Bloomfield Democrat (Newspaper) - September 2, 1892, Bloomfield, Indiana 3-1892. 25. Kentucky Ei Dissects h li til ln i- t lhat the in i V. it il 1 a inr in t I ( a in it i t of t t Ih y tTc - li iM I 1 pci Iu ' Mr. liv 1 1 1 111. ' I 1.-V. it til - z A i w 1 I 1 111 ( H a tho in the i in the 1 in V I of in state it i ' in all the countries s 1 of t which skill of very tions t and and ui Folly of it r to live dvc ever makes the are i; er less blessing to to npp policy and inent and siit i I manity of to ti riod in ift of its ail tee li nance ' s the uf has so iM duty in vest it ion to of 111- who and the Mr. Ih I th m. a ' day r tiie and darin i liy the i the df j hy tlie t hem lier and ine tu one i ot 1 one cent. than were at the j of tlie and that on tiie same which was the day i lU the the ci st of in the to each its relative importance as an element inj for ] creased 44-l<Uhs of i from the j rate i at of the in- | that the cost of in- | v. was not investigated i hy the at liad heen reduced i 4}-l(Cths of 1 it during the first three of tho 15ut single day been separated by the Island from all the cither -id I ti v. 1 as pr OI lile lime 1,1 idi i u i lie lind during the the and what it the third quarter of the of tlie the first quarter of the cost of living over and above what it during the first covered by the investigation the second year 10() it I cull attention here to the fact that during the second of the year the passage of the the vast of living fell below what it was at the end of tiie The third Oct. 1, the very day on which tiie McKinley act was the was from Rhode I but during the next ly vs ' the of tlie tin i I bv lie in 1-t day of ( w h expenditure uver the on the 1st day of 1' on the of in ti tee on means wils 1 tl in tl in 111! in till y 1 ' 1 - r. 1 ' l 1.. 1 ti t p. Il i i 1 ci i 1:. 1! 11:, e i l t 1 1 i e n i i ' i l r Z Hi t. 1 i 1; per Ili 1er I 1 is 1 l il i I c -t il t' noi lie ho lyV statement or anybody's books 1' I he It Ss on t' noi ont or anybody t es ina t the actual lie ho lyV statement or anybody's books 1' I he the t the basis of 1>. i ve i The and taken as and as if it was a the tho 1st day continued month in seventy iu tjie United States until the 1st of IN. a twenty-eight these for t lie 1: rst at Seventy at a number of abli in i aeh were is to which of July and on all the articles were a- the unit of each unit or index price liy and as juices subsequently or fell the fact was 1, 1 to buV ve tli 1. be be the part crease the what they President thiS as that high to war with war v. and a century c r ] period in the i tlie bringing i many of every man of the ratea the percentage of or fall recorded occupations in the Now I to tiie senate and the country it no just or conclusion tor any can be leased prices on single day during t went y that day as I have i i the last one on which an of Carlisle referred to a statement of Senator in the same time the had in He that tlie committee had no in that no such results drawn from any facts before the and that other statements in Senator were not in evidence the and I to or at endeavor to that the prices of the United whether considered liy wholesale or by were enormously increased by tlie of the McKinley act and the agitation which preceded and that the of living in the United giving to each of art it les its degree of importance in for was tlie covered by this moie OVI that aril r the of the are all to by and iiy e with the i ivate In lile which tnd use 1 have never the wisdom Is inen work longer lo ure and their ible I or i by of c. - or lo i.e for i v. le 1 Mr. are at in which he he half y w has mankind by e age ' entine to 1 think nobody large of the which II a very the in of tli r ael was on account of the that it was in with nn almost A ' U the t ol the tl is willing to ami distribution and easy is just as to tlie producer and to the cheap and easy therefore every shackle imposed upon eM ry restriction apon honest interference with the free of ducts in the the world and de prives the of benefits w they have a t they Otherwise improved and commercial Mr. it is to pursue this line of at last it to be admitted o cheap are days as i By of it eign and by the iip house of presented the about the prie s i a as we have home (I t ' 1 wages to creased insure fair prices at but to that if tl e to I whose conditions f ur are unwilling to u We e noi that our already from low can or will be with result is a clear and declaration by the authors of the that it was not to reduce that it would in reduce .md that the people wauld Ixj with any whi that roan theory that j of are to the at and that the 2\IcKinley law would was abandoned by the of that immediately after Ha and iu every part of the country they faced and either denied that bigher in that they were not by the act. The in a knew from personal and observation in their daily and in 1890, tlie of that tariff act were from the of tlian 8G0,0<J0 Never in tie history of coun try has there bwn such a of popular Indignation any of legislation that v. iii h tiie of ill and a- a result ti e Island