St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
M'KINLEYS OUTRAGE.
How the Working People Are
Robbed Of Their Hard
Earnings.
A Cold Prospect for the La
boring Man and His
Family.
Prices Of Clothing Have Been
Increased to Enormous
Figures.
The Manufacturers Meanwhile
Haul in Their Handsome
Increased Profits.

K1nley tariff law are discussed the more
Objectionable do they become to the
whole mass of the people. The only in
dividuals in st. Paul who have been
heard to speak favorably of the law are
those interested in certain manufact-
cries and rampant Republican politi-
clans. The Republican politicians live
upon the corruption fund provided by
the manufacturers, and the manufact-
urers gorge their money chests with
illegal profits the Republican politicians
enable them to wiring from the people.
The Mckinley bill has become law.
What is the result?
Have wages increased?
No; but the prices of wearing apparel
and household necessities have.
The workingman to-day is in this
position: His wages are the same-in
some cases they are less than was paid
a year ago. On the other hand, if he
goes into clothing, dry goods or hard
ware store, he will have to pay from 13
to Is per cent more than he did a year
ago.
This is what the Republican poll
ticians call protection.
Protection for what? For the work
ingman? No, protection for the million
aire. the monopolist and the bloated
capitalist.
And yet there are thousands of work
| tngmen who will vote the Republican
ticket. Like the dog licking the hand
| OF the man who shot it, there are work
ingmen who will continue to bow down
and worship the sO-called grand old
party, Notwithstanding they have been
sold out and placed at the mercy OF the.
soullesS moneyed monopolists of the
East.
The great mistake made by the
American Workingmann is that he al
lows himself to be hoodwinked by the
apparently high wages he earns under
protective system. He does not stop to
consider the supplies, goods aud COM
forts Of this life that those wages rep
resent If he once did, and saw the I'M
fair advantage which the employer has
over the employe under this protective
system. the days OF protection would be
| numbered.
What does this Mckinley law do?
1t increases the taxation heavily upon
articles in general uSe-articles which
the people are compelled to buy.
There is an Increase of more than S1O,-
100000 on the metal schedule, upon iron
and steel and their manufactures, two
| articles which lie at the very base of all
our industries, without which scarcely
any useful occupation can be carried on
in this country. There is an increase
of nearly S14, 100000 in the wooden
schedule, which embraces large and
absolutely necessary part of the cloth
of 81 .9S6. 1856 in the cotton schedule, and
an increase of S5,000,000 in the flax and
linen schedule-twO other schedules
which embrace large and important
part of the clothing of the people.
There is an increase of IS, 735, 351 upon
tin plate, and an increase of 81. 1857 .O42
upon block, bar and pig tin, the raw
material used in the manufacture of tin
plate. There is an increase of $671, 1896
on cotton ties.
What is all this going to do?
Let the workingman go into the Bos-
ton or any OF the other clothing stores
in st. Paul and he will quickly find out,
A suit of clothes which last year cost
him SIS will this year cost him $50. I'm
derwear which may have cost Sc is now
81. A 50-cent tie has jumped to 70
cents. Suspenders that were once pur-
chased for Is cents are now rs cents.
The IS hat of old days has gone I'D to
Sc. The quality of the goods, mark you,
is just the same. The increased cost
which the workingman pays is the tax
facturer, and return he makes for the
for the privilege of being governed by
the Republican party.
Winter is fast approaching. There
are hundreds of workingmen who re-
quire new overcoat. He could have
got one last year for s25. The same
quality of overcoat wilI~this fall cost
S32, thanks to Maj. Mckinley and the
Republican party.
A single man may be able to meet
this enormous increase. But what of
the man with wife and family? His
expenses are increased almost hun
dred per cent, while at the same time his
wages show a tendency to decrease.
Great are the blessings CT protection
one-sided protection. A protection
which prevents the foreign manufact-
urer from competing with the home
manufacturer, but which does not in
terfere with the thousands of immigrants
who yearly flood the country and COM
pete with home labor.
Dress materials-dry goods of every
description-ha increased in prices
corresponding with those of mems cloth
ing. If ladies doubt this let them visit
any of the dry goods stores in the city.
Those ladies who are DESTROYS of plush
sacque will find an increase from SIS to
S25, and in seals an increase from $50 to
S125.
But it is not clothing alone that has
been so outrageously increased.
Take the increase on tin.
The tin tax will fall with greatest
force on the poor and middle classes, as
proportionally much more tinware is
used in their households than in the
homes of the rich. The Well-to-do can
use silver plate; the poor man must use
tin. In his pantry Will be found tin
pals, tin cups, tin plates, tin clippers
and tin pans of wonderful variety.
Scattered about other parts of his home
are numberless useful tin articles that
he has bought because they were cheap
and answered well the purposes for
which they were made. He must con-
tinue to use these tin articles, and the
protection party has decreed that he
shall pay all the way from 20 to so per
cent more for these necessaries than he
did before the vicious Mckinley bill
was passed. The advance will not be
much, but on complete outfit of tin
ware for housekeeping the young work
ingman will find the difference quite an
item.
The importers of tin plate are in
doubt how far-reaching will be the
effects of the new tariff. The business
of canning fruits and vegetables. which
has grown enormously in this country,
largely on account of cheap tin. will
: suffer serious setback by the opera
ton of the Mckinley law. The small
dealer will be affected first. Little es-
adjustments that give employment to
twenty or thirty men will be forced to
: combine In order to maintain living
prices. In any event, the people who
| buy canned goods will have to nav the
tin tax that the Mckinley bill has i'm
/ posed. Milk dealers will also find a
difference in the price of their milk
cans.
Window glass is going up with a
bound.
The cigar smokers will be forced to
pay double prices, use cabbage leaf
torches or quit. Imported cigars will
hereafter be taxed 1850 pound, instead