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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

statement would also be made by every
other manufacturer of clothing in Roch-
ester. The consumer, therefore, does
not pay a cent more for the clothing
which he wears Of course I am speak
ing of ready-made clothing-that worn
by millions of Americans. A small per-
centage of Americans who buy costly
foreign goods, to whom it is matter of
indifference whether they pay $75 or
SlOO for q suit made to order, may pay
more for their clothing. But they form
only small proportion of our popula-
ton"
Mr.. Brickner, in proof of his state
ment, exhibited to me price list of the
clothing made by his firm in 1890. and
another just Issued. This list contained
the prices of fifty articles of clothing of
various grades. In every case the price
OF the article of clothing, whether coat,
waiscoat or pantaloons, was the same as
in 1890. 'The price of some foreign
goods which we use in making our
clothing" continued Mr.. Brickner, sis
higher in market, but the increase, de-
spite the tariff, is SO slight that we bear
the loss, and our customers do not know
of it. This proves, of course, that the
foreigners have reduced the price
of their goods to importers for
the purpose OF jumping over the
tariff and getting into our market.
AS an instance of our disregard of
the increased price of some foreign
goods, take Italian cloth, which we use
for lining clothing. In making $40 suits
we only use cents worth more of the
cloth, and of course we do not increase
the price of our goods to $1005 because
of that increase. We buy worsted goods
In Europe at a cost to us now, when
landed IN Rochester, of 81 a yard, for
which we used to pay $1.90. But it only
takes yard and three-quarters Of that
cloth to make a coat and waistcoat
That makes the additional cost of the
cloth l75 cents. We pay that III cents.
and do not increase the price of the
clothing to the consumer. He gets his
coat and walstCOat at the same price as
before. We thus sell ftty-five styles of
clothing made up of foreign worsted
goods at precisely the same prices as
before the Mckinley act was passed"
Some Democratic partieans are de-
claring that a large amount of shoddy
has been put in the worsteds; is that
true ~ sit IS not true" replied Mr..
Brickner, "for these foreign manufact-
urers understand that we would detect
the trick, If they were thus attempting
to swindle us. No, [ think they have
LndlAtalueu CJl0 qualify Ol IuOlr gOOuS
by cutting down the wages Of their
workingmen. A weaver in England can
only make about $l8 month, while in
this country weaver earns from $40 to
$40 month";"
"Wbat was the total amount of wages
you paid to your hands in 1891 pr 1--WE
paid $1lO, 700 in wages to our hands; and
| do not put IN that amount what we
paid to our men in this counting-room,
nor to our statesmen. We sold goods
in the course of the year which brought
US in $4,000 1t is thus obvious that
333 per cent. of the cost of clothing is
the cost of labor used in making it.
Cutters make on the average $50 q
week, and our other hands are equally
we'll paid. If you will go about Roches-
ter you will find that the hands are we'll
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
Committed Free Trade by Their Own
Month.

That wing of the Democratic party
which cannot believe that the party is
rapidly drifting to free trade, will prob
ably be surprised to read the following
dialogue which took place in Congress
last spring, when the free wool bill was
under discussion. Mr.. Walker, of
Massachusetts, is Republican, and Mr..
Wilson, of West Virginia, is q Demo-
crat:
Mr.. Walker: Now would like to ask,
and will give time to any gentleman on
the Democratic side to answer this queS
ton, if there is a Democrat in this House
who IS in favor of the ''principle of pro-
tectiOn," whether any one Of them would
vote for its application as general princi-
pie, or to any single article, or as it is I'M
derstOOd in It's application in the Mckinley
bill or not. Is there a Democrat here IN ia
vOr OF the protection principle in any form,
in other words =?
Mr.. Wilson: No.
Mr.. Walker: Very well. The gentle
man from vest Virginia says not. You
all agree to that; you all agree that there
is not Democrat III this House in favor Of
the principle OF protection, do you?
Waiting Tor an answer. Then you are
in favor of the principle of free trade, are
you not?
Mr. Wilson: AS far as we can get to 1t
with sufficient revenue for the needs of the
government.
Mr.. Walker: Then you favor free trade
the principle OF free trade.
Mr.. Wilson: AS far as we can.
Not single one of all the Democratic
members of g Congress Democratic by
100 majority favored even the principle
of protection. ALI believe in free trade,
or the nearest thing to it, as long as
revenue must be collected-a tariff-tor-
revenue-only, levied on imports not
competing with cur own productions.
Here we have better proof even than
the Democratic platform of the free
trade leanings Of the Democratic party.
1t is free trade party or 1t is nothing.
1t believes that protection is fraud,
robbery, and in conflict with the pro-
visions Of the constitution. When next
Mr.. Cleveland attempts to "straddle'
let him remember the Record
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

