Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1883 — ANOTHER OPEN LETTER-NO 13. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER OPEN LETTER-NO 13.

The militia teere ordered out to put d,wn the labor strikes at Ely. Vef moot, the other day. The house of the |K eat detective Allen Pinkerton, has been burglarized five times in the last three years. Dorsey, the Republican savior of Indiana, was ssre aded by a colored B--pul Ittan Club, at Washington, immediately alter bis scquinal

Fowler, Benton’County, has been selected as the place for holding the Soldier’s Reunion for the district composed of Benton, Newton, White, per and Pulaski Counties, and Sep tember 19. 20 and 21. the dateBenton Review: M. H. Walker returned home Monday night looking and feeling mneh better for his trip. We are glad to heyr of his improve* mentand hope, it will'continue until he has regained his former good health. “A tariff for revenue” is not “free trade.” A demand for revenue reform is not “free irade.” Opposition to extreme protection of the Pennsylvania type is not “frac trade.” Opposition to a prohibitive tariff is not ‘free trade. Opposition to monopolies is not “free trade,*—Ne v York Woild. The Benton Review says of the Benton County Normal: “One feature about the Normal will be the training class composed of primary scholars under the supervision of Miss Dwigglns. These little ones will be charg e<t a nominal fee. 5... y about 25 cents per week, and parents may rest assured that the time they spend there will not be wasted.” Judge Bradley, of the Supreiw Court has decided that the crucifixion of Onrist took place April 7, A. D. 80. Is this aliunde? The Identical individual who, on the Electoral Commission admitted Mr. Tilden had the votes—popular and electoral—the law and the argument on his side, but all the same he made No 8 in favor of fraud Hayes.

The appointment of Stanley Matthews on the Supreme Court bench is to be investigated by the next Congress. It has been claimed that the appointment of Matthews was in consideration of the subscription of SIOO,. 000 by Jay Gould to the Republican campaign fund of 1880. Jay wanted a Judge of the Supreme Ceurt of the United States, opposed to the Thurman railroad law, and it is said he got it; . Valparaiso Messenger: Some of our merchant# complain that times are getting "harder and business duller with them every day. Why? Simply because most of your trade goes to Chicago, and, you gsntlemea are to blame for it Look at the mammoth bargain advertisements in the|Chicago dailies! They circulate largely in every railroad town in Porter county, and our county is honeycombed with roads. What are you doing to counteract it? Absolutely nothing. Your county papers tell the tale of ycur own shortsightedness in this matter. You olaim to be so well known in Porter county that you don’t need to throw away any money for advertising in your county papers. The Chicago merchants think differently—hence they are gathering in the cash cus tomers from Valpo and all the towns in the county, and you take what is left. Just insert Jasper for Porter, and Rensselaer for Valpo, and the above item will apply to this locality almost to »T.

Manufacturing corporations at Suncook N. H., imported from Sweden 165 operatives to work in their mills. The corporations paid the passage money for the Swedes, and therefore regarded them in some measures as their slaves. At any ra*e when the Swedes arrived and showed some inclination to take their departure from Suncook, the corporation had them imprisoned. The unfortunate captives, through the|Swedish Minister, have had the matter brought to the attention of the Government, and <he question of reducing immigrants to slavery is likely to have prompt settlement. While Slav ery in New Hampshire will hardly b» tolerated. The Suncook manufacturing corporations will doubtless be required to let the captives go free. “Protection to home industry” is tllusrtated in the introduction, by the Buncook monopolists of fdteign workmen with whom to supply the places of American operatives. ■ ■ *

The New York World, in an elaborate editorial, points out the breaks •is in the Republican party. “The Republican party,” says the World, •no longer held together by the strong cement of the War issue or by Grant’s personality, is fighting itself. There was a break and a bolt in New York when Robertson was forced on the party, and Conkling was driven Slut of th© Senate. There was an„ tther break -and bolt in this State When Folger. backed by the Republican National Administration and * member of the Cabinet, buried un 4er a majority of nearly 200,000 votes• These was a breaa and a bolt in Pennsylvania when the Republican rebels drew, their swords against the Winnebago chief and Pattison was elected Governor. There was a break and a bolt in Massachusetts when Butler earriedthe State on a Democratic ticket. Tberejwere breaks and bolts in the West when Kansas and Michigan tll l Wisconsin fell off from Republicanism, when Ohio was lost on the temperance issue and Nebraska through an anti-monopoly defection. There is a break and a bolt in New Jffam pshire, where Rollins finds the machine slip from his grasp and a gurge portion of the Republican legislators spit upon King Caucus.”

