People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — CHEER RECIPROCITY. [ARTICLE]

CHEER RECIPROCITY.

manufacturers in session AT CHICAGO. I Representatives of 82,000,000,000 Cheer Blaine’s Policy and Shout for McKinley and the Protection Idea —After Japanese Trade. Chicago, Jan. 22.—Two billion dollars was represented in Central Music hall yesterday when President Thomas Dolan called the convention of the National Manufacturers’ Association to order. Also it was the largest repre- , sentatioh of employers which ever con- . vened in America, representing oneeighth of the entire factory force of the United States. Delegates were present from all the manufacturing states east, west and south. Pennsylvania was better represented than any other state, fifty men from that state responding to i their names. The keynote of yesterday’s meeting i-was reciprocity and protection to home industries. In the opening address of ; the president and in a speech by Thomj as McDougall of Cincinnati the system advanced by James G. Blaine was lauded and cheered by all present, and although the party is non-partisan McKinley and protection were applauded so long and loud that there was danger of having to order a recess.

C. Heber Clark offered the fc'‘ -wing resolution, which was unanimously adopted: “Whereas, Intimations have been given in the daily press of an extraordinary recent development of manufacturing industries in the eastern countries, particularly Japan, and of the appearance in the American market of the products of the industry, which products are offered at unusually low prices; be it “Resolved, That the president of this association appoint a committee of three to inquire respecting the matter and to report to-morrow to the convention what action, if any, should be taken by the association with reference to the alleged menace to American manufacturers.” The chair appointed C. Heber Clark, Warner Miller and Charles Davis. A resolution was offered and carried granting the privileges of the floor to Senator Gregorio E. Gonzalez, a commissioner from Mexico, who is here by appointment of the president of the republic of Mexico. He came to Chicago to attend the convention and probably will make a speech sometime during the convention to offer some suggestion by which the commercial relations of the United States with Mexico can be improved. The secretary then read the reports of the various committees, that of the chairman of the executive committee, Pliny Jewell, being read first. It covered the work of the committee since the organization of the association to the present time. The committee recommended that the constitution of the association be so altered as to permit individuals to become members. It urged that a fund be established to arrange for agencies to carry on the work of organization. The report of the treasurer showed the association to be in a good condition financially. The president then announced the committees, after which the convention adjourned until 10 o’clock this morning. The committee on resolutions held a long session in the afternoon at which the resolutions to be brought before the convention were discussed. At the conclusion of the meeting the members declined to say just what had been done, saying that the whole thing would come out at the meeting this morning. The program for to-day is the hearing and discussing of reports of committees, with appropriate addresses. Textile Manufacturers Meet. Chicago, Jan. 22.—Practically the only business transacted by the Association of Textile Manufacturers of the Southwest, which met yesterday in the Palmer house, was the adoption of an 800-word set of resolutions, advocating protection. The meeting was attended by about thirty manufacturers of textiles. most of the members and sympathizers of the association being represented by letters which were read by President George S. Bowen of Elgin, 111.