Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1888 — Unrest and Ruin Among Laborers in Highly Protected Industries. [ARTICLE]

Unrest and Ruin Among Laborers in Highly Protected Industries.

Senator Frye and his associates are never capable of explaining how it comes that in the protected industries of their own country the rates of wages are lower than in the industries that owe nothing to protection. Nor are they able to tell how it comes that in these protected industries, employing a comparative small portion of the population of the United States, there are more strikes, more conflicts to maintain wages above the starvation line, more unrest, and more frequent demoralization and distress than in all the other industries of the country put together.— Philadelphia Record.