Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1883 — THE LABORER NOT PROTECTED. [ARTICLE]

THE LABORER NOT PROTECTED.

The Philadelphia Record.says: The tariff is a business issue, not a polite ioal on°. Aro high taxes, levied upon the masses to maintain certain special industries, a benefit or a hard ship? Laboring employed in iron working establishments, woolen and cotton mills, furnaces and coal works are paid from 10 to 12$ cents an hour. These aro Drotroted industries. Ordinary laborers, ’longshoremen. morrer-men and hod-carriers are paid from 15 to 25 cents an hour, These are not protected industries yet those engaged in them are taxed on nearly all they eut and wear to

pvy the wages of the nrotocted laboi•rs. Another turn or two cf the ( .rc* teetion screw and the laborers will get nothing. One of these fine mornings the country will awaken to the faUlty of the doctrine that the labs *« •r is protected by the Imposition Of ilgh tariff taxes. A few days ago James Campbell, Hying near El wood, Madison county, ihis State, ate a small quantity (t wild parsnip, which he mistook for spikenard, and died in less than two hours, after suffering intense agony.