Corroborative Evidence

The awful pain that has been gnawmg at the democratie party's vitáis sinee the publication of the report by Commissioner Peck, of New York, showing the value of the McKinley law, will uot be alleviated to any ex tent by the report on manufactures and wages trom the office of the State Bureau of ötatistics in Massachusetts'. Briefly stated the foHowing facts have been ascertaiued in Massachusetts: Tlie increase of capital devoted to production in 1891 as compared with ÏS'JO is 2.34 per cent. ïhe inerease in the value ói stock used amounted, on an average, to 2.77 per cent. The increase in the value of goods made amounted to 1.33 per cent. ïhe principal increase of manufactured products was noted in careptings, paper and paper goods, metáis aud metallic goods, woolen goods and in worsted goods. The decrease was confined almost exclusively to boots and shoes and leather. The aggregate number of persons employed in the establishment making report in 1891 was 292,866, a gain of 4,966 as compared with 1890. The total amount paid in wages in the establishments represented showed an increase of 2.65 per cent. The average yearly earaings per individual, without regard to sex or age, euiployed in the manufactures reporting were $437 in 1890 and $441.90 in 1891, an increase of 9.1 per cent. The rate in which the statements are accumulating sbowing the increased prosperity of the country since the passage of the McKinley law causes grave apprehension for the longevity of the democratie party. We are not altogether sure, hut it will nced a dose of the Xew York Sun's famous cholera mixture to save its exi.stence between now and November. llurrah for Protection ! Hurrah for Reciprocity !