THE FIRST EFFECTS.
A REPORT UPON AMERICAN
FREE TRADE CONDITIONS.
Tton 45 r»r Cent Uu n'lifM
KarncU Thto Yaar Thun In 1554-Mo
Work for 30 Tor [Cfnl of (ho people—
#55 IVr 11*11(1—HI II Inna t.eaa Circulated
FVcm Um American KeonnmM, Oct. 12.
HA MR IN- JAN. TO JI NK, JAN. TO
DlnriUKS. 1893. JINK, 1894.
IfaiMla Km
ployed • 00.855 40,000
Out" l'alil, • 17.4 70,08? • 0,011,004
Output of
factories- 100 par cent 80 per cent
Compariaon With the Cenaua nf 18001
CKN8C8 or 1890.
Hand* employed
Wain earned -
I’tndiirt value
Coal of Material
4.711,83*
• *,*84.833.408
0,370,107,0*4
8.158,808,353
CONDITION OR 1891.
Manila Idle - - 1,413,880
M'ngea loat - ■ 1.037,470,400
Product not made - 4,1*4,847,388
Material not uaed - *,*08,044,148
The reason for making' on investiga
tion into tlip business conditions of tho
United States this year, as compared
with 1893, 1ms ulready been stated in
the American Economist— namely, to
supply u demand made to tho Ameri
can Protective Tariff league for facts
and figures upon the subject. These
demands were so numerous that, after
very deliberate consideration, it was
decided in the interests of tho people
to undertake the work, and tho result
we now publish.
The idea 1ms been to ascertain tho
number of bunds that were employed
In the different manufacturing, whole
sale and retail concerns throughout
the country during tho period from
Jnn. 1 to June 30, 1893, and also
during the same months of the
California . 6 687
t /olorada .... 2 523
Connecticut. 34 6,962
Delaware... 3 481
<i»*orgla...... J 73
Idaho.. 2 22
Illinois .. 10 11 ,m
Indiana. 12 I,WO
Iowa . 7
Kansas ..... 0
Kentucky .1. 6
Louiilan_ 1
Maine. 0
Maryland.... 4
Mn.r.H't’ln]a'ts 28
ISO
337
101
Michigan..
Minnesota
Mlftstaftippl.
Missouri ...
Montana .
Nebraska .
New Ham p's 18
Now Jersey.. 15
New York 25
N’h Carollua, 1
North Dakota 3
Ohio.32
Oregon.. 5
3,812
34
9.107
205
401)
21
483
35
fl
Ml 4
8,577
4,074
00
7
5,070
54
01ft
247
3,8/2
288
28
5
0.2.10
88)
88
278
50
4
2,400
7,747
208
213
I
487
SO
SO
2.400
2.247
2,874
70
5
8,170
40
Pen’ylvania 30 10,577 10,291
Ithode Island
Tennessee...
Texas.
I’tah.
Vermont... .
Virginia .
Washington-.
W’t Virginia.
Wisconsin. ..
826
472
33
3
80
70
48
287
10 1,800
77
400
5
2
4
a
14
207
004
128,811
215,308
1,204,710
115,437
7,001
810
4,010,407
297,411
10,090
7.850
7,210
2,340
001,073
7.000
1.808,887
04,061
83,881
I, 500
245,772
15,275
10,750
2 578,014
039,060
889,075
11.000
430
!,r58,810
10,879
8,911,048
63,209
115,180
0,2/5
543
15,125
II, 787
15,000
55.831
275,710
114,036
00.804
880,540
57,751
8,205
1,881,072
221,822
12.8J0
8,070
1,570
408
418,400
1,038
1,858,780
47,270
80,841
48
147,309
11,105
4.250
402 570
339,530
402,772
18,000
808
077,408
0,700
1,953,751
12.001
99,401
2,525
300
770
184
2,500
32,010
19J.3I9
Totals.. .820 69.850 49,000 817.470,08710,011,004
Deere line In number of hands em
ployed. .. —10 per cent.
Decrease In amount of wages earned 45
*• *• output of factories, etc..44 ••
Average earnings per hand In 1802.1250
.. •• 1804.1196
Oregon's Case s Hard One.
An Oregon farmer writes as follows:
In 1802 J got 20 cents per pound cash
in Myrtle Point for iny wool as it came
from the sheep’s back. I had to haul
it twenty-three miles. In 1893 I shipped
to San Francisco anti got 15 cents, pay
ing all charges, leaving mo 13# cents
per pound not. In 1894 I delivered
aguin in Myrtle Point and received 10
cents for the same quality of wool, cut
from the same dock of sheep—the first
quality clothing wool—for which I got
20 cents in 1892. 1 forgot to state that
Knit Roods.....
