The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-09-10
acknowledgement
wnRELINa, aErrKMnEN 70. lsOs.
Wages, prosporiry and rarlm

On labor day the New York Herald,
which IS FREQ trade paper, published
list Of 6i7 mill. In which wages had
been "bwept upward by prOsperity'a
rising tide" and attributed the increase
aud tho prosperity to the workings OF
the Denocratie'tArIf, This publication
has been taken up by numbers OF
Democratic papers. including tho
Wheeling Register, aud the staten entG
made by the Herald have been quoted
rs conclusive evidence that tho new
tariff has been abundAutly vipdicated
insidO tho yoar Of Tia full operation.
Not aStLAasd with quoting the Herald'S
conclusions, which, by the way, havO
been rldicuIOd BY lair. minded buSlnesI
men TO whom the partisan purpose was
clearly apparent, the Register goes
iurtuOr aud OmployG sOme statements
regarding the WoOlGa manufacturing
interests madO by the American Wool
ani Cotton Reporter--Itatspeuta which
tho Reporter never intended should DO
construed az reinforcing Democratic
theories.
In It's last issue, dated the 9th instant,
tho Wool and Cotton Reporter. which ia
an unbiased aud hoh,pastisAn trade pa
/por, publishes an interesting comment
on the Horald's Swept upward" WACO
article aud at the same time takes occs.
sion to show wherein its own state
monts concerning the prosperity Of tho
wooden Industry had been CARRIED by the
Democratic organs. In this comment
the Reporter says that 10 we'll inform
cd and liberal minded business man the
Herald's statements to the eject that
the starting up of all these lRnGuishing
Z industries and their advance OF wages
''may DO aScribod wholly to the work.
ings oItho new tariff, appears ridiculous
and oven puOrile, and. except to tho
thoughtless and uninformed, they are
designed go clearly tor partisau pur'
poses as to have little effect on tho pub
lie mind" The Reporter continues Us
follows:
"The Reporter, thoroughly alive to
the industrial situatiou, reioiceI to point
out evidences Of returning prosperity
restored activity and confidence, and an
increase in wages in our mills, aud in
our issue OF July 4, in advance OF any
other publication, We published a semi.
annual list OF new textile mills which
had been established since January |,
which Democratic organs have seen fit
to ingeniouSly employ for the purpose
Of reinforcing their own particular
theories, aud which comparatively un'
known sheot called the Social Econo.
mist. has seen fit to SO ingeniously con'
trovert as to call forth tho ridicule Of
the leading daiiies Of New York"
This reference by the Reporter to the
typo OF papers represented by the
esteemed Register, which paper quoted
from tho publication OF July referred to,
is significant Of the lack Of patience on
the part Of the trade press with the en-
deavor oil partisan organs to bolster up
their theories with porvorSion Of facts.
The truth Of tue matter regarding tho
advance Of wages is ignored, as the Re.
porter clearly shows, and as the INTEir
1GENcER has often pointed out. Every
WACO worker aud every employer knows
that in tho great majority OF cases tho
advance simply amounts to res'orG'
ton, or partial reitoration 10 those
prices prevailing previous TO tho panic
oi'93.'04, which came aitsr tho Demo.
cratic party began the assault Chat
partially failed on the protective sys.
tenn. Here is what tho Wool and Cot.
ton Reporter says Of tho textile indus'
tries; "The conditions surrounding tho
textile industries OF tho United States
are not such as to admit Of any advance
in wages beyond those which worO paid
under the Mckinley law previous tC
tho panic, and in fact, III tho exception
rather than the ruo, where miIlS car
pay their former prices To 60 beyond
those prices IL simply out Of tho quus
ton, except in possibly few instances
whero some special limo Of yarns or
inbrics arc being produesd. Foreign
competition lie far too strong, and the
purChaainR power Of tho people has moi
as yet sufficiently Improved to admit O
IT,"
Concerning the situation in general
our trade contemporary utsca tia. 1t Is
as "simply foolish aud too narrowly
partisan to DO logical" TO attribute tho
great improvement in businOu to one
years operation Of tho So'cOlIOd Wilson
bill, az 1t was foolish aud partisan Il
attribute tho reductions in wages to tho
Mckinley bill. Unbiased authorities
Rlwaya state facts, and tho authority
from which NO quote, as do all tho load.
erS Of trade In tho country, omphaticNlly
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