The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-02-28
Was the Pith Of Dinsley's Haransue
in Congress.
NURTURED ON PUBLIC FAVOR
Looking to the Government To Take
Special Care of Their Interests.
If They Had Business Would Boom.
Now National Retrenchment Is in
Shirts and Bedclothes.
Bv P. J. Moran.

BY r. j. Moran.
Boston, Mass. February 12.-(Staff Cor
| respondence The Constitution. D--When MIR.
| Dingley howleI against cheap labor
| in the southern mills a few days ago, It
| was but the cry of pain from man who
| wanted to divert attention from his own
| ills TO those of some one else.
| Hence the cry reached Mr.. Dinelcy, the
| autho" of the tariff bill. and he felt calipd
! upon to make that speech in congress
| which has stamped him woe
| fully ignorant of the conditions Of his
| own country. The dividends Of the New
England cotton mills We're threatened ana
as matter of squaring up thcY had de-
! cided upon i 10 per cent reduction. The
| mills i'll the south. they said, were being
! run by pauper labor, therefore they de
cided that it would be well to reduce
! their own help to the paupcr basis-so g n
| erous and so charac terstic of moral New
| England, The workmcn. who had deemed
| themselves secure under the mantle of
| the Dngley bill, were aroused to learn
| the reason why they should be thus cut
| down in the very flower of their eHpeCta-
| tons.
| Curlously enough. Mir. Dingley went on
| to argue that his bill had made no change
| in the cotton schedules indorsug thar of
| the Cleveland administration as having
! been thoroughly protective. The fall III
| the price OF cotton win large stocks on
| the manufacturers hands. naG crippled
| them But SAID he grandiloquently, under
| the new BIN every other industry mas
| prospered. and there is IL marked improve
| menl throughout the country IN COTTON
alone was there depression, and that wa"
| am. 10 the cheap labor OF the south. Tins
was his statement:
! 1T so happens that during the past
ten years the cotton Industry. when hdd
been concentrated 50 largely III Ne" Ena
! la ma until within ten years mas been grow
| ing rapidly in the sou'h-ploPrilH ~, az
! to the sIaticauol or every tlSh iiiIicu
SI'1en' lhe Ht a been bsi unexampIed BEFORE
ii was nardly recognized it was found lhat
the addition 70 'ne cotton Spi'pieS %
this o9htry-'"IseiE !" cnl]nI'V
60, '.otton GOOD, That. however. of Itself
pnpIG have been soon adjusted if the
| basis of competition between the south
| and New England had ,'th unl'oIin ana
here IS Whe'G lilS 'tou,,, , ~ 49,, , ~
| mas a. ,;,,' ~ ,abnr "a. birb RAD nHt he
| f.a nninvnI an opportunity OF entering
| manufacturing indus ries-are lower than
they are in New England. J. nave here
| the report OF the Alh"iIsit Nlup- thc col
toh ma, t,nt in,,eetira. ad 4bi, ,u1es+io, of
| cnmn+ratiye wages and ii Will he seen
! that tn. wages of the south for the time
| being are from ~ 70 - per cent less tnan
the WlSo9 ~ ->rH i'i ~ ~ VA WY. "9I
u,ii'''H ,ahor If rxreiIent matfyi9i Nnrth
| ern capttaI went down south rapidly ami
| took advantage OF this cheaper labor. In
| due TIME ny ORDINARY tc"HohiiT"i processes
~ ~ w . I,i,,a,.. .,,i ,,n, i,',tn
| o'Is nE induStrv viii hrinp che v.;,en% az
| labor in the south ND 10 the wages in
| New England. But they have not dom. It
a. yet itnofSn W"su9 dre Sn" ,n,.ia1
every state has tabor laws and these
| labor laws restrict the hours of daily
| LABOR 20 HtlE-elSnt hours per week ana
| o, ~, = ' t - t}i et'' AZ,
| mine the numhrr or hours th9t tha factory
| can run"
ONLY, on Effort +o Tocaliza
~. r,..,'- I-i,,1,-,1 80, ,.o,,.
| When Mr. Dmeiey was subjected 10 cross
| examination he became so ratified that nc
| refused longer to be Interrupted. and clDseG
| b,, ,,aI,i,e tha ro,crt of tha Arl1,yriclt
| 'S ;l, I,,,1,1 .. t.nr.ortn, -
| ciup "hirh Will De Sli"'''" ~ 1''i - "
| part of his remarks. II "a+' ms u'poSe W
! locai2" the Industrial trouble as sonethlhS
exceptional and not marring the general
| ,hor,s ro, rro.naritv which has been ia ispt
a.. IVA administration cleaners II was a
| ny ',P '''"'I!'1 if't x.. I
| u'ciu' 'oiap,'i'ieit - gay ,rt a,,t
! resources or the south 10 &chilo"'e "N" '!'''
| within ten wears hcr local manufacturers
had run the croesuses Of New England to
| nov. and much NOR. Of # * true than MIR
| 80 ~ 49,, ,,,,,, ,.,,..
-. '7f, WIN .,.l,.ing his ,s
| ita 49, ,,.,i.,;,,l,. ,,,,r,,.t majesty Not1ld
| fn,n', eva an,,th ~ .av tr,t her factories
| $500, 40. ,.,,ohoa ,E,t .rorop,andinn nlane
| ,,ht,,, .,,.I1 ,.,,.,l,,+io,,i-o tho ,,.,t,,r
! NV, ~ ~ 5000. ,I. r,,-,,,s,,,
| 10y a. 49, ,. ,t;,, - = ho,,, II -
| '"''"' '''" " p',. ,,, t,
| ','", Observation-Disclosures,
| at '"o W., VI l
| 90 ' "
| Inefe Is mo SouIh7lh compositions
Another point in Alr, DnglcEs speech
| for 1t is the whole arGumen; of the manu-
| facturer here, until cornered. IS that IRON
| whatever cause, II Is southern competition
| that is at the bottom of the trouble. ON