Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — BUS IN ESS IS GOOD. [ARTICLE]

BUS IN ESS IS GOOD.

TEXTILE INDUSTRIES THRIVING AS NEVER BEFORE. Revival Rrgun Immediately Alter the Passage of the Senate Tariff BIU, and StUl Continues Price of Wool Above McKinley Prices of Two Months Ago. No “Calamity" Now. The great prosperity, in the text le industr es, that began immediately after the passage of the Senate bill, has been continued. It now seems certain that not only will free wool give us cheaper and better clothing, but that it will be the sa’vation of the woolen industry. The Wool and Cotton Reporter devotes a page every week to a “Bu letin of New Enterprises,” which, however, includes mills shuttingdown as we 1 as starting up; but since the passage of “the free trade Wilson bill,” which was to “annihilate” the woolen industry, the record has been a remarkable one—probably better than for any two or three weeks during the four years of McKinleyi-m. For the week ending Sept 6, the Reporter mentions five new mills,

twenty-eight enlargements and improvements, and twenty mills starting up, one of which ha; been closed nine months and another five years. Rawitzer Bros., of Stafford Springs, are mentioned as having settled with their dissatisfied weavers, giving them a 25 per cent, advance in wages. Of the five shut-downs mentioned one is “for th,e usual week’s vacation and two are because of low water. ” The record is marred only by the shut-down of one mill because of “lack of orders,” and another because of “accumulation of stock. ” The record for the week ending Sept 13 is even better. During this week there were fifteen items under the column headed “New Mills.” One of the mills mentioned is to have 48,000 spindles, and is to be the largest cotton mill in the South. Another, for making cotton, wool and worsted yarn, is to occupy a building 110 by 200'feet, which structure alone is to cost 830,000. “The plans for the new plant,“ says the Reporter, “have been ready for some time, but it is said tne construction of the mill depended upon the settlement of the tariff question.” Under the column “Enlargements and Improvements” there are 18 mentions. Under the column “Starting Up and Shutting Down” 20 mills are mentioned as having started or about to start up. One of these has been closed since April last, another over a year, and a third for two years. All three are woolen mills. Only four are mentioned as shutting down, one to make repairs, another for two weeks, another because of a death, and the last is running on short time on account of low water. The recoid for the week endiiig Sept. 20 is just as good. The Reporter ’mentions 10 “new mills,” 14 “enlargements and improvements,’* 26 "starting up,’’and 5 “shutting di,wn.” Several of those starting up have been shut down for months or years, and some are working with increased forces. Four of the shut-downs are due to low water or to make repairs, and the other is unexplained. During the three weeks under the new tariff law there have been 30 new mills, 60 enlargements and improvements, 66 starting up, and only 14 closing down — all but two or three for reasons other than lack of orders, Such prosperity as this is going to cut a wide swath in the Republican majorities p anned for the November election.

No Calamity for the Wool Grower, The price of wool continues about 10 per cent, above the McKinley prices of two months ago. They are exasperating to the political wool grower.; who have told us a thousand times >that prices would go all to pieces when wool should be maoe free. Worst of all, there seems to be no prospect of them declining. Here is what the Dry Goods Economist of Sept. 22 says: “The New York wool market during the pa;t week has been steady and strong. The sales have been considerable, and have represented nearly all classes of wool. Special favor has been shown for desirable lots of Territory and for wellgrown spring Texas. There is also considerable inquiry for the fall Texas clip, but as these wools will not reach this market for a week or two, no transactions are reported of the new fall clip. Some sales have been made in the wools sheared in the fall of ’93, and prices are fully sustained and indicate that the fall clip, soon to arrive frm Texas, will be favorably received and bring good values. “Altogether, domestic wools seem very good property, and manufacturers are not asking any concessions from ruling prices.” The Wages Humbug. Farmers sell their staples both at home and abroad at “free-trade prices,” made in "the cheapest markets in the world.” They compete against Egypt and India, where the lowest wages prevail. Have they reduced wages t > the same level? Not they. England

