Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — The Real Victims of the Tariff. [ARTICLE]

The Real Victims of the Tariff.

Carnegie & Co. have declared a general lockout at the Edgar Thompson Steel Works at pv.tsburg, the men having declined to accept a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. There is a Steel Trust. Carnegie & Co. make a profit when shut down as well as when running. A shut down does not affect them. But it does affect the men, and very seriously. No work no pay is the rule with them, and there are 3,000 of them idle to-day. Meanwhile, production being reduced, the supply is shortened and the market stiffened up on that aggregation of fools, the people of the United States, who enable the trust to be formed and operated by consenting to a tariff tax which gives them over bound hand and foot and pocket to the tender mercy of these monopolists. —Terre Haute Gazette.