Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-27

day, where formerly twenty found it hard
10 live. The same or similar results have
been secured III o'iirr cities OF tAc United
States. IioNiacace. X. l.. Springfield,
Mass. Phil ,uclphia. New York. Iirooklyn,
Chicago. NJ several other cities now nave
then iaclnilcs Tor the manufacture of pearl
buttons, furnishing work for upwards of
5000 people at wages on which they can
Inv. ueceItly and III 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
julian Goldschmldt, dated December Ii,
1859. he makes the following statement in
reference to the pearl button workers of
Austria: AT n meeting recently held lin
Nlennal they declared that they would
rather starvc to death with their 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 SD
to 50. 80 q 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 h this"
Bad as this condition of the Vienna labor
market is shown to be by this report, still
lower prices We're paid in Bohemia and
Morav!a, so that the German government
found it necessary to raise a protective bar
rier in The shape of high dutles or be drlv-
EN- from the trade.
birmingham. England. was for more
than a century a great p%earl>button center.
and would have continued so to this day
had not Austrian and Bohemian cOmpetl-
ton Oblitcrated 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-
duce the imports of pearl buttons in 1891 to
about $200,OOO. against an amount Of
81. 800. OW i'll 1890. and while these figures
should be read in the light of the over-im-
pertations 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 IL pearl button factories i'll the
tariff which increases a domestic industry
more than 800 per cent. the first year. and
gives the country q better article without
any permanent advance in price, must
surely commend itself to every person who
prefers his own country to someo other.
Poor Grover. No Good to the Democracy.
Grover Cleveland was made Presi-
the government. The independent
press, like the Evening Post and New
York Times, from which some papers
are SO 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 yer to the enemy in
every department. He left the White
to the spoilers of the South, and the
first work they undertook was to pass
the force bill.
The only hope of the Democrats 10
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
the only weapon pointed at the enemy
of the South. ls 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 e~ntrenchment.
How? By g "a which the state SUI
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, lndi-
ana, Montana, half of Michigan, and the
solid South.
Nominate Cleveland and Villas will
pledge him Wisconsin, Wiped-of:-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.
Birmingham 4lge-Herald (Dem.)
What the Past MIN Months Have Done
for Tin Plate.