Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-03

net increase OF wages referred 10
) not Wholly due % the EN-
ployment o. "a Increased nun
Der OF work nguaen ami Women
But tae report shows an average ino--
yidaal increase Of s23.ll and. HhetaeT
assumed to be true or false, tbs item
stands cut u conspicuous relief aud 10
must have escaped from the ooscered
V.sion of ths Free Press the same as
the report Itself did Tor i've full days.
II, however, the Free Press insists that
Is hypothesis IS correct, then Il = con
demasd cut OF "a own mouth, for u
Lacitly admits that the report does
show an increased number OF working
men and women employed. That OF
Itself 3 one OF the cardinal virtues u
protection. Protection makes il pOss.-
be Tor industries To tnriye aad thereby
70 afford employment to the unem-
ployed. Ia one year 1t increased the
net wages OF New York workingmen
and women over 100000. It cost
no more 10 1--we, and # the adj
mission OF the Free Press be true,
more worklngmen and women were
gwen employment TO earn the money
to pay the cost. This explanation S
the best the Free Press can make. II
Is quite as eommendatory of the Nc
klnley ball As Peck report. Peck says
the wages were Increased and the Free
Fless corrects him by saying that the
number employed was Increased.
FACEfIoCs democratic ed tors declare
that along with other things "the
cholera q u product of the Mckinley
bill" II seems, however, that these
same facetious editors are fully as anx-
ious 10 De protected from 1t IS any
body II they would be logical they
would advocate that in the great
brotherhood of man we should share
the suiferings of the cholera victims in
Europe.
For the benefit of the readers of the
local democratic organ It may be- said
that so soon as it shall discover in its
exchanges any particularly weak aud
meaningless attack on Peck's report it
viii be reproduced for their encourage
ment and solace. 1t will not always
remain silent on this most remarkable
democratic document ever published.
''TAIT" Hall the notorious desperate
who Redeemed his hands with the blood
Of several victims was hanged at Rich
mond, Va, yesterday. Had he lived
in Michigan he would have had
cozily furnished cell IN prison where
MS declining days could have been
passed IN quiet and ease.
AFTER spending $4,000 for gaudY
Autographs advertising "The Process
sion of the Centuries" to be given IN
conjunction with the worlds far dedl-
catory ceremonies, the directors have
decided to abandon 1t. 1t was to be
too cheap and tawdry for the Chicago
anese taste.
"PAUPER labor Is tree" shrek the
free traders. Who's to blame for that?
Why didn't the democratic congress
just adjourned make it otherwise? The
Coolle has been shut out, by demo-
cratic authority, why doesn't it shut
out pauper labor, or make an attempt
to do so?
DUN's report shows again this week
healthy and vigorous tone to trade.
Every report seems to corroborate
Peck's report. Business is good, labor
IS employed and prosperity blesses
every section of the country under the
benign rays of the Mckinley bill.
SPEAKER CRISP will probably speak
IN this city during the campaign. What
delightful evenings. entertainment
Crisp and Ellis would purvey to the
democrats. Ellis too cold for Crisp
democrats, however, aud such q star
attraction is improbable.
1T has been decided by the demo-
cratic national committee 20 postpone
the opening of the campaign in New
York until after October /. Then all
the big guns of democracy will be
trained ON the Workers. and Peck will
supply ammunition.
WITH one voice the democratic press
demand that democratic Labor Com
missioner Peck shall furnish one III
stance where labor received an increase