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i ONLY —THE—• PAPER FIRST PAPER » IN THE IN COUNTY. TILLAMOOK Uni i I . I I • I I I I i I i i i i i i I i i I I I I Vol. V, Nò. 14. T11E PRICE OF WHEAT IT IS DETERMINED BY THE AMOUNT PRODUCED IN THE WORLD. ¿ i» M S4Mh«i ft ¡ if I —THE----- TILLAMOOK. OREGON. THURSDAY SPRINGER AND THE LABORER. What nN Free Wool Hill Would Mean to the American Workingman. WAGES ARE RISING THE CONTENTION THAT THEY HAVE It docs not require much effort to see FALLEN IS DISHONEST. the ruinous effect which the enactment The American Product an Important of Mr. Springer’s bill, abolishing the Individual Fa»ea of Advance or Dc-elluo Factor in Fixing the Price—W ithdraw duty on wool and greatly reducing the Provo Nothing— Accurate llesulta Only Vart of the Land from Wheat Growing duties on its manufactures, must liave Possible by Thorough Investigation, on American wool growing. The im and the Price Will Rise. Which lias Shown Higher Wages. portation of $72,000,000 in wool manu The world’s price of wheat, which is factures in addition to the $13,000,000 It has been asserted and reiterated the Liverpool price, is determined first |vf nil by the amount of wheat produced last year sent to this country (for Mr. ever and over again that wages have in tho world. The amount of wheat left Springer says that the decrease in the fallen since the McKinley tariff was en ¡over after the home demands of all revenue will be made up by an increase acted. It is the one single survivor cf Wheat growing countries have been sup in importations, and on the basis of last the multitude of falsehoods sent abroad plied determines the amount that can be year's imports this increase will be at during the campaign of lying in 1890. bont to Liverpool. If this amount is least $72,000,000), $115,000,000 in all, It survives, not that it was more fit than large the price will be low; if small, the would simply be the importation of the others—"McKinley prices," for ex price will be high. Thus is tho Liver 315,000,000 pounds of wool, though in a pool price really fixed by the wheat manufactured form, to take the place ample—but from the difficulty of secur trowers themselves, instead of that mar of so much American wool in our mark ing labor statistics complete enough to ets. This qnantity, increased by even I obliterate it. “McKinley prices" were ket’s fixing the price for them. This is not to say that American farm the amount of raw wool now annually disproved by simply comparing the mar ers of themselves fix the Liverpool price, imported, 119,(MX),000 [>ounds—it would ket reports as published before and after rhey do not, because it Is a foreign mar doubtless be more under Mr. Springer’s the new law took effect. But there are ket. They must meet there the Russian, free wool measure—would give a total no regnlar reports published on rates of khe Hindoo, tho Australian, the Argen of 464,000,000 pounds of wool that would wages. Tens of thousands of changes tine, the British American, and the price come in. Deducting this quantity from are annually niudo in this country, some ■ adjusted by the competition of all bid- our total consumption of wool, 600,000,- involving increased, others decreased ling against one another. Even though 000 pounds, wo find that there would Ihe American crop is short, that of Rus remain a market for only 136,000,000 wages or hours of labor. They have oc ka or India may lie large, and the plenti- pounds of the 303,000,000 pounds annu curred, do occur and will occur inde kil supply from this source may depress ally produced in this country. These pendently of any tariff in response to the Lives. But siuce this country is by far are the results which Mr. Springer him varying conditions of industry. If or no largest seller of wheat in Liverpool. self admits will follow from his wool ders for goods come flowing in, the labor woolens bill. I follows that our farmers play the and But tho farmer will not be the only in the industry which makes the goods ■ost important part in fixing tho Liver will be fully employed and wage reduc sol price, as well as the price in their one injured. The additional $72,000,000 tions will be impossible. But if short in manufactured wool which Mr. Line market. According to figures crops curtail the purchasing power of ■oui the department of agriculture the Springer says would be imported nnder Seduction and prices of wheat for the lower duties which he proposes consumers or tlio demand becomes inad would of course supplant an equivalent equate to the supply because of over Lven years were as follows: quantity of American goods and compel production or a change in fashion even, ■ODCCTION ANI> rilICK or AM KU, CAN WHUT American wool manufacturing estab or for any other cause, labor in the in roil KI.KVEN VKAlia Total Average value lishments to reduce their output by that dustries concerned will bo injuriously provi uct ion. per bushel. amount. Now, $72,000,000 worth of Bushels. Cents. affected, and if tho unfavorable condi foreign goods at the undervalued prices BO 4ÍM.5-ML8G8 V5 1 at which they are imported would be tions continue wages will fall. The law Ul.................................. 88W0.OUÜ 119.2 L‘.................................. 604.185,470 88.2 equivalent to at least $100,000,000 worth of supply and demand will continue to h ................................. 421,UH»,100 91.1 of domestic goods at American whole operate inside, and so far independently L . .......... 512.7( m .0ÛÛ tri 5 L ...........’ ................. &r»7,ll..*,<«0 sale prices. of any tariff law that can be framed. 77.1 k) ................................ 457.21\O00 CS.7 American woolen and worsted mills Thousands of changes in wage rates, r .............................. iôOXUUOO 88.1 must therefore make $100,000,000 less in both up and down, were niado in tho b................................ II goods than they make now. That means most prosperous years this country ever it) ........................ «MÙÌXMMJO 09.8 ÌD ................................. 3ÜJ,2íi2,tMO that the 60,000 mill hands which it takes knew; they are made now under the 85.8 P'lii.s table establishes beyond a doubt to make $100,000,000 in finished products McKinley tariff, and will bo made un kt the price of the wheat of our farm- must lose their places and $16,000,000 in less Edward Bellamy or Henry George ■ depends most of all upon themselves wages. Foreigners would do the work succeeds in revolutionizing tho existing khat is, the amount they raise. It will and receive tlie pay. industrial system. Bnt $10.000,000 is only an insignificant [observed how unerringly the price As a rule, changes in rates of wages klized responds to tlie amount of prod- item in the great total loss which labor do not get into the public press beyond k. Thus the yield of 498.000,000 busli- would suffer from Mr. Springer’s $72,- tho local papers. A reduction in wages, | in 1880 brought 95 cents a bushel. 000,000 addition to our present imports being more unusual in this country than |t the next year, with the smaller yield of wool manufactures. It takes account an advance, is more likely to lie chron I 383,000,000 bushels, the price was only of the wages paid for direct labor icled. Ever since the McKinley law 119 Tho succeeding year tho yield in manufacturing, about one-fifth of passed, the Free-trade papers all over tho country have watched like vultures nit up again to 504,000,090 bushels, the whole amount of labor involved. Take a piece of woolen cloth, trace it for instances of wagos reduction and B, sure enough, we find tho pricedown back to its original elements before they gloated over those misfortunes of the Lin to 88 cents. So on through the were touched by tho hand of man, com working people like birds of prey. The jole table. It will be noticed, however, that thero mencing with tlie labor of shipping, New York Times in particular Inis been ■ general tendency during the first ten handling and placing on the shelf of tho on tlie alert to record and exult over Irs of the period toward lower prices. jobbing house the finished piece of cloth, every reduction of wages in order to as Is was duo entirely to foreign coinjie- following it through all the processes in cribe it to tho McKinley law. ¡leading Ln During these years Russia and the factory, not forgetting the labor of its editorials on this subject one would Lr wheat countries were rapidly in- the engineers, firemen, watchmen, got the impression that a 5 or 10 per Lsmg their production and sending clerks and overseers employed about tlie »cent, decrease in wages was an unknown Le and more wheat to tho Liverpool establishment, nor the labor involved in occurrence before tho McKinley act ffket, and so narrowing tho demand producing the coal, wood, oil. belts and passed. Wo liavo before pointed out its ■ depressing the price of our wheat. the score or more of other classes of shallow dishonesty in this res|>ect. It ■880 we sold Liverpool 65 per cent, of miscellaneons supplies comiumod in the collects ten or a dozen or a score of Khe wheat marketed there, la 1890 factory: then following tho raw wool as cases of reduced wages and proclaims Kold only 88 per cent. This v.