Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — The Labor-Starving Monopolists. [ARTICLE]

The Labor-Starving Monopolists.

(From the New York World Oct. 9th.) Steve Elkins is the owner of James G. »'laine. They are old friends and associates in speculations and jobs. They have shared many “good things,” from Star-routes to coal mines. For years they have been as ‘thick as thieves.” When Blaine went into the Hocking',Valley| enterprise he paid for his interest by a draft on Steve Elkins for *25,000. When the bonds of the Consolidated Hocking Valley “Standard” Company venture were set apart for Blaine they were handed over to Steve Elkins and receipted for by him “on account of James G. Blaine.” Steve Elkins knows more about the Star-route business than any living man,” is the statement made by Star-route Dorsey, the man who bought Indiana for Garfield and now supports Blaine. Steve Elkins probably knows quite as much about Star-route Blaine as he does the Star-rout robberies. When Steve Elkins and Blaine were arranging the “Standard Coal and Iron Company” consolidation the former sent some figures to Mr. J. Henry Brooks to show that the job would pay. In submitting these figures Steve Elkins wrote as follows: Uniting the two interests would not only put, the Standard stock to par but create a monopoly that would control the coal and iron of the Hocking Valley. Steve Elkins, Blaine and their associates used the power of their monopoly to grind down labor in the Hocking Valley mines to famine rates, and when the suffering miners struck their places were filled by the cheap imported labor of Sclavs and the men were driven out to starve. “That is the sort of man Blaine is!” Yet the Anti-Monopoly humbugs are calling on sensible, honest men to throw away their votes on the clown, Ben Butler, in order to put m power the Monopolistsand LaborStarvers, James G. Blaine and Steve Elkins. An Independent Republican journal well says: ‘There is, m their judgemen, and in ours, sometning radically wrong, when, as recently happened under the operation of our protective tariff the few capalists interested in'the steel dustries of Pennsylvania pocketed &2 ’,O 'O,OOO of profit, while the total amount paid in wages to the thousands who produced the stell was only 14,000,000. It ill hardly, we think, be contended by any that labor is being fairly treated where the workman has to produce *1.60 of clear profit tor every dollar he is permitted to place to his own account.’

Mr. Blaine never has denied t 1 at he vcted against the Thurman bill to force the Pa cific railroads to make provis I ions for their indebtedness to the government. Where the mendacity of the candidate fails him his organs should come to his relief. It would greatly advance Mr. Blaine in pubic estimation if it could be shown that he was at any time in favor of protecting the gov ernment against its plunderers—Philadelphia Record Kind.) A correspondent asks The Cincinnati Enquirer when the *‘Hon.” Daniel P. Dean, secretary of the recent Irish-Blaine convention, was released from the work-house. The Enquirer calmly answers that Dean was sentenced to the workhouse for thirty days on the •2d of last June for abusing his family, but was released beI fore his time expired.