Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-09-13
A STODE-WALL OF FACTS
AGAINST WHICH REpUBLIoA EDIT.
0R3 PERSIST IN BUTrING.

Their Assertions That FREQ Wool
Illus Not Benefited the Textile
Industries Disprovcd by Their
Own Columns.
The most belated of Republican or
gans have been compelled to admit
that times are getting better and that
wages have been advanced in some in
dustries. The unfair and false state
ments accompanying these admis.
sions, IN many protectionist organ
both discredits and disgraces them.
Thus these organs of monopoly tariffs
! appear to DO in league to deceive
the voters rs to tho actual effects of
free wool. Wool being by far tho
most important item put upon the
free list, tho Republicans are las we'll
they might boy greatly concerned about
the industrial and political outcome
OF free wool. Tho industrial effects
are already manifest in the rising
prices of raw woods, the building of
hundreds of new mills and. the ad.
yanced wages in scores of old mills.
Tho Republican organs hope to pre-.
vent the logical political results by
misrepresenting facts and by deceiy-
ing voters. They are conspiring to
give tho general public tho impress
sion that the free wool experiment. has
been failure.
Tho Manufacturer, organ of tho
Manufacturers Club, Of PHILADELPHIA,
Is ono OF the meanest of tho many
mean high tariff organs. In it's issue
OF July 10, it says that "substantially
I'LL OF the increase in wages that have
occurred, have been in iron indus.
tries, and those grouped with them."
1t concludes it's calamity howl by say
ing: "This is SO far tho rule that it
emphasizes the simple fact TINT other
manufacturing industries have shown
practically no recovery from the sharp
competition and depressed conditions
1898. -
I'm tho tcxtilo departments there
has been little restoration of tho &C.
we're reductions which generally had
to be made, and mono is now in sight.
lilo reduction of the import duties
was mnde by the Wilson bill in face of
the knowledge that it would depress
wages, and there can DO no general
recovery of these until it's mischiefs
arc remedied."
What now are some of the facts we'll
known to the editor of the Manufac-
turer, and to most other Republican
editors who persist in bowling and in
incorporating?
L. During the first six weeks after
tho Wilson tariff became law the Wool
and Cotton Reporter contained
seventy mentions of "new mills" 1913
OF arrangements and improvements"
ll2 OF "mills starting up" and only
five Tor possibly nine) legitimate shut
downs. This is record never equallcd
during the four years of McKinleyism
or during the whole thirty years of
high protection. The benefits of free
wool were manifest Mt onco and the
good effects spread immediately to
other textile industries.
2. During the first six months of
1895 the Wool and Cotton Reporter
records 201 new textile mills, divided
Us follows: Wooden, thirty-eight;
cotton, seventythrce; knitting, fifty
ecven; silk, sixteen; miscellaneous,
seventeen.
B. Tho chronological list of wngo
advances from September, 1894, to
June 80, 1895, recently published and
widely circulated by the Tariff Com
mittee OF tho Reform Club, mentions
twenty-three firms that advanced
wages from September to December
%, 1894; thirteen of these were of
textile mills, large proportion being
WOODEN mills. BY April 80, 1895,
nInety-ninc advances had been re-
ported, fifty-nino being in textile
mills. More than one-third of these
were wooden mills. BY June 80, 1895,
522 advances were reported, ut least
lO9 of which wero in textile, about
hfty oil which were wooden, mills.
4. Some of the mentions on this Re-
form Club list include whole groups OF
mills. Thus ono mention includes six
wooden mills in Philadelphia; another
oil of the cotton manufacturers in
New Bedford, Mass. ; another all those
in Fall River, Mass. Altogether about
100, 600 workers in textile mills had
their wages increased between Sep
TENDER 1, 1894, and April 80, 1895.
This number has increased consider.
ably since.
5. Strikes for increased wages are
on i'll many mills, the textile workers
in the great Olneyviilc (R. ~ district
have been out for months; advances
have been granted or offered in many
cases. Right in Philadelphia, under
the nose of the Manufacturer, strike
FOR q per cent increase OF wages
has been on for some time by the 300
ingram carpet VIEWERS in sixty-one
mills. The Manufacturer OF July 20
notes that the manufacturers have Of
fercd to grant the advance on Decen-
Der l. 1t was not, however, mentioned
las do the Philadelphia dailies) that
sixteen firms have already signed the
strikers schedule, and thut over 1000
hands have returned to work in them
at increased wages.
These arc some of tho stonc-wall
facts against which tho bowling pro.
tectionist dervishes arc constantly