Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1889 — “PROTECTION AND PLENTY!” [ARTICLE]

“ PROTECTION AND PLENTY! ”

A SHOWER OF HIGH TARIFF BLESSINGS. Partial List of Business Troubles and Labor Strikes Since the Country was “Saved From the Dangeis of Free Trade”—A Startling Exhibit. [N. Y. 17.I 7 . Evening Post.] June 21, 1888—Republican platform eclared: “The protective system must be maintained. Its abandonment has always been followed by general disaster to all interests except those of the usurer and the sheriff. We denounce the Mills bill as destructive to the general business, the labor, and the farming in* terestsof the country.” September 11, 1888—Harrison's letter of acceptance: “We be* 1 eve it to be one of the worthy objects of tariff legislation to preserve the American market for the American producers and to maintain the American scale of wages by adequate discriminating duties upon foreign competing products. Less work and lower wages must be accented as the inevitable result of the in* creased offering of foreign goods in our markets.” November 6, 1888—Defeat of Grover Cleveland, tariff reform candidate for president. November 15—Strike of street-car employes in B ooklyn. January 4, 1889—Strike of dock laborers at Duluth and of miners

in Missouri. January 7—Failure of tin? Keeier mining compan/ of Covington, KyJanuary 9—Strike of Higgins’ carpet-workers. January 29—Great strike of streetcar employes in this city and Brooklyn, resulting in their defeat. February 2—Failure of Jacob Bossert, builder, Brooklyn; liabili- , ities, $139,000. February 6-Failure of the J. J. Burns company (Limited), Battle Creek, Mich.; liabilities, $821,031. February B—Failure of the Pacific Guano company and Gilden & Curtis, Boston; Liabilities about $1:000,000. February 9-Failure of the Ohio and Western coal and iron com-

pany. March I—Assignment v_f H. A< Gould, Boston, dye stuffs, rubber, etc.; liabilities about $1,000,000. Assignment of G. Morley, Detroit, ‘.umber; liabilities, SIOO,000. March 4, 1889—Inauguration of Benjamin Harrison, high protectionist, as president. Mareh 5 -Failure of the Reading iron works; liabilities of about $2,000,000; 2,000 mer thrown out of employment. March 6 - Failure of ihe Excelsior pottery at Trenton, N. J., employing 300 hands. The Warwick manufacturing company, Cleveland, 0,. closed its doors in consequence of depressed business Colton k Mulvey, shoe dealers, Providence, R. 1., assigned. The McLeewee & Knapp manufacturing company, lamps, 28 Barclay st., New York, sold out by the sheriff. Joshua Henderson, carpenter and builder, South Boston,Mass. failed. March 7—The Keystone rollingmill of Reading, and the rollingmills at Naomi and Gibraltar, Penn., shut down, throwing over six hundred men out of employment. March B—Assignmentß—Assignment of the Findlay, (O.) iron and steel company, with the principal rolling-mill in the manufacturing center; liabilities over SIOO,OOO. Buftord Sons lithographic Co., Boston, suspinded payment; li - bilities estimated at SIOO,OOO. L. O. Desforges & Co. (New Orleans and Pittsburg, Pa.) assigned; liabilities, $144,230. S. Hood & Co., cigar manufacturers at 159 E. Seventy-sixth •it., New York, failed. The Blackm r iron works, 28 Court st, Brooklyn, called a meeting of creditors. J Thomas C. Cooper, wholesale

dealer in flour and provisions, Albany, N. Y., assigned; liabilities, SIOO,OOO. March 11—Great strike of Fall River weavers, resulting in their return to work on the old terms. March 25—The dry-goods store of Schedler McWatters, of Cleveland, 0., closed by the sheriff on judgments aggregating $60,000. Frank W. Adams, proprietor of the Glendale woolen mills, Glendale, Mass., made an as* signment. Reese & Whiting, • the oldest dry goods firm in Berlin, Wis., assigned. March 30—Strike of street car men in Ro hester. April I—Strike1 —Strike of 200 men in the Dithridge company glass works, New Brighton, Pa. April 2- Strike of Erie swdtch* men at Buffalo. Strike of carpenters and painters a* Buffalo. M Block & Co., general mer* chants, Pocohontas, Va., assignsigned. April s—Downs & Finch, shirt manufacturers at Nos. 43 and4s

Leonard st., assfgned; liabilities $450,000. April 9- Reduction of wages in the Clark thread works, Newark, N. J. A. W. Keeny, paper mil, Rockford, 111., assigned. Strike of St. Louis carpenters. Strike over reduced wages in Clark’s threadworks, Newark, N. J. April 11-Shut down of the Susquehanna iron works. April 13—Failure of the Plymouth rolling mill company of Conshohocken, Pa. April 15—Assignment of the Conshohocken (Pa.) worsted mills company. April 17—Assignment of T. F. Scaulan, piano manufacturer; liabilities $200,000. Return of St. Paul car drivers

to work at reduced w ages. May 3—Announcement that the Warren furnace at Hackettstown, N. J ~ is to be blown out on account of the dull state of the iron market. The company has 30,000 tons of iron on hand, and no market for it. The furnace atStanhape, N . J., is also to go out for a similar reason. Failure of C. L. & 0. T. Frye, shoe manufacturers, Marlboro, Mass. The factory which furnished employment to 200 people closed; liabilities about $50,000. May 7 —A reduction of 25 per cent. in the wagesjof the boot cutters at the Meyer rubber works, Milltown, N. J. Notification to the Glass Blowers’ assembly, K. of L., of Pittsburgh, of a material reduction in wages for the next blast, which will begin on Sept. 1. May 10-Scranton, Pa. Notices posted of a reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages of all the employes of the Dickson manufacturing company. The re* duct ion affects about 900 men. May 18 Reduction of from 20 to oO per cent, in wages at Carnee gie’s homestead steel plant. The delegates from fifteen of the principal block-coal mines of Indiana, representing over 2.000 men, met in Brazil, Ind., the operators’ demand for 20 cents ’■•eduction, and deciar. d aoffrike by a two thirds vote. Ihe reduction is from 90 cents to 70, the largest ever de* in the history o£ the coal trade west. L< ail are of the Almy manufacturing compauy, manufacturers of ladies’ fine cloths. The company’s mills are among the largest in tie Kensington (Fbiladelphia) district, and employ about 400 hands. So many iron workers injPennsylvania are out of employment that the Allegheny Bessemer mills at Dequesne have had no trouble in filling the places of strikers with non-union men, and the strike is practically a failure. Receiver appointed for the West End mining company, owning mines in Hunterdon county, N. J.,and Pennsylvania. Assignment of Cupples & Hurd, booksellers, and the Algonquin Press, publishers, Boston . June 21—Stories of terrible suffering among the striking mi ners at Braidwcod, ill. Big strike of boot and shoe*

workers at North Adams, Mass. June 26—Assignment of the firm of 8. Robins <fc Son, carrying on business as “Philadelphia rolling mills and blast furnace, manufacturers of pig*ircc,piates fkelp bands and bar iron, Kensington, Philadelphia,” 'em. loy* ing 300 men. Stationery at boit> m prices at P. O.