The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-25
Frve's Tall Talk.

Coxev's lieutenants when the latter led
the commonweal army TO Washington, is
preparing apparently to outdo Coxey IN
the commonweal army business. He evil
denUly thinks there is fame or fortune or
something else in. il. In his speech at
Homestead, Pa, Thursday night, as re-
ported in our dispatches yesterday, he
predicted that 100000 men would
soon march TO Washington,
and if congress failed to
legislate as they wished they would
/ turn congress out Of the capitol and or
/ GAME provisional government.
/ Ger" Frye is talking for effect No
army of commonweaIers will turn con-
/ gress out of the capitol while Grover
Cleveland is President. IL is safe to say
that no more commonweal armies will
be permitted to march to Washington.
/ The government has had enough of that
sort of nonsense.
A meeting was held at Pittsburg few
days ago with the view of organizing a
move on Washington Of a kind somewhat
different from that of Coxeys, or that
which Frye proposes to lead. The resolu-
( tion adopted was as follows
Resolved, That we approve of sending
delegates from the industrial classes to
Washington in sufficient numbers from
every county and city in the United States
to demand of Congress the passage of
such laws as will give prompt and perma-
nent relief
If delegation from each county and
city should 60 to Washington, that city
would be pretty well crowded. The dele
gates would be in a somewhat better
financial condition than the common
wealers were when they undertook to
bulldoze congress. They would pay their
way on the trains and at the hotels.
But what would they accomplish Can
anything more be done for the unem-
| ployed than is being done? 1t is not the
governments business to support the
people. 1t is the peoples business to sup
port the government.
1t is remarka BILE how widespread the
idea seems 10 be that the government has
only to set its printing presses in motion
to provide the people with all the money
they need. They do not seem to know
that there is limit to the governments
| credit; that when it issues fiat money
it simply borrows from the people and
must pay back all that it borrows. They
! have been told, however, by cranks and
demagogues that the government can
easily make the money with which to give
work to all the unemployed, and they be-
leve it, 1t is a pity that they should be
so misled.
1t is probable, however, that more
prosperous times are close at hand, and
that with the coming of prosperity this
talk Of moving on Washington will cease.
Wooden and Cotton Fabrics.
The center of the wooden and cotton
textile manufacturing indultry in this
country is, and will remain for sometime,
in New England. The organ lin high
acceptance of the world of that industry
is the Boston journal of Commerce. In
politics the Journal is Independent. It's
inclinations, quite naturally, are toward
protection, though it never Stops to a
specious argument and never clouds
facts in order to make point in favor of
protection. What the journal has to say
with regard to the effect of the new tariff
law upon wool and cotton manufactures
NAV, therefore, be accepted as coming
from an authority.
In so far as wool is concerned, says the
Journal, the making of wool free will not
amount to much at present, as the action
of congress has been freely discounted by
both the buyer and seller during the last
| three months. Dealings during this
period have been upon practically free
trade basis, and prices even before the
Of bo 10,
as they ever will get to be. The trade in
the wooden manufactures line for the
next six months will assuredly be good,
as dealers have held off from buying
! until their shelves are empty, and are
! now pushing in their orders. Already,
manufacturers state, there is a better
feeling in the tone of the market, and
they are getting many more orders than
they expected. Prices for certain goods
are based upon the quotations prevalent
IN London.
The changes in the cotton schedules
were far less radical than in woolens, and
the Fall River manufacturers are pleased
with the portion OF the bill that affects
them-that is the schedule embracing
! the fine cotton cloths. The new sched-
ule, indeed, is quite favorable to the
fine goods cotton industry" and the
! journal thinks that, as it will be many
! years before the provisions will be
| changed, the manufacturers of the finer
! goods can enter upon their work with a
good deal of assurance. These goods, it
! seems, received more favorable consider
( alton than the coarser grades of cottons,
such as are principally manufactured in
/ the south.
! During the fiscal year which ended June
| so. 1898 there was imported under the Nc
/ Kinley law S33, $50 293 worth of the finer
cotton goods. This was in year when
there was great financial depression.
The Journal intiInates that there is feel
ing among the manufacturers to the eff
feet that these goods should have been
made in this country. and that they can
arrange their prices, under the new
schedule, so that the imports will be
greatly cut down. "And," says the Jour.
nal, "the sooner our manufacturers make
up their minds that these finer grades
can anu shall be made here and the mill
ions of dollars now sent abroad TO pay for
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