The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-26

ployers and the State in which they
live have nothing to do with the present
deplorable condition. The story that
Republican manufacturers are closing
their establishments and reducing
wages for political effect is the merest
buncombe. Will anybody explain why
Democratic employers are closing theil
mills and shops and reducing the num-
Der of hands and cutting down wages |
hold in my hand the Columbus Even.
ing Press-Post, a Democratic paper, OF
last Saturday 1t publishes the week.
ly Review" of r. q. Dunn & Co. This
review is recognized all over the United
States as absolutely reliable and as not
being influenced at all by political con
siderations. The Reviews" article is
an outlook upon the condition of the
entire country, and it starts out with
saying: 1T is difficult to detect any
signs of improvement. While there
has been some addition to the number
of manufacturing establishments and
the number of hands at work during
the past week, it is becoming painfully
clear that the orders obtained do not
suffice to keep employed at full time
even the limited force at present en-.
gagged
"What is the reason of this p
"The reason is that the business
world is afraid of threatened free trade.
That is the whole thing in nutshell.
It is remarkable antl significant fact
that while the American business world
is alarmed and demoralized at the pros.
pect of free trade, foreign manufactur-
ers and foreign merchants are taking
an active hand in bringing free trade
about. do not make reckless asser.
ton when say that foreign manufac-
turers and dealers, striving to secure
possession of the American market, are
organizing to defeat Mckinley and to
bring about free trade. l have in my
possession, which ! will show to any
body who calls upon ME, copy of a
letter signed by Leon Chotteau, Dele
gate of the French Committee in France
and the United States, who is also a
member of the Golden Club of Eng.
land, addressed to Hon. William L.
Wilson, President of the Ways and
Means Committee of the house of Rep
resentatives of the Congress of the
United States. This letter is dated
jointly at Washington, D. c., and at
Paris, September 4, 1893. 1t is de-
mand for the repeal Of the Mckinley
law. 1t starts out by saying: You
have just accepted the nigh commission
of preparing new project of Ameri.
can customs tariff There can be no
doubt that you will be able to compass
this difficult task in the well-ordered in
terest of the United States. France and
the whole of Europe. AS delegated
member Of the French Committee, or
ganized in Paris for the repeal of the
Mckinley bill, allow me to write you
these few lines
1.-The letter is plea for European
countries and is signed by number of
French merchants and publicists. Is
not it spectacle that there should be
an organized movement abroad for the
repeal of law under which, when ad-
ministered by the friends of the law,
this country enjoyed the greatest pros
perity in its history"
Have You any idea of the number of
unemployed in Ohio to-dayr'
"After careful canvass conserva-
tive estimate would fix the number at
175,0OO. Based upon the crop of 1892.
taking the opening prices of last season
and Of this, the farmers of Ohio have
lost 81. .535. 900 on wheat, $780, 900 on
wool, and the loss in wages. deprecia-
ton in values. will aggregate through.
out the country an amount equal to the
cost of putting down the Rebellion"