The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-03-21
Manufacturers Meet,

y prominent Southern Democrat
lc politician is advocating the restor-
alton of silver on the ground that at
present the manufacturing i%nstitu-
tons of the country are making a
dlsproportionate amount of money,
compared with the agriculturists.
He has been hunting the census re-
ports, and finds hat it requires nine
millions of men to cultivate the
farms and work the mines of the
country, which yield only four bill
lions of dollars, while five millions Of
men produce nine billions of dollars
worth of manufactured articles.
We do not see how that can be
changed by free silver. Indeed, we
see no point in the figures. For in
stance, if a man IN ten acres of land
raises twelve bales of cotton of 800
pounds each, he raises 5000 pounds
of cotton. If he sells that at s cents
a pound, he receives $3.50. If the
manufacturer takes hat 5000
pounds Of cotton and puts it in the
form of clothing, and that clothing
IS worth Is cents u pound, then of
course he receives $3.50, or twice as
much as the farmer, but then the
farmer gave nothing but his labor to
raise the cotton, while the %manufact-
urer not only had to prepare his ma
c%hinery and work, and give employ
ment to a large number of laborers,
but to begin with he had to pay to
the planter the $3.50 for his cotton.
But the manufacturers are not very
well satisfied these days, and it be-
gins to look to us very much as
though the first real effective work
for silver would come through that
class.
The Washington Star of the 9th
inst. has a most significant commune
cation, and there is so much of inter-
est in it to the men of the West that
we copy it entire, as follows:
If reports reaching here from
Philadelphia are true IA large numb
or of the manufacturers of that city,
headed by James Dobson, have EN-
braced the %"silver and protection
ideas, and have notified the republi-
"A leaders that unless silver is re-
cognized in some way at St. Louis
they will neither support the Repub-
lican ticket nor contribute anything
to the campaign fund.
MIR. Dobson was president of the
Manufacturers club of Philadelphia
for years, and is said to have contrib
uted and secured the contribution of
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
Republican campaign funds in the
past. Heber Clark, the editor of
several papers devoted to manufact-
uring interests, and secretary of the
Manufacturers club, has been
preaching free silver in his papers
for some time. Now it is said that
a majority of the manufacturers of
Philadelphia have decided that free
silver, owing to the encroachments
of Oriental countries, is best for
them: 81 much the best in fact, that
they will support "a new party if the
old parties do not give some consid-
Grafton to the white metal.
A delegation of fifty or sixty Phil
adelphian manufacturers headed by
Mr.. Dobson, is booked to come here
early next week for a conference
with Mr.. Teller and the silver lead
ers on the silver and protection theo-
ry. They will promise Mr.. Teller
their support it is understood.
Report has it that Senator Quay is
somewhat alarmed Owe the growing
silver sentiment in his State. He is
fully posted, it is said, as to what is
going on among the manufacturers
who have always been Republicans,
but sees no way to stop it. The
Manufacturers club of Philadelphia
represents sSOO,OOO,0OO in different
industries in that city and through
out the country.
A. S. Dulin, a young Westerner,
who has always been Il close friend
of Senator Teller, has been selected
by the new silver party to take
charge of the silver forces in Penn
sylvania. He will begin the work
of organization at once, and will es-
tablish headquarters in Philadelphia.
1t is stated on the best of authority
that the manufacturers have fully