The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-28
SOME FACTS FOR CLEVELAND.

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in the United Kingdom, the United States,
France and Germany for the year 1Sso.
That report says that in the United King
dom i,O28 strikes occurred. affecting 392.
95l persons, while in the United States in
that year there were only 927 strikes
affecting 2i9915 persons. The population
of the United Kingdom in 1890 was 81, 46i,
95l. and the population Of the United
States was 81, 622 80, so that there might
have been in this country twice as many
strikes as there were, affecting twice as
many people, and still proportionately to
the population, they would not have been
significant in comparison with the British
record.
These facts are inconsistent with Mr..
Cieveland's assertion that the Republican
party and the protective tariff are respon-
sible for industrial disputes, consequent
strikes and riots in the United States. If
tariff for revenue only" produced twice
as many strikes in England as take place
under protection in the United States.
why enact revenue tariff.
There is worsted mill in Providence
which is practically a reproduction In the
number of looms and spindies of similar
mill in Bradford, England, and furnishes
employment 10 about the same number of
operatives. The wages paid in the Amer
lean mill amount to s960.000. The wages
paid in the English mill amount to s46f,-
600. The difference is $i96, 900, or more
than 100 per cent. in favor of the American
workers. Under revenue tariff, such as
NJ. Cleveland fayors, either the American
mill will be closed or else the wages will
be reduced TO the English level. And yet
Mr.. Cleveland talks about the pretended
solicitude of the Republican party for
labor" and denies that the protective
tariff is a boon TO labor.
Our national commerce for the fiscal
year ending June so, 1892, amounted to
81, s57, 726, 9l0. an increase during the year
of s12S, 323, 90i, and an increase over the
last year of Grover Cleveland's admins
tration of $50, 193, $50. The value of our
exports of domestic merchandise last year
was 81 Obs, Isl, 607 for the first time in our
national history our exports reaching and
exceeding billion of dollars.
Mr.. Cleveland can see nothing in these
facts, we suppose, that would lead him to
revise his judgment that protection is no
boon" to the American people. The Nc
kinney tariff law has:
Reduced the cost of living s4p per cent
Raised the rate OF wages. .-........ "a per cent.
| Reduced the animal revenue. $1,000. 5000, 900
Raised the trade balance to-. ..... s203, oo,0l0
| So the Senate committee reports; and
| its findings, after most careful investiga-
ton, were concurred in by the Hon. John
G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, and the Hon.
| Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee-two of
the leading Democratic members of the
| Senate.
Nevertheless Mr.. Cleveland believes that
| protection is "a robbery and fraud" and
| is not boon 10 American labor The
| Chicago platform denounces protection as
"a fraud and robbery" and Mr. Cleveland
standing upon that platform, said in his
| speech of acceptance: "Our workingmen
are still told the tale, oft repeated in spite
of its demonstrated falsity, that the exist
| ing protective tariff is boon to them, and
| that under its beneticent operation their
| wages must increase; while as they listen
| scenes are enacted in the very abiding
| place of high protection that mock the
hopes of toll and attest the tender mercy
the working man receives from those made
selfish and sordid by unjust governmental
| iavoritsm."
THE demonstrated falsity" lacks good
deal of complete demonstration in face
of the following facts: At Fall River,
| Mass, July Is. the Associated Cotton
Manufacturers voted to pay all day help
| employed in the mills the same wages
| for iiity-eight hours work that were here
tofore paid for sixty hours work. All
the operatives employed on piece wor K
were advanced 3}5 per cent. on their pres
| ent wages. The prices hereafter to be
paid Tor weaving print cloths will be 10 %
cents piece. The new list will go into
| effect from July IL.
on the other hand. in England a crisis
/ is threatened in the Lancashire cotton
! trade. The Federation of Master Cotton
| Splnners recommends that 10 per cent
| reduction be made in the wages of oper-
| atives and that the mills be run on short
time. 1t j. said that the ANA. gamated
| Association Of Operative Cotton Spinners
| viii refuse TO accept a reduction of wages
! and that q strike or lockout Will follow.
u was only a short time ago that general
lockout was settled in the Lancashire cot
ton mills.
When the Mckinley act was passed
there was a 10 per cent reduction of wages
in the woolien and cotton trades in Ian.
cash,re, and now the manufacturers are
about 10 order a second reduction of Il
per cent. in wages, ana q strike and lock
out will follow under Enr!and's tariff foi
revenue only. Under protection there has
been no reduction of wages since the pass
age of the Mckinley act. Wages hay,
been steady for Two years IN face Of the
reductions abroad. and now the Fall RiveI
| manufacturers have voluntarily pat III
the price Of piece work and weayers
wages, and have voted - pay as much for
hfty-eight hours as for sixty hours work
| This increase has followed the MckinIe,
at. under " hich additional protection wa.
offered for the higher grades or cot;o,
manufactures.
Commenting on these facts the Nev
York Tribune says: