The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-12-25
VOLUNTARY RISE OF WAGE.
Farmers and WOrlSingmen Enio
the Fruits of Prosperi,,

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the Fruits of Prosperi,, Eng
Wages are the price of labor. lab.
Is commodity, and like all Others -.
price depends primarily upon dem,ns
as related to supply. The revival Of -
dustry, consequent upon the victory g.
honest money at the polls last fan ans
the restoration of the conditions WIN
provide sound basis for our industrio.
by the enactment of the Dinglev tar,S
law, is now bringing it's logical result
an increase of wages, without striko.o-
the employment of brute force n az.
other form. '
Recovery from a wasting illness 10 =,
ways matter of time. Disease win
strike down a strong man, and in n fo,n
days reduce him TO a condition Of boS
lily weakness from which it viii t,,9s
him weeks, and even months, to recovaS
So the deadly blow dealt to Americas
industries, and as n matter of course -
American, workingmen, by the Wilson
law, led to depression, idleness and gon.
eral business disaster, from which tbo
country has been slowly emerging 10,
several months past.
The process of recovery has gone on
| until wages are sensibly affected
''Wages are the first to fall and the las,
to rise" is an axiom whose truth hos
been proved many times in the ipdns~
trial history of every nation. It's clad
tidings to the millions of worlcrsint ba
United States that we have reached tho
point in our recovery from the hard
times that there is a general moyemen,
of wages upward. The regular weekly
report of the acknowledgements SIM.
plemented by dispatches from vorions
parts of the country, show conclnsyelv
that we have reached the normalcondi.
tion of industrial activity. such as va
had in 1890, at the time Of the enact.
ment Of the Mckinley tariff ,andthatin 4
| some lines we are going cten-hcyoud
| that, in obedience to the laW al supply
and demand.
The Chicago Times-HcraId. which is
keeping close watch upon lie business
situation, gives the following list o,
great industrial plants and other large
employers of labor who have within the
past week voluntarily increased the
wages of their men:
During the week the 2.c0o employees ofthe
steel works of Jones & Laushlin. q Pies
burgh. received ten percent. advance IN
wages: 1000 operatives In the works II the
Mahoning Iron & Steel company al
Youngstown and New Castle, received a
10 per cent. advance; the large stray In five
years was distributed In the MoorehCad &
Co.'S mills at Sharpsburs, Pa, the pul.
dlers receiving as high rs SL2> per day:
voluntary advance Of from IL to 20 per
cent. was made in the vases u the en-
ployes OF the Bessemer Limestone COM
pany. Carbon Limestone company John-
son & Co., and John r. Grist, at Youngs-
town. the largest limestone concgns In
Ohio; the 10 per cent. advance In ire wages
Of the $3.50 employees Of the five big iron
and ore mining companies In the Iron
mountain district Of Michigan went into
effect Tuesday; a voluntary advance o.
20 per cent. was made In the wages Of the
worsted workers In the mills Of providenee
restoring the high rates OF 1879
This list docs not include many small
err concerns, nor the cases of individual
employers. 1t records only those in
which the number of men employed is
large. In the face OF such facts, il Is
not possible for that prophet oferil' Mr..
Bryan, nor for his fellow-hieOphants
of disaster, to declare that there IS no
prosperity, and that conditions have
not improved. The farmers and the
workingmen in the nations industries
are reaping the fruits OF the era OIL
good times, and that in the largest de
gree.-Toledo Blade.