Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-26

I ScDtlute ILS OptldllOu WIS pOStpouou
| Gin the first Of the year chiefly 10 ena-
bic the vast number Of wooden mills
which had been idle under the McKin-
ley law 10 get ready for business under
the new tariff conditions before the new
new wooden duties were put into
actual operation. Every issue
of the wool aud wooden
trade journals contains column after
column Of news Of mills and factories
resuming after prolonged idleness, Of
improvements and engagements being
made, and new concerns being built
--uce the passage Of the new bill and it
.s as we have said to allow the reyivi-
fed industry 10 get at least partially
under way 70 meet the new conditions
that the operation OF the wooden sched-
uIe has been postponed. So far as the
trade is concerned, however, the reduced
schedule is practically 10 operation now.
Some Of the most important provisions
OF the Mckinley bill did not 90 into ef-
feet for six months after the passage Of
the bill. This allowed vast stocks Of
goods 20 be imported under the old
lower duties TO bs sold later to the peo-
pie at Mckinley prices, 1t was fraud
90 the people. The Wilson bill does
not work that way. The postDonement
Of the reduced wooden schedule for two
months or tuI January 1 next is simply
20 allow the wooden industry, which
was stagnatsd under McKinley's law, to
clear It's decks for action. Lisvv,, 20 the
ponseustcaI mtcIigacu furtbeE
But this is not the whole story. Soon
after the November election the new WOOL
I sn duties win go into effect To Will then
/ cost less than 10 does now 10 import yaro
/ of cloth "a rcady-uate garment or pair
/ of stockings. American manufacturers Oh
I these commodities must meet foreign com
I n.-ftfon or 20 out of the business. Free
/ wool viii give them 20 advantage, for tue
| foreign manufacturer has free wool There
must bs a reduction in the cost OF Froduc-
What is the chief factor in productionl
Labor and on labor the chief burden must
/ rgu American labor must submit 10 the
necessities of the case or rema In idle.
Thus bowls the demagogae.
Labor fn the wooden industry did re-
main idle under the Mckinley tariff
Under the new Democratic tariff the
columns of the wooden trade journals,
a. we have stated, have been and are full
OF news of assumptions Of wooden mills
and factories, the enlargement OF old
ones and the building of new. Never
was such complete revival in any
I branch of American industry known
before. IL was II the industry had Ions
been dead, and was suddenly made &c
sprfnr from its grave into full life, en-
| erQy and activity at the touch Of tariff
reform. so great has been the change
from Mckinley times
The IntcIigcpccr knows this has been
the current news Of the past two
months, though it has been studiouslY
kept out Of the IutciligGucer'S columns
What audacity therefore has that orgar
of mouopoly-fed Repubiicanism to tall
Of labor 10 the wooden industry having Il
fear reduced wages and id.eness undei
the provisions Of the law ths
has already snstchsi it from
DEATH What could be worst
70 labor in the wooden In
dustrv than McEjnlsyism. unde
which hundreds Of thousands Of textil,
operatives were thrown idle. Wha
could be more beneficial to that labO
than the Democratic measure which ha
nut these idle men sud women to wOrI
again9 Aud as 70 Wages-though az
wages are better than the no wages o
> the Mckinley timeS-since the passag
of the new tariff bill wages in tn
WOODEN Industry have really risen. Tn
following letter from the treasurer G
the Lowell Manufacturing Company
one Of the largest carpet works in II
United States, 70 a gentleman in Nj
waukee, makes the matter clear:
Lowell Manufacturing Company, % Mil
street, Boston, september Il, lSy4
- Brrnard GoldstcjIl, Esq, Mi'Cdikee:
, DrAR SlR:-Iu reply 70 yours Of 4
1871 would say that IN accordance WI
ne Understanding the special reduction
wages mSae- q laks eject peSspee7a1