all o f the system v. iiO reo the ot articles thai ii be and a to in the second of wages in substantially ted industries in selected by the were during the covered by the and that during the same period tlie rates of wages in fifteen protected industries in the United also selected by the and that the fall was greater after the passage of the McKinley than it was during the whole its the articles by the committee are fairly of the total of articles consumed by the investigation is worth but So far as it to ascertain the cost of It would of course be valuable to show the course of prices on but I unless they all tlie articles which enter into the is of but little value so far as it attempts to state the of in upon the cost of heie elaborated tables showing a t rick in the committee's method of proving a decline in it took prices at a date in when they had risen iu ant of the McKinley and at r in when they were at the He go no back to find the influence of tiie McKinley act the retail prices of we find that from and Oct. 1, June 1, 1891, the prices as On Oct. 1, the was the prices on Sept. 1; on Nov. 1, the increase was 410,001; on Dec. 1, 57,5(X,-luoducers and fair j on Jan. 1, it was 5.10,033,333; on n. and by in- | 1, 1881, it was on March 1, 1 home I it wus on April 1 it was on May 1 it was and on June 1 it was the Mr. there have been many made to ascertain the annual of tho people of the United for of here three lion of e the the time it shown ' was to the t he was hi report Mr. or himself and all thf much articles a system of 1 shall give fair ort not sought tiy the to cut down -e of our certainty from a who Las given this subject a great deal of estimates from our census and m lower other data that of the total population people in the United States 28,-000,000 are engaged in what are called gainful earning or and that the average annual income of upon which all the other of the United States depend for is making for the year 0 per from that for slate and and 10 for savings or additions to the permanent wealth of the is left 1,582,000,0(X) to Ixi expended by the people for their D. A. by a different arrives at the after deducting 6 per for taxes and 10 per for permanent savings or additions to the wealth of the there remains to Ije expended for their the 6um of or a little more than Mr. Atkinson but that 1 somewhat the annual for the monthly and we have the prices ilie the articles by the n suit is not i table heretofore and it s no ion ( to say t iie column shows the ase cost of living was still going and the tlie cost having to decline from the it had it In the the increased cost of living to the tlie Slates during tlie by this investigation Mr. twenty-four 1H>1I, the three which were taken a Tlie increased cost of living to t he of tiie United States during the twenty-four months was but during the last quarter covered liy this taking the three months there was a slight decline of 1 of 1 in tiie cost of to which I have from the gross showing a net in the cost of living of the of or 818.5,(X<,0(i, oc curred after tlie passage of the McKinley and a large part of the which occurred that time is directly attributable to the fact that tlie was pending in congress with absolute knowledge on tlie part of the people that it would pass become a Mr. how this compare with made by the from Rhode that there u as such a decline in the cost of living that as to represent a saving per annum to tlie of Here the cost of living during which the people have no matter decline may have come at its not one cent of it will ever be reimbursed to who were to ex it for the necessaries of Tnat money is gone from even though prices may continue to decline without fluctuation after tlie i x of the it dcHS not follow that such decline or a greater one would not have taken if the ley net had never been On the if the McKinley act had never been passed there would have been ft decline and this enormous of would not have bt en from Mr. a this committee must it him for sonie time to assist in collecting an investigation covering the 11 months just beginning of this June 1, whi: ii showed that the prices of in this country had declined U jier during what During the eighteen months next the beginning of this Fortunately it so that our investigation the very day that his investigation while his investigation showed that during the eighteen months covered by it the prices of commodities declined iu this country 14 per all the senator from Rhode Island can now show is that after twenty-four mouths of high prices the cost of living on one day at the very end of the had declined 44-lOOths of I per it not perfectly that the proposition I started that the McKinley act had interfered with and this natural tendency toward a decline in the prices of and that by its the people of the United States were deprived of benefits which the of all other civilized countries In the world were realizing on account of modern improvements and discoveries and the application of them in their industrial and commercial Mr. we also investigated the wholesale