Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-05
EI-Congressman George W. Grouse,
OF Akron, Ohio, Though an Un-
compromising Republican,
TAKES NO STOCK IN DELAMATER.
he Thinks Porter's Cateehism Good Enough
as Far as it Goes, But Doesn't
Go Far Enough.
THE FEDERAL ELECTION BILL NO GOOD.
Mr. Grouse Says it wOuld Bring Disaster on the Re-
publican Party.

d.
facturers of reapers and mowers in the
United States, was at the Anderson yester-
day. Mr. Grouse is also President of the
Charleroi Plate Glass Company, and fire.
qrently comes to Pittsburg on business.
When found at the hotel he was scanning
Mr. Porter's list of questions to manufac-
turers published in yesterdays DISPATCH.
"what DO think of them?" he replied,
smiling, to the first query. swell, they
don't 60 far enough. That is the main OBJ
lection L have, and when explain you will
understand. Tc begin with, Mr.. Porter as
sures manufacturers that they need have no
tear of their answers being used against
them, and that in itself is givea way. A
business man should not be afraid to fur
nish information. There should be
nothing that would come back and
club a man. Now, If 1 shonld an
swer Mr.. Porter's questions just as
they are and go no further, my business
would show up as one OF the most profitable
In the country, when in reality we are
scarcely making anything and prices are all
cut to pieces.
SHOULD BE EXPERTS.
"Mr. Harrison or the Supervisor are no
tiops should be framed by experienced men
for every industry. l have no objections to
going to the bottom and showing up every
thing, If this were done it would COM
pletely disarm the demagogue and satisfy
the working people.
81 know the tendency to-day is to feel
that the rich are getting wealthler and the
poor more poverty. stricken. Some feel that
the tariff is intended only to benefit the
manufacturer, and that enormous profits
are made in business. My impression
is that Mr.. Porter has such ideas
in his mind from the manner in
which he asks for information. In my
business there is great difference between
the shop cost and the real cost ANY intel
ligent mechanic knows just what the ma
terial and labor are figured at, but more of
them know what it requires to put the goods
on the market. pay 100000 every year
TO sell my maehines-more, by far, than it
costs me to make the crop, but l don't see
that any Of Mr.. Porter's questions develop
that tact. None OF them touch on
the cost OF keeping agents on
the road, storage and TRANSFER bills, freight,
Office hire, loading and unloading materials
and machines at the shop, and Thousand
and one other little extras that are over
looked by the people, but which the manu-
facturer is forced to pay.
SOME OF THE EXTRAS.
Frequently ship a machine at a mo-
ment's notice, and maybe have to send q
man along to put it together, and stay day
or so to teach the farmer how to work it.
All Hhis requires money. Yes, 1 repeat
agaif that it costs more to put the machines
oNf market than it does to make them,
and this is the result of a ruinous competi-
tion. L hope people will come to their
senses some day and see the folly of such
work.
eff Mr.. Porter's questions would bring
out all these facts, then l would have no
objection to answering them. What l have
said of nv business, however, 1 don't think
is true of all other industries. have sim
ply given the worst side of it. but one that
must not be overlooked.
1--WE always have some red-hot speeches
after a census is taken, and the demagogue,
in delivering his harangue, points to the
figures in the tables, and defes you to go
back of them, but, alas, tho igures don't
begin to tell all the truth, and the people
ought to know it."
Turning to the subject of politics, Mr..
Grouse said: "We are busy these DAYS
electing Democratic Congressman in Ohio.
The people haven't any use for bosses in
that State. If from what 1 can understand
of the political situation in Pennsylvania,
though 1 am a Republican, L would vote
for Mr.. Pattison. A man shouldn't imagine
because he has been favored a little that he
owns the whole State.
A LITTLE TOO CONFIDENT,
'Some months ago 1 met Senator Della
mater. He is clever man, but never saw
anyone SO confident of his nomination, He
talked as if he had everything his own way,
and 1 guess he knew he had. THE DIS
PATCH, notice, has entered protest, and
started a small fire that will sweep these two
rivers before election time comes. for one,
if bossism is rampant in the State, would
like to see IT,"
Concerning the silver legislation and
the Federal election bill, Mr. Grouse
stated that On the silver question
he was inclined to agree with the
President and Secretary OF the Treasury.
He had no objection to issuing a paper dol
lar for a dollars worth of silver. There
would be no harm in tnat but when it came
to putting silver on the same basis with
gold, there are other countries that have
to say about that. 1t is when
they would refuse to accept our silver dollars
in exchange for gold that the trouble would
begin. When gold is at premium there is
wrong.
Mr.. Grouse admitted the country and its
business were growing rapidly, but it was
useless to expand the money system bevond
natural laws. The extreme silver men. he |
would be in the same position as |
the farmer who should demand that the |
Government buy all his wheat as fast as he |
raised it. Other producers would have the |
same privilege, and what would become of
the country.
WOULDN'T HAVE IT.
Gas for the Federal election bill, am a |
he continued, "but the pas
sage OF the bill wouldn't help the party. = 1t |
will only bring defeat. To bring the ques-
tion home, we people in this State or Ohio
would not submit to having our elections
by Federal officers, and
neither viii the citizens of North Carolina
stand IT. The bill will not pass the Senate,
but If 1t should become a law it would
create trouble. 1 sympathize with the Re
publican party, but such measure will NOT |
secure tair elections"