Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — IMPORTED CONTRACT LABOR. [ARTICLE]

IMPORTED CONTRACT LABOR.

The Result of an Iniquitous Republican Law Fathered by John Sherman-

Louis Jordan, writes to the InSentinel: “Ljead in a Journal editorial that the Swedes and Itai'-'is in young Logan’s r tone quarries ‘have been a constant soun eof trouble, and i is a pity the country, could not get rid of them.’ This reads strangely, coming from a paper that now, and for years past has maintained that John Sherman was a great and good statesman.” An act authorizing the importation of foreign contract labor was approved July 4, 1861 John Sherm .n had this law passed, and his friends—the monopolists—took advantage of it and imported ship loads of foreign laborers • One firm alone imported 14,000 Italians up to 1881. Americans and adopted citizens were driven out by them. The act of 1864 established a specif s of slav ry and will puzzle the future historian when lie records that it was approved on he 4th of July and passed by a party that claims the credit of freeing the negroes. The advocates of a protective tariff are >lways prating about American workingmen being bro’t into competition with the pauper labor of Europe. These same men have never hesitated a moment to import foreign contract labor when thr>y could make money by doing so. The hypocrisy of the protective tariff advocates is colossal and is orly surpassed by their impudence in trying to u ake the Wageworkers of the country believe that they only have their interests at heart when they advocate protection. The present law prohibiting the importation of fereign contract labor was only passed after the democracy obtained a majority in the lOwer house of congress. But the mischief had been done and tens of thousands of our wage-workers had been turned out of their places by republican imported contract laborers. Louis Jordan.

Pickled Pork, at Duvall’s.