Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-06-07

] utIHoCTdlt cOlGfeSS 10 crush IL out.
/ He took hand In it himself When the
importers Of New York tried to bring
! in pearl buttons without the holes
| punched as raw materials the repub-
/ lican collector in New York stopped
them. They appealed to the APP
/ praiser, and the collector was sus-
/ tained They appealed their case to
the board of appraisers, and again was
the collector sustained. They then APP
pealed 10 the United States district
lector. They carried the case 10 the
/ appellate court, and that court re
verSed the decision in favor Of the
| importers The case should have gone
10 the supreme court for final hearing,
hut Secretary Carlisle refused TO carry
it up to the court of last resort. The
United States government had three
decisions against the importers and
the importers had one decision against
the government The secretary of the
treasury surrendered at the first le-
cision against the government and al
iShed pearl buttons as raw material
and escape the duty SO long as they
did not finish the holes in these but.
tons until they got them past the Gus
tom-houSc. That knocked out the
pearl-hutton factories in this country
for the importers could bring pearl
buttons in practically free of duty
The Wilson bill is faircr toward the
poarl-button manufacturers in Amer
lea than was Secretary Carlisle be
cause II imposes a tariff Of l cent Il
line and 40 per cent ad valorem on
pearl buttons and provides that but
tons are buttons whether they have
the holes punched or not
The Germans of Manitowoc have no
further use for the democratic adj
minishation that strikes down two
pearl button factories started 10y young
Germans, proposes to destroy the
market Of Wisconsin barley, and gives
them hard times instead of prosperity.
One old German farmer said he had
voted for Peck twice and for Cleye-
land He had heard that Mckinley
was running for some Office. he did not
know what, hut he wanted Il McKin-
ley ticket at the time of the spring eluc-
ton. He wanted to vote for the man
who made the Mckinley bill and the
good times that came with that legisla
zion He did not care what 1t was
Mckinley wanted in the way of an
office he proposed to vote for him
every time he found the name on a
ticket That old German farmer repre-
sents a big sentiment in Wisconsin to-
day, aud could McKinlcy's name be
placed on a ticket this fall it would
sweep the state by as large a majority
as he had in Ohio last fail
A correspondent, writing from Mil
waukcc TO the Inter Ocean. says the
Wisconsin democrats did undcr-esti-
mate their own capacity for bunder-
ing in legislation and also the docility
of the people, who were the sufferers
They elected Mr.. Mitchell to congress,
then elected him to the United States
senate, and i'm a special election sent
Mayor SomcrS to take Alitchcll's
vacant seat in the house. All this was
before the democratic machines at
Washington and Madison had got I'M
der full Roadway to show how they
could destroy business interests in
Milwaukee and flood the state with
the roster scandal
After one year Of democratic adj
ministration the workingmcn of Mil
waukce concluded 10 take stock, or an
inventory Of the results of demo-
cratic pledges. They found that in
Milwaukee nearly four thousand less
men had been employed in 1898 than
in 1892, and that the laboring men
i'm the manufacturing establishments Of
this city had lost in wages Sj,632 051
through the election Of Grover Cleye-
land and democratic congress.
In 1892 the total manufacturers Of
Milwaukee, according to their own
figures gathered and compiled, paid
5G,S73 persons S2S,967 400 in wages,
an average Of S537G9 40 each. In
1898 thcy paid 50.562 persons S23.335.-
$40 in wages, a total Of Sj,632 ,OJl less
than the sum paid in wages in 1892,
and a reduction equal 10 Sl1119 to
each person employed in 1893.
The aggregate reduction in wages
was 20 per cent, the actual reduction
in product % per cent, with a general
increase Of actual investment of ST.
100000 in new capital An Observance
of the shrinkage in values in manufact-
urlng property by manufacturers in
placing valuations on their properties
brought the actual valuation in 1893
S7.5G6.345 below the valuations of 1892
besides this absorption Of S40O0000
new capital, thus sinking values SILL
566,345, in round numbers 10 per cent.
on the S1OG,OO0,0OO invested.
In 1892 the reports Of the lwau.
kee manufacturers indicated a general
increase i'm the scale Of wages Of . to
20 per cent. The general average in.
crease was about II per cent In 1893
fully as many reported decreases as
had reported increases in 1892, and the
decreases were at a larger percentage,
ranging from 10 to - per cent, with