-as what it is handled and transported from farm that wages generally are falling. It Kessed American wheat prices in re- to factory, including the farmer's labor heeds not tho thousands of cases of in K years. Not till our fanners are re- of tending and shearing the flocks, rais creased pay which have occurred under K:d of the necessity of sending any of ing hay and grain croj>s to feed them, tlie new law. Only after a painstaking canvass of ■r wheat to Liverpool will they be not omitting even the salt they cat and K <>f fair prices from year to year, the labor of producing it—if all of these all the industries of tho country and of ■u we eat substantially all our owu and all other elements of labor are tho wage changes occurring in them Kst—and we will in a very few years, counted, fully 80 per cent, of the whole can any one form an intelligent opinion Kpt when, as this year, the yield may sale selling price of the goods, which as to whether tho general course of Knomially large—then, and not till we have placed at $100,000,000, repre wages is np or down-. But your zealous K, will wheat growers enjoy endur- sents labor cost of production. In other Free trade “reformer” does not care for ■prospenty. There is just one road words, Mr. Springer would take $80,- that. Ho is bent on making out a case Kis condition, and that is by coutin- 000,000 from American labor in order against Protection, and in his desper ■ Protection-Protection which will that the worsted and woolen mills ation ut tho lack of favoring evidence Mole competing foreign farm prod- and working people of Bradford and does not hesitate to manufacture it. In this connection it may not bo amiss B, such as barley, hemp, hops. flax. Huddersfield and English and Australian to call attention to tho fact that the an H. tobacco and fruits, so that land to wool growers might prosper. To realize what this means to Ameri nual report of the bureau of statistics of Bice them st home may be witb- B11 from wheat glowing, thus diniin- can industry generally one has only to labor of New York state for 1891 chron Mg the supply of grain: and which imagine v. hat the condition would be in icles 1,911 cases of increased wages, Kmild np factories and multiply con- any factory town if all the factories 2,085 cases of decrease in tho hours of Mrs of bre.ulstuffs by promoting the should shut down. Every tradesman, labor—virtually increase of wages, also Mifactnreuf home, to the extent of professional man, clerk, car driver, bar —and only 441 cases of reduced wages. ■wn consumption nt least, of tex- ber, cook and chambermaid in the Ye« all that year the New York Times was fondly proclaiming that wages were ■ tin platen ]>carl buttons, cutlery, place would suffer. Tho town lives ■ry and everything else we use. If on the wages received by the work generally falling. No less instructive is the record of tho Made all we consume of these things ing people which are spent for Mind produced sugar beets r.uflici nt household necessaries and general state bureau of labor statistics of Illi nois, which ha» issued a report on coal ^bply our cnnsniiiplimi < f sn tar. v.e supplies, and are passed from hand statistics for that state. Not only has ■d not have to i xjM>rt a bu hel <:! to hand, imparting life and nourish more coal been mined in tho first year Mt. it will not lie long undor lais ment to all branches of industry. Tho of the new tariff and more men been ^■nley tarifl till we actually du m>t withdrawal of an annual disbursement employed than ever before, but wages Mt a bushel. Then our farmer can of $80,000.000 from the channels of havo averaged higher while coal has ^Lr independently of the Russian trade would be like drawing a corre cheaper. ^Kan snap Lis Huger at the Hindoo sponding proportion of life blood from a been With a singfo exception, and that tho M at the heel of the hunt, m n-e than healthy body. The results in both cases most nnimpertant, wnges were higher ^■to fore, farmers are interested in would be similar. Activity would give in 1891 tlir.n in any of tho ''iree other place to inaction, strength to weakness, ^Raining a Plot active tariff. health to langnishing sickness. That is years considered. These are the results what Mr. Springer s measure means to arrived at by scientific investigation. Short TtarlfT Sermon*. Similar results would appear in every lie the primary object of a pr.itcc- labor and its dependent interests. state from similar investigations. Wages »riff is no, to lower the cost of aro going tip under the new tariff. llenefita of th. McKinley Law. 