Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-11-24
ARE WARNED INTIME.
TARIFF REDUCTIONS INVOLVE
LOWER WAGES.
Testimony which Was D,ss..tesal to the
Democratic Committee Of Congress
Meaning OF tho Sweeping Republican
Victories in the Recent State Elections.
TariR Testimony.

The unwillingness Of the Democratic
House. to permit the tariff hearings be-
fore the Ways and Means Committee to
be distributed widely Is easily account
ed o by examination OF the printed
copies of the report, now made public
in q limited edition. The following ex-
tracts from the statements made before
the committee as to tho effect of tariff
reductions upon labor and manufacture
Ing interests should have wide reading:
John 2. Eberhsrt. President Of the Window
GLASS Workers Association Of Pittsburg, Pa,
said: Should the American manufacturer be
1orcedt o reduce the price Of his product to
meet the lower price Of the foreign product,
made possible by inadequate protection, his
only recourse. IL he desires to continue in the
business. 10 Q reduction of the wages Of his
employees.
, Frank L. Bodine. PHIL delphia. President Of
tne Cohensey Glass Manufacturing Company.
N. j.: The least reduction Of present duties
must all come from wages. SO manufacturer
are now, and for some time, have been work.
ing without profit. many OF them ct . loss. A
large reduction In wages for skilled workmen
mas been Tor some years necessary to secure
profit to manufacturers.
Thomas Seldom, manufacturer of iron and
steel, birmingham, Ala: About so per cent. Of
our iaborers are negroes. They are thriftless,
n nna h nave not MT = q days !ns. rations ahead; We have
two days work in a week, and they are almost
at the point Of starvation. II YOU make ore
dustry in 1Afsbsms and tennessee e.'n NC" ~
". y. Leeds; Eiwood Indiana. manufacturer
OF tin plate: y. by reducing the tariff on all
down to the basis of that on the other side,
then the American workmen must come down
to the basis Of the other side. as we have to
cannot be done in this country wfthoutthe bit
ter experience of hunger and struggles verging
on revolution.
Il. l.: When you strike q blow at the carefully
nurtured agricultural and manufacturing in
ter tere upop az s sHe li Glee of s SoIieS OF w Ss% s I9Tk, d Or en-,
those relationships which have been developed
by thirty-two years Of fair and beneficent pro-
scendinie' in masnitaidis that political AZ crime
against which the patriot Theirs warned his
countrymen Of fifty years ago.
industry Of the United States: It Would seem
to be. clear that. II the product Of spool cotton
s s.SSs 9, 6s exposed to competition with the
reduced mere OF the business be transferred
back to ENGLAND and Scotland. -
nv w. l +: Sent; OF Taunton: Mass. Treasurer Of
the Cotton Machinery Builders Association:
r this taria should now be reduced II would
not = . v eom sssieu s sass51%so5 to " our a, S%s5Rs sssI Il
TO reduce our prices. and il the tsrlf is
changed the importers can be able to furnish
SucSo iudOutuS1. W AmeElCSu manufacturer
for less money than we can Afford to sell them,
and this would mean that they would take ali
the orders and we would have to close our
shops. and our 525 men now employed would
be thrown out Of work.
Cigar Manufacturers' Association of Indiana:
should the present rate continue we shall be
Obliged to close our factories or reduce the
present rate Of wages to one-half.
Statement of 9 committee Of manufacturers
your committee, as earnestly as it is possible
to do 80. the fact that our industry must have
adequate protection or be destroyed. The
percentage Of increase in the importation Of
fur hats into the country during the year
previous to the passage Of the Mckinley law,
was unprecedented in the history of any in
dustry during the same period.