Lamp*. [(;
Leather goods.ISC
1-lvery stable*. SJ
Machinery. K
Mercantile. t>”| 34
Mining. m
Nurserymen.•_7.1
^PW. «1
Paper banger*.4.
Pearl button*. 8
Plate glass. j 87
l’lusb good*. mi
Plumtwrs...\\ 7;.
Pottery...j.’’’ 31
Printing. ”” gr.
How mill*. ” 53
Haws and tools. 73
Blieep raising... 3<j
Shipbuilding. 73
Hilk manufacture*..
Htone quarrying...
Tiles.100
Woolen manufacture*.47
It will be noted that according to our
reports there were Indeed very few In
dustries turning out 75 per cent or
more of the quantity of their product
of 1802. There are some industries
that have turned out less tliun half.
Those which were most seriously af
fected appear to have been the makers
of agricultural implements, who, by
the way, generally claim that they are
not uffccted by the tariff. The manu
facturers of cutlery, gloves, the min
ing industries, pearl buttons, paper
hangers, pottery workers, sheep grow
ers, the silk and woolen manufacturers
ure seriously injured by free trade.
Fop Labor to Ilemeuilrar.
Can not the working men of America
understand and appreciate the fact
that the democratic majority in con
gress refused to grant them u hearing
or to listen to the uppeul of men anxious
to earn an honest livelihood, while
these same democratic statesmen were
trying to take from them the oppor
tunity to earn a living? Can not the
American working men,the wage earn
ers, appreciate that these same demo
crats, who refused u hearing to labor,
atlvcs will have to accept it. The
laborers themselves will recognize tl.e
necessity* though only after strong re
sistance to it. Obviously, if the goo<ls
hitherto produced in this country can
be imported ut less cost, the cost of
their home productions must be de
creased. and generally by the reduc
tion of the price of labor.
Moreover, the disturbance in the
labor market caused by this tariff will
be the more unfortunate because of
the inequality of the protection afford
ed by so undemocratic a measure. It
protects some departments of trade
fully, and it leaves others insufficiently
protected or unprotected altogether.
It is false to the forbidden princi
ple upon which it was con
structed. What remedy does it make
to labor? It reduces wages, but it
takes the incomes of the rich, lint
what good does that do labor? I.abor
day comes this year, therefore, when
labor is uneasy, anxious and perplexed.
—New York Times.
Senator Stewart's Responsibility.
Senator Stewart has twice had an
opportunity to prevent any tariff leg
islation. In failing to do so he has,
for the moment, forgotten the best in
terests of a large section of the state
that sent him to congress. His taci
turnity was equivalent to a vote in
favor of a new tariff bill, because his
vote against it would have directly
killed the pending measure. The wool
growers of Nevada will not forget that
free wool could, by this time, have
been prohibited by the vote of Senator
Stewart. The nursing of a possible
pristine grievance will not compensate
them for the loss to come of millions
of dollars. If the senator from Nevada
has suffered a wrong at the hands of
republican senators it was because pro
tection was not accorded to one of the
products of his state, which now de
mands protection for another of its
RUNNING UP THE OLD FLAG ONCE MORE.
present year. . We have also endeav
overt to 'learn the amount of wages
paid to the employees In such estab
lishments during each of the two given
.periods, and further the output or
the produet of the manufacturing
concerns and the per cent of busi
ness done by the wholesale and retail
trade.
i Ileplies have been received from 30
different states and territories in the
United States. These replies have been
carefully compiled and arranged: first,
according to the states and territories
from which they were received. The
compilation was next condensed ac
cording to the sections of the country,
allowing the aggregate results of the
information for each section. We
then show the per cent of losses to
labor or wages, and the loss of output
in each section of the country, also the
average earniugs of labor through
out each section of the country.
Further comparisons are made with
the McKinley census of 1892 and our
industrial census of 1893 that were un
dertaken by the American Protective
Tariff league, and pubislied iu the
American Economist. The last com
pilation is a comparison of the present
conditions with those shown through
out the entire country, according to
the census of 1890, this following u
statement of the losses by industries.
The first table gives the number of
reports received from each state; the
total number of hands employed by
the parties making these reports dur
ing the six months ending .lunc 30.
1892, and 1S94, respectively; then we
thave the total amount of wages paid
S>y these parties to their employees dur
ing the two periods: and the last col
umn shows the proportion that their
business of this year bears to the busi
ness they transarted two years ago.
These figures are as follows:
idandi cm- W.igis pa'd.
ployed Jan. Jan. 1 to June
11> June S'.
Reports 1WS I8»l. 1891 ISM.
