Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-08-10
rAE BUSINESS REVIVAL.
An Independent Newspapers Review Of
the situation.

Nuc SfAANhA0Aa
To estimate the extent and meaning
Of the present revival we must take a
clauSe backward, When the McKin'
lev tariff became law, In October, lS9o,
disastrous results soon followed. eS-
pecislly IN Pennsylvania, Ohio ami Hi
noiS iu December, 1890, at Bethle'
hem, Pa, 1000 iron workers We're
thrown out Of employment In Jam
nary. ,Sel, wages were redc>ed ePer
cent 81 the large steel works at Home
stead. Pa. and in the following Feb
ruarv 1000 men we're thrown ont of
vork-rcverses followed in April by a
second reduction Of wages Is per cent?,
and in July, lS9s, by the great and
bloody strike of $500 men against
wage reductions Tn January 30, 1921.
at YOUNGSTOWN, O.. $1,000 men were
thrown cut of work and the wages Of
5000 were reduced al Johnstown. Ia
In less than a year after the Mckinley
law took effect $4,000 mill hands were
thrown out OF work or their wages eat
down, In March, iS9a, one western
steel company had >, 500 men idle, and
in july OF that year ordered a rcduc-
ton OF - per cent IN wages Strikes,
shutdowns, working on short time, re-
duction of wages were quite in order
these times from 1890 to 1898 of 'hum-
ming" activity ana booming Mckinley
prosperity Of American industries,
Nothing succeeds like success" and
the success Of ''protectionism" and
tariff taxation for the alleged benefit
Of American wage vas SO ire
mendous under the republican high
tariff that the labor element of the
country in November, 1922 wisely
concluded that they hadnh had quite
enough Of the American N'stem' $50
called, aud hence they voted for tariff
reform and Mr.. Cleveland.
The present improvement has come
to stay, and the new tide Of prosperity
can be heightened and ~broadened If
the American export trade in manu-
featured products is vigorously pressed.
Relieved by the Wilson law of a con.
siderable portion Of the vast burden of
protective" taxation imposed for the
benedt Of monopoly "a taxation
amounting to many hundreds OF mil
lions Of dollars every year-the people
are beginning to taste the sweets of
liberty and to profit by freer trade.
The enormous benefit derived from the
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the bud. .
Even the manufacturers have begun
to scent prosperity in the free trade"
.arifT. and to see that it is for them a
blessing in disguise. Every day makes
I clearer tha, it is not to their interest
to revive McKinleyism. With free raw
naterials-the very lifeblood of manu-
factures-and with a reduction in the
Expenses OF manufacturing, both of
which inestimable Blooms the Wilson
law gave the mill owners, they cannot
;ail to see that the brightest era OF in
lustry ever known in America has
iawned uponthem,
The Gettysburg OF the great war
against the slave power Of protected"
monopoly was won when the Wilson
law triumphed. That victory, it is
rue, was not exactly a Waterloo. But,
ike the union victory at Cemetery
Ridge, it was decisive, Many repub-
lican journals are now crying out a re.
enactment of the Mckinley or some
other high tariff, and are bent on MAX
ing this the foremost issue of the day.
But the country will not brook any
more republican tariff tinkering, and
public opinion demands that the SPLEEN
did results which the Wilson law is &C.
conplishing shall not be frustrated by
adverse legislation. N. Y. Herald.