Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — Results of McKinleyism. [ARTICLE]

Results of McKinleyism.

The Arlington Woolen Mills of Lawrence, Mass., of which William Whitman, the President of the Wool Manufacturers’ Association, is President, earned a dividend of 50 per cent, in 1891. The high duties on woolen goods imposed by the McKinley tariff made , these enormous earnings possible. At the hearings before the Ways and Means Committee, Mr. Whitman asked for these high duties, not for his own interests to be sure, but for the interests of his workmen. The sequel of this has now come to pass. Fifty weavers in his mills have struck against a reduction in their wages from $8 to $6 per week, not produced directly but by an underhand method in the classification of new work. What a comment is this on the idea that a high propective tariff is in the workingman’s interest.