Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-12

Nou1lng MortlnBa In the Quaker City 70 ID
loaneo the mckinley kllli-Republioa
nuslness Men aud WorlSlngmen Unite d
Ulesring > Allghty Protest Against It
&roeoction lettering 60 ITS Fail In One a
ma DIVA otrongholds-Froo Raw Material
ehe Watchword.
Ronnsylvnnia 10 the great stronghold
eok protection In the United States
'Rhiiadelphia Is its chief city, and hal
ffor,years been the citadel of protection
I'm high tariff Pennsylvania. For years
philadelphia has rolled protection ~ q
sweet norsel under its tongue.
Bat now times are changing. and
saow iPhiladelphia's sweet morsel IL
turning to gall In her mouth. Hel
~criingmen have been diligently
>ochOolod 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,
saad Notwithstanding the present high
GprOtection that Philadelphia has and
the prospects Of still higher in the fu-
rtare. her workingmen have seen their
wages falling lower and lower, and
rmany'of them are out Of employment
through the closing down of the mills
N1n which they work. The Philadelphia
Wines recently said that NEARLY seventy
failures of wooden mills and dealers
have occurred in this city and vicinity
since the election of 1883, when the
tariff question was proclaimed as set
tied, and each failure told the same
STORY. viz: that the cost of raw mate
trials drove our wooden industries into
bankruptcy"
THUS it is not Philadelphia's working
men alone who are tasting the tariff
Gan-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
A2g for them, it is no wonder that they
should make themselves heard in oppo-
Gidon to the Mckinley bill, which would
only aggravate their troubles
And they have made themselves
heard.
Philadelphia has just held two meet
tngs in the same day---one for the manu-
1acturers and merchants and one for the |
and these meetings re-
sembled in their attendance and en-.
thusiasm the great gatherings Just be-
fore Presidential election.
The meeting of the business men was
held in the afternoon in the Walnut
Street Theater, which was filled to
Overf1owing with the substantial mer-
ehants and manufacturers of the CITY,
representing many million dollars of
capital. OF the fifty vice-presidents OF
the meeting about half were Repub-
licans, which shows that the 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
Springer, Bynum, McAdoo
and W. p. C. Breckinridge. Mr. Springer
discussed the wool question with special
reference to Philadelphia. He showed
hat Philadelphia was the greatest
center for wooden goods
n the United States, there being 45S |
in the city interested in
rec wool. These establishments have I
capital Of $50, 900, 900 and turn out $685. .
100, 900 worth Of goods every year. 6
Mr.. Springer said that it was the ~
States east of the Mississippi which had
for the wool tariff of 1867, and I
{ was ut their demand that it was i
'assed. That was twenty years ago. v
nd these twenty years Of protection
lad utterly failed in the very States D
which demanded it. In Pennsylvania D
here are now only 80 sheep where there g
'ere 100 in 1868; in New Jersey the loss g
about the same. and in Ohio there are &c
ut 90 where there were 100 then. In Ia
10 States east of the Mississippi there
ere in 1857 over $1,000, 900 sheep; in n
sSS the number had fallen to Il, 900, 600. D.
he tariff had failed to encourage WOOL d
rowing; and yet the remedy which has
lied once is now to be applied again in u
xonger doses. m
Besides this failure to encourage the ID
Of wool, what has been the 10
ate OF things in the wool manufacture to
q industry? The manufacturers them In
lives have made the admission in their DC
ulletin-the Official organ Of their as co
''since 1888 nearly one ST
ird Of the wooden machinery of this no
untry has been idle, and the other eli
IO-thirds has been run with lit ra
, OF no profit" And yet the CRY Oh
Tor more protection. The aver. Sc
% duty paid last year on all the
ut and second class wool imported de
IS 4s.1s per cent According to the l."
'kinley bill this average will be 1874 IN,
cent On third class wools-carpet ala Ga
'ols, which are not grown in this coun- at
F-the increase is still greater, sui
counting to 40 per cent on the i'm. iea
rts Of 1889. I I.s
On wooden manufactures there IA q inc
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