The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-09-26
WHAT IT HAS DON E..
MANY DON'T REALIZE THE
VALUE OF PROTECTION.
The Great Issue in Ohio-What Is Meant by
Free Trade-Our Own Market the Best
McKinley's Versatility Great Cam
paigns-A Tariff Picture.
Those Friehtfu! Taxes.

How many voters rea ize what tie
protective system has done for them?
Democratic newspapers are careful II
to make known the ia It's, which e
nevertheless abundantly established by
official records. For example. let the
census report on wages testify as fol-
lows:
"A cotton spinner at Cohoes earned 81
in 1860, the last year of Democratic
tariff, and the wholesa g pr.ce of print
cloths was then 5.31 cents. This same
spinner earned in the same works 81. -
in 1890, and the price OF print cloths
was 3.s7 cents. A days work under
Democracy would buy eighteen yards,
under Republicanism forty-six yards. A
carpenter earned 81 in 1sG0, the last
year of a Democratic tarff, and paid
S3 for hani-saw He earned 81 in
1890 and paid 81 for better hand-saw,
Under Democracy his saw cost him two
days labor, under Repub icansm half
a days labor blacksmith earned
S107]5 in 1860, the last year OF
Democratic tariff, and paid 1925 per l0J
pounds for nails. He earned 81 so III
1890, and paid in the same marketS2 per
100 pounds for nails. Under Democracy
his days work earned 81 pounds an
under Republicanism 80 pounds of nai 8
A glass-presser in the OHara works at
Pittsburg earned 81 so in 1850, the last
year of a Democratic tariff, and paid
s.. 80 per dozen, or about p cents each
for the goblets he made. In 1870 lie
earned in the very same establishment
So. 80, and yet he paid only 81 cents per
dozen, or 3 cents each, for the gobctS
he made, which were better than any
produced in 1850 Under Democracy
his days work earned : goblets, and
under Republicanism his days work
earned SO gOblets. 4 cabinet maker
earned Sl.5O PER day in the last
year Of Democratic tariff, and paid
S35 for bedroom suite. In 1890 the
cabinet maker in the same establish
meut earned 81. so per day, and paid so
for the bedroom suite on which he
worked. In Democratic times the suite
cost twenty three days labor: after
thirty years Of protection it cost him
eight days labor. 4 brick moldcr
worked for S1.25 in 1860 in New Jcr
sey establishment, and the hard brick
sold for IS per thousand. In the same
esta blishment the molder earned Sl..5
in 1890, and the brick on which he worked
sold for s.. To buy a thousand of brick
he helped to make under Iemo racy he
would have given six days and halt of his
work; under protection only four days.
A forger in a Come ticut AK eStab-
lishment earned $? per day in 1860, and
the axes he made were sci ing at Sl1 per
dozen. In 1890 he earned S3.2I per day,
and the axes sold at $50. TO buy a
dozen cost him five and one half days.
labor under remOcraCY: under protec
ton about two and q half days"
illustrations like TN Sc from official
authority could be given in number sn.li-
cient to i'll tbs SacCt And yet there
are Democratic organs which persist in
the cry that the tariff is tax, aud that
the poor workingman is somehow robbed
by the duties imposed on cotton, tools,
nails and glassware.