stand the competition. Down
90 the wages, or he has to close up entire
". And bear in mind that these fact;
remain Just the same whether Harrison''
ancestors fought on the side of Cromwell
two hundred and fifty years ago, or not
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