The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-03
acknowledgement
wnEELING. ooTOUEG $, 1895,
E1po.nro OF an AstoundIng Fraud.

EApO1uEo VI NW 'N3'"N"'R
Elsewhere in this i,suo OF the INTEL
IrdrScER will be found an important
and interesting article reproduced from
the New York Tribune Of Monday, ex'
posing astounding frauds psrpetrated
by free trade clubs aud printed by
Democratic l1ewsp apers throughout the
country, in retutatiou Of what they are
pleased to call the calamity howl" OF
Republican papers. The frauds con-
sist in the publication OF alleged lists
Of manufacturing establishments ad.
yaueiag wages Iines the passage Of the
new tariff law. The lists, says the
Tribune, twill have to bs retired for
repairs, for in view Of the exposure
made, no journal pretending to care for
truth will either copy or quote them"
The Tribuns's publication shows the
desperate means resOrted to by the
partisan free trade press, following the
lead Of the New York Herald, 10 deceive
the public regarding the facts OF the 60.
called increase Of wages; that the lat OF
establishments has been padded and
falalfed by the boldest sort OF dupllca.
tons; that while there has indeed been
araise OF wages in several branches of
industry, it averages only 10 per cont,
or about one.hult the reduction in 1898
and 1894 from the wages obtaining uuder
the Republican tariff. and that this
partial restoration has been in those in
dustrisa from which the protection was
not taken by tho now tariff, in spite Of
the Democratic platform declaration
that protection is unconstitutional, and
the promise OF Democratic leaders that
the last yestige Of protection would be
wiped out.
The article, for which We beIpsak a
thoughtful reading by every WAgs.work-
or, is the result oil careful investigation
such as the average reader did not give
to the New York Hsrald's famous iris
lug tide" table, and shows that the
Herald was either imposed upon by the
free trade club that prepared it, or else
that 1t published 1t with a deliberate
attempt 10 deceive for partisan pur.
pose. A very few instances here
enumerated will serve to chow the
character Of tho fraud which iS exposed
in every detail by the Tribune, 1t is
shown that the Herald's famous list
included the Carnegie Company with
5000 employees May II, aud on the
same day each OF nine distinct estGb.
lishmsnts of tho Carnegie Company
with 1900 hands in all. Thus it was
made to appear that $1,000 employees OF
this company had their wages raised
when it was only employing half
that number. In the same way tho
wire nail works, Of oAIo, we're mis-.
represented. All told they were said to
employ 5000 men; two Of them with
G,OOO hands Wero each twice repeated,
another with 1000 employees was given
three times md two others with 500
sgci. Here tho table was rnadO to say
that 22,5OO wiro nail men had their
wages increased when in reality thorO
were but total OF G,0OO men in thai.
Ohio industry.
Again tho tabls gives all furnaces Of
the Mahoning and shOnango furnaces
as having 1000 employees, and after.
ward gives the Mahoning furnaces alone
as employing 10000. These duplica.
tons extend through tho iron industry,
tho woolon and tho cotton induItrloI
aud Swoll tho list by $1,000 employees,
over hntf Of which arc in tho 6rBt
named industry. 1t would seem that
tho fraud ought to stop there, but II
doesn't--not by large minority A
large number Of tho Embellishments
enumerated by tho Herald and dupli.
Gated ia tlle i.t actually have no exist.
ence aud their names cannot DO found
in any trade directory
In tho mining industry similar mis-.
representation Is INDUCED H. and by
duplication aud roduplIcalion tho NUN.
ber Of iron minors on tho Mossaba
range IL given at 2l,7OO, whom there is
In reality only in tho noighborhood Of
5000 ia, number Of cloak.mNkon in
Cincinnati alone Ia given at 1900,
when thoro aro only 1900 people ON.
ploycd In that city Ia all branches Of
clothing manufacture. ThOae instances
ara only Il fow Of tho frauds that aro OK.
posed In tho article 10 which wo have
directed attention. Are thoy not enough
10 show that In thgir efforts TO bolster
up tho effects Of tho entering wodgo 10
ultimate freq trade, our Democratic
friends have been guilty Of rank dis.
honestly
There has boon an improvement In
business and tho wagp wofkoB In some
lines Of industry lDul u worry small pro.
portion Of tho entire number employed
In tho country, have onioyOd u patLiA
teILorALion VI their WARsL but tic