Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-04
THE WILSON BILLS TRIUMPH.


THE WILSON BILLS TRIUMPH.
Many Benefits Already Resulting from
the Democratic Tariff.
Every body recollects the doleful pre-
dictions that were made of what would
follow the passage of the Wilson bill,
or the German bill, or the Wilson-Gor-
man bill, or whatever one may choose
to call the tariff bill passed by the
Fifty-third congress The bill was
modified very greatly during its pas
sage through congress, but the charac-
ter of the predictions never changed.
The same calamities that were to fol-
low the original Wilson bill were pre-
dicted again after each successive
passed and had become law it was
described as q free-trade measure by
protected manufacturers associations,
and a pathetic appeal was made to the
patriots of the country to buy domes-
tic goods at high price, instead of
imported goods at . low price, in order
to avert chaos and ruin among our
domestic producers
Nearly ten months have elapsed
since the free trade bill'' became q
law, and the watchmen upon the noun
tains of Zion are looking for the COM
ing of that troop of disasters so conf
IDENTIFY predicted. Among those dis
asters was a reduction of wages of
labor to level with the pauper labor
of Europe and Asia. This has so far
been fulfilled that every fash of the
telegraph brings intelligence of the
rise of the wages of hundreds or thou
sands of men. Day unto day uttereth
speech of the employment of more men
in our industries, and night unto night
showeth knowledge of larger earnings
and better profits. This is the first of
the free trade miseries-
In like manner the watchmen upon
the towers tell US of the building of
new factories and the enlargement of
old ones. 1t were long to tell the story
in detail, but one or two may be no
ticed. The other day we heard that
the Cambria Iron company would spend
two million dollars in the enlargement
of its works. Then comes the news
that the Illinois Steel company will
build new mill for the manufacture
of structural steel at a cost of million
of dollars. This method of working
the ruin of our industries is altogether
new, and is worthy Of the attention of
that very numerous class CT Cassandras
who filled the air last fall with bowls
of coming calamity.
A great deal was said last summer
and fall about iron ore, and it was inn
material whether the duty was taken
off or simply reduced, the same miser-
les were to follow The misery has
followed. The other day the Port
Henry mines in New York began ship
ping iron ore to the furnaces in the
Rhenish and Westphalian iron districts
in Germany. The first consignment
amounted to fifteen hundred tons, and,
doubtless, more will follow. The in
dustry which we were told could not
hold its own il the home market with
out large protection is going over the
ocean, ard invading Germany, where
wages are low. and the American style
of living unknown.
Another misery that was to super
vene was the reduction of prices of
farm products, owing to the inability
of the employees of protected manufac-
turers to earn wages and their conse
quent inability to purchase food and
far as it has been verified at all, by
large advances in the prices of some of
the leading agricultural staples, in
GLIDING wheat and cotton.
In the general wreck the railroads
were, of course, to have their share. If
nobody sold anything, or bought any
thing, on account of the poverty SUI
perinduced by reduction of taxation,
there would, of course, be nothing for
the roads to carry. AS railroad gross
earnings are showing an increase of
six or eight per cent. over last year,
when the Mckinley bill of blessed
memory was in full operation, it will
be seen that the Cassandras of last
year have plenty of work to explain
this curious phenomenon.
In word, all that was predicted of
the operations of the new tariff has
been falsifed. just the contrary has
occurred in every instance. This ought
to induce the calamity howlers to go
out of business, but it will not As
soon as one prediction is falsifed they
make another just as good, but no bet
ter. The country is enduring the mis-
cries of free trade with good deal of
resignation.-L Courier-Jour-
nal.
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