The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-07-06
TARIFF DID IT."
H. oF SUPERIOR AS A
LrrcTION ARGUMENT.
kool rer'ods-The r"r'ff ana m '"'
sr and the sugar Trust
n..,,t. of Tariff Reform
o,.rocity has Accomplished
and Protection.

.c,,rocity has Accomplished
and Protection.
,.a,xtries Of y Prosperous City
We're Paralyzed.
,,o,dent of the Inter Ocean mas
E,ipr up the past and present OF
,nar;,r He describes how the
ms of a prosperous city were inid
;meyal forest, how the town grew
liars m from lonely hamlet or
hundreds, to city OF 'lV,VVo OF
,'i"n me- ont $1,000, 900 in lS92 tor
Manufacturing S3O.0Oo,oW of
md having an assessed vaiua-
81 IN. .slo 600. This growth outdoes
Jrnam and is Il splendid eX-
.ha Influence of American pro.
uara is part of the story as told
correspondent: .,,;,,. ,n,.
r;ff town? That was the ques-
.sked of business men. lawyers
rar men and laborers.
ar the opportunity to wors from
on who were in the American
roe works said Capt. MrDou-
inventor and builder of the IA.
halahacks. In three years | pall
NM ooO TO labor, and converted
tar;al the earth which we shovel
,ara ! few miles, into whnleback
which have been loaded with
a aour and some of them made
,,;t III If The globe. Those 2oW men
an average of - Il day, ana we
4 81 coo. 900 a year Tor labor OF
i or another.
pr was nothing to buy but labor.
tho iron ore, and all that was
w.s labor to convert it into
.ek When we began here l had
\ working on the excavations and
rinr them 81 day for that labor.
of men came down here with
IS and tried to prevent men from
for those wages. Now men
ore every day and beg for work
! day or any wages. But in the
months instead of paying out
DOO in wages we have paid less
5O 600. and now instead Of 2OOp
have about 30 ON the pay rolls,
! kept on repair work. and TO keep
organization. That is what the
katic policy has done for the Amer
bel barge works. And the men |
ed helped to do it. They listened
saloon talk and voted the Demo
ticket. because they thought |
(e Republican. The yards here
full of work when the financial
Eame, and we finished up the most
/ There is the framework Of one
lack on the ways. and we shall
II sometime. 1t is difficult To say
5 whaleback is the most conspicu.
(ject in the shipyards. Its great
lbs stand there like the skeleton Of
mighty leyiathan of the deep which
EN- srraped and wired by the natu-
President Cleveland seems to be
lturalist who has disseeted the body
} industrial giant that trod th.
ran continent only ii year ago.
! West Superior Iron and Steel
are as quiet rs the shipyaras,
there We're GOO men, 400 Of them
workmen. receiving S3oO.No III
III lS92. there are now only the
men to protect the property iron!
lction. The chair factory. that en-,
3OO men. now has about half that
pr working at reduced wages. Ihs
J works have 100 men instead ot .D
4 ago, the Superior Stove works
pad 1oO men Il year ago, have given
'en but one months work this year
pc there cannot be orders secured
)ore work. These works will star
pin about June 20 with twenty mel
straight cut Of - per cent. II
For the last ten years the bnsl
pf the stove founiries had stradll.
Rsed at the rate Of 10 per cent. ;
N this country. but last YEAR il tel
f-thlrd. d.presumably because the was
IS did not have money to buy stove.
|eat their houses as they had done il
prosperous times. The same aepres
fas run through all the manufactur
|ants in Superior. with the exception
! flour mills. Some Of these hay,
been finished in the last year, ali'
have entered into sharp competltiol
pther mills. They have kept up thei
{orees of men. but have run OIL.
one-half their capacity. and the
saved the average payroll Of the II
PAL army from falling below - pc
|of what it was in lSDo.
ee trade review published 10y tn
png Telegram April 81. this veal
the number of men employed las
ft 49l2, as against s116 employed !
and the wages paid ut S2.SDn.oW
galnst nearly :,o,oOu.Ov paid TO
\ in 1892"