New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-20
PROOF mat CANNOT BE RESISTED.


What has become or the mm who was 50
sure no one could mention a single establish
mont in this country which had been brought
into existence by the new tariff? II he has
gone 10 Join his twin brother, the tn-platc
liar his SANDERS Of his country still lngcr in
the memories of men, and are recalled almost
every day to his disgrace and the disgrace of
the party he tried To serve. by some new de-
yclopmcnt Of American industry. Whoever
takes up any good trade paper i sure 10 find
among It's news items the record of some en-
largement of the working force of this Nation
and one can rarely read "A daily newspaper
without meeting in lis dispatches, lis local
items and its advertisements, evidence Of the
same constant progress in the industries which
all know are defended by the tariff.
The American Protective Tariff League has
been collecting and publishing in The Econo-
mist four instaments of what il calls the
Mckinley Census" This is an enumeration
of the new plants established owing to the
Mckinley Tariff, and of the engagements of
works under the same influence. The name
Of each operating firm or company is given. the
State and postof1icc address the amount of
capital employed, the number Of hands already
at work and the number To be employed the
hours of labor and the wages paid. the char
actcr of the products and the quantity or
amount in each establishment, and in many
instances remarks are added giving especial
reasons for the improvement. Regarding cx-
tensions or engagements, the increase of cap
tal. of hands employed, of products and Of
wages paid, is given, in addition to the address
and the character of products. and the hours
Of labor before and after October, 1890, are
compared. 1t is evident enough that the list
is not complete, as it does not claim to be, for
since the work began there has not been time
TO make it complete. II does not vet contain
many establishments Of which newspapers have
given extended accounts. Yet the list of new
establishments already embraces 262, and the
list of expansions 49, 1t is safe to say that
at least one new establishment or enlargement
has gone into operation for every day that has
elapsed since the Mckinley Tariff went into
effect.
The list thus far published embraces new
establishments employing 17,435 hands and
engagements with an aggregate increase Of
6.175 in the number of hands employed. Rccog-
nizlng that this is only partial list. any gcnu-
inc American will inquire why any set of men
oppose giving work and wages to $3.50 more
workers in this country Is it bad thing for
the country that its labor finds larger and
more urgent demand: that many thousand
workers are busy who were formerly idle. and
that this increase of labor yields for Americans
many millions worth of products every year
for which they used to pay foreign manufact-
urers? In the latest list is one hosiery cstab-
lshment paying $4,000 per week in wages
another cutlery establishment in this State pay
ing $4,000 IA year TO 100 hands, another in
Pennsylvania for chenille goods paying $50. 900
a year to 200 hands, another woollcn estab-
lishmert in the same State paying ~ 200 per
week to 100 hands, and in many cases the
number of hands employed is large but the
wages are stated by the week or by the day.
In brief. millions that used to 60 from Ameri-
can pockets to foreign countries now go to
support American workers and their families.