Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1888 — HARRISON’S BIG FEE. [ARTICLE]

HARRISON’S BIG FEE.

Twenty-one Thousand Dollars Said to Have Been Faid Him for Pro ecuting Strikers. [New York telegram.] A campaign document of force was received from Indiana to-day. It shows that Gen. Harrison as general solicitor for the receivars of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad received $21,000 for his services as prosecutor of the strikers in 1877, although he declared on oath that his services, lasting one week, were worth SI,OOO. What the other $23,033 was paid for is the question which the workingmen of Indiana are discussing. Besides this sum he received S2O for his services as a Captain in the militia organized to force the strikers to go back to work. The workingmen think it rather queer that he should be paid by the State for military work in suppressing the strike and at the same time be the counselor of the company engaged in it and receive such enormous fees from that company. The document is accompanied with affidavits proving its authenticity. Do tho defenders of oppressive war taxes assume thai the people can be deceived by the cry of danger to protection? Do they assume that the people will not be told and fully understand that the Mills bill ma ntain3 higher protectiou to our Industrie j than that fixed by Clay, the father of protection, in the tariff of 1842, or by Morrill qnd Kelley, the present fathers of protection, in the tariff of 1861? The tariffs of 1842 and of 1861 were distinctively protective tariffs; they were made by protects nist-i for protection; there was no hindrance to the ample measure of protection, and yet the official records show that the tariff of 1842 taxed the people 33 per cent.; that the tariff of 1861 taxed them 34 per cent. ; that the present tariff taxos them over 47 per cent.; and that the Mills bll reduces tariff taxes only about! seven per cent., leaving higher taxes and hi-her protection than were fixed by any distinctively protective tariff in the whole century of our Government.— Philadelphia Times.