The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-07-09
"M'KINLEY WAGES" NOW.
ANOTHER FREE TRADE FABRICATION
EXPLODED.

Manufacturers Assert That Stories Of Re-
duotfon Are Baseless Falsehoods-Tcx-
=, tracts from Significant Letters-wages
Now Are Higher Than Ever.
After the mckinley prices" humbue
fell through its authors turned their at
tention to Mckinley wages" publish.
ing reductions which they asserted had
been made in various industries in diff.
ferent parts of the country. The truth
is overtaking these falsehoods also. Mr..
J. w. Jones contributed to The Weekly
Interior Herald, of Hutchinson, Kan,
an annihilating reply to certain state.
ments which appeared in The Alliance
Gazette, naming prominent manufactur.
ing establishments as having reduced
wages since the establishment of the
Mckinley law. Mr.. Jones took the
trouble to write for authoritative infor.
nation to the establishments themselves
We give extracts from the letters he re-
ceived, showing how far from the truth
the statements were..
The Trenton Pottery works writes as
follows under date of June 4:
"In replying to yours of the goth ult.,
would say that there has been no change
in the prices paid our employees"
General B. f. Butler writes under date
June 8:
"The story to which you refer is only
one of the campaign lies that are hoated
about by base men,"
j. s. Ludlam, who is at the head of the
very largest corporation in Lowell, says;
"Yours, containing inquiry respecting
mule spinners' wages, to hand. In re.
ply, would say there is not word Of
truth in it."
The bureau of statistics of Illinois says
concerning coal miners wages:
"There have been no reports received
at this Office Of any reduction in the
prices per ton for mining such as you
mention-sixty-nine cents per ton."
The Buckeye Reaper works, which was
among the firms alleged to have reduced
wages, answered:
Replying to yours of the Goth, there
is no truth in the report"
The Little Falls Knitting company re.
piled:
yours is before me, stating that you
have statement that the wages of the
! workers in the Little Falls Knitting Mill
| company have been reduced 20 per cent
since the passage of the Mckinley bill
| In reply would simply say this is lie
| out Of the whole cloth. Our wages to-
day in every department are higher than
they have been before in the history Of
this company, and the indications are
that the wages are liable to be higher
still, as, some Of our help are already in
quiring about going into business fol
themselves, which they claim the Nc
Kinley bill has made it possible for then
to start up in small way, and make
balbriggan goods, such as have been i'm
ported from France and Germany; and
to tell the truth, these very people art
Democrats who have lately got theil
eyes open. Some Of our former help are
manufacturing for themselves already
and they are Democrats, but will never
vote against the Mckinley bill again"
The Otis Iron company says:
"The statement to which you refer il
utterly untrue, as we are paying our mel
now the same wages exactly as we pait
them before the passage of the McKin
ley BILL"
These Free-traders are hardly helping
their cause by their systematic manufac
ture and circulation of such extravagan
myths.