The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-31
rBE DREAD or TARIFF REFORM.


New textile mills built in 1892 were
2I2 I'm number and gave work to cisco
employees In 1898 only liz new mills
We're built. giving employment to 1900
operatives. These figures. gathered by
the Boston Textile World. are The fuli
ulea sure of the check TO ON" great IN
duStry by the vote for 2 low tarin in
November. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Press
Is il? What is the matter with includ-
ing tho mills that were built after the
vote was cast FOR low tariff i'm 1892.
our contemporary leaves out two
months Of check" that it should have
included if it desired to give the full
measure" But what a ridiculous false
pretense this is to be advanced by a
newspaper that makes pretcnsions 10 in
telhgence and fairness. Every person IL
this country knows that not only the
United states. but the whole world was
convulsed i'm 1898 by great money
panic. 1t was as disastrous in tariff
countries. where no change Of tariff was
proposed. as it was elsewhere. More so.
In Australia high tariff Victoria suffered
more than free trade New South Wales.
High tariff Italy suffered more than
free trade England. although England,
like all other countries. suffered greatly.
Did a proposed change in the tariff make
people take their money out of banks?
Did it make the Philadelphia and Bos-
ton and New York banks suspend pay
ments and issue clearinghouse certifi-
Gates? The Press knows it did not.
But. further. Notwithstanding this
great money panic. and Notwithstanding
all the republican talk that tariff reform
would ruin all the manufacturing in
dustries Of the country, the fact appears
that 172 new manufacturing establish
ments were built in 1893 in the textile
Industries alone-63 per cent as many
as were built in 1892 when there was no
money panic. Does that look like man
Would manufacturers have built these
new establishments if they had believed
that tariff reform would interfere with
manufacturing business? Surely no in
telligent person can be expected to be-
lieve such thing. Moreover, now that
the Sherman law has been repealed, and
the money panic is over, we hear on all
sides of the manufactories resuming
work. Here are a few recent ones:
The national tube companys works at
NcKeesport. Pa. one of the largest man.
ufacturing concerns in the country, has
resumed work
Six hundred men resume work at the
National rolling mill at McKeesport.
Pa, on Monday next
The works Of the American watch
company at waItham. Mass. which have
been closed since last summer, will be
opened on fun time and with a fun
force on Feb. 6.
The Franklin brass and bronze com
pany at Derby, Conn. will resume work
on Monday.
The Kansas zinc company at Girard,
Kas.. has begun work again with four
block plant
The Western file works at Beaver
Falls, Pa. will resume next week with
400 hands.
The Cops wooden mills at Jackson
vile, H.. has started up with over two
hundred operatives.
The Dunlap carpet mills. the largest
plant OF the kind in the northern part
of Philadelphia, are making arrange
ments to start in few days with 100
weavers.
The largest manufacturer of lamp
chimneys in America, George A. Mac
beth, Of Pittsburg. says tariff reform
has no terrors for him. and he won't