< ' [The Indianapolis News.] Hon. Stanton J. Peelle: The Fourth of July dispatches from the village of oudcook, Ji. H., were edifying. The owners of certain infant industties in the village of Suncook have recently imported by the Inman Line ot steamers several hundred Swedes, who are described in the dispatches as “paupers and Jailbirds.’’ These “paupers and Jailbirds” were brought to this coun» try to take the place of American workmen for whose protection certain larifi laws have been enacted. These “paupers and Jailbirds” sniffing the Fourth of July breezes, and not content with the very low wages paid them by the owners of the highly protected industries, bigan to leave the village ot Suncook, turning their f-.ces westward. When, io! their taskmasters seized them, kept them imprisoned an I drove them to their work as black men were driven to tbecuneand potion fields before the War. By some means word reached the Swedish Minister at Washington, and he has been inquiring by what authority his countrymen were treated in this fashion, and the explanation is given that these “paupers and Jailbirds” bough’, more food and clothing than their wages enabled them to pay lor, and that their imprisonment was a ready method adopted by the protected manufacturers to protect the village storekeepers who had been selling goods to the “paupers and JaHtoirds.” When you go to Washington fa December you will probably hear Senat >r Morrill argue that the owners of the “Suncook infant industries need more protection, so. that American laborers shall not be reduced to starvation wages Ly competition with foreign pauper labor.” Another interesting fact has come to light. The town ol Liverpool, O , is the sert of a great crockery-ware industry. By the recent law you raised the tariff on the articles made there. The increas ■ was demanded and granted in behalf of American workmen. The owners of the crockery industry have a opted a method ol dealing with their dissatisfied employes which is said to work well. Their laborers are required to rent tenements owned by the monopoly, which are occupied as long as the workmen remain in the employ ot (he proprietors. When the.workmen ask lor higher wages they are promptly eject ed from the tenements to make room for cheaper workmen. So, when it was settled that the tariff would be increased, the patriotic owners of the protected industry discharged their American work men, drove them from their homes, and supplied their places with cheap foreign laborers imported for the purpose. The protectionists are opposed to theories, but are hungry for tacts. Let them chew tills Suncook and Liverpool business. Il serves to illustrate the patriotism of the monopolists who clamor tor protection in the name of **4’he American System,” and is worth thinking about by statesmen who allow themselves to be humbugged by false pretenses.

' Suppose it should turn out lo be the fact after all, that in the principal protected industries of this country our workmen* get less pay lor the same work than is paid to workmen in the same industries in free trade England. 1 quote from the published address of Mr. Thomas G. Shearman, delivered at Detroit in June last, the following:

“According to the returns published by Mr. Secretary Frelinghuysen, the ave. rage annual wages of all men, women and children employed in English cotton mills are $251, they working only fiftysix hours a week. The annual average wages ot the same class of v ork people in our American cotton mills were in 1880 only s244—they working an average of slxty-five hours a week. As their wages were reduced 20 per cent, long ago (since 1880) the result is that during the last year the cotton operatives in America have been working sixty-five hours a week for $195 a year, while the cotton operatives in England have been working only fifty-six hours a weex for $251 a year. Thus in one of the largest and most.highly protected manufactures in this country the rate of wages is 22 per cent. lower than in England, the hours of labor are 18 per cent, longer, and the cost of living is 20 per cent, more.” The special reports of Mr. Secretary Evarts, in 1870, and of Mr. Secretary Blaine in 1881, show that in nearly every department of industry in America workmen get less wages for a given amount of wotk than English workmen do. Our worKtnen work more hours, work faster, and during a year will produce nearly double what an English workman produces. Mr. Shearman says: "The census shows that the average production of American workmen in 1880 was $1,960 per head, while the average production of English workmen was only S7BO per head. Wages are not on an average 25 per cent, highe* here than in England, and therefore American labor pro-ducing-100 per cent, more is practically at least 50 per cent, cheaper than Eng-, lish.” Now, when American workmen come to understand that tariff laws are procured to increase profits only, and that all talk about paying them increased wages is in the face of the facts, and is simply for the purpoie of catching their votes, they will klck as vigorously as the lowa farmer who objected to being taxed to support an ostrich farm, or to drain a swamp on Skunk Creek for the culture of rice.

W. P. FISHBACK.