Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13
Gould you buy those clothes any cheap,

Gould you buy those clothes any cheap
er at home?"
No, sir,''' ,<
How about the 81 s?''
'',fhey would cost me at home three &c, e..
lars and half
How about your stockil- ora sti
and underclatlies?
Il can buy EN- as cheap at homer I
What is vt then that costs W.
more here than it would at home for your
self or the support of your family?'
Nothing but house-rent and Goals.
Everything else is as cheap and in many
cases cheaper. On the whole can take
better care of my family here. feed and
clothe them better, and live more COM
fortably at the same cost than | can at
home in England. -
The New York Herald has shown that
clothing of quality such as working peo-
as in England Now, when men and
women earn three or four times as much
as they do in the old country it needs no
explanation to show how much better off
the working classes are in this country
than in the old country.
The Chicago Herald has shown this fact
of workingman and his family in the
workingman IN England. Whether
clothing be cheap or dear. the money must
be earned before it can he bought, and so
with food. Mines, mills, and factories
must be kept in operation or labor will be
idle and the operative unable to purchase
his necessities. A closed Mill means no
employment for mill hands, hence inabili
ty to buy, however cheap goods may be.
A Pittsburg paper aptly exposed the truth
of this some time ago by conversation
between the wives of two operatives. thus:
'Oh We, Mrs Costigan, but it breaks me
poor heart TO see the Lowell Y stool kan buy
at foive cints yaro now; and me paying
twelve cints yard for two dresh patterns
of the self-same last year, before they had
the bastely tariff removed. Sure this fray
thrade is blessin' to the poor"
$50 it is the same, Mrs. Dinney. An
will yez be havin' new dresses this year,
Mrs. Dinney?"
''Yez see, as how it is, Moike is out of
wurr''ck since the mills be shut down on
account of what they du be calm furrin
importation! But the goods is very chape.
if one had the money for them, Mrs. Cos
tigan.
PROTECTION ON COTTON.
"A cotton simmer asks: WAS there
ever a time in this country when there was
protective tariff on cotton ?"
There ,sas a protective tariff on cotton
in 80; the amount was cents pound.
&C ia spinner" will probably remember
tina. the preamble of the first act of con-
greSs, July f. 1885, read for the encour-
agement and protection oe American man
ufactures - The democrats-southern
ones-wanted and obtained protection on
what they foresaw would become a very
important raw MATERIAL also that the
southern states we're adapted to its growth );
hence the protection given to raw cotton,
in harmony with the principle of encourag-
ing American manufactures. In those
days democrats were in favor of protecting
raw materials if they were American
raw materials. 1t is the democrats. and
not the republicans, who have changeG
front. As before stated in these columns,
notwithstanding we have in the southern
states the raw cotton at our doors, yet the
difference in the wages paid to the cotton
spinners' in England enables the Eng lish
to distance us. III connection with their
subsidized lines Of steamers, to beat US IN
some Of the forei gn markets.