The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-06-16

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ooo'ooo in 1897. loss Of more than
s12.000.0oo. That during the follow
ing ten years under the Dingiey Tar
III Law the assessed valuation OF prop
erty went from 1929. 900. 900 TO
1915, 100000 In 1905, and Is now
said 20 be more than $500. 600 600
and still increasing
That in all Industries there has
been a wonderful increase in the
number Of laborers employed. capital
invested. and increase in wages
He quoted from the report OF the
Commissioner Of Labor and Printing
FOR 1903. which shows that in 1899
there were 176 miscellaneous fac
tories In the State employing 1910
iaborers, the highest paid receiving
$1.50 per diem and the lowest 20
cents per diem; while in 1908 there
ploying 30,053 laborers, and the
highest paid was $40, and the low
est SO cents per diem. The capital
invested N these miscellaneous fac
torfies was 1921 900, and in 1908
ii increased TO $42,410,420.
The cotton mill industry is also re-
marksble. In that the advance in
wages is even greater than in the mis-
cellaneous factories.
In 1899 We had in North Carolina
215 cotton mills with capital of 500
500, 900, employing 33,705 laborers,
and the highest price paid was s1.10
and the lowest price 67 cents. In
1908, 1852 cotton mills with capital
, of $40, $500, employing 59,414 la
borers, and the highest price per day
paid was $3.50 and the lowest 70
cents
He said that the country is now
in the most prosperous condition that
it has ever been-everybody employ
ed receiving good wages. That this
is the first time ever in the history
Of the country the farmer has come
/ into his own. The things that he
could not sell under Cleveland's adj
ministratiOn for any price now bring
him great remuneration. This is
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/ bringing one billion of dollars per
year to the South which goes in the
manufacturing industries, esta blish-
/ ing trades and business, employing
! hundreds of thousands of men. They
in turn demand the farmers products
Compare this with the Democratic
administration when cotton was five
cents per pound, when at the present
it is bringing fifteen cents. Here he
read an editorial from the Charlotte
/ Observer of the goth of April which
he said was a speech within itself
in support of Republican policies OF
protection.
In this article the editor of the
| Charlotte Observer, referring to the
working class. said that in many
cases and, in fact, in most cases
receive in cash and handle more
money in one week than they used tC
handle in a year (under Democratic
! rule, Mr.. Holton added. The ed
itorial further showed that the manu-
| featuring industries Of the South
under this Republican administra
ton, brought to the farmer greater
remuneration for his labor; withdrew
| from the farms to the factories labOl
that heretofore was in competition
with him and furnished him a mar
ket for his products. Mr.. HoltoI
said that every man who desired
light Upon this subject had only t.
read this editorial which no on
would deny truly pictured the condi
tion Of the State.
He said that the Democratic part,
advocated free trade and insisted up
on going back upon the present tariff
laws, while six out of our Democratic
representative from North Carolin;
voted for tariff on lumber, and sew
enteen Democratic Senators voted 70
it, thus destroying the principle the.
were pretending to advocate.
That it is only to be regretted tina
they do not realize more fully tn
advantages to the South by reason
II a.
|. kins, of the Charlotte Observer, whel
he returned from Washington il
June, 1908. when the tariff law wa
; under consideration, in an interview
: published in the Charlotte Observe
: June Sth, 1905, said that neither tn
. cotton trade nor the cotton good
. trade had a voice lifted in their de
!, fence while those who representa-
. the Piedmont section remainet
speeches. and allowed themselves t
be bluffed by Dolliver, La Follett
| and Beveridge. Look at the comb
> nation, and We can but wonder tina
they succeeded in the bluff in so ia
: as the vote Of the South is concerned
: That Mr. Beveridge in his conven
ton on April 4th, this year, in op
posing the present tariff law, sal
that he was in favor of protectio
: to the extent of the difference be
tween the wags in America and tn