CONNECTICUT, asserts the Hartford
Courant, is this year the leading peach
state north of Georgia. This is good for
Connecticut and for other states that
sorrow oyer Their peach famine. The
country at large is under obligations to
the Nutmeg State for teaching the true
way to raise peaches. 1t is to plan.
trees every year, like corn and potatoes.
A Yankee genius observed that the
rees could be relied upon for one crop
before the yellows struck them, and be-
gan to plant new orchard every year.
AS soon as the trees began to bear he
began to grow rich, and then other
farmers followed his plan. This is the
secret of Connecticut's success in peach
growing
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

THE latest novelty in strikes is one Of
the Salvation Army in Canada. The
fight is between Commandant Booth,
supported by the officers in the old
country and few personal adherents
III Toronto, and the subordinate Off
GERS in that city. 1t is an attempt on
the part Of the higher officials to re-
move themselves beyond the power of
the great body of the army and make
themselves practically despotic. At
least this is the way in which the Off
GERS in revolt look at the matter, and
they have about decided to leave the
army rather than submit, says the
Globe
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

more weight than that of any person with
out similar experience.
He has paid to American WeaverS under
the Mckinley law $13 per week for the
same work and on the same loom against
900 IN England for similar service there.
MI Steel has been convinced by practi-
cal experience under it that the Mckinley
law is framed almost wholly in the inter-
est of labor. His experience shows that
the employer in free trade countries gets a
larger share of profit than the labOrer,
while under protection in the United
States these conditions are reversed. Here
the labOrer gets the maximum share of the
profit and the manufacturer the minimum;
yet, as they are kept busy under the Nc
kinney law, they are satisfied with it.
These views should be placed before
every textile worker who reads the Press
The latter circulatas largely in Northern
New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island
and in New York state, and IN the interest
Of the American WOrkIDgman we ask you
to publish Mr.. Steefs experience.
Very truly yours,
JUSTICE, BATEMAN & Co.
PHILADELPHIA, August %.
Zone of the members of the firm of E.
[. Steel q Co. was tariff reformer, but
the actual operation of the Mckinley
law has convinced him of his error.
Interesting Facts Concerning Ready
Made Clothing.
A staff correspondent of the New
York Tribune writes from Rochester:
When the Mckinley tariff act in 1890
increased the duties on the higher
grades of worsted goods for mems
clothing, and in less degree on lower
grades of the same kind of goods, pre-
dictions were made by Democratic ora
tors and Democratic newspapers that
the American consumer would be COM
PEELED to pay far higher price. The
prophecy was also made that the manu-
facturers of ready-made clothing would
find it necessary to advance the price of
their goods and reduce the wages
of their hands. AS the ready-made
clothing industry is the greatest Roch-
ester possesses, this question has been
closely studied here. Out of the popu-
lation of Ia, 1874 credited to the city by
the state census of the present year,
$4,000 persons are employed in the
making Of clothing. New York and
Philadelphia alone surpass Rochester
in the number of persons employed in
the ready-made clothing industry, but,
of course, a larger proportion of the
residents here are engaged in the bust
ness than in the two larger cities The
prediction, therefore, in 1890, that the
price of readymade clothing might be
advanced through the operation Of the
Mckinley act excited much talk in
Rochester, because it was believed that
If it were fulfilled, the business of the
city might diminish.
Two years have passed and now it is
possible to learn what has been the eff
feet of the tariff act upon the clothing
industry. The results were explained
to-day by Max Brickner, president of
the Chamber OF Commerce of Roch-
ester, and member Of the Vile &
BrIckner Company, one of the largest
clothing manufacturing corporations in
the city. eve are selling ready-nade
clothing, both that made from foreign
goods and that made from domestic
goods, at the same price as before the
Mckinley act was passed. The same
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

