Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — Tariff Shot. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Shot.

When the McKinleyites claim that, workmen in the textile industries in the United States receive higher wages than are paid in England, they confuse wages paid according to the amount of work done with earnings. No one doubts but that weavers and spinners in factories in the United States earn more than similar workmen abroad. This is because they work faster and accomplish more. That weavers are paid a higher price per yard in the United States than in England is untrue. The price paid for weaving 6-4 sackings, 6% ounces to the yard, in Massachusetts, is 2.65 cents per yard, or, In England a weaver is paid 2.56 cents, or per yard for thd same class of goods. The American weaver turns out 300 yards per week, and earns $7.95 weekly. On the other hand the English weaver turns out only 105 yards per week, and earns §2.71, or While the American weaver gets only 334 per cent, more per yalrd, he earns each week over 190 per cent more than his English competitor. Prices current in the Boston wool market last week contain matter for reflection lor those deluded people who look - upon McKinley as the friend and benefactor of the American sheep. In spite of the increased protective duties Ohio wools were 134 cents to 334 cents less by the pound than at the corresponding dates last year. Ohio XX wool is 30 cents a pound now against 33 34 cents a pound at the corresponding time last year. Ohio delaines told last week at 34 34 cents a pound; the same wool sold last December at 36 cents, a decline of 134 cents since McKinley undertook to regulate the b essings of Providence with his-protective tariff panacea. Michigan clothing wool sold last w>ek at 3434 cents against 3634 cents last year, a loss of 2 cents a piund, while Michigan X wool shows a decline of 234 cents—from 29 cents last year to 2634 cents now. The demand for Ohio wool is reported dull, while the foreign wool markets seem to have an upward tendency. This reversal of what the McKinleyites expected to result from the increased duties may be partly explained by the fact that American wools are useless in many kinds of goods unless mixed with foreign wools. Whatever the cause it is hard to see how McKinley can look an Ohio sheep in the face. —St. ,Louis Republic. There are an astonishing number-o! people In this world who had to live 108 years before anyone ever heard of them.