Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-08
a RIDICULOUS BOAST.
EncctS Of Protection ON the Easter
WouIen Mills.

a RIDICULOUS BOAST.
Enccts Of Protection on the Eastern
Wooden Mills.
One of the proudest boasts of the
author of the Mckinley tari1f-a boast
which has gone the rounds of the pro-
lection press and had innumerable
changes rung on it's in these words:
II know every factory was running and
running on full time from the date OF
the passage of the present tariff law up
to the election of the present admins
tration." 1t was ridiculous boast on
its face and has been so shown to be a
score of times; but the Springfield Re
publican exposes its absurd untruthful-
ness SO clearly and conyincingly that
its showing is entitled to the widest
publicity in the interests of truth and
justice.
A correspondent of the Republican
takes it to task for certain statements
in its columns relative to the effect OF
the Mckinley act on factories and prac-
tically reiterates the Mckinley boast,
declaring there was but one failure of
a wooden mill after the passage of the
Mckinley act until the present year.
This declaration is made on the au-
thority of New England expert; and
the Republican ''goes for" expert and
correspondent in the most thorough
manner. To refresh the memory Of
the former and further enlighten the
latter as to the remarkable nature of
McKinley's claim, it says: ''We have
taken from the flies of the American
Wool and Cotton Reporter few items
of mill news for the six or eight
months succeeding the enactment of
the Mckinley law" These it then
gives as follows:
Home Wooden Manufacturing Co., of Lew
iston, Me, failed about ten days after the Nc
kinley law took effect About the same time
the Bel Air wooden mill at Pittsfed shut down
Indefinitely.
1.-The next month. or in November, 1890 the
Alexander g. Co knitting works at Decatur,
Ill, tailed for Se4 COO
I'm December. 1899, came the big Ritten-
house Wooden Manufac turing Co. s failure with
liabilities OF $50, OO, made more conspicuous by
the fact that Edward Fl. Ammidown president
OF the American Protective Tariff league was
the chief owner and that the failure was pre-
cipitated by Am1aidown's speculations based
on his confidence in the wonderful curative
effects of the Mckinley law.
Tho same month brought further failure
and distress to the wooien industry. The
kinsley, Davis & Co. mills at Braintree,
Allen Wooden Co., Of Hanover, Conn, East
Dover tMe.} woolen mill and Rockford (llL }
wooden mill all shut down indefinitely. VIII
liam Furnell, wooden manufacturer, of Wilton,
Me, failed with liabilities OF $1,000 The Har-
ris wooden mill OF Woonsocket, r. l.. shut down
for an indefinite period. The Rankin Knitting
Co., with the oldest largest and best
equipped knitting mill in Cohoes, N. Y. shut
down and went into receivers hands; iabili-
ties, S15o,o01
1.-The Union Manufacturing conpaay's mill,
at Manchester. Conn, was in the same month
reported idle and looking for purchasers. E.
z. Parsons s. Co, wooden manufacturers OF
Iilton, N. H., were announced as emharrass ed
The WOODEN manufacturing business was re-
ported by the Boston Commercial Bulletin as
dull at Blackstone, Mass, and nearly one-half
of the operatives are out OF employment
''Three months OF the Mckinley law found
things in January, 1891, in about the same
state. K w. Lewis & Son, Of Ansonia, Conn.,
wooden manufacturers, failed for S40,O 900 wv. F.
Sphinx, WOODEN manufacturer Of North Kings
ton, Il. T., assigned The embarrassment OF
the Forbes satinet mill, at East Brookfeld,
was announced. The Trey Manufacturing COM
parry of Cohces, N. Y, denied that their mill
was to start up. The Thompson & Pettengil
knit mill, at Amsterdam, n. Y, was sold at re-
ceiver's sale
Most of the hands OF the American Worsted
in February. 1901. McCauley s. Pell, of Stat
fordville. Conn, WOODEN manufacturers, as
signed one hundred persons thrown out of
work. The Essex yarn mill, at Newark, N. J.,
failed
SIN March, 1884, six hundred weavers at the
WauskuclS mills at Providence struck against
reduced wages. A strike FOR the same cause in
tho big Atlantic mills involved twenty-one hun
dred hands. Tie Fonda IN. " knitting COM
pany failed and went out Of business
During April and May, the Peninsu,ar knit
ting works at Detroit were sold at receiver $
sale. Glover Sanford s. Sons, OF Bridgeport.
Conn. shut down and offered mill for sale. The
wcoien mills at Elmvile and .hliingly, Conn,
shut down and the help began to move away"
Concluding, the Republican says:
And, without going further into de-
tails, we may add to the testimony Of
the American Wool and Cotton Reporter
that this was a bad time for the wooden
business, the statement of the Boston
Commercial Bulletin, d Mckinley pa
per, that the year 1891 will long be re-
mem bered as one of the gloomiest
years the wool trade has known And
at the end of the year the Bulletin re-
ported: The situation among the WOOL
en- mills is anything but encouraging.
This all ought to prove sufficiently fill
Ing 1OT our culo IedeeI. NOV. McAlu-
ley is describing how such conditions
of manufacturing as he expected would
exist after his law look effect-not
what actually did exist. What this
matter has to do with d statement of
the relative demand upon the wooden
manufacturing business just before and
after the panic, nearly three years re-
moved from the enactment of the Nc
Kinley law, we are at a loss to under
stand"-Detroit Free Press.
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