'actured goods, yet str'istics show President Harrison has been presented »eh is tlie invariable result. Low w»,iea In Bolicinla. price of a line of goods npou with a handsome American silk seal According to the report of Consul a protective duty is folded may at plush overcoat by the Hind & Harrison • slightly advanced, bnt compoti- Plush company, of Clark s Mills, and nawea, tlie average weekly wages of >on brings it down lower than bc- the firm has received the president's ac 100,000 working people in 1,131 establish knowledgments. The plush was manu ments in the consular district of Reich- the other baud. Protection gives to factured at Clark's Mills, and the coat enberg, Bohemia, are 6.13 florins ($2.u7) Finer good prices for his pn si nets. was made by R. G. Hoericin, the Fay for adnlt males and 3.72 florins ($1.50) for I manufacturer who realizes a fair ette street custom tailor. The goods are adult females. Judging from the depos [on his goods, the laborer who gets far superior to that manufactured in its in savings banks and the capital of pages that lio can live well and England, and through the benefits of building and loan associations in the kiore than he could earn abroad, the McKinley bill they can be manufac United States, it is not too much to say »rchant. the r fork, the professional tured in this country as cheap. About that the nverago American working fin short, every one—is willing to four yards of plush were used in making man, after paying for everything be has ■ch prices for his needs as will in- the coat. The coat u very' light, but ex need (and he lives letter than the work » his fellow man a good return for ceedingly warm, and it makes a neat ingman of any other counrty in the appearing garment The factory at world), his as much money left at the end •or. Clark's Mills is the only one in the state of the week as a woman earns in Bohe »«a may be u„, «heap. re u a reason tble level, and when where tlie plush is made, and it is run mia, and almost a» mu< h as is earned ■ reached prKes can go no lower ning full time and employing a largo there by a full grown man. This fart apeak* more eioqnently in favor of our ■ nation or ib> people be prosperunk. force of men.—Utica Herald. protective policy tlisn any theoretical in the United states of the nec- argument we ojnld adduce. Th« Woolen Indaatry Proflpera. f> of life are about the same as in fade England, while we have Thera has been an increase of 5,000 in Only a nampla f are. be much with which to buy them, the number of bands employed and the in 1852. under a tow pottery duty, an bnt prices of matiufactures are capital invested has doubled in the woo, khan in perials of low tariffs: in manufacturing industry from 1880to saHorti-l jKckage of ordinary white ware per than ever before In our hia- PS9I). These are the official figure*, n e c<srt ninety-five dollar’ on tlie dixrk. po go much lower would mean thought that our wool inunnfactunng Today, P the manufacturer, idlenetai to industry was dying ont^ha^^^J| Elianic and less consnmption for : $>.50 Per Year PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Tillaïqoolç Lumbering Company KI " Í L. H iner , Pres, and Manar - Win. Ebernian. \ ice PresitL. Wm. 1). Stillwell. Treasurer, L. Crenshaw. Secretary, Wm. Barker, Superintendent PI V. VJoHNSON, M. D. Office on next door to Temperane* Êarioffl TilhftRtfok, - Oregon. E E SELPM, ------- MANI FACTfRKRS OF ANU HEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF ----- ♦ attohney - ä T-L ä W. —j 'S TILLAMOOK, - ... ORKGofi. J T. MAULSBY, Rough and Dressed Lumber Merchantable AttOrn ey-ftt- Law. Notary Public and Real Estate Conveyancer * w. S everance , D eputy -D istrict -A ttokn hv , Moulding of Every Description, Brackets, Etc. Flooring and Rustic a Specialty. 3rd Judicial District Jor Tillamook County TILLAMOOK, - OHROON. ßLAUDE THAYER, ALL Attorney-at-LavV. ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY TH.LAihook, riftpfioN. MISCEkLANKOWe, (< & E. THAYER, TILLAIÆOOK, HANKERS. General Brtnkftiff anil Rrcliange fcusfntflt.- Interest prffd on tfnre deposit». • ? [OF Hxchdnge ow ftnfftaud, ffdgfaffi, Oermttn^ Sweden atfd all fdrelgtt cdluitrtefl. TILLAMOOK, - - . URfctfoih S an F rancisco .) .-r ------ DEALERS IN----- * J. F. 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