The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-06-21
THEORIES VS.. FACTS.


evidences Of prosperity pouring IN from
MI directions The list ~ wa-e adj
yances is getting too long for pnoiica-
tion in an ordinary newspaPcr. Adj
vances have been reported since April
In over 200 different mills. factories
and mines Over 10000 laoorers arc
getting better pay than they wese
getting two months ago.
All OF this has occurred under tnr'n
law that was guaranteed by Mckinney
70 ruin American industries and 10
pauperize American labor. Ills
nropheev in regard 10 lower duties
seems 10 have been a. far astray as
was his prophecy in regard to higner
duties His bill was TO benent all m
dustries and TO uplift American labor
IL did both with vengeance during
the whole Mckinley period wages we're
declining in all industries. fracuca'iy
no advances were reported. ne snort
list OF twenty-three purported wage
advances. collected at great cost ana
effort by the Protective Tariff league.
was soon dispelled by the Reform
club. More wage reductions were
| found at the places named than OF
| wage advances
somehow actual conditions do not
| adiust themselves TO the Mckinney
theory. His bill. which was 10 open
mills and 10 give employment 10 mil
| lions of laborers at increased wages.
had the very opposite effect. and now,
as il to mock him anc to show him that
his theory does not work either way,
reduced duties are doing exactly what
| n. al. a a
banner Mckinley year according 10
all projections. was i,9s. To CONTRAST
the effects of low and high duties the
following records are given OF wage
reductions for two weeks of Mckinley
ism. and the advance of wages during
two weeks of tariff reform
The record of news items giving re-
auctions for two weeks May To May
/; lssa-under the Mckinlew law. fol-
lows:
WAGES of ,. 500 employees OF Black
Diamond Steel works at Pittsburgh
Pa. reduced.
!. One hundred employees OF Andrew
4 Carnegie at his Lower Union mills II
r Pittsburgh. submitted 10 a 20 per cent
n reduction in wages
= Fifty molders in Iron City foundry
r Pittsburgh. accept 20 per cent re
O drction of wages.
4 Two Chenango valley furnaces BAN
y down TO restrict production
& Twenty men and boys employed
q the spring factory of Wolf X Co. Me-
o York city. strike against 10 to 70 pc
20 cent reduction of wages
"A Weavcrs in Delaware wooden mills
!, Newcastle. have WAGES reduced cen
"a per cut-from - To ~ cents.
Brickmakcrs in Philadelphia hay
~ wares reduced from 500 to - 10 p
y. day.
y >nidcr-malsers in Thompson-Horstc
h. Electric Co.'s factories. Lynn, Mas
At strike against 20 peS cent redncti'
as of wages.
IN Two large iron furnaces AT >harps
~ Vile. Pa. close down indefinitely
he Boonton N. ~ roofing mill sht
"a down owing To refusal of employees
r., accept a reduction of wages
Reading foundry at Reading. 7
~ shuts down because employees refuse
he accept lower wages
in Molders in employ Of Cassidy \
Ter. in New YORK city, reduced p P
> cent
an Heating hosiery mills, at Galcna, l.
, a suspend operations
10 Pioneer Chair Co. at North Par
~. Mo. shut down indefinitely.
..n uaverhill. Mass. iron works close
er Carpet mills at Palmer. Mass. 81
down.
ma Cap makers of Harris & Co. y
,nt York city. strike against - per &c
ing wage reduction.
orv Katahdin iron works move fr
I Maine 10 Nova Scotia.
sha Puddlcrs in lInoycn's rolling mill,
= /. Norristown Ia. have wages redu'
the from 81 90 10 50 ~ per ton
she Nahoning 4 Shsnango Valleys II
.pa manufacturers agree upon a scale
WAGES which makes IA material
pht duction in the price 81 pudding
1. Wages II mule -pinners AT Mar
,er. ransett reduced.
ira one hundred and seventy emplo
~ In Union silk mill. at Cata>qua. !
-, thrown out Of work by strike OF Il
riy- wcavcrs.
RAJ, Contrast the fore roing doleful
49, hibit with the following for two we
of prosperity May to IA. l-95--un
- tariff reform Legislation and dra " y
own conclusions:
80, Five thousand employees Of the
tional tube works and rolling m
McKecsport. Pa. have wages increa
O. IL per cent
over a.e00 employees Of River
Iron Co. Wheeling. w. Va =
wares increased 10 per cent
INV About 3 500 employees OF Vince
IL steel 4 Iron Co.. Wheeling. W.
had have wages advanced 10 per cent
xere Employees Of Peabody mills.
his buryport. Mass. informed OF 10
,,ber cent increase of wages
), An Tanners in Sheboygan. WIS. re
us.d increase amounting 10 onc-half OF
:. me duction in ls92.
,yed over $50 employees IL Carrie furn'
,our. near Braddock. Pa. get 10 per I
s,;v. increase Of wages.
...nT Four thousand coatmakers in j
,,;se more get an increase OF from 70
day per cent
Ihare Fifteen hundred men in iron
i -. nj sharon. Sharpcsville and West
.ould dlcscx. Pa. get an increase OF wa1