The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-14
Always Strongly Grasps the Helm Of
the Ship of State.
PROTECTION is A SUCCESS.
THAT tho Foreigner Pays the Tariff is DEM
onstrated Once More-The state Cam
paign in Massaehus usotts beginning to
Get Lively. tr
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE SEws.I

cholera. He realizes, very evidently,
what responsibility rests upon him; and
no sooner was II reported that the dis
ease had reached New York than he,
from the Executive mansion at Wash
ington, whittier he had hastened, issued
proclamation declaring quarantine
against vessels from foreign shores.
Prompt, decisive, radical action has al
ways characterized President Harrison
when any great national interest was at
stake; and that is no slight reason for
his reelection. Chill, Bering Sea, Occur
d'Alene, cholera, = all these within
year have called for intelligent and
prompt action; and NOT oncs has Presi-
dent Harrison failed to do what the
whole people, without regard to party,
has said was right. :.
One would have thought that tho
"calamity" shouters would have had lit
tle to say after the recent report OF tho
Senate finance committee on wages and
the cost OF living. This showed that
since the Mckinley bill went into effect
wages have slightly increased while the
cost Of living has decreased about per
cent. This report was signed by as prom
inent Democrats as there are in tho SEN
ate. But still Democratic orators keep
on declaring that under protection We
are only going from bad to worse. Now,
as IL by special providence, comes the an
nual report OF Labor Commissioners Peck
Of New York state, an appointee OF Gro
YER Cleveland when he was Governor,
giving much space to
The Tariff Questioa
and those related to 1t. In brief, Now
York state, which must be carried by
Cleveland to secure his election, is nhown
by the official returns, by a commissioners
OF his own appointment, to havo pros
percd more under the Mckinley bill than
It did before 1t was enacted. And then
few days atterward, came the report OF
the Indiana labor commissioners, Demo-
crat serving under Democrat. His re-
port shows that in tho great manufac-
turing centres of the State, indianapolis,
Evansville and Terre Haute, tho average
earnings Of workingmen have been ma
terially larger than before the enactment
of the new tariff. Commissioners Pcck's
statistics for New York were based on
data furnished by 5000 manufacturers,
and the Democratic press, In its despcra-
tion, has not hesitatsd to intimate that
probably they all lied. But Mr.. Peele's
report for Indiana Is based on statements
of wage earners only, and II the Demo-
cratic press wants to impugn its accu-
racy IL will have to invent the theory
that these wage earners reported falsely
rcgardirg their pay, representing it to be
larger than 1t was.
The Democratic Advertisement
Of week before last In the Republican pa
pers rather presumed upon tho intelli-
gence of It's readers. It was devoted
wholly to the assertion that ''the tariff Is
a tax and you pay It," 1t is very evident
that its author imagined his readers
would never sec the report Of the Senate
finance committee nor Of Labor Commits
sioner Peck, referred to Just above. Both
Of those documents prove, despite the
assertion of the advertisement 10 the
contrary, that since the Mckinley bill
was passed wages HAVE increased and
the cost of living HAS been reduced. This
advertisement says "The tendency (of
prices) has Of late been downward all
over the world" Then what cause under
heaven except our protective system has
kept up wages In this countryf There 10
abundant evidence from foreign journals
that "the downward tendency" OF prices,
notod by the Democratic writer, has been
more marked and severe in Wages than
In any other particular in foreign coun-
tries. As a consequence, naturally, after
wages had been forced down, - they
have been, by foreign manufacturers to
enable them to still pay the tariff and
sell goods here to some extent, tho cost
Of living would also fall somewhat. But
In the United States, on the other hand,
owing to increased business under the
new law by which home markets are to
be supplied by our own workmen, wages
have advanced slightly, while the cost OF
living has fallen materially.
Now . Few illustrations
are worth a ream OF bald assertions. II
We pay the tax tho foreigner don't.
That's certain. IL he pays IL, he knows
1t. II VIC pay 1t, We don't know II. We
have not found the cost OF tariff bearing
lines OF goods increased. We all know
that. H1 has found that he must reduc,
wages TO enable him now to compete
with our manufacturers.
There is an old saying that "No one
knows where the shoe pinches so well ~
no who wears It," But we, with higher
wages and lower cost OF living, with bus
mess better than for years, do not feel
the shoe pinch. On the other hand, the
foreign manufactures, q vanishing mar
ket because OF higher duties, does feel
the shoe pinch. He knows who "pays
tho tax" lie knows that he pays IL; and
II he does, we don't. Hear what some oi
them say. The head OF the Lister Plush
Company, Just removed from England tc
jamestown, N. Y, says;
1--WE found that we could better AFFORD