A Fearless Democrat

That f ea-rless Democrat, Hon. Charles F. Peck, appointed commissioner of labor in New York by Mr. Cleveland when the latter was governor, officially reports that the net increase in wages in New York state alone under the first year of the McKinley law was $6,377,925, and that the net increase in the producís of labor in the state were $31,315,130. "My report shows that there were just 285,000 men in the state whose salaries were mised as a result of this fcariff law," says Coinmissioner Peck. This is cheering news for free traders; t comes from good Democratie authorïty too.