Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

Camparisou of Wages in Ameri- — can and Rnglish Mills, (« «uu BnI); Means— Other Timely Topic* l>lf< USMd. - . . Ciptair. Henry Snyder, n leading Democrat of VThite county, has turned Lis back on tbe enemy anti v:ll rote for President Harrisofi. Tbe Captain's brother, not »<, prominent, but heretofore a stanch Democrat, will do likewise.

wages in English and American mills. JetiTCeesc. tr Clfliago jfePaid.* 4 had its Degrees. Protection luw its Fricks.” For once, and for a wonder,, our esteemed conteinuorary has stated the case correctly. -- ... . We respectfully remind the Herald that Legree was "a Southern Democrat who solved the free trade problem by paying his laborers nothing per year. We call the Herald’s attention to what the protective Frick has been paying the 325 laborers who resist, and it may be justly resist. a proposed reduction of 12' pgr cent. Tbe Iron Age of June 30,1832,gives tbe following figures as the waire list of “ a well equipped mill ” in Western Pennsylvania, working under the Amalgamated scale, which is the scale determining the rate of wages -at Carnegie’s works. We place English rates for like work in separate -paragraphs: The American wages stands thus for the year 1891; . -- Pt-r tmn BSter* to 7‘inc-n miH. 42S turns of Hhoursi-aih per year .... 15.828.98 813.81 KoHors In IU-hioh mill, 468' turns 9,248.44 19.70 Ciolku * in guide mills. 514 _ turns 7,-160. C 2 14.93 Bolin-* In War mill. 279 turns. 2,146.66 7.78 “Thus it seems that the lowest price jvcid ful* eight hours’ work to any roller vis $7.78, and the highest ! ibr labor c f equal duration was $19,7(1. __ We make bold to say that there is hardly one editorial writer on the regular staff of any one of the freetrade papers whose editors-in-chief five orders for •* slashing articles on Vick and Carnegie’s starvation wages ” who -put d at tbe rate of! $9,248.44 for 408 '‘turns” at his work.

The English pay of a roller in iron mills is $2.50. English pay s2.3oper day*. American “starvation wages $7.78 to $19.76 lor eight hours’ work. Is which country does the modern Txfjree live—in protection America -or in free trade England ? Let us now consider how “heaters” are paid in American and in English iron and steel mills. The wages in the Pennsylvania mills have, been as follows for the trade year just ended: Per turn* ■Heater In 7-lnch mill, 453 turns i»l 8 hours each 83,914.49 $6.90 Heater in 10-inth mill, 468 turns oT 8 hours isctch.. 4.634.83 0.88 Heater in guide-mill, 6:4 turns o 4 8 hours each 3,580.16 £7.47 Heater in'bar mill, 552 turns of S hours rarh 3.510.00 5.83 English pay $3.60 for a day’s work, American pay from $5.83 io $9.88 for hours' work. It really seems that if “protection has its Fricks,” as the Cnicago Herald remarks, (treat Britain- must have something very much worse.

The pay of a blast furnace keeper has been $3.25 per day under the scale hitherto in force in the Pennsylvania mills, aud $2 in England. Ladle meu have received from $2.75 to $5.75 in the United States, and from $1 to $1.15 in England. This, perhaps, is why the Southern employers, who desire cheap lihnr ;ire in favor of repeal of the “infamous policy of prottfctlon,'“midwhy their ufcedicut servant, the Northern Democratic press, clamors for it. Converter men are paid from $4.50 to 8.50 in the American iron works, and $1.45 in England. Certainly $1 45 is ..nearer .ta the limit of “starvation wages” than $4.50 or $8.30. We are acquainted with people who have saved enough to become house owners out of au income of less than $8.50 per day. Rail straighteners earn $lO per day under the Amalgamated scale in America, and sl-35 in England. Ten dollars per day is equal to tb? salary of the judges of many Circuit Courts in rural districts. It is S6O per week. It is quite a nice thing to have.

Sixty doliurs a week may lie starvation wages. but if Cleveland should be elected half a million or so of Democrats Mil! be found scrambling for public a dices that pay less than half of sixty dollars'a week. Tl»e lowest priced labor employed in mitts naming on the Amalgamated scale receive $1.50 per day. Itscoun terpart in England is paid (id cents. • These figures are submitted to the consideration of all thoughtfv ! people without reference to IDs .proposed .reduction of 12 per ceut at tiie Homestead works, though that proposed seduction affects only 325 of those who have been earning from $5 Ki to 419.75 for eight hours'O work, and docs cot touch the wage list that ranges from $1.50 to $4.50 a dnv The figures prove that under proitaction wages in America have reached an eminence that seems incredible to the European workman.

TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY. polls .)u,u.-n>l-Whatuo Democrats mean by “tariff for revenue omy?” Ask one of tße followers of Cleveland that question and he will answer that “a tariff for rev cuue only ts a tariff that <wi!l produce a •wlfieieut amount to #sy t':e e» f e*ces of the government

economically administered and io more.”' .Nine Democrats out of every ten believe this is a full and complete answer to the question. It is simply rio answer at all. McKinley himself does not believe in i aising more revenue by a tariff than will meet the expenses of—the gt>v~. ernment economically administered. Did any of t hese reformers over consider the remarkable fact that the McKinley bill does net produce* enough revenue to pay the expenses of government economically administered? Why then all this "run. pus” about '‘tariff reform?” If Democrats and Republicans alike want to raise enougn revenue to meet -the just expenses of the government and no more why all this cant about the “robber tariff?” What, then, is the

meaning of the Democratic platform when it dec I aresfora tariff f ir revenue only? It is this: Whencvgfll i tariff schedule is formulated the du.tiea must be so laid that American industries shall hAvc no protection" that In t<»4M»y l ,for revenue only,, to ! the exclusion of protection. Lnder this theory, when a Democrat proceeds to levy duties on imparts, he looks only to the amount of revenue to be produced, and without any regard whateyeVAo the effect such levy m ayhave on the man of act. ring establishments of .this country. It is revenue he is after, and revenue on ly. It therefore follows that your tariff-for-revenue-only fellow is always in favor of large importations —the larger the better. If every manufactory in the country could be closed, imports would be greatly increased, and of course every Democrat who wants “revenue only” Ought to be supremely happy. All parties agree Ahat we must have as much revenue from the tariff as'is produced by the McKinley bill. If that be true, how can the Democrats raise that amount of revenue after they have radically reduced the duties? In one way only, unci that is by largely increasing the imports. And what does that mean? Why, it necessarily means greatly decreased production at home, and consequently less work for our own mechanics and laboring men. It requires a given amount of manufactured articles to supply the demand in this country, and just in proportion as that demand is supplied, by importations will our mannfa ■ turers surfer and our laborers be without work. . The Democratic scheme is to so reduce the tariff that our imports will lie largely increased, and by that means still succeed in raising the same amount of revenue. The Republican idea is to preserve-our home market largely to our own people, and tiiis is accomplished by protection. Which plan commends itself to your judgment? Jonh B. Glover.

HOLMAN, THE PHARISEE, MASKED-Fifty-first Fifty-second! Congress. CongressAgrieulpirnl ...$ 1.794.496.60 $ 3,2.42.976.50Army 21,306.471 70 21,303,499.82 Diplomatic and consular 1,710,815X0 1.6)4,045.00 Dist. of Columbia.. 5,769 544.15 5.32:4,414.2? Fortifications,,,,!,,.,. 4,232,935.00 2.734.276.00 Indian i.... 7.983,0100 H 7.661.047.81 Legislative, etc 21.0W.752.75 21.899.252 ft? Military academy. . 435.2J6.11 425.91T.31 Navy 34,136.035.53 33,54.3,38.>.U) Pensions 94.457,461.00 146,737.850.00 POStofflce 72.226.698.99 80,831.876.7.1 River and harbor... 25.136.235.00 21,153.618.00 Sundry civil : 9.7.-8.342.23 28.000.001.00 Deficiency 38.617.448.96 15,8-0.503.18 Miscellaneous t 7.010,905.27 500.000.00 WjqtlU's Fair bill.. . 2,-500.000.00 Permanent annual - appropriations 101,623.421.00 121.g83.880.00 Totals $463,398,510.75 $507,711,131.64 SHORT TARIFF LESSON. Washington Special. ' “Our ships went out filled to the guards and returned almost empty last month. - The last incoming vessel from Amsterdam had but forty tons of freight. If it were not for our passenger business our homecoming voyages -wosil4 be almost an entire financial failure nowadays.” These were the words, the other day, of one of the most extensive ship owners at Baltimore, which has grown to be a largo exporting place. The vesselman then added this remarkable statement: “ We have to give prices' rot ribtn®' coming freight which scarcely amounts to enough to pay for handling. What do you think of $2 a ton for freight across the Atlantic, three thousand miles from shipping point? If we didn’t give such low figures, which amount to nothing more than ballast prices, we would have to ballast. ” “To what do you attribute the ! great reduction of imports?” was asked.