A CONTEMPORARY says that drunken
ness is decreasing, especially in Con-
gress, and that the last national legisla-
ture was the soberest on record. With
out drawing attention to the circum
stance it likewise hints that the men of
former Congresses were smarter than
they are to-day. The inference is that
the more a man drinks the more of
statesman he must be. If this is based
add that there are some statesmen not
more than a thousand miles from this
place who are capable of being a whole
Congress, with President and cabinet
thrown in
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

THE sublime Porte comes down i'm
Enediately and gracefully. His Majesty
the Sultan OF Turkey, through the Tur-
kish minister to this country, gives no.
tice that his government will make all
PREPARATION demanded for the outrages
upon American missionaries in Asia
Minor. This is very handsome, and
shows that the Sultan is by no means a
bloody barbarian. 1t also indicates
that he has wholesome knowledge of
the fact that Uucle Sam has some very
efficient war vessels at his command.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
MEXICAN TOWN SHAKEN.
Public Buildings seriously Damaged by
Repeated Earthquakes.

GUADALAJARA, Mex, Sept. 5.-There
has been hardly day the past three
months that this city has not been
severely shaken by earthquake, and the
people are becoming greatly alarmed at
the frequent seismic disturbances.
The shocks have been increas-
ing in severity, and last night
considerable damage was done by ano-
ther tremble to the already badly
wrecked buildings. The municipal and
state buildings here were among the
most elegant and substantial in Mexico,
but their walls are now badly cracked
and the lives Of their occupants menaced
daily.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
A Distinction Without n Difference.

Tariff reform Of the Cleveland variety
is not to be cOnfOunded with free trade
so the Democratic leaders keep pro-
testing. But what are the facts? Well,
one of the significant ones is that Henry
Watterson, who led the fight in the Chi
cago convention in behalf of the tariff
plank which was ultimately adopted by
an emphatic vote, thus outlines what
his party proposes to do if it ever gets
a chance:
We mean to rip up, eXterminate, abolish,
annihilate, and in the fouleSt ignominy
and disgrace, every veStige of the fraud
called protection, wherever we can find it,
and as fast as the needs of the govern
ment, increased tenfold by the Republican
party, will permit. See?
What say sensible men? Does not
Cleveland tariff reform, as explained by
one of its most prominent promoters,
look strikingly like free trade? Take
another significant fact. There is not q
free trader in the country who is not
supporting Mr.. Cleveland, not one; and
all of them base their support on the
assumption that tariff reform for which
Cleveland stands and free trade are,
practically speaking, one and the same
thing, or, at all events, that tariff re-
form Is the bud whose logical flower is
free trade. A third significant fact.
John Bull, as is made clear by the ex-
pressions Of the English newspapers, a
number of which we have quoted, is
ardently hoping for Mr.. CIeveIand's
election. But, concededly. the only
reason why John Bull takes any inter
est in Grover Cleveland Is because John
regerds Grover as a free trade ally.
Such facts weigh ton. They cannot be
defeated, nor can anything be said which
will break their force.
What follows? This follows. The
labor of the country and the capital of
the country, workingmen and their en-
ployers, as in 1888, will make common
cause against Cleveland, the free trade
candidate. They are convinced now,
as they were convinced then, that he
and his party stand for a tariff policy
whose adoption would set back the
hands on the dial of cur common
prosperity. With view to protecting
the business veal OF the United States
in its various ramifcations they will
vote against Cleveland and free trade
and re-elect Harrison and protection
NeaU York Tribune
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
YOUNG ACTRESS MISSING.
Flora Medicina Disappears 1IysteriouslJ
at Chicago.

