The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-12-28
rhe Bureau OF Transformation.

tstO o0TeaO OF MISiFIOTU1dLIOns
To the sdfor "f The Republican
The Democratic Bureau of MIS-
information is still doing business
at the old stand The NeW York
World of course is headquarters,
aud whenever the World utters q
new lie, or rcvamps an old one IN
reference to the manufacturers of
this country, all the country small
fry take 1T up, reitcrate it, empha-
size 1t, comment on 1t, adopt it and
make it their own dear he.
They ntv yer tire of vilifying and
mlsrepresenting the American man
nfacturers.
They have painted them so black.
have lied about them so long and
so persistently that they seem i'm
PEELED by the mere force of habit to
keep on.
After the lie has done duty once,
has been hunted down and nailed,
tn soon find an opportunity to
rosuscitate it and put 1T on its feet
again.
Last week the World reissued one
of its old stale thread-bare fabrica-
tons. concocted for home con-
sumption no doubt, declaring that
protection does not increase the
wages of labor. and that the ur-
protected industries pay higher
wages than do the protected indus
tries; that wages was not increased
by act Of 1890, ETC., and the Noun
tain Democrat at once took 1t up,
published and endorsed it editor
tally, utterly unmindful of the fact
that committee of United States
Senators had investigated this ques-
ton Of wages, and had made re-
port signed by Democratic as well
as Republican Senators, declaring
that per diem wages had been in
creased, and that on account of
steady employment the yearly earn
lngs had increased in very large
ratio, amounting to about % per
cent. over and above the wages paid
prior to the enactment of the Nc
Kinley bill.
Commissioner Peck, the Demo-
cratic labor statlstican for the State
of New York, made a report show
ing very conclusively that the earn
ings OF labor had been largely aug
umented. A number of other re-
ports from the different States of
the Union corroborated the reports
already referred to, and yet the
World goes on lying about the tar
if and about wages just as though
nobody ever had known anything
at all about them.
These old dead and rotten lies
continue to be used for the purpose
of exciting the enmity and the ami
mosities of the ignorant and the de-
PRAYED against those who employ
labor in this country.
In the slums Of New York city
this kind of rot doubtless has its de-
sired effect, but in the country
where the people are intelligent and
should know better it will excite
the disgust and contempt of read
ers generally.
A half truth is generally equiva-
lent to whole lie, and that is
about the size of 1t when the World
asserts, and the Democrat insists on
it, that the unprotected industries
pay better wages than is paid by
the protected industries.
Let us see: The carpenter trade
is unprotected, while the manufac-
turer OF lumber is protected, and 1t
is true that as a general thing car
penters get higher wages than do
lumber showers, but there is a rea-
son, and good reason for the diff
ference.
In the first place, the carpenter
must learn his trade. and in the
second place, he must furnish his
own tools which cost considerable,
and which must be moved about
from place to place, costing time
and money. Now let us suppose
the duty were taken off of lumber,
and that the price of lumber should
be so reduced that the mill men
could only pay 81 per day instead
$3.50 as heretofore. How long
would it be until the mill man
would begin to look around for
something that would pay him bet
ter wages? If the carpenter was get
ting 81 to $500 per day he would
conclude to be carpenter, and in
very short time there would be so
many mill men working at the car
penter trade that there would be no
greater difference in the pay than