The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-07-18

AND EVEN PHILADELPHIA.
Stoasing Mestineu IN the Quaker cry 70 De-
noune~ the Mckinley NM ~ltepubiicsn
business Men snd W~orhingm<n unite Ia
uttering . Mighty Protest Against IT,
r'otectioa Tottsr,ng 90 IT, Pail II dine d
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the Watchword.
Pennsylvania Is the great stronghold
Of protection IN the United States.
Philadclphia II It's chief city, and has
for years been the citadel Of protection
IN high tariff Pennsylvania. For years
Philadelphia has rolled protection Is a
sweet morsel under its tongue.
But now times are changing. and
now ~Philadelphia's sweet morscl Is
turning 70 gall In her mouth. Her
workingmen have been diligently
schooled In the doctrine that wages are
dependent on protection-that without
protection, in fact, there could be no
wages worth having. But, all the same.
and Notwithstanding the present high
protection that Ph ladelphia has and
the prospects Of still higher in the fu-
ture, her w~orkingmen have seen their
wages falling lower and lower. and
many Of them are out Of employment
through the closing down OF the mills
in which they work. The Philadelphia
Times recently said that nearly seventy
failures OF wooden mills and dealers
nasc occurred in this city and vicinity
since the election OF 1855. when the
tariff question was proclaimed as set
tied, and each failure toll the same
story. viz: that the cost OF raw mate
rails drove our wooden industries INTO
bankruptcy"
Thus il Is not Philadelphia's working
men alone who are tasting the tariff
gall-her manufacturers also are weary
Of the bitter draught. When both the
manufacturers and their men feel so
strongly the evil that protection is do
ing for them, it Is no wonder that they
should make themselves heard in oppo-
sition 70 the Mckinley bill. which would
only aggrayate their troubles
And they have made themselves
heard.
Philadelphia has just held two meet
ings In the same day--onc for the maru-
facturers and merchants and one for the
workingmen, and these meetings re-
sembled in their attendance and IN
thusiasm the great gatherings just be-
fore a Presidential election.
The meeting Of the business men was
held in the afternoon in the Walnut
Street Theater. which was flied 10
OVERLOOKING with the substantial mcr-
chants and manufacturers OF the city.
representing many million dollars Of
capital OF the fifty vice-prcsidents Of
the meeting about half were Repub-
leans which shows that tho opposition
70 the Mckinley bill in Philadelphia is
BY no means confined to one party. and
that this opposition is based on the
simple and solid fact Of business in
terest
The speakers at this meeting were
Congressman Springer. Bynum. McAdoo
and W. +. G. Breckenridge. Mr.. Springer
discussed the wool question with special
reference to Philadelphia. lie she wed
that Philadelphia was the greatest
manufacturing center for wooden goods
in the United States. there being ASS
establishments in the city interested in
free wool. These establishments have
a capital Of s35. 600. 900 and turn out S55.-
900, 900 worth Of goods every year.
Mr.. Springer said that ii was the
States east Of the Mississippi which had
clamored for the wool tariff Of 1867. and
1t was AZ their demand that II was
passed That was twenty years ago.
and these twenty years Of protec ION
had utterly failed in the very States
which demanded il. In Pennsylvania
there are now only 80 sheep where there
were 100 in 1865; in New Jersey the loss
is about the same. and in Ohio there are
but go where there were 100 then. In
the States east Of the Mississippi there
were in 1867 over 81. 600 600 sheep: in
ISIS the number had fallon to $4,000. 600.
The tariff had failed to wool
growing; and yet the remedy which has
failed once Is 0 to be applied again in
stronger doses.
Besides this failure to encourage the
production Of wool. what has been the
state Of things in the wool manufacture
ing industry? The manufacturers them
selves have made the admission in their
Bulletin-the ofiicisl organ OF their as
that s'since 1883 nearly one
Of the wooden machinery Of this
has been idle. and the other
two-thirds has been run with lit
tie or no profit" And yet the cry
Is for moro protection. The aver
age duty paid last year on all the
hrst and second class wool imported
was ISIS per cent According to the
Mckinley bill this average will be 1874
per cent On third class wools-carpet
wools, which are not grown in this coun-
increase is still greater.
amounting to 40 per cent. on the i'm
ports OF 1859.
On wooden manufactures there Is .
till more striking increase. For ex-
Present Average
average Mex nloy
duty. under
Wooden and worsted cloths.
knit goods. etc ........... GIL l0S.sl
wool hats. fan
nels. $40 1fOe1 H.
Nomen's and chiidrcn's
dress goods. .....-......a ssss NJ