prices of the tame articles during the earns period in several different cities and in establishments in each and my would not bo complete without giving the result of that That investigation what is the common observation of that wholesale prices more promptly disturbing causes than retail The reasons for this are In the first place the wholesale trade is located almost exclusively iu the great and is in the hands of comparatively a few while the retail tnide is scattered all over the country and is in the hands of a great many wholesale dealers and the manufacturers of the they sell look forward to coming keep themselves informed of movements in congress and and take advantage of them in while tlie retail as a general gives less attention to disturbing because he has his stock on purchased at the old and he continues to sell it at the old prices until he lays in a new stock at the new elaborate table on the fluctuations of w prices w as here presented table shows that during the four months preceding Oct. 1, 188i, was soon well known to the country what lis would be in i to on the ist day of ase i r the ul the beginning of tiie igai ion Tiie next month 1. and then a line figure until 1, w the i McKinley t. and t he of c to 1, til on the 1st I w liy a fill thei in but v. will these to go to pay rolls in the turing e- and take I hi m t he of of month ami 1 results to as a ( 1 1 t ion d by was at o ed r mont ii liy m ut li ol It. ill not the ien i ine I kill tile tiie total 1, to ly and t lie ( the 1 inn in i l at the e of k i ved the act was a great blessing to the manufacturers of tin and enabled them to take from the of the United as I shall proceed to many millions of ami above the profits which thoy were making before its Tiie here presented tables of tin in Wales and the in price there in anticipation of tlie and that tlie people of the before the of duty on tin plate took under the McKinley act. not to tlie not to the not to the dealers directly into the pockets of the W. lsh tin the sum of f 1.1 0 a profit on their which was considerably more than the value manufacturo of of it is a broad to 111,ike, but the McKinley act increased the duty on every fabric that contains a single thread or fiber of and in most cases the was very If an article of silk is found to contain a thread of wool for ion or for any other becomes sii to the woolen even in the case of the cheapest fabrics by the is much higher than the duty on the finest fabrics used by the have hero a number of samples of woolen and worsted imported under the McKinley with statements showing their cost in 1889 and 1890, their cost abrigad the duty imposed upon them 111 1880 and 18'J0, tho duty imposed except had become alarmed i - i t and the cost to lay own -i v t- i v down at New lork to tho ' ' ' tables were V. imt n by made by any fi ic the to the during the months if 1^:1], there Ing to but im lilis repot to heneis Tax on 1\ As Iliade already il liy I iie with a few of .ms which 1 a n. 1. 1. 1, 1, 1. 1, 1, 1, 1, 1. 1.1,'-'..e......... .Sell!. 1, 1. 1, 1.1.-. 11......... 1, 1,1 1. i 1. 1 I. 1 1, 1. l 1. 1-' 1....... 1. in asi s Total di UK hese ant the our own nd tlie si i; to ihe ils i the iu lU the of based upon them not any which may have taken in tiie of account ol the cry in iu the rales of duty contained ia the tarill act of 18'.i.). Mr. tlie price of tiie of woolen which were country bet ween Oct. 1, tiiLi of tlie of the McKinley and day of 18'j1, the end of amounted to many of of and for the d to us y and mingles together all the which w ero made that for the pui of the ad nite of re before or Oct. 1, th. ri forc rate of taxation lo a much lower ligura it actually was iiC Ol a gl I and I have ironi this of which fu not in s and t lie ol d le assert if il the of ( iim tile inv. .st lie Ul be no to coM b I t hii k y understood him ' and cost i Ic II 1' for the unii invest same are slate t bis r i 1... U 1 1 1 d an hr. the the ri suit to which ad amount of duty hr. which ut duty ai I the total including cent. The goods was ii 1 houi or any in New iis iu re 1... prices abroad have fallen necessarily because the cost of the raw wool has gone down in the but the people of the United by the of the tariff act and the imposition of a higher rate of duty upon these goods been wholly deprived of tho benefits which they have and ought to have received on account of the decreased of tlie materials entering Into tho manufacture of the articles they The cotton grower and the wool grower alike are compelled to take lower prices for their products and to pay higher the goods manufactured from necessary of the McKinley act is to enable the of these at home to keep un the prices to a certain no matter may be the diminution in the cost of their raw material or in the wages of their because the high duty protects them against competition abroad so long lus they keep their prices just below tho point which would enable the importer to bring them iu and realize a profit after paying the What that point is the domestic always knows very he keeps informed In relation to the foreign prices of the articles he and he therefore permits in two ( when he produce tho particular quality of goods at and when lie cannot produce them in quantities to 6^dy tho homo LABOR IS CRUSHED THAT MAY BE 4o by Cordage 75 Closed three weeks Twine 150 Closed Cordage 1(10 July 2. 