Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
Knit Goods and Underwear.
Americans have been bred, born

and educated to live well, to be
industrious and use their genius
| for inventions and the art of manu-
featuring the luxuries as we'll as
the necessities of life. Men cannot
build mills and factories and
become professional in the art Of
making fine goods and do so on a
four years plan. 1t requires time
and practice to become perfect.
The Mckinley bill aims to give
employment to American laborers
and pay them American wages,
which have been three times the
amount paid the pauper laborers
of Europe.
The annual earnings of the
national possessions are S8,ooo,-
900, 1000, which is S2,5Oo,ooO,ooo
more than the total annual earnings
of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain, and is equal to the total
annual earnings Of France and
Germany combined.
With the Mckinley bill the
foreign manufacturers pay Ameri-
can taxes because the Mckinley
bill fosters American industries,
and the competition at home
regulates the prices to lower
figures than the foreign manu-
facturer would charge under
ordinary circumstances. If the
European manufacturers ship
goods to this country they not
only do so at lower price than
they would under Free-Trade laws
but when the American merchant
pays the bill for foreign goods
only a portion of the remittance
goes to the manufacturer IN Europe
while the balance goes to the
United States treasury to pay
American taxes.
This may be hard on the
Europeans, but we will welcome
the good people of Europe to this
country if they will become Amer
lean citizens, where they may
profit by American fnanciering;
but we cannot be expected to
support the pauper laborers of
Europe by allowing them to flood
this country with goods at prices
which create paupers there and
would drain this country Of money
which should be reinvested here.
The object Of the Wilson bill
appears to be the employment Of
foreign laborers for American
consumption, and the Cleveland
Administration appears to be
willing that the American manu-
tacturer of silk goods, wooden
goods, cutlery, iron, steel and
tinware, &C., should be compelled
to follow their profession at the
low prices which have made
paupers in Europe, or discard
their mills and factories and go to
farming to feed the hungry
foreigners.
The result of the recent election
in several States shows conclusive
ly that the country has no conf
dence in the Cleveland Aminis-
tration, which reminds one of an
inexperienced woman driving a
horse. With the horse moving
along through a boulevard
pleasantly and quietly the woman
holds the reins and enjoys the ride,
but when the fractions horse
approaches a street car crossing
all is changed and the.horse, wagon,
woman and robes are possibly
thrown into the gutter.
| have positive evidence that
number of manufacturers in
Manchester, England, contributed
IS 1000 to a Free-Trade campaign
fund in New York during the fall
of 1892, and one man expressed
satisfaction with the investment
which apparently would secure
great advantages to the English
manufacturers
The time they propose the
Wilson bill shall take effect is also
injurious to the prospects of bust