Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-25
PROTECTION TO THE FEW.

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A good Republican friend of THE GA
ZErTE writes this paper as follows: "For
| the perusal and edticetion of a Demo-
cratic editor I enclose this clipping from
the Boston Journal OF October 10, 1890
After firing hot shot into the Republican
party ease your mind upon this article.
! Your friend.'
The George Bullock mills, Conshohocken.
will soon begin operations, giving employment
10 about 600 persons. who have been idle for
about year and half
The syndicate which purchased No. 2 mill last
summer recently secured clear title to the
mill, seventy-fve tenant houses and about
forty eight acres OF land. The mill cost 500, 900
net. When it sold at auction last June il
was purchased for So, 600.
The syndicate is composed of Roscoe K.
Mover, William NJ. Singerly. Dunn brothers,
Henry Lewis and William B. Bullock The
other mill. which originally cost S275,000, has
been purchased by S. B. Hill for SIPS, 900. MIR.
Mover saws thai but for the passage of the Nc.
Kinley bin the mills would be white elephant
on their hands.
Here then we find the Mckinley bill, Just de-
scribed an outrage upon American working
men. figuring as the prime cause of the starting
up OF two extensive mills, giving employment to
600 men who had been idle for q year and half.
Despite the able editorials of the Times. it is
impossible to resist the conclusion that o
measure which begins 20 work in that way,
ture is dry, cannot be altogether curse to
American workingmen.
Verify the new and higher tariff is a
blessing! 1t causes Carnegie and all the
other factory lords to rub their hands
and 1t puts coo men to work. 1t will,
doubtless, put other men to workout
what of the many? What of the 80. 000.-
900 people who must pay more for the
necesssries of life? THE GAZETTE never
disputed the benefits of robber tariff to
the few-THE GAZETTE speaks for the
many, and these the tariff robs to enrich
the few. The Mckinley tariff adds to
the price of everything bought by the
poor. If there was any doubt of this let
the following testify:
New YORK, Oct. Il, 1890.
To the Editor OF The World:
You mention to day the case OF recent i'm
portatiou of pearl buttons upon which the old
duty was S29l and which the new rates made
sI6lS. 90, an increase of slS2T.52.
We imported an invoice of pearl buttons upon
which we paid duty prlor to October of s3S2.75.
The duty to-day on that invoice would be
S6sl3 81, an increase OF S6i6l. 06.
Just figure the percentage on that and see
what fun Mckinney is having with the poor peo-
pie who buy these buttons, in helping to build
up an industry that never existedin this coantry
and never will exist here except in very fine
goods used by the few! Yours truly.
8. HIRscH & Co.
Another merchant of New York, Mr..
Daniel McKeever, also testifes through
the columns of the World to the increase
in the uecessaries of life brought about
by the Mckinley bill:
Cotton corduroy goes up from 35 per cent.
duty 10 a 20 per cent duty. Fine cashmere, now
at 4s4 per cent. goes up only to 60.
Woolens of the grades used by workingmen 10
cloth, now at so per cent. duty, goes up only to
81.
Cotton velvet is doubled from 20 per cent to
50. Silk velvet remains unchanged at so per
cent.
Cheap alpaca goes up from so per cent. to 100
per cent. Black silk still remains nch anged at
so per cent.
Cotton sleeve Innings with striues go up from
IS per cent to 100 per cent. Silk sleeve Innings
remain unchanged at 90 per cent.
Cotton laces and handkerchiefs go up from
40 per cent. to so per cent. an increase of one
half. Silk laces and handkerchiefs go ep from
50 per cent. to 60 per cent, an increase Of only
one-ffth.
silk plush to initiate sealskin sacques goes up
from 80 per cent. to ITO per cent. Sealskin
sacques go down from so per cent. TO 20 per
cent.
And if this be not enough to show the
effect of the new tariff, THE GAZETTE
has before it FIVE circulars sent to Il. N.
Conner of this CITY, two of which. as
of the whole. are given below:
New YORK. Oct. 1, 1890.
In consequences of the large advance in prices
of leather and other materials used in the man