“The operation of the new tariff law, of course, ” was the ready response. “ How does it affect the exports ?” “It has not reduced them. We have larger outgoing cargoes now than ever before. I have never seen so much grain or manufactured goods'go to Europe as during the past year. ” “Why are the imports so small? Why are your cargoes coming home so light that you have to take them at ballast prices ? " " We seem to be importing almost nothing in the line of manufactures,”’ t said the ship owner. “Nearly all j the stuff we brought in was from Holland, and it vas cement. We used to send out immense loads of raw cotton and bring back loads of cottomgoods, but now we are making our Own cotton goods right here in Baltimore. Of leather goods, steel 1 goods* edge tools, glass, fabrics, we I bring in very little. Oh, but the | trade 1 in plate glass has dropped from Germany and Frauce. We i send *way much more than we bring jiu nowadays, ltaw materialsgaasti- ; tute our imports mostly. Of course j we haul back here a great deal of i beer and wine, bvt v.o take out a 1 largely Increased amount of spirits.

■T- ! ; T-7— — We .send, td the wine sections ot France and Germany immeDsequantlties of alcohol to fortify their wines and Italy is receiving large consignments of cotton seed oil with which to make us olive-oil. i briievc our exports have increased more during the past eighteen mouths than ohL imports have fallen off, and with .the imports have decreasetLAlLpei: coat."' If any dispute the above statement he can be furnished, for private use. the ramc of the ship owner who made the statement of fact, and lie is one of the largest ship owners and managers in the country. It alone is enough to vindicate the new tariff law. , and disprove the assertionsmade bv free traders that the McKinley tariff law would ruin United States export trade, on account of the alleged ” Chinese wall ” against the admission of foreign products.

DEMOCRATIC LOGIC, Toe Democratic party wants to kill the goose that lays the nolcleu egg.

j. National Prospers*y Q,. y.o u ; naughty boy, J told you not to dis j turb the nest. The birds will mourn tlreirlos3. Democracy—No, they won’t. I have-killed them both so they xtan’t. SIX OF A KIND. Destruction of Protection the Sole Aim of the Democratic Party. New York Press. I From, the Confederate Constitution “ Congress shall nave power to lay and collect taxes, duties aud excise ! for revenue only . . but no 1 duties or taxes ou importations from foreign nations shall be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry,” 11. Speech of Senator McDuffie,of South Carolina: “In a free, competition for the market of the United States, the wages of manufacturing labor in the Northern States must be reduced at least as low as the wages of labor in England. The natural pi'ice of the manufacturing labor of the Northern States is precisely the same as the manufacturing labor of England,and not a cent more. ” in. Speech by Congressman Lewis, of Alabama : “The average price of farm labor in the Southern States is not more than 25 cents a day; in the North 50 cents a day. But for the operation of the tariff laws this state of things would have been reversed. ” IV. Southern Confederate Committee to Lord John Russell. “The principal cause which led the Southern States to secede from the Northern was not slavery, but the high prices which, for the sake of protection, the South was obliged to pav for manufactured goods. ” V. John Quincy Adams’ Report of House Committee on Manufacures : “The interest of the South is identified* with that of the foreign rivul and competitor of the Northern man ufacturer, and against him aud for SauJ&eOL .planter and J British manufacturer are eolleagueu. VI. “ We declare it to be a fundameu tal principle of the Democratic party that the Federal government has n > constitutional power to enforco and collect tariff duties except fer the I purpose of revenue only. ”

ADL-A-I. Buffalo Express. L I'll sing you a song of a candidate Who hails from the far-famed Sucker Stata. He aspires to a position high. And he Is known to his neighbors as Adl-a 1. Adl-a-l. <r 11. A very remarkable spoilsman he. Who wielded a glittering snickersnee He chopped off heads day after dify And howled for more, did Adclay Adelay. nt. He was entirely too busy to go to war, He bad no desire to spill his goto. No good In the lighting he was able to see, ••It's a failure." said Adelns. A deice. IV. He yelled for Inflation and money "f ra»r, A tlreenbacker bold was Ills Illinois tags. ' The cheapest a dollar can possibly gro w. Is none too cheap," said Ail .la. Adu.’o. v. Some men at Chicago had heard of hlgv. They pulled him out of obscurity dim. And struck the Democrats totally duu.h By noiu i naUug our Adcluiu. Adel urn. VI. He Is a big man In Bloomlnetcn; His neighbors think he'll make a great run. But he'll fall In the soup with a tenia* .-p'ee'.i He will in November. wtU Afleloah. ' AdelOfh, p'Cosh. \ Will Adsios 1 ,. A fish “as big as a maa ' was s-y?i in tiie Allegheny rive*- near Pittsburg‘.be OTtm day by au eidl td ' fisherman.