2.")0 Not since June 1. New 2t)U Cordage 100 New 2lM) Not Jan. 1. 11*) Cordage company ami clost d July 1. the eleven Canada belonging to the National Cordage trust probably only about are running at all as the tariff enables the trust to keep up in ices and to pay big dividends on idle mills and to purchase at exorbitant prices establishments that threaten to undersell the Tho also controls by tho of W. L. and L. of binding twine and cordage so that these which control and hold valuable cannot sell cordage machines to of the This decreases the of machines and throws labor out of perhaps the worst evidence against this trust as to its treatment of labor is in its deals with Mr. John who lias one of tlie largest and best cordage mills in tho This mill is situated at and when running 300 For some time to when not the standard bearer of Ids Hern what he I were asked to name the most forceful character iu American tho man who represents the the swerving determination and the courage of the true man who knows and it when public service commands the man who wars in war and is for in I would name W. T. Hut if I am to name the typical the man who loves and believes in his country beyond everything the man once in what direction his duty cannot be swerved from the man is doggedly persistent in what he to be right who thinks not of but of liis country and its I would name drover he has accomplished is the very highest attribute to the of American A country lawyer in the city of he shed upon the high profession which he had As the mayor of his native city lie presented as his record a clean and economical Coming into the highest in the land without previous and with a precedent to guide him in the conditions which surrounded he won the affection of his and commanded the and i rat ion of his 1 find myself in one of the proudest positions of niy life in being permitted to present to you Grover Cleveland as the typical It was Depew who nominated Harrison at PRICES Carlisle the Report OO Retail Prices and committee oa finance just published a part of its report on and wages to show the of 2, 1891, the Cordage trust had been the McKinley act upon ing Mr. per year to keep Senator Carlisle was on this committee his mill On Nov. 2. this ' and took occasion during his speech of amount was to and I some conclusions from the agreement was carrud out until tt 4, 1S!)2, when Mr. returned tho statistics that the because at tho high the tariff act of 1890 had interfered at which cordage had been selling he found that he could make more money by his PAYS THE DUTY natural tendency to a decline in the prices of commodities and to a rise in I the rates of and that it made it harder and more for the masses of the people of the United States to He showed that the prices of commodities in the United States by wholesale or 1 il Iroin a quality I tarili 1 i 1 lile lions SI ail o. in lii v. i 11 be I and m are 1 by tho ei live 1 he l- n i 1V t. as 1 Were as follow and i a- their ult. to tlu in in that they how far they 1 there is scarcely wh i will that bricks cati 1a; in a wall In a foreign country and imported to this and .i Is nut much by of whom the same thing be as of Common farm ' lay stone in a wall h cannot be imported - molders of are occupai ions elected t lie t and are the the of lis of 1 during the coN ered and t i its liian were 1 Ir- ni as will l e xi ii from his ' l he found while had been decline in there had iiK 1 jier in I L ii with the tallies fore inc. thai tho only I Instances in h any increase of wages taking the ' in those subst t eci ed and I will show sent ly that In the fifteen highly In the rates of wages before tlie McKinley there a decrease after it If any of fifteen general occupations are or be or in any way liy the it must be cabinet makers and molders of and although the tarill act increased the on household or cabinet the of makers fell after its and although it t he dutien forms of iron except hollow glazed or tho wages in that its do not make this statement for the purpose of showing that the act itself increased wages in the one or dei them in the My is to show the does not wages at all to t heir i of that I tlie j the ad j - woith ' by ' The ceist of 8 Cents per it tbe n in New any i lor or 4,''i.Td so the which abroad t he of ilic lold by the of the McKiniey aet w e not to be tiie here is l he most of i vi r ili a l l of aci lo the of i ed I e - I hein to li 1 now i i; li loi i he of the ni I lo h pie in will See when dl ion of the w ho this a Correct of - goods al ter the and the rates scarcely ever ler the will go to with which my friend r. he that the a of I over I he i had never risen above the normal or chasing if it did we two wholly ions be and secondly reduce The man who wants to labor does Just is