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Show statistics. If he will examine carefully care-fully he will find that the death rate of Washington, D. C, of which he is a part of the governing power, ia 19.06 persous per thousand, or two persons per thousand greater than Lawrence, Massachusetts. Washington has no protected iudustnes on which its high death rate can be blamed, as her sole occupation is listening to speeches made by Democratic Congressmen largely for that purpose. The fact is that wageB at Lawrence are not as high as we would like to 8ee them, the average for men, women wom-en and children being f 8.7,(3 per week of fifty-four hours. However, here we have a Congressman who proposes to increase wages by removing the tariff and bringing in sufficient textile Roods to entirely close these mills. Liw as wages are at Lawrence, they a'e 75 per cent higher than in aDy foreign country, and they could nut be maintained even at their present level in the absence of a protective tariff. Regardless of what their wages may be, thesB workers at Lawrence sent to their foreign homeB last year, through the Post Office at that city, money orders amounting to $128,3-10. How much more may have beeu sent by registered letter, bank draft or other means is not known. In addition addi-tion to this export of money these workers withdrew from the savings banks at Lawrence during the eight weeks of the strike $746,242. Such figures do not substantiate the tales of distress that Democratic Congiess-meu.bave Congiess-meu.bave spread broadcast in order to discredit the tariEJ.--The National Wcol Grower. THE STRIKE AT LAWRENCE. A great deal of information has been published about the strike of textile workers at Lawrence, Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, last winter, and its connection connec-tion with the protective tariff. The "Free Traders" have never tired of usiug this Btrike as an argument a-gaiust a-gaiust the tariff, because the entire population of Lawrence is engaged in textile mills, wnose produc'a is on the protected list. i A rabid "Free Trader" from New Jersey made a speech in the United States House of Representatives in an effort to show that the protective tariff increases the death rate. It appears ap-pears that the death rate of Lawrence ia 17.06 persona per thousand, while in Salt Lake City, Utah, it is but twelve persons per thousand, the difference dif-ference it was argued was due to the taiill. We believe that the Congressman Congress-man will have to examine further to fiud the cause of the low death rate iu Salt Lake Ciry, for the iudustrins of that city are entirely protected by thetariff. It is probable that Uh low death rale is just as much iniliienced by tho absence of Free Trade Statesmen States-men as by the protective tarilf. However, this Oo.reN'itn.in Iiiih not given- vsi y close riieulion vital ', I |