The Press., 1890-10-23
[Hartford Courant.l STIMULATING HOME INDUSTRIES.

fHartford Courantl
 STIMULATING HOME INDUSTRIES. A very cheap effort is being made by the free trade element to spread the b lief that there is to be sharp rise in prices and consequent suffering here in America, because of the passage of the Mckinley bill.
 This is misrepresentation in several ways. Slight advances are hailed as bur densome, while iu fact, if there were no campaign, tue same papers would exploit exactly the same facts as proofs of busl- ness improvement; and good many ad- vances are purely imaginary, mere inven- tions to deceive. Everybody who buys anything knows that phenomenal cheap ness prevails in almost every line.
 But suppose the Mckinley bill did ad- vance prices so us to cost each person a few dollars a year more to live. Wouldn't it be better to pay a little more and have something to pay with than to have prices still lower and by lack of work be unable to buy? And the Mckinley bill means work at home and lots of if.
 Take some cases that The Cnurant is able to give as facts. A great concern in Scotland has been in the habit of selling immense quantities of Scotch ginghams Ill this country, having it's travelling salesman at work here all the while. This year the concern has taken orders as usual, but, {, seeing what was coming, the management some time ago secured mills in and about
 Philadelphia, set up the machinery there, and is now filling those orders already
 taken with Scotch ginghams made in the
 United States. They are sold by the same people to the same customers as the same goods; the only. difference is that their manufacture is conducted here, and all the benefits that come from such factory ac- crue to America and not to Scotland. Another. A leading New York importer appeared before the ways and means com mittee to fight the bill and was beaten. After he had been back at his office little while one of the foreign manufacturers of fine velvets, whose goods he sells extensive ty. called upon him. The importer pre- pared himself for talk on the bill and an explanation of his defeat, but the foreigner passed that matter all by i'll word, and said that what he had come to discuss now
 was not the bill but the plan he entertain ed of putting up large mill in the United States, and he decided to build it.
 An English manufacturer of fine hosiery and knit goods went to Washington and cast his influence for a higher tariff, and explained that, if it were adopted, he should build mill here and become all American manufacturer.
 Sundays New York Sun says:- A lot of English, Scotch, Irish and French men are running about this country now look. ing for favorable sites on which to erect mi Is and factories where linens, hosiery, and wool
 en dress goods can be made. They are hunt ing, too, for mills that have been shut down, or they are willing to purchase an interest in American mills where these goods are manu- factured. They are the agents of the owners of mills in Europe, which have for years been suppl, ing the American market with all the fine linen consumed here, and with stacks and stacks of woolen dress goods and hosiery that have been sold by the American storekeepers. The new tariff is responsible for the agents raid. The new rates of duty on the product of the European looms threaten to ruin theil trade with America, and just as matter oi lf-defense they are going to move over here and manufacture their goods. They won't shut up their European mills, but none oi the product of those mills will be put on oul counters.
 All this means busy times. There is al the work of preparation which makes de mands upon hundreds of industries, aLd men tnere VIII D0 me WOfh OI tn0 new
 concerns when established = their em ployees to feed and clothe, etc. Business
 activity creates. activity. The new tariff
 hasn't deprived us of goods. It has sim. | ply given lively impetus to their manu fracture at home, and unless all signs fail we stand at the beginning of period oi
 business progress that the whole country would hail with enthnsi sm, if it were no for election time. Even now the free traders Can weep and mourn on the stump,
 but they will be found just as ready as anybody else to profit in business by the
 good times and take their share in the general prosperity.