Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-03

20 stay and You watch me- used 70
say. III have ths American ladies with
their pretty noses up IA the air against
what Is made IL their own country ask
ing for glass made IN the United States.
And this Is what the best OF them do
now, like yourselves. as l could show
you by the books at home.
do you mind that holding TO tho
light a tumbler which Dorothy had been
gazing at affeetionately for some time.
Ii was as pure as a mountain stream,
and the brilliant hues reflected on its
prismatic surfaes were the wild flowers
growing along the brink
There's nothing better" said the vet
eran: bat Of course some are made
with more work on en-"
Il hope il isn't too expansive" said
Dorothy almost pleadingly.
"Ten dollars dozen. miss"
"It is mine, then" she exclaimed, Joy
fully clasplrg her hands.
.I'm glad you're pleased, miss, and
here's a bit of history thrown in The
sand il was made Of came from Berk-
shire, Mass The glass mixture costs us
fifty cents pound. and 30 per cent. of
what you pay for the tumbler Is for
labor. Every one of these little cuts
has been gone into eight times with
wheels or brushes. The men who make
them are such "a got ten or twelve dol
lars a week in 1850, and the same get
twenty week now. Here is tumbler
with less work, which the retailer sells
now for nine dollars dozen, for which
he got twenty dollars ten years ago. The
difference comes because the demand
for men is always increasing, and we
make so many more tumblers that we
can sell them that much cheaper. Now,
miss TO mel, ytu are going TO ask about
the imported ones, and here is the truth.
We don't pretend to sell for less money,
but We promise you that you are getting
a lumber more carefully designed and
cut, and OF purer glass than an i'm
ported one for the same money.
"When the ladies understand the facts,
I shouldn't wonder if there was a per-
manent quarantine against glass made
by half starved wretches in the ovid
country"
We'll" said Dorothy, eff we make
our own glass here. and the poor things
over there have no money from US, won't
they suffer very much?"
Now, miss, tell me this: Are you
ever after hearing of a drowning man
being saved by another going down and
drowning with him? No. You've got
to pull him up: you can't save him by
holding him down. This Republican
protective tariff is life preserver around
man. The poor suffering folks in the
ovid country must come over here and
get on Republican hfe preserver if
they don't want to drown, for the water
is getting deeper over there, and John
Bulls preservers are made to fit the aris-
tocracy.
Here, mind this" It was a stopper
from a glass decanter. The man that
makes such things at my factory gets
twenty-one dollars week, and he got
seven dollars in the ovid country, where
they don't believe IN protecting the
workingmen. Yet the spalpeen is vot-
ing for free trade and for only seven
dollars week here just to please
Grover Cleveland and John Bull. Now,
isn't he after being accommodated
''In England an apprentice in this
business gets only three shillings and six
pence week for several years of his APP
premiership, which lasts seven years.
In Austria, as that man standing by the
desk, Joseph Flogel, of S26 East Ninth
street, will tell you, he had to pay for his
apprenticeship 800, and got no pay
whatever for three years. And / pay
my apprentices five or six dollars a week
at the start pledge my word as TO those
facts, and think there is no better illus
tration of the way this Republican tariff
works"
Then Dorothy and thanked him; she
gave him her address for the tumblers.
and we said good day.
Hester" said she, as we were going
up the elevated steps, tits just such
Drawn and brains and working for the
little woman that makes our republic
what it Is"
EYES," / replied, land blessings on
the country and the sort of government
that helps man or q woman, little or
big, in the fight to make living" !
GRACE ESTHER DREW.
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