Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — Work, Wages, and “Protection.” [ARTICLE]

Work, Wages, and “Protection.”

As wages are the first thing to be lowered in the protected industries, so they are the last to be raised. The coal ring has just refused any advance to its miners, though the price of coal is advanced. The glass combination, though protected by duties averaging over 80 per cent., has declined to make any increase in wages for three months past, and now grudgingly yields 5 per cent. The workmen, starved into submission, accept, and the manufacturers will go on piling. up fortunes like that recently devised by the multi-million-aire De Pauw. How much better it would be for the workers to have steady employment at even lower wages, and to be relieved of a part of the 46 per cent, taxation now imposed by the war tariff on all their imported necessities!— New York World.