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Here You Are, Mr. Mcmillin

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Day
25
Month
May
Year
1892
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Public Domain
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In the debate on the tariff in the house of representativos recently, Mr. McMIllin ehallenged Mr. Payne "to give the name of a single individual in the woolen industry whose wages have been increased sinen the passage Of the MoKinley MM." The files of The Press will show that AlfreÏÏ Dolge, o! Dolgeville, X. 1., vrho employs betweeo C00 and 'TOO hands, raised the wages of hls employés 12 per cent. and reduced the Rours of labor from ten to nine and one-half in January, 1891, and explieitly stated that he did so "because of the McKieley bill." In January of this year Mr. Dolge agahi raised wages anothcr ten per cent. and again explicitly stated that tt was "because of the McKinley bill." Mr. Dolge is not getting to-day one eesnt more lor Iris felt or his felt shocs tlian he did before the passage of the McKinley bilí. But bec.ause of the "protection" now afforded him he is making thou(a,ndg of pounds more felt than he did before, consequently can manufacture at less cost per pound, and consequent ly can raise t'lve wages of his men while reducing their hours of labor.- N. Y. Press. Tlie high water this .prins is nothing to tiie flood that wlll overwhelm the democratie party next November. The Adrián Press asks a süly question about the tariff and then calis on some Jackaes to answer it. TVhlch wwild be very appropriate. Tt is possibte that the people may decide that the quarrels of politicians ■vill huve little to do with the coming contest, but it will be a battle of principies, not men. Thou.ch parties should put up their very best men to represent those principies. Had it not boen for the protective tarifï of fiv.' cents a yard placed upen calleo, would the people of the XJnited States not still be paylnK One shilling and six penco a yard to English maaufacturers, instead of Umvi.' Bive cents a yard as they do to-day ? Had it nut been tor the protectie tariïf placed upon ttread, what condlition would the thread imlustry of tlio T'nited States be in to-day? Would AiiH'rii-ans not stiii be paying ten cents a spool for this household necessity, tnste&d of tour or five cents as at present ? At the presideatlal eleetion 100 years ago, 135 votes wcre cast. Virginia led in the number oí electora, hoving 21. and Massachusetts followed with IC, while I'ennsylvania had 11'. New York and North Carolina liad Tl' eai-h and Mapyland 10. The number of electora this year is 442. Had it not been for the protectivo tariíf placed upon steel rails, what wouid be the eondition of the immense Beslmer steel industries in this country to-day ? And in the eame coniH-ctioii the development of the immense iron mines of the United States ? Each of whlch employ thousands of men. If the civil service reform commission i so anxious to have something to do, or somebody to ffnd fault wiith, how would it du for Mr. Rosevelt to prefer charges aiiahist its own chairman, tlie Hon. Wm. E. Morrison, for hits "pernlclous activily" in puiling the politica! st rings for G. Cleveland '.' Ibis warning to the craít U given by tlie Fowlerville Observer with a request l'or exchanges to cojy: 'The printing fratemity will do well to look for a man who Kigiis "Krank Barawell, 105 East 122 street, New York City.' He i.s seüing to tlie íraternity a color printing reeeipt which is worthless and lie also gets orders on íuisropresentation." The poütical weather-cock on tho democratie barn has pouited to Cleveland for several days noir. It is posib!u that the wind may shiít before the Chicago convention assemblee, but ít eertainly looká as if Mr. Cleveland ■vould ui-ely bt: nominated again by hls 'party. lüVit not singular that i man shouid O&urt defeat as persistently as this man dors V lï Grover Cleveland is renominated at Chkago, will he have his first runImg mate on the ticket with him ? Tiros. A. Hendrk-ks was a good man to represent the simón pure democracy. To be gure he iy dead, but he lias not been dead so very long, and that trilling event will make but littlc difference to a party wliich is still vut ing for Andrew Jaekson. The theory of Henry üeorge is not to tax aiiythiing but land, and to leí all personal property oí all kinds go clear oí the burdens oí taxation. Ín that case wouid not all the land bo sold to poor men and mortgages be taken back on the property ? Then again would not bis idea "lí you have mot any land oi your own, help yourselí to some," be interïered with a little? Wno would desire to owu land under such conditions '.' In gpite of the tarifï of $2 per keg up on wire nails, they are selling In Plttsburg, Pa., at only $1.05 per keg. Wliat beeoines of the theory then, thac the price oí au article, whether imported or not, is the tost oï the manuiaiture plus the tarlff ? Pacts dispi-ove this theory. These same nails we re rctailed in this town at luss than $3, whM the tarifï was $i. If this tlieory wer.e true these would not be Küld tor less than the tarifi'; but they are soid lor less than the tarifï; thereïore the theory caanot be true. - So. Lyoó l'icket. It is the dut y oï every American to vote; to exerciee Uis influence in the formation of parties, in the selectioji of uandidates, in the preservatkni of the purity and honor of electkms and every eitizen failing to do thiis is recreant to duty. Therefore, I liail as a good sign everything which indícate the coming into politics oï all the better class oí people. It is gratifyimg to see in the great universities of Michigan and Harvard and in other great schools oï the land, the young men who are republicana coming into the fight to use their influence for the best kind of politics and the best kind of government.- J. S. Clarkson. The democratie claim that the w-ool market will be lower this spring than usual may be a true claim, and it may be a false one. You can not always teil about such things in advance. But admit wool free to thie country, taking olf the tariff entirely, ajid see where the price would go to! The experience of 1883, when the democrats reduced the tariff to a "reform" basis (or there abouts) and because of such lestislation the sheep industry dwindled hundreds of thousaads of heads in the northern States, was sufficient to convince the aver age man, the average farmer at least. The only salvation for thls great brainch of American industry 18 iu the republican doctrine of American for Americans, and protection to all interests of American citizens.

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