Telegram-herald., 1891-07-24

the Milwaukee WORKS sf tae Illinois
Steel Company. bas just arrived home
from a tnree-mOntns tour throagh
Europe. As 70 tie European sentiment
on the Mckinley Ian lie says: Where
ever | went l heard most severe erili-
snisand dsnunlcatlonsof The Mckinley
ball. The people OF Europe are very
bitter against Il. and IL has hurt them
greatly. The expectations from Aus
TRAN manufacturing quarters tor the
nrst al months under the Mckinley
Law A. Compared wIth slx months PRIOR,
except n bsel sugar. snow decline Of
from 81 coo. .0V0 TO 81 10000. Beet
sugar brought up the export value q
little higher than the year before. This
district Is large producer at pearl but
tons aud certain Kinds OF cloths and
learned that the pearl bntten intsrests
would be transferred 90 this country.
While the consumption OF these but
tons may not be as great under the re-
duction. some sort of battou will be
largely manufactured. Large quaint
ties of Australian wool which was mere
tofore shipped 10 England to be manu-
faclared Is now being sent TO this coun-
Try 10 be made up. | met a manufac-
turer OF veiveteen and velvet corduroys
AT Manchester, Eng, VINO told me they
had decided TO build An extensive
mandatory IN the United States and
would employ about eight hundred
hands. In my Judgment If it were not
for the Democratic success last fall.
there would be great many industries
from Europe started mere soon. l met
Abram S. Hewitt, who told me he had
been negotiating for u large tin manu-
factory IN Wales to DO removed to
Virginia. the intention being to trans
port all machinery and . village Of
laborers and their families. but the
possibility OF the tariff reduction on tin
plate will probably kill the move"
The only reason why the Mckinley
law hurt them IS not because it was .
blow aimed at y neighboring nation.
but because IT was an encouragement
TO the people of this country to do for
themselves, by the instrumentalitv of
the thousands of hands..willing to work
many Of those things which 1t cost us
thousands of dollars to hire done in
Europe. Anyone but partisan blind
free trader will acknowledge the eco-
nomical advantage Of dong our own
work at home and saving our resources
for our own citizens. Congress IN pass
ing the Mckinley bill was legislating
for this courtry and not for Europe.
IL the American market is worth so
much to European manufacturers that
they must have it, even At the cost of
coming over here with their factories,
let them come. They will increase our
industries. trade and commerce, help
| build up our cities aud make markets
for our agricultural products. From
this side they can supply the foreign
markets just as well, for the American
| tariff does not attach to articles going
| out.
Mr.. Hinton lets little daylight on
the subject of Italian immigration, by
showing the impossibllity of Il poor man
to exist there, under present conditions
| of wages and cost of living. He says:
"As to the cost of living. wages, etc.
abroad. especially in Italy, compared
with this country. / found these facts:
Articles of food in Northern Italy aver.
age as follows: Beefsteak. 40 cents per
pound; ham, 90; sugar. Is; ealt, 4.
Day laborers work twelve hours and
get from 90 to 90 cents day. Taxes
are very high, household property. as a
rule, being taxed on its income, the tax
averaging 33l per cent Of the rental
value. Mortgages and government
securities are taxed about l3 per cent.
In my judgment, taxes are very much
higher and the cost of living simply
out of sight in comparison, while
| wages are from one-third to one-half
what they are here. The condition of
| the laboring classes there is simply
hopeless; the laborer can barely earn
enough to buy the absolute necessities
OF life"
These statements, showing tho rela.
tive advantages of America and Europe
as homes for tho laboring men, throw
into strong relief the howls of the Dem
ocratic calamity shriekers and espec.
ALLY the so-caIled demonstration by the
Kansas Alliance statesmen that this
country is going to the devil down
grade and no sand on the track. Such
utter nonsense in anything but politics
would be nckening, but nothing car
nauseate the Democracy. The effect IL
always the other way. Democracy can
give pointers to ipecacuanha and tartar
emetic.
/ The "reformers" who denounced
railroad passes 30 roundly are fast dis
covering ways of using them. Gov.
Tilsman, the Democratic-Alliance gov.
ernor of South Carolina, accepted a
pass In these "well chosen" words:
MY first impulse was to return IT, he.
cause in the past have criticized men,
bsrs of tho IeCisIat,rre for accepttnv