The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-07-12

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The Pittsbur@ Post says: The Carnegie
Company at Homestead paid out on Sat
urdav $4,000 in wages to their meA.
This showed an advance of 81 600 that
goes to labor because of the recent in
crease in wages All this was under the
Wilson tariff. The Carnegie works had
quite different experience in 1892, under
the Mckinley law, at Il time when the Will
son tariff was not dreamed of, and five
months before the election of President.
There was reduction of wages and Il
the Mckinley tariff. Wages advanced
under the Wilson tariff The working
men are sizing up the situation. They are
getting better wages than under the clos
ing years of Mckinleyism, and besides
that the purchasing power of their wages
has been materially increased They can
buy more of the necessities for the same
money.
THE WILSON TARIFF.
Nashville American: Increasing demand
for labor, increasing wages for labor, in
creasing business activity in all the de-
partments of trade and commerce have
shown the mockery and falseness of the
Republican opposition to remedying the
tariff system and of depriving it of some
of its most injurious monoplistic features,
which were affixed to tariff legislation by
Republican Congresses. This opposition
claimed to be based upon the Republican
belief that tariff reform would bring bust
ness depression, would throw laborcrs out
of employment, would reduce wages
Now the tariff per sc does not make high
wages, but the experience of this year
shows that the Republicans objections to
the Wilson tariff law were made for effect
only, and that they howled calamity and
phrophesied evil because they wanted the
stagnaton then existing to continue
COTTON MILLS GOING SOUTH.
Memphis Commercial Appeal: The fact
that the cotton mills are leaving New Eng
land and coming South cannot be hid from
the public by the refusal of some of the
New England citizens to see Through
scltishness-somewha pardonable in this
instance-they do not want to become
cogniZant of the fact. None are so blind
as those who will not see. A Western ex
change admits the migration of industries
southwark, and says that 1.-The reasons are
obvious. The raw materials are in the
South, and the markets for the products
are nearer to that point than to New Eng
land. Then the location of mills in the
South saves the freight charges on cotton
other words in competition for the bust
ness the South has the advantage of cost
of carriage twice. But that advantage is
not limited to cotton goods 1t is more in
evidence with regard to woolens and leath
er goods" Truly, the South cannot be rob
bed of her heritage much longer. Like
truth crushed to the earth, it will rise de
spite every initiating obstacle to the con
trary.
MCKINLEY IN NINETY SIX.
New York Evening Post The Mckin-
leyites are trying, in feeble way, to play
their old trick over again. As they said
before that the panic was caused by the
apprehension of what the Democrats
would do, although they had actutually
done nothing, so they are sayingnow that
the good times are caused by the hope of
what the Republicans will do, although
they have actually done nothing, and there
is no chance of their doing anything tar
ritf-wise for two years to come.
This is an argument that will not bear
close examination. 1t may serve for the
campaign of this fall, but not for next
year. Long before the autumn of 1896
it will have worn out. Most likely the
campaign of 1896 will turn on other ques-
tons than the tariff, but if the tariff is
then uppermost, the most effective battle
cry will be to ''let it alone" That will
be the fetching argument with the work
ingmcn, and to a large extent with their
employers also. In that case Mckinley
will be unavailable, because he stands for
a change-the same kind of a change that
he made before, Especially will he be
committed to restore and even increase
the duties on wool, in accordance with
the demands of the WOOL grown triumvi-
rate, Lawrence, Harpster and Delano.
And, of course, any change in reference
to wool must bring in corresponding
changes in woolens, worsteds, mixed
goods, textiles of all kinds; in short,
everything that anybody wants if he has a
pull with the Committee of Ways and
Means. Does the Republican party want
to wake up the spirit that smote it in 1890?
If so, it can be pretty sure of doing it by
making Mckinley its candidate next year.