The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-07-19

The Iowa Republicans at their state
says the Pittsburg Post,
faced the dilemma IN which the calam-
itv shriekers of that party now find
themselves by putting in the plea that
our industries were built mp under Re-
publican policy-that they were para
lived under Democratic pOlicv-and that
thev have been revived by the assurance of
a continuance of Republican tariff poll
cv given 10y the late elections. As this
lame excuse promises to be heard from
every Republican convention Of the
Union this year and next, let us look
into II little for the fun it affords
What is 1.-The record of the building
of our industries under Republican
policy ~ The facts are that the whole
Mckinley period was one Of wage reduc-
tions. strikes and riots Wages were
reduced in thousands of mills, not once,
but twice or three times in many of
them The Reform club of New York
made an exhaustive examination of the
subject and found that with the one ex~
ception OF the Fall River cotton mills,
which advanced wages less than 10 per
cent, there was not in the whole four
years of McKinleyism in this broad land
a wage advance worth mentioning In
any protected industry. And as to the
claim of the Republicans that these wage
reductions under McKinleyism were
caused by the fear of the Cleveland ad-
ministration and tariff revision, the Re
form club above noted, in 1892 COM
piled list of wage reductions in over
| | 600 protected mills in 1891 and 1892,
before the people had voted to turn the
| Republicans out.
The Wilson law-that harbinger OF
calamity and starvation-has been IN
operation only 10 months, and what Is
its record? Has it, as the Republicans
of Iowa claim, "paralyzed' our indus
| tries? Let the facts answer in restored
| business confidence, busy mills, mine:
and factories. and wages advanced in al
| the great departments of industrial ac
| tivity. ''Bradstreet, the leading com
mercial paper of the Union, and repre-
senting the most far reaching CONNER
mercial agency, and therefore the bes
| informed authority on the subject, in it:
! issue of last week, after stating that the
| increases of wages have outgrGwn the
resources of statistical bureaus that en-
! deavOred to keep track of them, says
that 1.-The latest advices are that more
! than one million industrial workers have
| received an advance of wages averaging
about ten per cent" There is no poll
tics in this. 1t is the cool and cautious
statement of the foremost Commercial
authority of the Union.
If, as the Iowa Republicans claim
! the prosperous condition of business ant
wages Is due to Republican victories
what becomes of the outcry against tn,
| Wilson law by which these eIection
were carried, with the and of a world
wide panic2 No Democrat in the Uniol
proposes to repeal the Wilson
law. No Republican of the Uniol
proposes to re-enact the Mckinley law
That fact is a settler of the Republica
claim that Democratic tariff polio
created the panic and the hope of Re
publican tariff policy Is the cause of ou
starvation. The Mckinley tariff
abandoned by its friends. The Wilso
tariff is vindicated and no Republica
of prominence in the land proposes t
repeal it in favor of the Mckinley abol
ton.
Republican conventions this yea
judging from the specimen we have i
Iowa, will engage in the arduous task {
teaching the people that white is blac
and black is white.