done by every other man w ho wants to procure gets it at the very lowest at the law of and will him to get tariff or no The the whether iu a free trade country or in a general made by 1 say t lie column tlie vue ist uay oi ine in the cost of living at the end of 1 In this Important each quarter over What it at the be- them all never feU to their except in and then they were only of 1 per In they were lower than the Initial and they never to that point again until a period of nearly two and then they were only of 1 per below group of and selected by the committee for the purpose of investigating wholesale prices sixty-two articles in general use among the and on the Ist of I 1889, when the Fifty-first congress ator from Rhode that the wages of the prices of only five of them had 75-liM)thsof 1 during the advanced since the beginning of the of investigation was true of The prices of thirteen of them the fifteen occupations and forty-five of them had should have nor The tariff I have already said that passed the house of representatives on the the rates of w ages in eii oilier day of 1890, and by the 1st of | and I will now them in Juno following the prices of sixteen of the j order that may embraced in this had in- themselves whether aie industries and any one who will examine the which the is to report of the committee will see that from they are tho of the 1st day of 1890, the boots and cotton flint green pig steel steel i he di t i the I hi of th old from Iowa ill r vs Tlie he Hut the e- foreign producer pays the articles imported into this If he he either by mistake or in a misappropriation of the public in the McKinley for he act provides that w hen raw to duty are Into I he United States anil converted here into manufactured articles which are for sale abroad to the citizens of other tho domestic shall have a to the amount of less 1 cent. If the foreigner that why iu the name of common and honesty do we pass it back to tho Standard Oil or to else who exports meats en- from tin legislator who vi s the foi s the would insist upon giving it to tho foreigner who sold the tin out which the cans wero and not to the and who convert that into and then export them aud their contents to be sold to tho of ot licr countries at lower than be sold to their fellow I thc refore feel justified in that no who supported the McKinley act nor Mr. he goes about the country that the foreigner pays the really believes a word of it. But 1 tender an to the senate for to discuss such an absurd while tin 1 refer to I made liy the from the of States paid to the article in the year seventy-six cents per box more than the profits which they were realizing before that This is It is certainly of the In tlic of Lockouts ions 3Iadc in Order to to Owners of Idle following from tho speech of Vest of July and printed in Tho Record of July 27, is good of the effects of In a the printed tlie list of as prepared by Hon. Witt Warner for the New York As written there the main t to tariffs foster trusts and 1 or at natural Tlie object of tile matter introduced by is to show trusts by keeping idle throw men out of and by increasing the number of competitors each work tend to lower Trust binding Binding cent per other cents per hemp cables and cents other cables and The ( which was formed in furnishes a good illustration of the way in which trusts As tlie trust gained control of more factories it not only was enabled to limit production and advance but power to dictate terms to its it was not until 1890, when the trust was reorganized and when it secured control of eleven cordage ill that its power over production and labor became Aside of high of limits the use of ami therefore the demand for the condition of the mills and controlled by the trusts is of devastating upon production and labor of this has the following record of ami reductions in order to insure at the kejit to dividends to tho of the rest thus hired to stay Oil ail it takes about 100 employees to attend to 100 in the binder twine ans mostly ami iu and twine mills mostly ( ter Not little ot iii 7(10 or 800 of Wall's 41)0 or shut mid pari of all the h New did out iu and C. y 50 Closed part of the and Cordage most of the 75 Twine mid Cordage to former now in the 100 wis iV ( or 80 lias been shut down some r. Woodward Was dismantled liy York New 35 Was by New ij AVas Iiy 50 spindles lias been shut down for some Day 700 Not closed more than one month CorduKe 7(K1 Not more thaft one month 00 Dismantled liy 200 Probably ( Hinder Twine luid Cordage Closed weeks Hope Twine Closed June 15. Cordage 300 Big by Secretary of in that the foreigner pays the duty has received a deadly blow in the been enormously increased by the of its Jerry the secretary of who has always impressed with the idea that it is his highest duty to instruct the farmers of the country in the beauties of has committed himself to a most astounding admitting even that the tariff tax is to the cost of goods aud is thus by the following ation tells its own Feb. 8. The Secretary of have honor to return herewith liouse No. appropriat