Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-20

day, where formerly twenty found it hard
to live. The same or similar results have
! been secured In other cities Of the United
States. Providence, r. l., Springfield,
Mass, Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn,
Chicago, and several other cities now have
their factories for the manufacture of pearl
buttons, furnishing work for upwards of
5000 people at wages on which they can
live decently and in comfort.
None of these factories existed before
the tariff of 1890 was imposed, as the
American workman could not compete
against wages of So and $3.50 a week
earned by Austrian pearl button makers IN
Vienna In report by COnSul-GGneral
Julian GOldSChmidt, dated December Is,
1889, he makes the following statement in
reference to the pearl button workers of
Austria: 'At q meeting recently held lin
Nlenna) they declared that they would
rather StarVe to death with tn cir wives and
children than suffer the yoke they had
borne so long, and submit to the miserable
wages heretofore paid them, an able
| bodied, industrious man receiving only So
to $3.50 week. This is bad enough, but
out Of this he has to furnish his own light
and tools, while many good WOrkmen earn
even less than this"
Bad as this condition of the Vienna labor
market is shown to be by this report, still
lower prices were paid in Bohemia and
MOravla, so that the German government
rier in The shape Of high duties or be drIv-
EN- from the trade.
Birmingham. England, was for more
than century great pearl button center,
and would have continued SO to this day
had not A uStrian and Bohemian cOmDetI-
ton Obliterated the business in that city.
Many OF the best WOrkmen Of Birmingham
have now left that city and come to the
United States.
The result of the tariff has been to re-
RI f1,oJ ,<f.
about S2OOO00, against an amount Of
So, 100000 in 1890, and while these figures
should be read in the light Of the over-im-
portatiOnS previous to the passage of the
new tariff act, they sufficiently evidence
the rapid growth of the domestic industry.
To this may be added that Just before
the passage of the Mckinley bill there
were only II pearl button factories in the
United States, and now there are n. A
tariff which increases q domestic industry
more than 500 per cent. the first year, and
gives the country better article without
any permanent advance in price, must
surely commend itself to every person who
prefers his own country to some other.
Poor Grover, No Good the Democracy.
Grover Cleveland was made Presi-
dent and for four years administered
the government. The independent
press, like the Evening Post and New
York Times, from which some papers
are 80 fond of quoting, stood by him,
every one. AT the end Of his term he
was beaten, wotully beaten, in the two
great Northern Democratic states.
He was not only beaten himself, but
he dragged his party down with him in
the congressional districts and turned
the government over to the enemy in
every departm He left the White
House and both branches of Congress
to the spoilers of the South, and the
first work they undertook was to pass
the force bill.
The only hope of the Democrats to
avert that calamity, for the danger of
which Grover Cleveland was RESPONSE
BILE, was by showing IN a silver bill ahead
Of it. Did he help to avert the wrong
he had made possible? No. In the
very midst of the fight he wrote his let
ter against silver, seeking to turn aside
the only weapon pointed at the enemy
of the South. Is that the sort of man
we want?
David Bennett Hill, as governor of
New York, made his party stronger
with every recurring election, and final
ly drove the Republicans from their
last unconstitutional entertainment.
How? By means which the state su-
preme court declared to be legal and
lawful but which every Cleveland paper
In New York denounces.
Nominate HIM and he will carry New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Indi-
ana, Montana, half of Michigan, and the
solid South.
Nominate Cleveland and Villas will
pledge him Wisconsin, Wiped-off-the
earth Campbell will pledge him Ohio,
Tom will pledge him Minnesota, Dick
will pledge him Iowa, and Harry will
pledge him the devil knows what. In
November he will get New Jersey and
the solid South, minus West Virginia.
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