Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-04-18
REPuBLIcAN EXCHANGES, cory.

REPUBLICAN EXCHANGES COPY.
The New York Tribune, the leading
Republican organ of the United States,
publishes some highly interesting in
terviews with prominent clothing man.
ufacturers of New York city in regard
to the effect of free wool and reduced
duties on wooden goods enacted in the
Wilson tariff law. A few very inter-
esting and significant sample extracts
are herewith given. A member of the
firm Of Rogers, Peet & Co. said:
..Tbe American wooden manufacturer
has been benefited by the removal OF the
high duty on long unsecured Australian
wool The duty haEing been removed
last August. the domestic manufacturer
has since been able 20 get clothing wool
as Cheaply as the foreign producer ana
he has the benefit of an ad valorem duty
which AVERAGES about 80 per cent, accord
inc 10 the quality OF the cloth. As gen
eral fact clothing is now somewhat
cheaper than IL was before the changes
i'm the tariff were made. our sprung trade
is opening satisfactorily, ana the lhulca-
tions are favorable for healthy season 5
business.
C. B. De La Vergne, Jr., of the firm
of Smith, Gray & Co., said;
.Importations are largely offset by the
fact that American wooden manufacture
ers are making better goods than ever
before To make fine cloth they nave ia
use the long Australian wool, ana they
are now using IL much more freely lhan
they did when they had 10 pay q nlSL
duty on IT, OF course, American wool is
still extensively used, but in the produc-
tion of fine goods it is mixed with that
from Australia. The tariff changes have
acted as an incentive 20 domestic manu-
fsrturers and the marked improvement
i'm their goods has caused more cloth OF
home manufacture 10 bee used Unan toH-
merly. We are not using any more IOr-
eigu cloth than We have been accustomed
tO Use because Americans are not only
making better wOOlens than they made
Inst year. but are also making some
kinds that they did not produce before
Foreigners cannot land wOOlenS here
abeaniv enough to seriously compete with
the domestic goods now made. The out
come of the tariff changes Is that people
can wear better clothing FOR the same
money than the somewhat inferior gar
ments cost before the changes
Mr.. Browning, of Browning, King &
Co., said:
"Under the new tariff diagonal worsteds
are row only $3.50 where they were for
merly g. a yard. Another grade is now
only $3.50 where it was formerly $l.SO
Mr.. Hornthal, Of HOrnthal, Weiss
man & Co.. said:
ct don't think that the American manu-
facturers are very untaVOrablN affected
bv the tariff changes Domestic pro-
ducers seem TO be competing success
fully with foreigners.
C. H. Hackett, Of Hackett, Carhart
& Co. said:
For this spring season we are ordering
more imported woOleus i'm proportion
than we formerly ordered for spring
trade. For the next ran season we are
ordering much less than for our spring
stock. We are OF the opinion that our
homemade goods are better adapted FOR
the home market than foreign goods.
except I'm certain lines. our spring trade
is better this season than II was last
spring. but nowhere near 20 what 10 was
I'm the spring of 1893. Since the latter sea-
son retailers have been working off sur
plus stock which they must now replen-
ish. so that the outlook is favorable for a
spring business of fair volume, followed
10y better fan trade.
Thus We have the vast benefits of the
Democratic policy of free wool con-
fessed in the columns of the leading
Republican journal Of this country.
VIII the minor Republican organs
throughout the land who take their
cue from the Tribune particularly
those Of the Mckinley stripe, please
copy?
ATTENTION. CALAMITY HOwLERs.
The silyer-tOngued spell-binder DR..
Chauncey NJ. Depew, is a Republican
politician. but he is first of all, a very
level headed business man. Speaking
in the latter capacity, he is quoted as
saying Il expect to see railroad bust
ness steadily swell in volume until
after the next harvest. when it will at
tain its normal height The next five
months will be a period of flood tide,
and at the end of that time look for
the high tide of the nations prosper
ity."
What's this! Flood tide-high tide
of prosperity, And under the Demo-
cratic tariff lawl Where's Mckinley?
But Mr.. Depew is right The return
ing wave of prosperity is as inevitable
and as irresistible as was the recur-
ring era Of hard times, which CHANGED
to be coincident with the advent of the
Democratic administration. whose par
ty was made to stand the blame and to
suffer for it at the polls through the
brazen falsehOOds of the calamity
howlers. who. to be consistent, ought
20 read DR.. Depew out of the calamity
party for telling the truth.
Wine bibbers will be interested in
knowing that the price Of champagne
is likely to take tumble owing to the
abundance Of the supply above the de-
mand. The stock in Rheims, Esper-
nay and neighboring towns is said to
be about eight years consumption, and
the demand is not increasing. Cali
fornia wine growers, however, are
combining to advance prices, which at
this stage is a very foolish proceeding
Native producers would capture the
bulk of the trade in this country if they
were shrewd enough to fight for it with
/ low prices.
The pardon of Earnshaw from the
Penitentiary by Gov MacCOrkle will
be recognized by those who know
Earnshaw and understand the circum-
stances Of the case as a proper act
Earnshaw strayed from the path Of
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