The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-08-22
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS.
Industrial Disturbance and Business Ps,a-
 lyzation.

Industrial Disturbance and Business Pa.a-
 lyzation.
 By the fear of democratic tariff and by the new tariff which lessens but by no means removes apprehendcd injury, all the industries and business of the country were plunged into new conditions The wages of the panic period are not such as ought to be pro- longed for American workers one hour longer than they are absolutely uu- avoidable. But it is yet impossible to know, in many important branches of industry, what wages can be paid hereafter under the new conditions. Even if business is not affected di- rectly by any duties on imports, it may yet be affected to almost any cx- tent by the inability of other interests, which are directly reached by the tariff, to provide materials, to work up products or to find sufficient consum- ing demand in the face of foreign competition. No one can yet deter mine what the effects of new condi- tions will be upon many entire branches of industry, or upon part of the works in industries which as a whole may not be seriously affected.
 The interdependence of industries is commonly overlooked. Here is a coal mine far in the interior, where duties on bituminous coal have no direct in- auence. Most of it's products were used by tin plate mill in different county, which may now be idle or may have to stop any day because of for eign competition, the duties on plates having been reduced. Thus 1t becomes n question whether the coal mine can work. The iron used in the plates comes from a Michigan mine, and when the mills stop the mine may be unable to raise wages or may have to stop. The workers in mills and mines buy carpets, when at work with fair wages, but stoppage or low wages at mills and mines must cut down the sale of carpets, and without large sale a carpet mill may not be able to pay good wages and yet compete with for eign carpet makers at reduced duties. The miners and the mill workers buy clothing when they have work and wages, but If trouble comes to them the sales of clothing are reduced, and thus the makers of clothing cannot tell how they will fare until they know whether the consuming ability of min CTS and mill workers is to be increased or diminished.
 On the face of things, 1t will need much patience and mutual considera- ton to adjust all industries and the wages in all to the new conditions. It is task that cannot be finished right ly and safely in an hour. Many weeks, and in some cases many months, must elapse under the new conditions before anyone can know definitely what wages can be paid. Itis a trying thing for miners to see that coke has ad- vanced fifty per cent. in selling price, and the wages of coSe-workers are raised; that pig Iron has risen four dollars and fifty cents per ton at Pitts burgh, or more than forty-tive per cent, and the wages of furnace men are raised; that nails have been hoisted by a combination much more than one per CtuL, tiidb N"5S" St labor in many iron and steel concerns have been raised; and yet the miners do not get their share of benefit It is so in every other branch of industry. The prosperity of which the workers hear so much has not yet reached a great many of them, and strikes are not unnatural. But all this disorgan- ization of industries, with unfair and even cruel results to many, is part of the fruit of democratic legislation, and neither employers not men can yet form the least idea how wages can be finally adjusted, or how many estab- lishments can withstand the new con- ditions, or how much strife and suffer ing will be involved before the work CTS and employers In various industries can find out what is now possible or just The harvest of democratic sue cess is trial and suffering even now, as it was before recovery in business be- gan.-N. Y. Tribune.