has practically free trade. But English wages have not been reduced to the Asiatic level So far from that, they are higher than those of any other country in Europe. This talk' about wages is the cheapest kind of humbug. Sweep away utterly the admitted injustice of protection and the vast natural wealth and unrivalled industrial genius of this country will make wages here higher than anywhere else in the world, and higher in purchasing power over the necessaries, comforts, and even luxuries of life than they ever have been even in this favored land.— Chicago Herald. Don't Dmert Democratic Principles. Those Democrats (and there are some) who do not intend to go to the polls this year or who contemplate voting with the Republicans, in order to punish the Democratic party for its inability to fulfill all of its promises at ouce, should stop and consider. By far the most important question is that of the tariff. What good can come out of the McKinley monopoly party on this question? No one who believes in tariff reform or free trade can expect anything of this party The Democratic party has taken a long step in the right direction, and but a for a fe v traitors in the Senate, who are being rapidly kicked out of the party, would have taken a much longer step and taken it much sooner. The grip of monopoly has been shaken and it is quite probable that during the

short session of Congress, which begins in December, the Sugar Trust will lose all It has saved of its McKinley monopoly. We may also expect free coal and iron ore. The Democratic party has given us the income will compel the rich to contribute something to the expense of the government that protects them. Heretofore nine-tenths of the expense has been met by the farmers and laborers of the country, who own less than one fifth of the wealth. Of course no rational and Intelligent person thinks that the panic and deEresslon of the last year was due to democratic legislation. The Democrats did not move as quickly as many wished in abolishing the Sherman silver law and the McKinley bill, which were in force and largely responsible for the panic, but it has at last ended both, and prosperity is again at our door. Democratic principles are sound, and the mass of Democratic Congressmen deserve the confidence ana support ot the people. The few traitors are being turned out and better men are being put on guard. Stick to your party.

Democratic Text,. The Democrgtic campaign book for 1894 is gott n up in attractive style. On the margins of the covers are arranged tome choice specimens of Demccratic doctrine. We quote the following: “Tne People's Cause Is Our Cause.” “Free Government Is Self-Govern-m ‘nt.” “Unnecetsary Taxation Is Unjust Taxation.” “Euual Opportunity in a Land of Equal Rights.” “Democracy—lt Wears No Collar, It Serves No Master. ” “I Am for Protectian Which Leads to Ultimate Free Trade.”—James A. Garfield. “We Recognize in Labor a Chief Factor in the Wealth of the Republic.” “The Welfare of the Laboring Man Should Be Regarded as Especially Entitled to Legislative Care." “Freedom of Religion, Freedom ot the Press, and Freedom of the Person. ” “in Our Form of Government, the ■Value of Labor as an Element of National Prosperity Should Be Distinctly Recognized.” “The Necessities of Government Are the beginning and Ending of Just Taxation. “—Wilson. “Organized Good Intentions and Idle Patriotic Aspirations Cannot Successfully Contend for Mastery with the Compact Forces of JPrivate Interests and Greed.”—Cleveland, Oct. 4, 1892.

Reprehensible Knowledge. These labor people are getting entirely too inquisitive and impertinent. They know too much. They read too much. They think too much. They no longer accept with dog-like gratitude whatever the lordly barons are pleased to spare them out of their protection-made profits. The pottery magnates of New Jersey told their employes the other day that, much to their regret, they would be compelled to reduce wages under the new tariff. Some Impudent potter, whose memory had not been curtailed with his wages, inquired why a reduction was now necessary, when there had teen no increase under the McKinley bill. The conference adjourned. Louisville Courier-Journal. The Wilmington (N. C.) Messenger (Ddm.) says: 'We think the leaving of the sugar fellows a fortunate riddance. It ought to make genuine reformers of ail parties who favor equal laws and equitable taxation and a low tariff unite more determinedly than ever before In putting down the party that plays false on every possible occasion. Down with all favoritism and bounties. ” 1 In order to be intelligently consistent you. will have to occasionally change your opinions.