Show WAGES ARE inGI IEK the democrats are trying to make ciuch capital out of the told assertion that wages have not increased during what is known as republican prosperity now upon the country while the price of everything consumed by the workingman haa gone skyward but the figures on nages given out by commissioner 0 labor carroll D wright do not sustain them in their contention the statistics collected by the labor bureau show that wages in all departments of production are higher today on an average than ever before in the history of the country A summary of the figures for the last ten years or from 1891 to 1900 shows this in ft striking manner beginning with 1891 the middle of atlie harrison administration and taking as the basis of comparison the result is as follows 1891 1893 1893 1894 ISO 1897 1808 1 1000 I the figures for 1901 have not been compiled acut the reports chow that the increase in wages has been maintained the significant feature of this table is the fall in the wage scale immediately after the change of economic policies by the election of a democratic president on a platform denouncing republican protection aa a fraud a robbery of the great majority of tle american people foche benefit of the few the election 01 cleveland in 1892 was notice that the lair would be repealed and a revenue tariff substituted for it the result was felt at once in 1892 wages were higher than they had ever been before that dale and in 1893 there was a decrease of one per cent the decline in wages continued throughout the democratic in 1894 the average was or nearly two per cent below the average wage of 1891 in 1895 this average was and in 1893 it was the election of mckiniry as president with the promise of restoring the protective policy garc the first impetus to rages as it did to business and in 1897 th average wage was as compared with 1691 more than one per cent higher jan in 1898 when the average w in 1898 the average was but there were more men employed in 1899 there was an increase of nearly three per cent in the average wage p iid raising it from to again in 1900 there was another increase of nearly two per cent and average was compared with the unit of 1891 the above figures give but poor idea of the which have accrued to lifbor under republican control of national af fairi while the wages of the employed have advanced the mighty army of the unemployed without rating during the cleveland administrations has been added to tho ranks of the laboring multitude swelling the total of earnings of the workingmen of the united bbate to a grand sum far in ex of the combined earning power of the laboring gaea of the country at any time in the past the sum total of wage earning is the true tea of a count rys prosperity and that aggregate Is now double what it wag during democracy rule of the land |