Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-10-04

nGS%HSSlCltNS tntE impose,
Mr.. Wanamaker has done simply
what every business man of the eoun.
try must do when there is change
IN the general tariff policy of the
country. Some Of our business men
whose business IS affected 10y the tar
If have turned calamity and
even seem To regret the signs of in
duStrial and commercial revival. All
such will hc left behind in the rae"
and they VIII deserve little sympathy
in thrir misfortune. This is country
in which the people govern. They
mako their own laws. and while thry
Il aN 1T times err rs tides OF passion
sweep over them they arr always Ger
tain 10 settle down to honest govern
mcut and honest laws as truly rs The
oScillatiug needle settles Ia lie pole,
Business men should understand this
and understand that individual inter
tStS are of little moment when
weighed against the interests of Il
great nation Mr., Wauamakrr under
stands this and that Tells the whole
story OF advertising business rrNSouS
for selling goods when the minimizing
assume that he IS teaching politics.
JrTE BAIitilNG.
\ company which is engaged in the
manufacture of jutr haggnG has an
nounccd that it will br obliged 10
suspend operations Il few days before
the congressional elections because
congress has moved the duty from i'm
pol ted jutc bagg,ng.
The officers of the company plain
lively express Il hope that iii may he
found possible To continue the bust
ness here" They do not explain why
they have not already found ont
whether it will he possible, Jute bag
ging has been admitted free ever einrc
the 18th of August. They have been
running all this time, and they propose
To keep their mills running for an
other month or more How do they
happen to know that it will beuone
necessary To shut down just before
election
The manager of the company is
quoted as saying; Tho duty was >
cents Il running yard and the present
price of bagging is { cents Il yard, 1t
WAS Il prohb.ivc duty, no bagSing
having been imported under it. As
yet no hagg,ng has been brought in,
and We are only waiting TO see how
much the importer will charge befor"
we fix our new selling prices and the
wages we can pay
SO it seems that no bagging has
been brought in since the prohihtivc
duty was entirely removed. But ii is
torcsrrn that baGSing will bc brought
in aud sold ut prieS which VIII make
it necessary to shut down Il few days
* fore election. just about that time
the company will have to stop and
think, ana study prices and figures
ON wages That will be Il good time
to stop and think ana set the opera
tivrS ut thinking and voting while
their pay is stopped. There is time
for everything.
The cumpany's officers have already
given Their employees material for
thought In Il letter addressed to the
men they have This 10 say about
wages abroad: For viewers, Spinn"rs
and men laborrl'S To cents per day ~
India, 30 cents per day in Germany,
- cents per day in Scotland" They
evidently expect ihr men To ponder
this statement, and draw the infer
rncr that their wages must he cut
down to the foreign level now that
the pruhihitivo duty Of = cents 4 yard
has been abolished.
But to what foreign level! Just
here the men may find themselves in
the dark VIII it be the Scotch level,
the GrJ9>tan level or the Indian level:
And when put 10 themselves this pun
ding and moncntOuS question il may
=, ,qIr TO them that the foreign level
is not level at all. II they will look
aC the statement they Viii see that IN
Scotland wages are 20 per cent
higher than in Germany and four and
II half times as high as in India.
And yet the Scotch bagE,ng manufact-
urer, who has no tariff protection
whatever does nor find ii necessary
either to shut down or reduce WAGES
To tn" Indian level. 81 even the Ger.
man level.
And At just about this point perhaps
It Win occur to them that the Amer
lean manufacturer may not have 10
shut down or reduce wages even 10
the Scotch level because n" has been
deprived Of his prohibitivc duty. Per
haps il will occur to them that after
the elections and a good hard think tn"
company may conclude TO resume
operations and pay the old wages
rather than surrender the American
market to the foreign manufacturer
THE POOR, OLD ORGANS.
The reports Of commercial and mer.
camille agencies say that business
throughout the country continues 10
improve. The republican papers,
however insist that these reports ar"
erroneous. and that business prospects
were never as poor rs at the present
time. Merchants however act as II
they preferred to believe the CONNER
cial agencies Unless they are more
t.ifr1ln Srlact they will awaken the ire