It Will Effect The Workmen Not The Company

Lyman B. Coe, law '76, is the western agent {or the SLuger Sewing Machine Company wlth offices in Chicago. He was In the city last Friday on business and in talking about the t a riff said the Wil'som bill would not affect the Simger people, for besides their immense factoHes in New Jersey, thiey had ome in Glasgow, Scotland. They co'uld shut up the New Jersey ome and make all machines cheaper over there. Men who got $15 or $18 per week im the U. S. fiictory. they paid $7 and $8 per week iin Glasgow, so they would have to reduce the wages here ta that figure or shut up, with free trade, thereby throwing 2,000 mem out of work in one town. They sold machines cheaper there because theiT fo-reign agents got smaller commissions, they paid lower salaries to their officers, lower rente and expenses. The result of free trade here will bc the scaling down of all wages and salaries to Enropean levéis. Mr. Coe gave an interestimg description of how liis company got lts exhibition together for the Worid's Fair, paying out for it some $800,000.