Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
BACKED UP BY sAopDY.


Friend and Their En- sny-They Were OPP
posed to Cleveland, hut Supported Har-
rison.
late number of the New York Dry
Goods Economist the leading paper of
the dry goods trade in the United States,
furnishes very interesting evidence of
the attitude of the regular wooden man
ufacturers and of the shoddy manulact-
urers toward the Mckinley bill
OF the shoddy men it says: 'Manu-
facturers of goods from wool substitutes
applaud the measure before Congress
and are championing it's proponents and
abettors."
But the wooden manufacturers are by
no means enthus astic in their support
Of the Mckinley wool schedule. The
Economist says: "The tariff measure
now before Congress, or such port on of
1t as applies to wool and its manufact-
ureA has been opposed by a greater
/ number of wool manuf cturers and more
/ practical logic than has ever been sub
mitted against any previous customs rev
| enue measure. The wool manufacturing
/ industry has been waiting for eighteen
/ months for Congressional relief which
at this moment appears further off than
inasmuch as their mills are partly or
| wholly idle, and their output barely re-
imburses the costs of manufacture. Free
wool is wanted to employ the wooden
goods machinery of the country, for un-
til that can be started up both the man
ufacturing and the wool-growing inter
est must languish. When will Repre-
| sentatives be placed in Congress who
will execute the wishes of the masses?
From this summary it will be seen how
the wooden goods interest is handi-
capped"
But the shoddy men are backing up
Mckinley, because they look forward to
great boom in the shoddy business
when the new Tariff bill becomes law.
The shoddy men, too are right. They
see that McKinley's heavy duties in
wool will make it more difficult for the
people to wear good wooden clothing
and will force them to clothe them
selves in shoddy. That is why the
makers Of humbug clothing are N favor
of Mckinley.
The shoddy men know a good thing
when they see it; they know that the
Mckinley bill is a measure which Will
add immensely to their gains; and
therefore they are throwing up their
hats for Mckinley aud would doubtless
be glad to support mn for President,
just as they supported Harrison and
Morton two years ago.
While the shoddy men look upon Nc
Kinley as their friend they felt quite
the other way about Roger Q. Mills two
years ago when he was making tariff.
1t will be remembered that Mills had
the boldness TO put wool on the free list
claiming that this would result in
, cheaper and better clothing for the peo-
Pile. But this action of the wild Texan
excited the deepest hostility of the
shoddy men, and they became at once
his sworn enemies, for the shOddy men
, are utterly and forever opposed to any
man who wants to let the people have
good cheap wooden clothing. They
therefore ranged themselves in oppos =
: tion to Cleveland in 1888. During the
campaign of that year a circular was
scattered abroad by the Republican Ma
tional Committee, signed by seventeen
rag and shoddy men. The following is
+ taken from their circulars
: Dear Sir: You are doubtless aware of the
fact that the Mills Tariff bill, which has b. on
' passed by the Democratic majority of the
House Of Representatives., places on the
= free list wool, wooden rags of every descrip-
. tion, and all gr tdes of shoddy. 1t also
abolishes the weight duty on woolen goods
: This bill therefore, as far as it affeC IS the
industry in which we are engaged, is a free
y trade measure, and as such we decidedly
i | opposed to it. No manuf lcturcr of shoddN
r in this country could, under these circum
}. stances compete with the English or Ger
man manufacturers, and, therefore, theil
I business would be entirely ruined and al
i the shoddy used in this country would b'
imported from Europe Our customers thus
d ruined, what W uld become of our business
1 1t also would be ruined. and we and those
dependent upon US would suffer
: There Is only one way to avoid this loss tt
' ourselves, and that is by the defeat of the
: candidate Of the free trade party, Grove
: Cleveland. We have determined in tht
coming election 10 support the candidate
- of the protection party, Harrison and Nor
ton. Their election W. consider to be indis
pensable to the maintenance of our bust
ness.
And in August, 1883, the followin!
news item appeared in the New Yorl
Press, ono of the highest of high pro
lection papers in the country;
The manufacturing firm of J. G. Fennin
- & Co, at Ludlow, n. Y, shut down thei
works yesterday, throwing out of employ
ment some forty operatives of both sexes
They were engaged in extracting wool froi
: delalnes aud other rag mat rails to be use
in the naDufacture of shoddy cloth. The
say that the passage of the Mills bill in til
Lower House of Congress admitting woo
free of duty has deferred TheIp from con
tinuinR their Industry.
Q. Quite natural that they should sur
port Mckinley now--''all in the family
you know" The past few years hav
witnessed a very great advance in th
use of shoddy in this country. Accord
ing to the census OF 1870 our shodd
mills used 10000, 600 pounds OF RAJ
shoddy. In 1850 they used 81, 900, 90
pounds, and the census just taken vii
show an amazing increase for the pas
ten years. There are new more than 10
shoddy mills in the United States, AM
- about $50, 600, 600 is invested IN handling
and manufacturing shoddy.
The use Of shoddy in clothing has in
creased enormously of late. The Ger
sus of 1850 shows that los pounds G
o shoddy are mixed with LIS pounds Q
pure wool to make our 80 called woolo
= goods. Bnt it is in carpets that shodd
has made the greatest strides IN displaC
V. ing wool. In 1870 carpets were made Q
so parts Of wool to 90 of shoddy; in l6S
there were IS parts of wool to 81 part
Of shoddy A later estimate is made b
- the Dobsons large firm OF carpe
makers in Philadelphia. According t
this Arm. in So 600, 600 pounds of carpe
materials theEe are 10000, 600 pounds c
clean wool, y, ,a09. es}3 Of shoddy an
:, %, ,00O 900 of other mixtures.
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= WORDS OF WISDOM.
. ProtectIonists Admit That In Foreig