JLrkusn*. .1 3 8 *»■ 1188
in 1893 no merchants would handle
wool at Myrtle Point. There was no
rash there and all transactions were
for store trade. It is the same else
where through this part of the
country. The value of the sheep has
also depreciated from one third to one
half. The farmer who grows only 250
pounds of wool suffers in proportion
equally with the larger farmer who
raises 10,000 pounds. All the farm
products have fallen In value. Live
beef was worth 2!*' cents in 1892; it was
worth only 2 cents in 1893, and 1,%'
cents this year. The actual loss per
head on the 2-year-old steers that will
average 1.000 pounds gross is $7.50.
Still there are some democratic
farmers who will shut their eyes and
vote the democratic ticket in the face
of all these facts, but most old time
farmers see things straight and are
now amazed at their own former blind
ness.
How Industries Were Affected.
The next arrangement we have made
of the reports is to show the average
percentage of this year's output in
each industry, as compared with 1892,
which is as follows:
Output.
Per cent
of 1892.
Agricultural implements.. <. 44
Belting.1. w
Blankets. 75
Boots and shoes.78
Brass and manufactures. 80
Cash registers.m
Carpets. 71
Carriages and wagous.80
Cement..
P>g»rs. 74
Coal miners. 57
Contractor .60
Cotton manufactures.94
Cotton yarns.55
Cutlery.45
Dyeing and printing.50
Flourmills .qq
Furniture.WWW.58
61ot«*..........I"! 39
Hosiery. 79
Jute manufactures.100
Iron and steel...m
have been fighting and standing shoul
der to shoulder in order to afford pro
tection to the most gigantic monopoly
in the world, by taxing the wage earn
ers’breakfast table for the benefit of
the sugar trust? Turn the rascals out.
Farm Stuffs In Cuba.
Owing to the abrogation of the rec
iprocity treaty with Cuba the Spanish
government has reimposed duties upon
American products. This is one of the
direct results of democratic free trade
tariff legislation, which helps to shut
off a good market for American farm
products. The first column of the fol
lowing table shows what the duties
were under republican reciprocity, the
last column showing what the Cuban
duties on American farm products are
under the first step of democratic free
t rade:
Reciprocity duties,
per 100 kilos.
Flour.$1.00
Corn.35
Jerked beef.8.60
Chew’g tobacco ..10.60
Lard.Free.
Hams.Free.
Bacon.Free.
Balt beef.Free.
Fruits.Free.
Fresh and tinned
oysters, sal'on .Free.
Hay.Free.
Beuns.Free.
Potatoes.Free.
Codfish....-.Free.
Luiu'er (per M i .Free.
Present duties,
per 100 kilos.
$4.75
3.95
4.40
11.00
10.00
7.50
10.00
5.40
3.25
2.30
.90
825
1.8)
2.00
1.25
The ((loom of Labor Day,
The new tariff will cause a readjust
ment of priees in many departments of
trade, and usually as it tends to lower
them it will tend also to lower wages,
with she result that laborers will 1 e
dissatisfied and rebellious. Even if
they can buy the same amount of
goods with the less money, they will
be Mo better content. They are afraid
of the precedent of lowering the
scale of wages; but if American manu
facturers find that they can not com
pete with their foreign competitors
without such a teduction, of course
it will have to come, and the oper-1
products. The perpetration of two
wrong's will not render either of the
two right for Nevada, where protection
is essentiol to its prosperity.
With the Spirit of 17 7(5.
Referring to the effort made by the
American Protective tariff league to
encourage tlxe purchase of American
goods, the Wheeling, W. Va., Intelli
gencer, Sept. 1, said:
The pledge is in harmony with the.
spirit of 177(1, when the patriotic wo
men of the colonies lead an assault on
the importation of foreign wares, re
fused to buy them and extorted every
body to follow their example. George
Washington was proud to wear a suit
of home made clothes when he was in
augurated as president of the United
States.
And this day American labor produces
ah that is necessary to anybody's com
fort If every American will resolve
to buy no foreign merchandise the
sting will be taken out of the new
tariff measure ami the country will
have a healthy prosperity in spite of
democratic interference.
Uoir About Those Petitions*
No attention was paid by the demo
cratic congress to the thousands of pe
titions that were signed bv tens of
thousands of voters who appealed
against free trade. Ask the democrats
who seek re-election to congress in
your district why they now seek your
vote if they would pay no attention to
your petition.
The Bailey Family.
The Bailey family, to the number «
li-T’ i 'll' ;lescendants of James an,
Richard Bailey, of Rawley. Mass., hel
t hi ir second annual reunion recent!
;n Andover, Mass. There wera men
ers present from every New Englan,
date and some In the west. The Rev
, V ™lley of Bradford, Mass., wa
looted president of the association.
HE BOUGHT A BICYCLE.
Bat It Win Not Knotl]’ In the Condi'
tloa He Expected.
