The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-08-30

D~.xf fart
knowledge BETTER A'"
~ most belated OF republican or
have been compelled 10 admit
nat times are getting better an" INV
.aoes have been advanced III some in-
a,,,,res The unfair and false state
ments accompanying these auiiiissonS'
a. many protectionist organs ootn as
credits and disgraces them. mus
these organs Of monopoly tarins APP
,,.,r IN b,. in n league 10 deceive the
ro,arsa 10 the actual effects OF free
,.oo, Wool being by far the most i'm
,,,rtart item put upon the free list, the
r,,,,hl;.ans are Gas well they might bel /
.aa,,y concerne 4 about the industrial
"a nolitical outcome of free wool |
~. ,naustrial fleets are already mani
90, n the rising prices of raw woods,
~. building Of hundreds OF new mills
"a the advanced wages in scores of
aid mills. The republican organs hope
70 prevent the logical political results
by incorporating facts and by de-
ceiyng voters. They are conspring
to give the general public the impress
sion that the free wool experiment has
been failure
The Manufactures, organ OF the MAN.
ufacturers' club, Of Philadelphia, Is
one of the meanest of the many mean
high tariff organs. In its issue OF July
Is. il saws that substantially all OF
the increase in wages that have oc-
Cured have been in iron industries
and those grouped with them" 1t
concludes its calamity howl by saying:
This is so far the rule that it empha-
sizes the simple fact that other manu-
featuring industries have shown prac-
tically no recovery from the sharp COM
petition and depressed conditions pre-
vailing since the early months OF 1898
In the textile departments there has
been little restoration of the severe re-
ductions which generally had TO be
made, and none is now in sight. The
reduction of the import duties was
made by the Wilson bill in face OF the
knowledge that it would deprcss wages,
and there can be no general recovery
of these until it's mischiefs are reme-
died." =,
What now are some of the facts well
known to the editor of the Manufac-
turer, and to most other republican
editors who persist in bowling and in
misrepresenting?
1. During the first six weeks after
the Wilson tariff became law the Wool
and Cotton Reporter contained seventy
mentions of new mills 123 OF ZEN
larpemcnts and improvements" l42 OF
..mills starting up" and only five tor
possibly nine) legitimate shut downs
This is "A record never equaled during
the four years of McKinlcyism or dur
ing the whole thirty years Of high pro
lection The benefits of free WOO
were manifest at once and the COCA ef
fects spread Immediately TO other tex
tile industries
p During the first six months OF $50
the Wool and Cotton Reporter records
POI new textile mills, divided as FOL
lows. Wooden, thirty eight; cotton
seventy-thrce; knitting, fifty-seven
silk. sixteen; miscellaneous. seventeen
3. The chronological list of wage ad
vances from September, 1894, to jun
30. 1895. recently published and widel
circulated by the tariff committee Q
the Reform club. mentions twenty
three firms that advanced wages frof
Septe n, Der to Decemb Der -, 1894: THU
teen of these were textile mills. larg
proporticr being wooden mills
April 30. 1895. ninety-nine advance
had been reported, fifty-nine being J
textile mills. More than one-third {
these Were wooden mills BY June 8
1895, BE- advances were reported, !
least 100 OF which were in textil
about fifty of which were wooleI
mills.
4. Some OF the men tions on this r
form club list include whole groups
mills. Thus one mention includes $
woolcn mills in Philadelphia: anoth,
all of the cotton man u facturers in Ne
BEDFORD, Mass; another all those
Fall River, Mass Altogether abo'
100000 workers in textile mills ha
their wages increased between Sc
TENDER !, 1884, and April 80, 1885 Th
number has increased considera b
since.
8 Strikes for increased wages are {
in many mills, the textile workers
the great Olneyvillc OR. ~ district ha
been out for months; advances ha'
been granted or offered in many case
Right in Philadelphia. under the no
OF the Manufacturer, a strike for !
pcr cent. increase of wages has been
FOR some time by the 3,OOO ingram ca
net veavers in sixtv-one mills. i
Manu- facturer of July 20 notes that !
manufacturers have offered to gra
the advance on December !. 1t "
not, however. mentioned (as TO I
Philadelphia dalies) that sixteen firl
have already signed the strike
schedule. and that over 1000 har
have returned TO work In them at
creased wages
These are some of the stone-w
facts against which the bowling p
tectionst dervishes are con stantly D
ting their pates. Millions of voters
watching this butting process and
miring the hard pates of the prot
ZIONIST editors and their still hare
conscicnces which permit them to dc
facts published in their own column
BYRON w. HoL1
TIC Will speak when u IL Too Late
Even republicans are poking fun
Gov. william Mckinley, candidate
repu blican nomination to the pr
dency. He will cross half do
states to speak for protection a'
which everybody is now indiifcr'
tan