The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-04-23

the tariff "f 1880 was imposed. as the
American workman could not compete
against wages Of IS and 500 a wue;
earned by Austrian pearl button makers IN
VIENNA In a report by C0nSul-tieneral
julian GoldSchmidt, dated December Il.
1889. he makes the following statement in
reference to the pearl button workers of
Austria: ''At meeting recently held i'll
Vienna they declared that they would
rather Starye to death with their wives and
children than suffer the yoke they had
borne so long. and submit to the miserable
wages heretofore paid them. an able
bodied. industrious man receiving only -
To S3 50 a week. This is bad enough. but
out of this he has to furnish his own hight
and tools, while many good WOrkmen earn
even less than this.
Bad as this condition Of the Vienna labor
market is shown to be by tuls report. still
lower prices We're paid in Bohemia and
MOfaEla. so that the German government
found II necessary 10 raise protective bar
rier IN the shape oi high duties or be drly-
en- from the trade.
Birmingham. England. was for more
than century great pearl button center
and would have continued SO to lhiS day
had not Austrian and Bohemian cympetl-
ton G5iIterated the business III that city.
Many OF the best Wornm"n Of Birmingham
have now left that city and come to the
[ nited States.
1 llt result tbl tlit lUllii Has ltttH 10 It.
duCc the imports OF pearl buttons III 1881 to
about S2O0.Ooo. against an amount Of
~. 30n pUU III 1890. and While these figures
should be read in the light of the oEer-im-
pOrtationS previous to the passage of the
new tariff act, they sufficiently evidence
the rapid growth OF the domestic industry.
To this may be added that gust before
the passage of the Mckinley bill there
We're only II pearl baton factories III the
{ nitet States. dIld now there are -. y
tariff which increases 4 domestic industry
more than 800 per cent the tr.t year. and
gives the country better arIIclc without
any permanent advance in price, must
surely commend itself to every person who
prefers his own country 70 some other.
Poor Grover, No Good 10 the Dcnocracy.
Grover Cleveland was made presi-
dent and for four wears administered
the government. The indepe ndent
press, like the Evening Post and New
York Times, from which some papers
are SO fond Of quoting, stood by him.
every one. At the end of his term he
was beaten, wotuliy beaten, in the two
great Northern Democratic states.
fie was not only beaten himself, but
he dragged his patty down with him in
the congressional districts and turned
the government over to the enemy in
every department. He LETT the White
House and both branches Of Congress
to the spoilers of the South, and the
first work they undertook was TO pass
the force bill.
The only hope of the Democrats to
avert that calamity, for the danger OF
which Grover Cleveland was response
BILE. was bv showing III silver bill ahead
of it. Did he help to avert the wrong
he had made possible? No. In the
very midst of the fight he wrote his let
ter against silver, seeking TO turn aside
the only weapon pointed 1T the enemy
of the South. Is that the sort of man
we want
David Bennett Hill, is governor of
New York, made his party stronger
with every recurring election, and final
ly drove the Republicans from their
last unconstitutional entrenchment.
How? BY means which the state SUI
preme court declared TO be legal and
lawful but which every Cleveland paper
in New York denounceS.
Nominate hlm and he will carry New
York. New Jersey, Connecticut, Indi-
ana, Montana, half of Michigan, and the
solid South.
Nominate Cleveland and Villas will
pledge him Wisconsin, Wiped-otf-the
earth Campbell will pledge him Ohio,
Tom will pledge him Minnesota, Dick
will pledge him Iowa, and Harry Will
pledge him the devil knows what. In
November he VIII get New Jersey and
the solid South, minus Vest Virginia.
Bjrptiuqhaat lge-NTaH DEM