Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — No Protection for Labor. [ARTICLE]

No Protection for Labor.

“What do you think, Mr. Beecher, of Blaine’* protection speeches in Ohio, when the inlnrtf who were formerly employed in the Hocking valley mines are starving because labor is not protected?" “1 think that every laboring man in this country can not fail to see that labor has no protection. In big factories where goods are manufactured, and in the mining regions, they are importing clv ap labor from abroad. There Is no tariff to protect the workingman against the cheap labor wh ch boats down liis wages. Blaine and the e other men in Ohio are talking about protection, but they do not mean to protect labor. Hungarians, Bohemians, and in the past Chinese have I een imported to this < ountry by wealthy manufacturers and owners of mines. This has lately been done in the Hocking valley mines. When the market is glutted with goods and the manufacturers desire to retrench th y begin by reducing tin wages of the labo er. Kot only are there thousands of mon out of employment in the West, but we have the same reports from New England Protection, as expounded by Bepubliean orators, means protection only for the manufacturers.'*— lnterview with Henry Ward Beecher.