The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-11-08

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stance, has been growing drlller and
duller ever since 1860. AS a presi-
Dental candidate the colonel would
be open to assault on more sides
and from more elements of the
voters than any other man since the
canvass in which his friend Greeley
was standard bearer.
New York Tribune, rep: One by
one the western politicians who
broke with the republican organiza-
ton St. Louis five years ago, and
sought by subsequent alliance with
the democrats and populists to make
the free coinage issue new basis of
clearage in national politics have
confessed the total failure of their
plans and hopes Some, intensified
in their hostility to republican lead
ership by the defeats of 1895 and
1898, found the way smoothed for
them in 1900 to accept the undilut-
ed democratic faith. Others, bolt
ing at the offensive attacks in the
Kansas City platform on the ad-
ministrtion s policy in the PHILIPPINES
resumed with appreciate tension
their places in therepublican ranks.
The senior senator from Nevada
was one Of the few seceders of 1896
whose party status last years
national campaign left unaltered
and unaffected His renewal now
of his old relations with the ma
jority party in the senate and in the
country leaves the middle ground
between republicanism and democ-
racy practically deserted. It marks,
too, the final subsistence of an agita-
ton which while it lasted threaten
ed to obliterate all the known and
accepted landmarks of party politics.
AS illustrating the difference be-
tween the conditions of labor in this
country. and conditions abroad an
Nuisance cited by Mr.. William G.
Steel, manufacture of worsted and
wooden goods of Philadelphia, is
most Illuminating. Formerly MI.
Steels firm operated wooden mills in
England. When the mills were
transferred to this country a num-
Der Of employees came with them and
went to work in the mills here, but
at considerablely higher wages. Mr.
Steel refers specifically to one wo-
man, a weaver, whose case he says
may be taken as typical of the ma
jority Of the wokers. This woman
never earned more than IS in one
week in the mills in England; in
this country, with the same ma
chinery, with the same employers
and therefore with the same meth
DDS of manufacture, she earned $14
week, working on the same class Of
goods. It..will..take more ingenuity
than even our Free Trade friends
possess to explain this, difference
in wages in any.other way than by
acknowledging. that labor in this
country is. better paid than the same
class of labor. abroad for exactly the
same kind, quantity and quality of
work. That being the case the in
ference is obvious that if American
labor is to. be- Protected in it's enjoy
ment:: of high wagesigoods of foreign
manufacture must be made to pay
duty before they can be put upon
the ! American market to- compete
will. home made goods. American
Economist.
. The industrial distress in Ger
many is so severe that 80, 900 work
men are said to be idle in Berlin
alone. Yet the agarians are de-
handing the enactment of laws that
will make the. cost of living higher.
The Kaiser has hard problem to
solve, as.he needs the support of
the farmers, but cannot afford toI
starve workingmen in the cities in
order.to get it.