The Forrest City times., 1891-05-15

the protective policy shall stand or fall by this test"
 In. answer to this challenge may be quoted the following list, giving but a few cases of wage reductions in protect ed industries made within about a month before these words were spoken.
 The twelve manufacturers of brick in Trenton, N. J., gave notice on April 5 that the wages of their employees would be educed 20 per cent. on the following day. On April the workmen, 1,200 in number, went on strike against the re- duction.
 A reduction of 20 cents per thousand in the cigarette factory ot David Billor, in this city, caused strike on March 26.
 In Lehigh, Iowa, 100 miners went on strike April because of Q reduction from $1 to s6 cents per ton.
 The wages of engravers and chasers at the Middletown (Conu.) Plate Com pany's establishment have been reduced Is per cent
 The men employed in Requardi's cigar factory, Baltimore, were on strike April against reduction of from $1 to g. per thousand.
 Twenty seven fnishers employed at Solomon's leather factory in Newark StIuCk, Ou ApTu lU, 6SBtuSt d tufodteueu reduction of 14 per cent.
 Forty ribbon weavers at Frank & Du- gan's silk mill in Paterson, N. J., went on strike, April 20, against reduction of 75 cents per cut This was the third reduction in two weeks
 The employees of the New Haven Rolling Mill Company, in New Haven, Conn.,, went on strike, April 6, owing to reduction of 10 per cent.
 On March 3l, the weavers at the ging ham mills of the Fitchburg Manufactur- ing Company, at West Fitchburg, struck because the firm refused to pay them Q uniform rate of three cents per yard on all grades of goods.
 When is protection going to make labor contented and happy?
 A "Reviva," Promised.
 When Is protection ever to ado it's work?" We have now had high tariff for thirty years and still protectionists are busy making promises that protecy tion is going to make the country pros porous President Harrison said to tho people of San Francisco:
 "l feel that we have come to point where American industries, American commerce and American influence are to be revived and extended"
 American ship building has had for years absolute protection in the shape of laws entirely forbiddinG the purchase of foreign ships; and despite this ab- solute protection the President has to confess that, so far as ocean shipping is concerned, we have already gone out of business
 But even the President hide-bound protectionist that he is, is making prog. ress away from Mekinleyism. In his speeches on the tariff in the House of Representatives last year Mckinley ask ed contemptuously, "Why need we vex ourselves about foreign commerce?" He praised his bill for the very reason that it would diminish the importation of competing foreign goods;" and there was applause on the Republican side of the House.
 But To, what change in one brief year! Here is our President going about the country telling the people that American industries are at the point of being revived" since the billion Con- gress has voted subsidies to ships for the purpose of increasing our foreign trade. Mckinley ereets his wall and frankly tells us that it is for the purpose of re ducing imports.
 Mckin ey bill and subsidy bill arc both passed, the one to kill trade the other to revive" it; and they are both signed by the same President! It is all very amusing.