Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1888 — How the Wool Tariff Works. [ARTICLE]

How the Wool Tariff Works.

The manufacturer may be making a large profit—to which, by the way, every man who carpets his floor must make an involuntary contribution—but the laboring classes are protected to death or to the point of starvation. It is one of those cases in which everybody gets something, the boss a million and his employes a stale crust. This state of things may possibly be satisfactory to the capitalist, but whether the workingmen will be content with their share remains to be seen. Only one mill in Ken-ington is running on full time. The laborers there are lucky. One-third of the other mills are running on three-quarters time. The lowest possible wages and four days and a half of work out of seven. What does the wife do? She works at home, trying to make both ends meet. And the children? They work, t o, when they can get anything to do, for the merest pittance. Then two-thirds of the mills run on half time and less. Small wages and half time I And yet to hear the Republican leaders talk you would think that protection enables every man to “end his boys to college or set them up in business, with prosperity and plenty in every direction. On the other hand, it contracts the market, destroys competition with other nations, helps the few and grinds the many to powder.— Netv York Herald.