Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

are receiving higher wages‘than they were getting two Months ago, an average improvement of nearly 10 per oent. During the like pe-. riod only 31,000 industrial employes in the region specified had struck for any reason, and of this total only 21 tor higher wages. In the interior manufacturing district, between Cleveland on the east and Denver on the wc9t, 90 important establishments have started their wheels since April l, new|employmant has been furnished to 21,000 people and the waof 28,000 more have been raised about 10 per sent And this is the r< suit of practical tariff reform and democratic rule.ff Agricultural products have all risen in price. Cotton and corn, the two great sources of farm profit, have reached higher points than for several years. W hou the democratic party took hold, trade had suffered from the MoKiuley tariff and confidence in the Government’s currency had been shaken by wastefulness and blunders. The republican panic was too well under way to be once stopped. Two years have passed and the republican wrecks have been cleared away. The democratic tariff is raisin'* wages and proving that MoKinleyism is the enemy of American labor. Freely moving, natural trade gives the highest returns and the steadiest employment. Manufacturing progress has never depended udou the nigh protection whioh breeds trusts aud shut-downs. Low tariffs make higher wages. Prohibitive tariffs and pauper wa ges go together everv where. The um of the mill is the democrats doctrine of tariff for revenve set tomusio.—Bt. Louis Republic.

Diicredited McKinleyitea. !> Day after day oome ohaertag reporta from all over the country The news oolumus of the Ohrouiole show in a single issue ‘bat: The Cleveland, 0., Bolling Mill Company has raised wages of 600 employes 10 per oenl Howard Harrison iron works, Bessemer, Ala., has raised the wages of 1,600 employes 10 per cent. Ames iron works at Oswega, N. Y , has made a like advance. Iron Trade Review of Cleveland, says: “The week has brought the regular quota of advances m prioes and wageß to the iron and steel industry. Mahoning valley furnacemen have granted their employes a second increase of 10 per cent., tcllowing the pace Bet in the Bhenango valley a few weeks ago, and eastern steel works have announced higher rates effective in July.” It was the ory of McKinley ism, ns of MoKiuley himself, that the democratic party in the Wilson bill proposed deliberately the destruction of industries, particularly the great iron and steel industries of the country. The Wilson law provided for decided reduction in the schedule regarding metals and manufactures thereof. Because this reduction was proposed protectionists the country over fairly screamed their denunciation of democracy as the enemy of the industiies ot the country. They claimed to workingmen that starvation must follow legislation of this character. They insisted that the consummation of the utter ruin of American industries for the benefit of industries abroad was the purpose of the Wilson bill. ‘By their fruits,’ saith scripture, shall 'you know them.’ By the condition of industries in this country to-day, by the voluntary increased wages to employes in all such industries,we mly learn how false, how absurd, how utterly selfish was the ory of MaKiiileyism As this country approximates conditions of fiee trade its manufactures improve, and it is safe to say that after the experience of the country under the Wilson bill, whioh in the mai. but provided|a reduction of taxation to the extent of 50 per cent, there will be no desire to return to the outrageous schedules of the McKinley bill. Democracy failad of its entire duty in the matter of tariff legislation, but it took a notable and salutary step forward —Chicago Chronicle.

Cause of the Business Distress. With the tide of business activity rising and prosperity smiling benignantly on industry in every seotiou of the country, tne present is a suitable time to review the eventß of the past with a view to ascertaining by careful inquiry the causes which produced the calam ity from whioh we have suffered during the two years just closed. There is no effect without a cause, nd in tfcis country of plenty there can be no widespread distress without some reason for it. A careful examination of the events of the past few years ought to disclose tne causes which brought about the business depression,