The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-03-29
MONDAY. MARCH rs. IsDs.


MONDAY. MARCH 20. ISDs.
McMinan's senseIess Twaddie.
II is remarkably strange that when
free-trnders get into certain channel
of misrepresentation argument they
can never get out OF it again though
conditions have entirely changed.
Thus Congressman Mcmillan when he
opened tho debate on the free wool
bill In the House OF Representatives
March 0. stuck to the old sterectyped
free-trade arguments that were used
before the passage Of the Mckinley
tariff. He rambled over the whole
range of the tariff question instead OF
combining himself to the one measure
before the House-free wool. This
was something like the burthen of his
song; ...@.-
The laborer has been forced to pay
more for the roof that shelters him,
,{oruthe hat that covers his head and
koolens that cover his back.
o pay more for the linen he
the hammer and hoe with
be works. Yet his wages have
~ up ONO CSuU. " udI peUtlJ
BASED protection been to HING
Ian should have known better
ls. He should, by this time
rned enough of the practical
Be of the new law. no longer to
has it had raised prices. lie had,
ID have had, plenty of statistics
w him that nearly everything
n L.. L. III -. a -
in before the bill passed. He
have been excused for using lam
something like the above before
Assage of the bill, as its operation
hen problematical, but there is
5xcuse for him now, eighteen
hths after its passage, with the re.
ts Of its operations fun in view.
Everybody knows il Mr.. Mcmillan
ee not, that there is scarcely an ex,
ption to anything that is not cheap
han before the Mckinley bill passed
eMillnn speaks of the cotton and
tineME GODS which the poor working
man wears, and says that tho iniqui.
tous tariff has made even these neces.
sarles dearer. This is simply not true
and Mcmillan should have been better
Informed before he made his argument
II Misrepresentation can be called
argument. In relation to cotton and
linen goods we have at hand the DRY
Goods Economist in which is com
pared the prices of cotton standard
Fabrics In April 1890. six months before
the passage of the Mckinley bill. with
abe prices in january and February
1892, almost year and half after tn,
b tll passed. .... -..
For instance, American indigo blue
Hint In 1890 was Ga cents per yard, il
Po2 81 cents. Passaic fancy. then
Bents is now AZ; Victoria solid black;
ihen 5& are now cents.
In domestic ginghams, Bates War
wick dress, in 1890 s1% cents, in 1sg
are cents; Cumberland staple then
and 81, are now 5 and ) land West
brook dress style, then 5 are now
In brown shirtings and sheetings
ne Atlas r in 1890 6 I. and 81 cents
yard, are now 6 cents; Atlantic A thel
y 2 aud "a, are now Ga, and Pacific ex
ira then 694 and :. are now CO cents.
In brown cotton tiannels, the Amo $
keag A-A-A, in 1890, Is cents yard, ar
now 141s; Ellerton O. then IL ar
now II; Hamilton NJ. then 90 arc no,
., and Massachusetts L, then : : ar
now z.
And so 1t runs through all the dry
goods catalogue, there being a fail {
from 8 to ~ per cent, and yet Nh. NJ,
MILAN relterates senseless and untru
assertions that the laborer has to pa
more for the woolens that cover h
back and the linen he wears 1t woul
prolong our article to too gree
alength to enuIaerate the great ia
there has been in agricultural impl
ments and yet Mr., Mcmillan says Ii
iaborer has TO pay more for tie har
mer and hoe with which lie work!
Those who buy these articles kuu
better, let them be the judges. O
Democratic friends haze get thems,
yes SO in the habit of making the
misrepresentation that it seems I
terly impossible for them to chan
their course.