Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-23
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90 the workings OF neutrality-suspicious.
John Taylor became q Wealthy Pottery
Lord and his Men Remain Poor.


there lived a family by the name OF Tay-
Tor. They were poor people, OF but
very little resources. John Taylor, the
now bosom friend and henchman Of Nc
Kinley aud Pottery Lord Of the city,
was a member Of this family. Ia the
early seventies he became associated
with the Knowles in the manufacture Of
sarthenware. after the firm Of Knowles
& Harvey had dissolved. A man OF but
ordinary ability, he has been able 10
rise 70 afluence from the lowest ranks,
and at no time during all these years
has he ever had the teat Of public favor
10 the shape OF tariff tax Withdrawn
from his lips He is the model ana
sample OF what the principles OF Nc
Kinleyism will produce when put into
active practice and shows the pernlclous
effect Of the policy.
Taylor is man not naturally Dad
He IS a quiet, easy going sort OF party
who only gets offended and bitter when
some Que begins TO investigate anything
pertaining 20 his business. In this re-
spect his views would be oil right were
II not for the fact DO is the recipient
or TAX which the people pay, aud they
have a right % know what Is being
done with the money. Taylor IS a
tvpical Republican. lie believes in a
prohibitorv tariff and that home com
petition will reduce prices. Yet he
was the prime mover Ia the formation
of the compact" an organization de-
signed 20 control prices ia the pottery
trade and which answers TO the pur-
noses OF a trust. He considers 10 an I'm
pertinence for the government 20 IN
ouire how much profit be makes, and
considers that every man VINO works
for him owes bis existence 20 John
TAYLOR, for IL he did not employ him he
firmly believes he would Starve.
Now the American people can tell OF
the results of q policy by seeing the ei-
fscts when carried out. The case OF
John Taylor IS an ideal one. he IS Nc
Kinley's bosom friend aud II ever the
latter is elected President IL is hard TO
tell Just how high a position Taylor Is
slated % hold in return for the gener-
Gus and liberal support Of various kinds
given Mckinley In the past.
Twenty years ago John Taylor was
making ware under a twenty-five per
cent. tariff. He paid for the producing
OF the ware fully forty per cent. more
than he does to-day, while during that
period wages have been reduced forty
per cent During the past twenty
wears there has never been a time that
the howl did not go up that there was
no money in the business; yet IN the
twenty years from nothing Taylor has
risen until to-day ne is the principal
owner in the plant of which be IS
president, which is capitalized at ST.
OOO, OOO Besides, he owns pa,atial resi-
dence property, abundance OF person
atty and lives like the nobility OF Eu-
rope. During this period, of the hun
dreds of workmen who have been in his
employ there are none who have grown
even moderately wealthy. The have
earned living, but to-day the average
emplOye when out Of work q few weeks
is financially fat upon his back, and
they are told that II the tariff is dis
turbed they will be subjected 10 q re-
ductlon in wages. AT every time when
the tariff was advanced wages were re-
duced. This applies in every case. In
1877 a straight reduction was made, In
1883 another, and after the passage Of
the Mckinley bill the reduction was
made 10 a more insidiOUS manner by in
creasing the amount of labor 10 cOnSti-
tute a dav and by working the dds
count" whereby a jOurneyman will
work at so much of the list price sup
posed TO be paid There is no answer
10 this. II is perfectly true. The
wages have gone down, the tariff has
gone no, and the only excuse offered is
that the price OF ware has gone down.
So 10 has, but al whose expense but
labor'S?
As a sample Of the arguments ad-
vanced, labor is now told that II the
advance of the tariff lately put on is
taken of their wages will be further
reduced: that if fifteen per cent, tariff
Is taken of a reduction Of twenty-five
per cent. will be made ia the wages ef
labor. It makes no difference as 20
question Of right 1t IS one Of might,
and they have the power TO reduce, and
reduce they will No assurance is
given that il the tariff is let alone, or
even advanced, that they will not re-
duce wages, as they have on similar oc-
casions 10 the past.
Mr.. Taylor went 20 Washington the
other day TO 90 before the ways and
means committee. He assured every
one that he had not the slightest in
tereSt 10 the tariff; that il his profits
were curtaiied by reduction he in
tended 20 make labor stand the burden.
He was accompanied by James Good
win, another ripe fruit of the tarif
laws Goodwin was there also from
philanthrOphic motives. He was the
man who when the tariff was advanced
In the seventies and the men struck
against a reduction equivalent 20 the
advance OF tariff, marched up Broad
way proudly 40 the head of a delegation
OF English pottery wOrkmen, who had
been imported under contract 20 take
the place OF the strikers, az the reduc-
ton. These TWO men were part OF the
Cabsl that, when they found that some
of their men belonged 20 a labor or
ganizatiOn, without waiting for any de-
maDds being made upon them, forced
their employees % sign an agreement 70
belong 20 10 organization without their
consent. The men stood out fourteen
luou~ua e%@iu>t tuc cur -eI'' AtcA1 Va tHC''
liberties, but were starved into sub
mission.
Men like Taylor are passive II LEFT
alone 10 enjoy their profits and given
tbeir own way. When criticised they
become first ANNOYED and then vicious
Left 20 themselves they would probably
do nothing, but then comes 10 the des-
picable toadying 20 wealth and the fore
runner Of what the country can expect
n McKiuleyism continues 70 dominate
and the monarchy OF wealth is en-