Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-10
FREE RAW CRY
DOES NOT RING TRUE
Some Manufactured Sentiment
Up in Massachusetts.
ONLY A FEW MILL OWNERS
Well Managed Press Bureaus to Voice
Their Business Views.
BUT PROSPERITY IS STUPEND0Us
Thanks to Dingley Law Mills Are
Running on Full Time-Change
is Not Wanted.
ONLY A FEW MILL OWNERS
Well Managed Press Bureaus to Voice
Their Business Views.
BUT PROSPERITY Is sTUPENDoUs

Memories of the ides of democ-
racy when New England, and
more especially Massachusetts,, was
not a land of milk and honey. are
still in the mind of man. And
the title of a new song that is very
popular in its rhythmic euphony
and lyrical melody around about
the City of Beans and Brown Bread
is Politician, Spare the Tariff
Law" Thus sayeth staff corre-
spondent, who also notes that Can
ada is crying for free coal; and
there are others who want free
iron, free steel, etc. But the work.
ingmen - barking back to the
empty dinner pail-wot not, and
for this and other salient reasons the
campaign this fall is being run on
the fundamental principles Of the
"stand-patters."
Special From a STAFF Correspondent.
BOSTON, Mass September 1O.-There are
two sides to the significance of this New
England cry for reciprocity and free raw
materials. BY that mean that a consider
able portion of the sentiment for that
change in the economic conditions is manu-
factured. It is the product of well-man-
aged press bureaus that have in view the
serving of the ends Of a few mill owners,
who pay for this manufactured Sentiment
just as they would for any other output Of
a plant. 1t is a safe assertion that the rank
and file Of the workingmen in the great in
dustrial centers are far more interested In
preserving the general scheme of protection
to American industries than they are In
whether the mill owners can get shade
more of profit by breaking down the gen.
eral tariff system for their own especial
benefit and at the cost, as they are being
taught to believe, Of some other American
industry. New England today is reveling in
the prosperity which has followed the en-
actment of the tariff law which bears the
name of that wise old Maine statesman,
Nelson Dingley, jr., rest his SOUL Massa-
chusetts has proflted to greater extent than
any other New England state, because she
has had more at stake. The workingmen in
the factories are intelligent, and the men,
ory of the lean and hungry days of demo-
cratic administration has not been dimmed
to that extent by their present prosperity
but that they can make comparisons and
contrasts, SO when the protectionists go
among them and point out the probable eff
feet of change of tariff policy they are
in frame of mind to cry, Politician,
spare that tariff law"
Prosperity Stupendous.
The prosperity of New England is some
thing stupendous. 1t would make old Croe-
sus himself look like thirty cents. 1t is es-
tinated that one-twentieth of the wealth
of the United States is within fifty miles of
Boston. One-fifth Of the savings of the peo-
pie Of the United States represented in saw
fngs banks Is found in the Massachusetts
cooperative banks to the credit of Massa-
chusetts depositors Governor Curtis Guild,
commenting upon the wealth of the state,
in an official communication, said: 'Massa-
chusetts, fourth from the foot IN area, is
fourth from the top in the annual value of
her manufactures and third from the top
in the annual amount paid in wages. Meas
ured by assessed valuation Of the property
in her borders, Massachusetts, is exceeded
by but two states. Fourth from the foot in
area Massachusetts Is third from the top
in wealth. The annual value of the manu-
factured products of Massachusetts in
CTcdSeQ ny $oUO,%OfyCcO UClWCCH Acoc dllu
1905. The total value of goods made in
Massachusetts, was 81, 15O.O74, $50 in 1905.
On October 81 the total amount on deposit
in our savings banks was, in 1895. $662 $685.
812. The increase in the last decade was
greater by over $4,000 600 than In the dec
ade that preceded it. In 1885 the average
deposit for each person of population was
$141 "a, in 1895 $175.69, and in 1905, 500. 81.
The gain in deposits per capita in the last
decade was greater by nearly One-third
than the gain in the preceding decade"
Credited to Dingley Tariff.
This phenomenal condition is laid to the
credit of the Dingley tariff. which has ena-
bled Massachusetts mills to run full time.
when ten years ago they were running
half time or no time. The men in shirt
sleeves and with sweaty browsG know all
this, because it is being ding-donged into
their ears all the time. When politicians
come around urging reciprocity and free
trade in raw materials they ask how that
Is going to affect the general tariff scheme.
and the members OF the Home Markets
Club are not slow in telling them 1t would
be the entering wedge for general reduc-
ton; more than that. they inquire the mo-
tives of the people who are urging taking
the protection OF the coal miners in the
bituminous fields and leaving 1t on the prod
ucts of Massachusetts, mills that would use
Canadian coal in putting the western stock
raiser to the bad by taking away his paltry
Is per cent ad valorem on hides and leav.
ing the shoe and leather manufacturer his
10 and 90 per cent. They see Mr.. Henry
M. Whitney. democrat. with his Dominion
Coal Company's mines down at Cape sgd
ney. Canada, clamoring for free coal They
see Mr.. Eugene Foss, republican, with his
great blower plant demanding free iron,
steel and coal, and then they hear the iron
ore workers Of Michigan, the foundry men
of Pennsylvania and Illinois, and the coal
miners of a half dozen states asking that
their jobs be protected by the same tariff
laws that make Massachusetts, wealthy
They see every day indications that II you
scratch reciprocity and free raw ma
terfal advocate in Massachusetts you will
probably find a man who has everything to
gain and nothing to lose In movement Of
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