The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-27
The Campaign Of Education.

IDE Campaign OF EoucltlOns
The campaign of education"
moves on apace. Last fall the Pro-
lection organs and stump-speakers
fairly grew black in the face howl
ing against the ''ruin of the coun-
try contemplated by a FIVE per
cent reduction of the tariff. 1t was
pointed out that an immediate re-
duction of the wagesof weriingmen"
would result; that "mills would be
compelled to shut down." that
sthouSands of mechanics would be
driven into the Streets and that
universal distress would attend such
brazen attempt to subserve the in
terests of Great Britain. On the
other hand, if the tool of the mono
pOlists nominated at Chicago were
put in the White House, it was
promised that the idle mills would
start up, capital would go at once
into new enterprises, manufacturing
concerns would enlarge their outputs
and steady work and good pay would
be given workingmen. 1t is now
nearly fivo months since the fiscal
policy of the country for the coming
four years was decisively establish
ed. AID IN all reason there has been
annie time for the protectionists to
point to some of the features of the
restored industrial confidence that
was to attend their victory. Are
their index fingers so employed just
now Well. hardly. On the other
hand we note
That Bradstreets reported last
week 1876 business failures in the
country, against 141 in the CORES
ponding week of last year when
President CIcveland's "free trade"
message and the blizzard struggled
to Overtnrn the business of the coun-
try and produce universal ruin.
That the failures in the country
from Ian. to March 8 this year un-
der restored confidence" were
3.143, while they were only 2,62G in
the face of the Mills bill for the
corresponding period of 1888.
Tia. under tho re-eStablished
policy or protection 10, 900 Fall River
wcavers arestriking for living wages.
That according to the Chicago
hail. there are between 10000 and
10000 unemployed men In Chicago
at this time
That there is great distress among
New York cigar makers, owing to-
lack OF employment and ''pauper
eruts3S.
That the manufacturers of carriage
bolts have taken steps to strengthen
their combination
That the President of the. Brooks
Locomotive WOoks OF Dunkirk N. Y,
Who last fall personally appealed to
his worlingmen to vote the Repub
IIesn ticket to save their wages and
places. has Just discharged 250 Of
them owing to lack of orders.
That tine following reductions of
wa-vs have taken place in the past
week: Cleveland rolling mills, Is
PER cent. Butler Co., Syracuse, n.
Y. 10 per cent; corset factory, New
Haven, Conn, from 8 to rs cents
on reed work and girls from s1.S5
to SIS cents; spike factory, Fremont,
O., 10 per cent; Lowell (Mass.)
shuttle-makers, 10 per cent,
causing n strike
That the New York Tribune an
nOunces that ga few strikers" among
the wcavers of Fall River "are
starting for England''-to starve to
d..a:i, under free trade, we suppose
Fiat the Chicago steel mills are
arranging to combine with capital
OF s25. 500, GOO-to "reduce the cost
If r.roduetioD" Cwages, of course)
a d TO give more Stability to the
blsincss" (raisiDg the prices to con-
sumcrs)
That the stock of pig iron in the
eOnntry is increasing instead of de-
crcas;ng- and that according to
JOscEsa D. Weeks, an eminent pro
tectioEbt, in the iron industry
"Wages have decreased here instead
OF increasing as they hare iS Gree
trade) E"gleSAd."