Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — How Tariff Works in Maine. [ARTICLE]

How Tariff Works in Maine.

At least three'fourths of the men employed in these lumbering operations iu and Penobscot counties come across the line from the provinces beyond. Many of them rake +t.eir teams across, giving, bonds at the custom house for their return, work darinp the winter, take their money and return home in the spring; others remain to work driving the logs down the tieam, and some work at sawing in the mdls for tine season. These timber land owners are shrewd fellows. They work this protection racket at both ends. They make every man who buys a thousand feet of lumber pay this tax on it under the claim that it is done to protect ns from the product ol cheap labor in the provinces. After they have made you pay the tax for that purpose they go over the line and get the cheap labor itself and bring it over to do the work for tin m. T k us they make money at both ends, and the poor American labo er loses at both ends. You are obliged to pay the tuxes on every stick of lumber you buy, and then the cheap labor of the pro.inces is brought In to work In the camp, upon the streams and in the saw mills, and thus force wages down to their standard, so tuat the A lean laborer is obliged to work at the same rate or not work at all. And so he lose? both ways, and yet t is all (lore in the* interest ot the poor laboring man.—Mr. Pitlsbury’s Lewiston Speech.

A flue example of the style in which W. 'W. Dudley ran the Pension Office h r the benefit of the Jtiepublican par j ty may be found in the following correspondence: Office of Grubbs & Parks, ) Attorneys at Law, > Martinsville, lud , Aug. 13, 1884,) Colonel W. W. Dudley: The i st thing that could be done for me in this District, where 1 need it most, is the appointment of a Board of Medical Examiners at this point. Soldiers’ of all the coun iea adjacent are urging it and have their neaits set upon it, and if it could be secured presumptuously ’hrougn any efforts of mine«it would greatly benefit me. I certainly need every aid that can be afforded me, and with it I think I can win.

May I call your attention io another claim, that of Marshall Hale, Com paDy C Fifty-first Indiana Volunteers. No. 182.426, who is crippled, unable to work, and most needy, and ask that it be made special and receive early consideration? Very truly yours, G. W. Gbubbs . To this Commissioner Dudley replied:

Department olthe Interior, 1 Pension Office, \ Washington. D. C., Aug. 16, 1884. Hon. 0. W. Grubbs, Martinsville. Iml.: Dear Sir— Xour favors of the J3th are at hand. I havejdirected that your inquiry with regard to pension cases shall have prompt attention. As to the matter of the establishment of a Board 01 Surgeons at Mariinsvill#, I will have the matter canvassed by my medical referee as soon as possible, and, if practicable, It shall be done; You need not be assured that my best wishes are for your success. Very truly yours, W. W. Dudley. It was tn spite of schemes of this kind that Colonel Matson defeated Mr. Grubbs.

The country is prospering and the Government is being honestly administered, and there are none of ihe jobs aDd peculations that have disgraced the past few years, and that is tt e kind of service all honest men or either larty wwar,D r , Manchester Union.