Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-05-19
A SPLENDID SHOWING
EFFECT OF DiNGLEY TARIFF ON
- OREGON'S INDUSTRIES.
Increase of 1913 Per Cent. in Number
of Hands Employed, 141 in Amount
of Wages Paid, and in Rate of
Wages.
Projections Work in Oregon.

PURSUANT to its policy for several
years past the American Protective
1arlH League has undertaken a poll Of
the Industrial establishments of the
United States with view to obtaining
trustworthy Information as to the con-
d1tion of American labor after eight
months of projection as contrasted
with its condition during the CORE
spending period following the enact
ment Of the Wilson G orman low tariff
and no tariff law Of 1894 Accordingly
the request for information has includ
ed these two points:
Average number Of hands employed
during the month Of March, 1895, and
1898.
Amount of pay roll during the month
Of March, 1895, and 1898.
In order to insure the utmost free
dom in the matter of replies and hence
the utmost accuracy of information the
League has in every case given the fol-
lowing pledge: 'The information asked
will be held as strictly confidential, and
in no case will the amount of wages be
y
The returns thus far submitted show
some extraordinary results. The first
inquiry cards were addressed to par
ties doing business in the State of Ore
gon, and in response there have been
received 1O2 reports representing thir-
ty-three different classes of industry.
A summary Of the reports from the
49, n 10, fn11
Hands employed
Number Of Establishments re-
porting ................. Io-
Number of hands employed
during March, 1898. ...... 1856
Number of hands employed
during March, 1895. ....... S37
Gain for 1893 in number Of
hands employed 1,OAo
Percentage of gain. ...... $3.50
Wages paid
Number of establishments re-
porting 1O-
Amount of wages paid during
March, 1898 .$1Oo,o1s 16
Amount of wages paid during
March, 1895 ............ Al, 5O4 81
Gain for 1898 in wages paid sos, 53S 65
Percentage of gain. .....-... 41.O4
Average wages per capita,
month of March, 1898. . $53 Oh
Average wages per capita,
month Of March, 1895. ... 40 SO
Gain in wages per capita, per
month, 1898 ......... So 40
Percentage of gain. ...... 704
This is an unparalleled showing-a
gain of 1853 per cent. in the number
of hands employed under Dingley pro-
lection as compared with Wilson Cor
man free trade; a gain of 141O4 per
cent. in the amount Of wages paid, and
gain of 7.04 per cent. in the rate of
wages paid.
The latest authentic and accurate re-
turns as to the manufacturing indus
tries of Oregon are those of the elev-
enth census Of 1890. At that time 1923
establishments reported, with a total
capital of $50, 122,O51; number of en-
ployes, 1898. The eight years that
have elapsed since 1890 have been
years Of splendid progress and devel-
years of depression and industrial par
alysis that followed the free trade folly
of 1S93-97. There has been a large in
crease in population and Industrial &C
tivity wherewith to measure the enor-
nous benefits that have followed the
reStora ton Of the American policy of
protection to American labor and in
dustries.
In 1896 a vastly different showing
was made by Oregon in the investiga-
ton then made by the American Pro
tective Tariff League covering the con-
ditions existing in July Of that year,
after two years Of Wilson Gormanism,
as compared with July Of 1892, under
the Mckinley tariff. 1t was then found
that by the sixteen establishments re-
porting there were employed in 1892
521 hands, and in 1896 this number had
fallen to 24O hands employed, a de-
crease of more than so per cent.
RI to the great gain in wages and in
dustrial production shown for Oregon
by the contrast between March, 1896,
under low tariff and no tariff, and
MITCu, 1000, luc
be added the advance in value of farm
products and farm property and the
general advance in values throughout
that flourishing State, the showing for
protection in Oregon would have to be
reckoned by tens of millions of dollars.
On the first Monday in June of this
year Oregon elects two representatives
in the United States Congress. This will
afford the people of that State the OPP
portunity for an expression of their
views concerning a Federal policy that
has wrought the splendid results indi-
Gated in the returns summarized above.
The friends Of protection throughout
the United States will be Interested in
hearing from Oregon ON this subject
Practical Results.
Some interesting facts relative 20 the
oneration of a policy designed to benefit