Flora Medicina Disappears 1Iysteriously
at Chicago.
CHICAGO, ILL.,. Sept. "a strange dis
appearance was reported to the police
late last night. 1t was that Of Miss
flora Mediclna. She was last seen by
her mother and brother in the after
noon, when she left home intending
TO go the Polk Street depot, where she
was to have taken a train to
Cleveland. She did not reach the
depot, however, and her friends are
seriously alarmed. Miss Medicina was
engaged as leading lady il the "By
Wits Outwitted," Company, to appear at
the Lyceum, Cleveland tonight. The
the star. At the depot was found the
baggage, which had been sent down in
an express wagon. An active search is
going on
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
SHOT THE REBEL CHIEF,

Execution of Gen. Nuilia Ends the Hon.
duras Revolution.
New ORLEANS, La, Sept. 5.-The
steamer Sicteria, has arrived from Cuba,
bringing the latest information concern
ing the Honduras revolution. She re-
ports that Gen. Nuilla, the insurgent
leader, and eight men were captured on
August 26, and that the general would
be court martialed and shot. The cap
ture and execution of Gen. Nuilla finally
winds UP the revolution. The men cap
tured with Nuilla will be released.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

SMOKE prevention still opens wide
field for inventive genius, and is ap-
parenty no nearer successful accom-
plishment than some years past. A
committee Of the Engineers Club Of
st. Louis recently made inquiries OF
seventy eight manufacturers who use
bituminous coal, and only seven were
found to have smoke preventing appa-
Tatus. OF these only one seemed to be
quite satisfied with his apparatus, and
he was its inventor. Nineteen others,
according to the Engineering and Min
ing Journal, reported that they had
tried preventers IN former days, but
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

A CLUMSY fraud has cost the Hamburg
Commercial Discount Bank 80, 900 francs.
a check paid two years ago was pur-
looted from the bank in some way, the
date changed and the check cashed a
second time. This German bank vii
probably now invest a few francs in a
red-rubber stamp and put the date of
payment on the check in indelible ink.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

STATIsTIcIANs say that an average man
of l54 pounds weight has enough iron
IN his constitution to make a plow-
share, and enough phosphorus to make
half q million matches. Other men that
we have all known have enough brass
in their constitution to start foundry.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

CERTAIN London papers sec in the
strikes now in progress "a complete
failure of the Republican fern of
government" Upon the same hvpo-
thesis the British imperial government
should have gone to pieces long ago.
Strikes and strike riots have been de-
cidedly English, you know, for many
and MANY wear
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
TRUTH ABOUT PRICES.


readers
the We showed that everything they bought cheaper
han the things sold for under tariff for only Well since
low
of all article is shown in the table,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
LUCK OF a POOR ARTIST.
Minneapolis Painter Inherits a Fortune
of Millions.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 5. = William
Henry Allen, an inmate of the Mime
sofa Soldiers Home, has received notice
that by the death of brother in Cali
lorna he has lalIen heir to large slice
of an estate valued at from $4,000, 900 to
S2O, 600, 90. A nephew of the brother
gets large portion of it, amounting to
81, 100000. Allen was formerly an artist
in Minneapolis. He fell sick and was
unable to resume work, and it is said
that on many a dav he went hungry.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.

