The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-03

ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC SCANDAL.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune is causing the
Cleveland administration many sleep
less nights by his exposures of transac-
tions that the Administration would
prefer to have nothing said about. He
unveiled the Josiah Quincy-Patent Of
flee Gazette scandal, the Carnegie armor
scandal, and several other affairs that
have certainly not added to the credit of
the present administration.
He has now discovered another scam
dal, more infamous in it's bearings and
effect than either, because it unfolds a
deliberate attempt on the part of the
present reform administration TO alter
census returns for partisan purposes
The nation goes to heavy expense in
order to secure as accurate data rs
possible of all statistics relating to the
growth and material aud moral pros
perity and welfare of the country.
This correspondent charges that the
Democrats are editing" these figures
in order TO destroy their value and 70 so
twist the returns as to make them ap-
plicable TO the Democratic standard of
political economy. He backs up his
charges by comparison showing
the difference between the original and
the expurgated reports in a section of
the report on manufactures. In this re-
port was an article written by Mr.. North,
the secretary of the American Wool
Manufacturers Association, an acknowl-
edged authority on textile matters. The
charge is substantiated that tables of
statistics have been so altered aud
sentences so edited as TO make the show
ing of the American woolen industry
much less favorable by contrast with
that of other nations.
In thus endeavoring to suppress the
truth because it conflicts with the
Democratic theory the Administration
commits the silly error Of believing that,
because it has expurgated the truth
from the report, it has also expurgated
the facts themselves.
But in spite of partisan editing the
real state of affairs exists aud confronts
the Democracy at every turn. and as
they can not explain it they endeavor TO
hide it from sight. The following para
graph has been expurgated entirely.
a1x h., 1ug IA 80
years has been more rapid than IN any
other country. This fact may be de-
monstrated by a comparison with Great
Britain, whose statistics Of wool con-
sumption are more accurately com
piled than those of any other
Europe nation. Before 1860 we
imported more woolen goods in
duty paid value than we made in our
own factories. Our wooden manufact-
urers consumed but 9s, ,379 7S5 pounds of
greasy wool IN that year. In 1890 their
consumption hud grown 10 434,-
100000 pounds. In 1860 the British
manufactures was consuming BOO, 000, 900
pounds of wool annually. three times as
much as our own. In 1890 the British
manufacturer consumed about 100000
900 pounds, or but per cent. more than
our own. In ihese thirty years our
manufacturing consumption of wool has
increased nearly $40 per cent, while
that of Great Britain has grown 81 per
cent"
This is the industry at which the
Democracy has aimed its deadliest
blows. 1t has removed the protection
from the raw material, and slashed the
duties on the manufactured products.
The baneful effect of its legislation is
felt in every woolen mill in Rhode
Island, and the mill owners are
compelled to ask their help to
accept less wages and work
harder than ever before because
the Southern Democrats are determined
to destroy if possible this Northern in
dustry. Even the sheep raisers of the
far West must suffer because of this
hatred of the North. The wooen in
dustry of Rhode Island was never in so
critical a condition as it is today, and
the Democracy begrudges it even the
recital of its former prosperity in the
census reports.
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