New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-09-07
Excellent Returns for Labor From the
Mckinley Law.
Stubborn Facts From a Democratic Report
in York State.
Investigations by the Commissioner Of
Statistics Show a Net Increase Of
S6,377,925 in Wages.
Also Net Increase Of S3l, ,3l5, ,l3O inPro-
duction, in Sixty Eight Industries, En-
ploying 285,0oO Persons.

Had II bombshell dropped into the
Democratic camp from clear sky, it
would not have sent greater consterna-
tion into the hearts Of the Cleveland
Democrats than did the ninth annual
report Of the Democratic Commissioner
of the Bureau Of Labor Statistics Of
New York, Charles F. Peck, made
public last week. Senator Hill and his
admirers, including Mr.. Peck, look upon
the dissatisfaction caused by this unan-
swerable statement with grinning coun-
tenances. They bear no love for Mr..
Cleveland, and have not forgotten the
insults heaped upon them at Syracuse
and Chicago by the Cleveland faction.
They look with evident relish upon the
true statement which Mr. Peck presents
of the prosperous condition Of affairs,
feeling that the statement bristles with
stubborn facts which the Cleveland men
cannot shake. The Republicans say the
statements made by MI. Peck carry
great weight
Mr.. Peck's totals show a net increase
in wages for 1891 over 1890 of $6,377,-
925, and net increase in products. in
York State, during the same period, of
$31,315,130. The report of Mr.. Peck
shows only partially the prosperity Of
the country under the protective tariff
No better arguments are needed for the
workinoman than these continued favor
able reports of business and the better
condition Of the wage-earners.
Commissioner Peck gives as q reason
folsselecting the tariff as the subject for
his report that it especially affected the
working classes. He had found that the
statements Of the Democratic speakers
were not borne out by facts. Governor
Campbell had said that not a single
workingman's wages had been raised as
the result of the Mckinley act. "NIy re
ports show that there were Just 2S5,0oO
men whose salaries We're raised as the
result of this law" asserted the Commis-
sioneI. Mr.. Peck adds that he is free to
admit that his report was notin harmony
with the platform adopted at Chicago,
in so far as. it related 70 the subject Of
the tariff. However, hisreport was as he
had found the condition OF affairs.
The summary prepared by Commits
sioner Peck says, in opening:
Tariff, whether levied ''for revenue on
W. or for .revenue and the Incidental
protection Of American manufacturers
and American laber,'' is certainly a ques-
ton Of such vast import as to enlist the
most thorough and dispassionate inyesti-
cation 1T the hands of the American peo-
pie And while the present report has,
under the law, been confined to the State
of New York, its results can but be taken
as indicative cf the conditions existing
in every section of Our country where
manufacturing and industrial pursuits
are followed.
With the exception of a limited NUM- IN
Der of the great industries carried on IN
our country, no State in the Union OF
fers field so varied or extensive within
which the statistician can carry on his
work with greater assurances OF inteli-
gent success than is presented by the
State of New York. Within its borders
are to be found by far the greatest num- m
Der Of manufacturing Adjustments, the
most varied industries and the largest
number Of individual employers and
wage-earners Of any Of the forty four
commonwealths embraced in the United
States. So that, whatever the statistical
data collected and tabulated may prove,
relative to the effects Of Protection on
labor and wages in New Y FORK, may just
q 81 be taken as fairly representative Of the
conditions throughout the whole coun-
try. i !.
Not for many years had the subject Of
the tariff assumed such great proportions
= attached e i. il 9l a
{ INF 'iiim1,apaortsnt and interesting I. question OF
political economics for discussion by our
atstssu,sa. yet BY reason. Of the President
Of the unibsd States, making il the solo
subject Of his annual message te Con
gross il December tas7, Interest," s. il
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