The Chaucer Fired on by Fort Santa Cruz
Because She Would Not Stop.
VALPARAISO, Sept. 5.-News comes
from Rio that the British steamship
Chaucer, bound for Chilli, was fred on
and sunk from Fort Santa Crus for re-
fusing to stop. 1t was supposed to have
come from a chOlera-infected mort
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

THERE may be a pointer for United
States lawyers in the recent decision of
the British court Of appeal. 1t holds
that brokers may be indicted for con-
spiracy who enter into a scheme for fic-
titious quotations Of stocks and bogus
sales to create an impression among out
siders that there is demand for the
SocI1ritios
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

had thrown them out for various rea-
sons. Efficiency, adaptabiiity to differ
ent styles of furnaces, economy of fuel
and ofspace, automatic action, demand
ing little in the way ofrepair, and above
all cheapness, are essential requisites
hard to find separately and most diff
cult to combine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

AN example of the recklessness of
the present government of Germany is
found in the proposition to increase the
tax on beer. This Is a blow below the
belt that will arouse the German peas
ant if ANYTHING will.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

FARMERS always bungle when they try
to be rascals. The four grangers in Kan.
sas who held up train were as brave
as any other robbers, but they lacked
the cunning which comes from long
practice and got caught. When farmer
turns thief he has got to give up agri-
culture. The two don't 90 together.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

THE miners OF France are growing I'M
easy and threaten a great strike in
several departments. England has just
passed through an experience with her
miners, and we are wrestling with the
problem of how to abate their disorder
illness in this country. Evidently the
issue is not a purely local one.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

II reply to the Chinese protest, Rus
STA declares the expedition under Col.
Yauoff is simply exploring and does not
intend to occupy the Pamir. But the
will discover that the from
tier has been wrongly located, and by
next spring Russia will be ready 10 claim
another strip of Chinese soil.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

If anybody in this country knows
W hat railroad costs probably Coils P.
Huntington does, and he says the inter-
national railroad connecting the two
American continents will cost not more
than S30,000,000. He proposes to back
his Judgment in the paying qualities Of
such a road with some of his own cash
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
TARIFF PICTURES,

The woes of the poor farmer who
would have to pay more for his plows
and other Implements on account of the
Mckinley bill were sung by every free
trader in 1890. Today there is not an
implement used on the farm that is not
rs low as it was in 1890. Every farmer
can test this statement at the nearest
dealer q
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

THE Association of Married Women
for the Control of Husbands is the title
of q society IN Berlin, Germany. 1t
does not half tax the capacity of the
average woman in this happy land to
control one husband, and in Chicago
they have been known TO exercise con-
troll over several at different times with
out apparent effort.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

WHEN the English papers take the
present labor troubles as proof of the
degeneration of this country and pro-
phesy speedy ruin for America, they
forget the far worse labor riots of 1877,
from which we recovered without per-
manent harm.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

LAST year snakes killed $40 men,
women and children in India and the
men, woman and children of Indi-
killed more than 800. 600 snakes and col
lected bounty for them. Rather creepy
sort of country that.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

LITTLE Boy" Mamma, may I have
that big family Bible a little while ?"
Fond amma-"Of course you can, my
pet. Your thoughts are on higher
things, | see" Little Boy-Yes m"
Bridget Ito herself two hours afterward)
-''Humph ! More of that jam gone. l
don't see how that boy reaches it.
Street 6 Smiths Good NeUs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

'WuLIE" WILDE, the husband of
Frank Leslie Wilde, has decided to stay
IN Europe on the ground that this coun-
try does not agree with him. Retired
on pension probably.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07

There are some things in this old book
which would be interesting reading for
those who long to return to the good
for with two bushels Of wheat" Such
shovels are sold to-day for IS cents
Letter an LldiannDOZis journal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
ESCAPED FnOM SIBERIA.
Julius German Arrly-s at Vic oria from
Russian Exi,e.

VICTORIA, BIC, Sept. Julius Ger
man, the Hungarian Socialist, who dis
appeared from public life ten years ago,
arrived here yesterday from Japan. He
has lust escaped FROM Siberia