Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1888 — Protection for Workmen. [ARTICLE]

Protection for Workmen.

“The“e. ’o k nt that, to u,” said the high-tariff liepublican, ciincmng nis urgum mt on a Milwaukee Prohibitionist as they rode through Bay View. “Teat town was built entirely by the liepublican system of protection. That’s what protection does for the laboring men of this country." “Yes, I see,” replied the Prohibitionist. “By the way, I don’t see any smoke coming from those rolling mills. Are they working now ?” “Well, no, they aren't just now,” r. plied the protectionist. “What’s the matter?" “Why, the—the trust has bought up the mills and shut down because of over-pro me.ion.” “How long will they remain shut?" “Perhaps two months ; perhaps longer.” “Well, where dces the protection come for the laboring men, eh ?” The protectionist was dumb. He knew another fact about the protection for Bay View workmen. He knew that the better c ass of workmen had been driven out of Bav View by importations of cheap, low-grade “Polacks" that cost the State SIO,OOO to control. There is protection on the iron works of Bay View, but i is the iron and steel trust that is protected, while the workman is as “naked to his enemies" as th* Sioux Indian to the frontier trader.— Wisconsin Prohibitionist.