Evening journal., 1892-10-04
BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.
steel Manufacturer, on the Mckinley
BILL.

Charles J. Hnrrah. "A Great Iron and
steel Manufacturer, on the Mckinley
Bill.
Charles J. Harrah, Of the Midvale,
Pa, steel mills, writes a letter Co Charles
Emory Smith, Of the Philadelphia Press,
from which the following paragraphs
have been clipped:
May / ask you again whether the pas
sage of the Mckinley act was not the
direct result of the election of Harrison
and Morton in 1888, and is it not fact
that the expenses of the campaign were
paid chiefly by the subscriptions raised
among the manufacturersY Presuming
this to be an established and incontro
vertable fact, am l not right n saying
that the Mckinley bill is the property of
the manufacturers because it was they
who paid for il, aud under the common
law the man who makes purchase and
pays for il is the owner of the property
that he buys2
MAY | ask you further, whether any
one of the subscribers to the fund at the
time he made his subscription had the
slightest idea that he was doing It for
the purpose of paying 80 per cent of the
cost of the article that he manufactures
TO his men?
Will youkindly give me the name of
any one individual who had that thought
in his mind at that time, and who has
been paying 80 per cent of the cost of
the article he manufactures in wages to
his men ever sinee2
Is it not fact that as a reward for
their subscriptions the firm of Carnegie,
Phipps & Co. received from the navy de-
partment a contract for 200 tons of
armor plate, at an average price of $54O
| per TONI
And was not this contract. may ask
/ incidentally, given to that firm without
any competition or any invitation to any
other mill to bid on the contract in
! question?
Am l to understand from your edi-
toral that Carnegie, Phipps q Co. are
paying their men 80 per cent. of the
price they receive for the armor plate, as
wages2
Or, in other words. are they paying to
their men or to any man in their employ
1886 per ton for every ton of armor
plate produced2 If such be the case,
would mention right here that it would
not be possible for me to keep a single
man at Midvale, They would all be
making a break for Mullhall and be ap-
plying for work at Homestead, and
would add that / would be among the
number applying for job at that place.
1t has been stated by Major Mckinley
and by the Manufacturers club and by
Yourself in your columns repeatedly.
that the tariff has resulted in an in
crease of wages
Presuming that this statement is
correct, may ask you how much the
wages Of a school teacher have been in
creased by the passage of the Mckinley
tariff act2
God knows she works hard enough
for what she gets.
Is it not fact that every time she
buys petticoat or jacket, or a pair OF
gloves for herself she has to pay q
certain amount of the tax which is
levied for the benefit OF us manufactur-
ers who bought and own the Mckinley
bill2
WIN you'kindly tell me whether the
driver Of a street car or the conductor OF
an omnibus has had his wages raised by
the passage. of the Mckinley tariff
act2
Is it not fact that every time he
buys pair of brooches for himself, h'
has to pay tax to us manufacturers
who bought and own the Mckinley
billg
VIII you kindly tell me whether th'
wages Of the poor fellow who stands be
hind the counter in the retail shop and il
bullied all day long by hiscustomers, have
been raised as consequence of the Nc
Kinley actg
And yet every time that man buys al
overcoat for himself or a shirt, does h'
not pay a portion Of the tax that is levieS
for the benefit of us manufacturers whit
bought and own the Mckinley bill?
Now my dear Mr.. Smith, do you thinl
that we are honest in making thes
people of even the smallest fraction o
their wages to swell our proftsg
Kindly explain these facts clearly anC
as fully as possible, because the shol
clerk, the car driver and the Omnibus
conductor have all vote, and votes viii
be extremely precious to us on the Stl
Of Novel ber next, and we cannot affor'
to lose one for the sake of the informa
tion which you and the Manufacturers
Club have started out to give us. This
you know, according to your,words, is
Campaign of Education"
Never mind about the schoolteacher
Il is no use to bother with her. She hai
no vote, and schoolteacher who has n
vote has likewise no rights that the pc
2 litical economist is bound to respect