A young liuffulonian bought a bi'
cycle. It was a good bicycle, and h<
was proud of it. lie bought it on tht
instalment plan, and for a month he
was happy with it.
One night when he was riding on at
asphalted street he met a friend.
••Ho,” said the friend, “where’d yot
get the bike?”
••Bought it,” replied the wheelman,
tartly. “Did you think I stole it?”
••No, I don't know as I did. What’ll
you take for it ?”
The wheelman stopped and said;
••l)o you want to buy a wheel?”
••I might if I got one cheap enough.”
• •Well, what will you give for this
one?”
“Forty dollars.”
The wheelman got on his wheel and
rode away without saying a word. A
day or two later the friend came
around and made some more inquiries
about the wheel. The wheelman told
him confidentially that he was hard
up and was having difficulty in keep
ing up his payments and that he had
concluded to sell out for the $40.
••Nixie,” said the friend. “I have
changed my mind, too. I can’t afford
to give you more than $25 for that
wheel now.”
The wheelman laughed at this offer.
The friend came around every day for
a week after that and asked him if he
was ready to take $25, reminding him
that he would lose the wheel alto
gether if he wasn’t prompt with the
payments. One day the friend made
his usual proposition. “I’ll give you
$25 for that wheel,” he said. “You’d
better take it, too. It’s your last
chance.”
“Well,” replied the wheelman, “I
guess I will take it. Money's infer
nally close with me.”
The preliminaries were arranged
and the friend counted out the $25.
••Where’s the wheel?” he asked.
“Up at the house,”
“I’ll come up to-night and ride it
away.”
“All right.” Then, as the friend
was about to go out, the wheelman
said: “On second thoughts, I would
bring up a wheelbarrow for that bike
if I were you.”
“What's the matter?” gasped the
friend. “It isn't broken, is it?”
“A little,” and the wheelman smiled
sardonically. “You see, a tire engine
ran over it this morning.”
Tlie janitor of the building stopped
the fight.
BECOMING SCARCE.
Blonde Men and Women Will Vanish as
a Type In Tims.
Women with blue eyes and light
hair are gradually, though surely,
passing away as a type. In each suc
cessive generation there are fewer of
them than in the last. Already such
a thing as a rod blonde, purely such,
is so rarely seen in this country as to
excite remark. Golden tresses are so
very frequent that real ones are
usually suspected of being bleached.
In short, Spare Moments thinks it
has become evident that before very
long there will be no blonde women
any more. The same thing is true of
men. Among their sex light hair and
blue eyes are fast disappearing. We
may judge how rapidly they are going
when we consider the fact that when
ever a brunette man marries a blonde
woman, or vice versa, 66 per cent of
the children born have dark hair and
eyes. At that rate not very many
centuries will be required to wipe out
the blonde type altogether.
Some may wonder how this matter
has been determined with such ac
curacy. Simply by including such
statistical observations in the census
of nations in Germany and France,
where the very school children are
examined, and have their characters
recorded from an anthropological
standpoint. Observations made in
this way, so as to cover millions of
persons of both sexes, have resulted
in the discovery that the dark people
bring more children into the world
than the light people. Furthermore,
they havo greater vigor and they live
longer.
London Executions and Mobs.
A murderer was executed in New
gate prison, London, the other dai
privately, as the law directs. A
crowd gathered outside to see the
black flag hoisted, and behaved in an
brutal and disorderly a way as in the
old-time public hangings. A delay in
the execution nearly brought on a
riot, and when the flag finally went up
the mob cheered and yelled. It is
suggested that the custom be done
away with, as it serves no practical
Brilliant In Daylight.
A daylight meteor was seen recenth
near Ayrshire, Scotland. Its move
ment was very slow and it shown with
a brilliant intense light which was
concentrated in itself and did not leave
a train behind it. It got gradually
smaller and smaller, and just before
disappearing broke into three or four
pear-shaped portions. During its
course, although the massy head was
Sd intlantly white’the iSun
mI,'ine Kih ;!‘nmS°n and a,'ich ultra
maiine blue being most noticeable.
Human Nature.
She— George.
He—Yes.
.nfh®T,WhIis it ,hat m08t weddino-s
are sadder than funerals and most fu
nerals jollier than weddino-s?
u 0 "e11’ *n Me first case everyone
knows what misfortune has happened
second ?hey3dSPartie8’ and in ^
All a Mistake.
Her Lover—I assure you, Mr. Merer
t cannot live without your daughter ’
Her Father, reputed to be well off
?aV, y dear -vounS fellow, you oVe.
estimate my-income.-Aniiwers
John Boyle
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leg. Could not step. We have bee
giving him Hood’s Sarsaparilla a veu
and he can walk, run ana play as W
as any boy. He has no sores and is n:
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