Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-03-07
EFFECT OFTHELAW
GREAT FACTORIES GOING UP
Hundreds Of Workmen Given Employ
ment-Amerca viii Make Guns Ter
the Wosid-McKiniey Did Il.

n. Comstoek, Of SyracuAs, New
York, agent for the Lsfsvrs Rlne CON-
pany. was . guest At the Morton for =
short time Saturday. Mr.. Cemstock
recently returned from . trip 70 Spain.
where he he cold . large csnsignment
Of rifles to the epanish government.
Previous to this time he spent seven
teen years IN various countries of Asia
locking after the intersstz Of the Rem
ington ride. "The greatest thing that
ever happened to the gun making II.
dustry Of the United states is the
McKinlsy BILL" remarked Mr.. Corh-
stock yesterday. Unless you have
made . careful study Of IL, yea can
have No idea Of the immenss benefits
that the bill has already conferrea. IL
will result in making our own gun
manufacturing Embellishments the
largest Of their kind ia the werid.
THIS will apply TO all kinds Of nresrms.
Preyiops to the passage Of the AeKin-
ley bill there were only q, 900 shotkuns
made ia this country every year, and
the annual importation wAs z26. .0o0.
Nobody thought Of buying an Aneri-
can gun. There Was one pake--a
cheap gun. costing about S25-thAl had
. good sale; but ne others could find
any sale. In . very short time Yen
will zee those figures reversed. Therc
10 no reason why We can't make the
best gun in the world. We have the
raw material and the workmcn. All
that was needed WAS q little encour-
agement, and We hate that now. In
Syracuse, where | live, there 10 q gun
factory being built that 10 to coat
$500, 900 and employ several hundred
workmen. This b only one instance Of
what 10 being done and will be done.
The Mckinley tariff Law may pinch .
instrument it unquestionably has some
imperfections; but take it, general plan
and the results that will be achieved
under it and it is the NEST bonefic!ent
legislative measure that this county has
had in years. It's been abused and
cursed by certain clssses, but nsverthe.
less the Geld fact remains that it 10 60
ing to furnish the foundation for the
greatest manufacturing establishments
the world has over seen.
There is Too Much Complaint.
Do you know this American habit OF
one party's abusing every measure Of
the other and throwing mud At every
prominent statesman and leader who
disagrees with Il in poiitic1 10 one that
is very irritating to me. This continual
abuse of the government IL something
never can accustom myself to. IL al
ways seems strange 10 me that such BIT
ter paftisln criticism should Be allowed.
lived in Apa for seventeen years,
where X man WAS too free in critics.
ing the government and the acts Of ite
leaders they took him out and cheppod
his head off. confess my Aeiatic sur.
rousdings have left me nomsthing of .
heather. I have locked with the eyes
of . free born American at what are
probably the most despotic and abso-
lutte moparchics on the face of the
globe. I have had excellent opportuai.
ties to study them and learn their Of
fects, and l frankly admit that have
seen much in them that the freest and
most enlightened republic might profit
ably adopt. Since l returned the last
time aud got q closer insight into
New York politics my respect for
some of the eastern monaichies hai
swslled perceptibly. But then, New
York pelitlcs at its very heart isn't "a
bad a. many people suppose. The rec.
pectahle element in that state can
overwhelm everything else. All il
needs to do is 70 assert itself, and that
will come some time. In fact, think
Mr.. David Bennett Hill will be the man
on whom the assertion 10 tried. Mr.
Hill seems TO have an idea that he hai
a firm grasp on the empire state; and
further than that he has made every
body outside of the state think so. Blu,
Hill isn't the choice of New York dem
ocracy by any means, and he will dis
cover IT to his sorrow some day. Hi
methods will be repudiated and ne him.
self will lose all the political prestige
he ever enjoyed. Hill has only . small
following; but he has n,agnified il into
an immense throng. / don't believe
Cleveland 10 the choice Of New York
democracy. Cleveland 10 an able man
in many ways, but he 10 not always In
sympathy with his party. think the
conflict Between HIM and Hill will re-
suit IN the selection of somslothcr man
] haven't an idea who he-there's my
bus, l must make for the train. BY
the way, before 90 want 10 congrat
ulate Grand Rapids on its wonderful
advancement. This is the first time
have been here for several years buI
the improvement of the city 10 marvel
Ious. Grand Rapids started in en- the
right basis and will sooner er later be
come one OF The greatest cities in the