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Of French Shriner and Urner,
And Bostonians Oxfords
Are Now Ready
Lord & Taylors Silk Hose
“NOT-A-SEME”
SILK LISLE HOSE. HOSIERY FOR MEN,
WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
25 WHITEHALL ST.
GOOD SHDES-fob EVERYBODY
FRED S. STEWART CO.
WOOD AND WOOL.
Protectionists say they impose a
high tariff in order that American
manufacturers may pay high wage3.
They impose it, in order that the
manufacturers here may be able to
pay the difference between wages in
the United States and other countries.
The census of manufacturers taken
in 1905 shows the value of lumber and
timber products for that year to have
been $580,022,690, and the concerns
manufacturing such products paid out
in wages $183,021,519 to 404,626 work
men, an average of $452.32 a year, or
$8.70 per week. Labor, as will be seen
by comparing the total paid for wages
with the total value of the product,
received 32 per cent, of the value of
the product.
The value of planing mill products,
including sash, doors and blinds, was
$247,441,956, while concerns manufac
turing these products paid to labor
$50,713,607 to 97,674 workmen—an
average of $519.21 a year, or $10 per
week. Labor received 20% per cent,
of the value of the product.
Combining the two, we have a pro
duct valued at $827,464,646, with
$233,735,136—28 per cent, of the pro
duct—paid in wages to 502,300 work
men, an average of $465.33 a year, or
$8.95 a week. This industry is pro
tected by duties averaging 14 per
cent., which the representatives of
wool producing and wool manufactur
ing States think is outrageously high.
Now take two forms of the woolen
industry. The value of woolen goods
manufactured in 1905 was $142,196,658,
and the industry paid in wages $28,-
827,556—20 per cent, of the value of
the product—to 72,747 workmen—an
average of $396.03 a year, or $7.62 a
week. The value of worsted goods
was $165,745,052, and the amount paid
labor for making them was $26,269,-
787, or 16 per cent. This was paid
to 69,251 workmen—an verage of
W. V. HAMILTON,
Paid Chairman General Griev
ance Committee, Southern
Railway, for the B. of R. T.,
Who is Attending Meeting
Southern Association of
Chairmen, Which Met in
Atlanta Last Week.
| $379.34 a year, or $7.30 a week. Com
bining these two industries, we have
$307,941,710 as the value of the pro
duct, $55,097,343, or 18 per cent, paid
in wages to 141,998 wage workers—
an average of $388 a year, or $7.46 a
week. This industry is protected by
duties averaging 90 per cent., and the
Republicans, thinking these duties
about right do not propose to disturb
them. To throw the comparison in
tabular form, the showing is as fol
lows for the two forms of industry:
Wood.
Value of product $827,464,646
Paid in wages 233,735,126
Per cent, of wages to pro
duct 28
Wage workers 502,300
Average annual earnings.$ 465.33
Average weekly earnings. 8.95
Per cent, average protec
tion 14
Wool.
Value of product $307,941,710
Paid in wages 56,097,343
Per cent, of wages to pro
duct 18
Wage workers 141,998
Average annual earnings.$ 388.00
Average weekly earnings. 7.46
Per cent, average protec
tion 90
• Isn’t it strange if the tariff is im
posed in the interest of labor, that
wooden manufacturers protected by a
duty of 14 per cent, are able to give
their labor 28 per cent, of the value
of the product and $8.95 a week, while
woolen manufacturers, protected by a
duty of 90 per cent., give their labor
only 18 per cent, of the product and
only $7.46 per week? And isn’t it
3trange that so many of the statesmen
proposed to abolish that 14 per cent,
on wooden manufactures, while leav
ing the 90 per cent, tariff on woolen
manufactures to add to the cost of
clothing of every man, woman and
child in the United States?
COULDN’T HELP IT.
Gov. Yates attended an inauguration
in Washington with his staff. They
packed their uniforms, but concluded to
ship no horses, relying on the stables
of the capital.
While waiting to get in line an or
derly would dash up to the Governor at
intervals with a message and was in
variably accompanied by Louis Halle.
After a while Yates said to Halle:
“Colonel, it isn’t necessary for you
to accompany the orderly on his er
rands. ’ ’
‘ ‘ I know it, Governor, ’ ’ returned
Halle, “but this horse is the other half
of the team.”
DEFEAT.
(From the Chicago Record-Herald.)
“Now, Johnny,” said the teacher, af
ter she had explained the meaning of
the word, “I wish you would write a
sentence containing defeat.”
After a struggle which lasted for about
twenty minutes, Johnny announced that
he was ready to be heard.
“Please read your composition,” the
teacher directed.
“When you git shoes dat’s too tite,”
Johnny read, “it’s hard on de feet.”
TOM’S REFORM.
Upton Sinclair, at a vegetarian ban
quet at Battle Creek, said of a social re
form he disliked.
“That social reform is as foolish and
ridiculous as the reform attempted by
Tom Haines.
“Tom Haines was playing checkers in
the general store with a man who kept
looking at the clock.
“What do you keep looking at the
clock for?’ said Tom.
“ ‘Because,’ said the man, ‘I see by
the Sunday paper that every time that
clock ticks old John D. is $10 richer.’
“Tom Haines rose hastily.
“ ‘What are you going to do?’ said
the man.
“ ‘Stop the clock,’ said Tom.”
COLLEGE WORK.
(From the Kansas City Journal.)
“What are you doing in college this
month, son?”
“We’re very busy, dad, trying to
dope out who belongs on the all-Amer
ican football team for 1911.”
BEFORE AND AFTER.
(From the Philadelphia Record.)
Tommy: “Pop, what is the difference
between an epithet and an epitaph?”
Tommy’s Pop: “One is applied to
a man before he is dead and the other
afterwards. ’ ’
THE LOST PULL.
(From London Sketch.)
Mrs. Alleyway: “Your ’usband do
wear ’s ’air terrible short.”
Mrs. Slumdwell: “Yes—the coward 1”
MODERN GOSSIP.
(From the Detroit Free Press.)
“You remember the Greens?”
“Well. How are they getting on?”
“They’re divorced.”
“You don’t say?”
“Yep. Remember the little milliner
on Main street?”
“You bet.”
“She’s Mrs. Green now.”
“Well, well.”
‘ ‘ Remember Smithers, the hotel
dork?”
‘ ‘ Distinctly. ’ ’
“He married Mrs. Green last week.”
“Well, well; what a difference a few
weeks make! ’ ’
WHOM THEY WERE FOR.
The telephone to some persons is still
an unSolvable riddle. A Teuton called
up a feed store:
‘ ‘ I vant two bags oats, ’ ’ ho de
manded.
“All right. Who is it?”
“Id’s me,” was the indignant re
ply.
“Well, who are the oats for?”
‘ ‘ For der horse; don’d you get so
fr-resh, ” replied the wrathful would-be
customer.
NO WONDER.
(From the Meggcndorfer Blactter.)
“What’s your husband so angry
about?”
“He’s been out of work six weeks.”
‘*‘1 should think that would suit him
first-rate.”
“That’s itl He’s just got a job.”