The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-09-07
wilson Tarin one Year old.

IL having Oeen passed august 70, DuJ
practically all statistics Of its opera
tion are dated from September 1st.
Some of its provisions, however, did
not go into operation until January
LIST, 1895, The purpose of the law,
as declared by its trainers, was s'to
decrease taxation on the necessities
of life, to stimulate competition and
encourage industry. In all these
respects it has been marked sue
cess. Every week since it passed
has witnessed an improvement in
business. There has been a eontin-
ued increase in the number of hands
employed in the great productive in
dustries, a steady improvement in
consumption and a remarkable rise
in wages.
While during the whole term of
the Mckinley law wages we're on the
down grade, and the country wit
messed the most disastrous and dan
gerous conflicts between capital and
labor. necessitating in a great mum
Der of States the calling out of the
military, and in some of them the
practical supremacy of the military
power, these deplorable conditions
have been entirely reversed under
the Wilson law.
1t has been stated by careful non
partisan authority, sHch as BRAD
street" that, commencing about the
middle of March and until a few
weeks ago the wages of fully 1000
600 of American workingmen have
been increased under the Wilson law.
The number now is probably 1,300,-
000 Our manufactures are in the
full tide OF prosperity, taxed to their
utmost, and are extending their
plants, or new plants have been set
agoing. Their orders are months
ahead of their capacity to produce,
and they have been compelled TO or
der from Europe. The great fact of
their prosperity is attested by the
circumstance that the advances in
wages have been voluntary.
Let any one compare the period of
MeKinleyism with that of the reform
tariff and he will have the evidence
that neither capital nor labor has
anything to fear from fair and free
competition Especially have the
free raw material provisions of the
Wilson law been INDICATED by tue
astonishing development of the man
ufacturing interests dependent on
foreign countries for their raw ma
terial.
But while splendid and increasing
rewards of labor have followed the
Wilson law, and there has been steady
employment, the law has had another
important effect in decreasing the
cost of the necessaries of life. To
demonstrate this, the New York
World in its issue of Wednesday
collected and printed the quotations
of over 1000 articles in general use,
compared with the prices for the
same articles in 1912, under the
Mckinley law. As the World says,
its exhibit shows that while under
the Wilson tariff there has been
marked increase in the wages, there
has been an equally striking decrease
in the price of almost everything the
wage-earner has to buy"
The Protective Tariff League, of
New York, recently sent out circu-
lars to manufacturers asking for in
formation that would belittle the eff
fects of the Wilson tariff, on the
wage-earning and wage purchasing
power, for obviously partisa pur-
poses. The league" is not printing
any of the replies, but here is one
sample of the answers it gets, this
one coming from the great Doe riv-
or wnnlan m lie oop,Nooy.
Gentlemen: In answer to your
circular and cards, will say we are
paying the same price to the same
amount of hands that we did in 1890
that is in dollars and cents-and
at the same time our hands are buy.
ing 40 per cent more with the same
money than they did in 1890.
WE HAVE ALL THE PROTECTION WE
WANT IN FREE WOOL.
The Doe river Wooden Mills.
Wages going up, labor in demand
everywhere, manufactures running
night and day, prices of the necessa-
ries of life coming down, our foreign
trade fourishing, and the govern
ment revenues largely increasing.
Such are the effects of the First Y ear
of the Wilson Law.-PtttSburq Post |
A stirring article entitled "a
Brush with the Bannocks," by Ma
jor General Nelson A. Miles, u. S. A.
appears in the North American Re
view for September. 1t is a chap
ter from the advance sheets of a
work From New England to the
Golden Gate" written by General
Miles, and soon to be published by
The Werner Company of Chicago
Pennsylvania State and Fayette
County Fair at Uniontown, Pa,
September . to ID 1895. Do not
fail to attend.
EVERY one is pleased with the
pictures made at the Novelty Gal
lery, II for 25 cents Rememb Der
only a few more days.
DAVID RANNEY, of Fairmont,
passed through here on Monday en-
route to Lorain, Ohio, to bring home