establish signal display stations Middle and Thunder Hay islands in which you to nie for This is of same ( as henate No. which I to you 18i)l, and which 812,71 for this The estimule for this was originally made by this but since that ia Ihe laws has nearly the cost to the of telegraph The now cannot import free of duty as Instead of a mile the estimates should be miles at miles laud at per very your W. of Weather or referred to the cr on interstate and f bouse of I approve of I he W. M. lU there is one feature of the case hero which Uncle did not point out in his formal of the bureau's lie did remind tlu that when of tho McKinley and by the agitation which had preceded and that the cost of living in the United States had increased during tho covered by the investigation than Ho showed in the second place that the rates of in fifteen unprotected in tho United had during the period covered by the while tho rates of wages in fifteen of the highly protected in the United States had fallen since tho of tho McKinley act. The fifteen general occupations in tho unprotected industries wero cabinet common farm iron tailors and average increase of wages in these occupations had been 75-100 of 1 jier cent. The fifteen highly protected occupations wero bar boots and cotton cotton and woolen crucible flint green pig steel steel steel window glass and woolen In these occupations tho rates of wages had fallen tho an of 89-100 of 1 as against a ot 7.")-100 of 1 in the fifteen unprotected Carlisle went into a detailed to the of imported Koods and as to tin On tho latter house he Mr. Aldrich as saying duties the of the States the custom house on telegraph i to the Welsh till plate the weather bureau he merely t ho in 7.i cents per box moro than money from t into before that That was undoubtedly too act had been a bonanza to the Welsh tin It had to from the of the United States many millions over and above their normal The act had not to the not to tiie not to tho but directly to Welsh tin plate moro than half the value of tho of tho SOH tin plate works of Tho McKinley act as to tin liad to not for tiie benefit of the American but of the Welsh his closing remarks he exhibited two of woolen goods exactly as to manufactured in he was a but wool free of These sold in Canada for cents a but could not bo made in the for than 40 This showed what our manufacturers do if they weather bureau costs but it is all the same to le as he lias tlu money in his other not out to the American farmer that does not hold true of that whew he the tariff tax his dollars are transferred to Sam's what is still to the of some and that not 1\I<-K fact that many articles now they were two years iigo has been seized by editors and stump orators as a that the McKinley law reduced Rut who as to the changing conditions of Irade will not be deceived by this Many cotton now much lower than were in and lids in was brought about in the main by far other causes than the McKinley there is another reason why some have not a thaf is never heard from protectionist newspaper 11,.nest to work are telling hard truths about tiie kind of which we are having under Such a is The Wool and Cotton of of the very highest and edited by a and protec t Here is what The 1 Reporter says about McKinley is complaint by clothiers that the of the goods now being made by the mills is np to the old The is not alone with the manufacturing but is made also by the even some of the well known standard makes down as falling short of their old Ko doubt some of the trade will remember that one of the leading clothiers in this city out with a letter some two years in which it that as a result of t he McKinley prices would either be higher or else the of the mills would | Almost immediately following t he of the were but in many cases they did not as sentiment was strongly a ' sale many of the luices returned to their old and business more manufacturers to make a yet claim it was ' I the and held to the old | This must proved ' nt least for the time as it was con- | tinned and carried .so that today the trade To the eye many the cloths appear fully up to the ] and it is only after they are doing the consumer that the deception 1 is evident that under and nasty go and we are now buying the particular kind of made famous by President Tn his noted cannot liud in full with this cheaper which secius in me sarily to involve a 11...11 the Democratic house puts wool on but refuses to take from refined the one-half cent of duty which sustains the sugar did McKinley retain that one-half cent duty when he framed his Carroll county board of review raised the valuation of the famous Bowen estate The new tax law is evidently worth something to tho taxpayers of i lamous introducing Mr. land at r New York on Oct. 9, 1)0, deserves te b. reproduced now to show what a Republican thought of the B. do not remember I began to tako It was years and I have found it does me a great deal good ia iny am 91 and 2G and my health Is I havo no achei or pallia about my iny und lue to 1 doubt if a evor w ri id o w to iha aud
