Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — For Instance. [ARTICLE]

For Instance.

The manufacture of glass in this country is “protected” by an average tariff of over 65 per cent., one of the highest rates of duty on any article. This tariff was laid for the alleged purpose of insuring the laborers in tlmt industry good wages. How has it worked? According to Commissioner Wright’s carefully prepared labor statistics, the wages of the workingmen in the glass industry have not only not increased under the protective tariff, but they have materially decreased. During the period from 1830 to 1860, when low duties or practical free trade prevailed, wages in the glass industry, following the tendency of wages in most other industries, increased 161.9 per cent. During the period from 1860 to 1880, when the highest tariff of any country in the world prevailed in the United States, wages in the same industry decreased 70 per cent. And yet we are told that the high tariff on glass must be maintained in order to keep up the wages of the workingmen.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Miss Ella A. Brown, a school-teacher well known in Georgia, has written a textbook in astronomy adapted to promoting observations.