Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1893 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS CAUSE OF HARD TIMES. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS

CAUSE OF HARD TIMES.

Gov. McKinley spoke at Chicago Junction, Saturday, to an immense gathering of people. In the course of an extended speech, he said: Our trouble is the uncertainty of the future. No manufacture is going to produce when his raw material is all tariffed and in a few months he may have to compete with raw materials that come in free. In the meantime business men are waiting, but waiting is death. It is starvation; it means idle mills and mines and unemployed men. Our trouble is a lack of production. If we produced as much as we did last year we would have no trouble,, and you don’t hear of any new enterprises nowadays. Yon don’t hear ol any new shops. You see very few new residences going up throughout Ohio. A man can’t build houses without wages or an income. Take a railroad company, for instance, take the Baltimore and Ohio. Here It is economizing. It has got to ds it because it doesn’t know what the future will be. and it doesn’t buy rails. No other railroad company does. They believe rails will be cheaper because the tariff on them is to be reduced. If railroads don’t buy rails the steel mills can not work and the workmen who operate them are Idle. They don’t earn wages and therefore there Is little business for the shoos, and if the shops don't si'll they don t order from the manufacturers and there is no production. ■