Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-06

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and compared
Quality considered, | can buv as cheap
here as can at home in Yorkshire"
1t is asked him about tde all-wool ulster
coat which he has on, and how much it
cost He answers: 'Ten dollars, and it
aren't cotton warp, either.
is the suit of clothes you have on all
wool?"
Eyes sir.
What did they cost?"
TEN DOLLARS"
What did those new shoes you have on
cost?"
Two dollars and half"
could YOU buy those clothes any cheap
er at home?"
| mo, sir!'
How about The shoes?'
They would cost me at home three dol
lars aud islf
How ABOUT your stockings and shirt
and underc!othes?
IL can buy them as cheap at hor'el'
what .is it teen tIat coss YOU
mo- here imam it would 1T bone for your
self or the SUPPORT of your far,ily?'
Nothing but house, rent and Goals.
Everything else is as cheap and in many
cases cheaper. On the whole J cen take
better care of my family here, feeG and
clothe them letter, and live more COM
o,ta3ly at the same cost than can at
home 10 England"
The New York Perald has shown that
clothing of quality such as working peo-
pie wear was fully as cheap in this country
as in England. Now, wren men and
as they do in the old country it needs no
the working classes are in this country
than in the old country.
The Chicago He aid has shown this feet
very clearly by contrasting the earnings
of a worL ingman and bis family ia the
wok ingman in England Whether
oe e?,ued before it can be 90 ught, and so
with food Mines, mills. and factories
must be kept in operation or labor will be
MS necessities. closed mill means no
employment for r,il hands, hence inabii-
ty TO buy, however cheap goods may be.
A Pittsburg paper aptly exposed the ruth
OF this some time ago 10y a conversation
| DebWePll Tue WIVES VI Two operatives. bnuS +.
"Oh ye. Mrs. Costigau, out it breaks me
poor hea' to see The lovely stool kan buy
at foive cnts a yard now; and me paving
Twelve cirts a ya-d for two dresh patterns
OF the seiy-slre last yea =, before they had
tie oSs civ ;arif removed Sure this Nv
IT, ode is a Jess;n 10 toe poor.
| 80 it is toe s. ne, Mrs. Diuney. An
will yez De havip' new dresses this yea,
| Ms. Din oev?"
''Yez see, as low it is. Moil e is out of
wJcrccf since The mills oe snlt down on
a, cor 1T of what they ca be calm furrin
ln'por'aIiou! But the goods is very Goa Pc
if one uad the money FOR them, Mrs. Cos
tigan.
PROBE TON ON COT""oN.
"a cotton SINNER asks: WAS the' g
ever a time III this country when there was
protective tlr'tf on cotoon?'
There ,;as protective tariff on cotton
in 1889; the amount was 3 Genus a pound.
Cotton spinner will probably remember
that the preamble OF tue first act of con-
gress, July 4. 1889, read "for The encopr-
| agement and protection oe American man
utactrres. The demCcrais-9outdern
ooes-wanted and obtained pro ection on
what they foresaw would become very
important raw material, also tjat tae
| southern states wee adapted to It's growtJ ;
hence the protection given 10 raw cotton
in r3"mory wit tee prime, Die of encourag-
lug American n IL '9ctufes. In those
days democrats were III favor of protecting
raw materials if they were American
raw materials. 1t is the democrats and
not the republicans, who have changeI
front As before stated in these columns,
Notwithstanding we have in the southern
states the raw cotton at our doors, yet the
difference ia the wages paid to the cotton
spinners in Eogland enables the English
to distance us. in connection with their
subsidized lines of steamers, to beat us In
some Of the foleign merkets.