Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1888 — Page 4

democratic Sentinel FRIDA.3 NOVEMBER 30 SB&6 Ei tered at the at Rensaelaer, Ind. an eecoDd-c' , » , i*matter.) ■—■——

Congres. will convene on Monday next. Iron is advancing in price, and the t; ilers are on a strike for living wages. Hon. James H. Willard, of Lawrence county, is a candidate tor Speaker of the House. Look out for bogus $5 silver certificates. They bear a blurred picture of Grant, which is the principal defect of the bill, aside from the caper not having a silk fiber. Gen, John M. Palmer, late Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois, has withdrawn from the G. A. R. Post, Springfield, 11lHe alleges political perversion of the order.

Ex-Senator McDonald recently met W. W. Dudley and informed him that he should and would be arrested the moment he set foot oi Indiana soil; and hoped such an example would be made of him as would forever hereafter relieve the Satate from his eleetion methods. The Pittsburgh district coal op. •rators have shut down' their mines indefinitely, throwing AOQQ miners out of emptoyment - Thip at the beginning of winter, and in the face of the suecess of the “protection to labor? theory at the polls. Harriion was elected; the ▼erdict was for “protection,* steady employment and good wagpßs to labor, wtth free whisky and free tobacco thrown in.

A correspondent of that valued and able State paper, “The Indianapolis Sentinel,” makes the fol" owing timely and sensible suggestions in reference to the permanent organization of clubs: To the Editor- Sir: For several days 1 have noticed suggestions in your paper from correspondents as to the methods to be employed in assuring a democratic victory in 1892. They don’t offer however, any details of the work. “Please allow me to suggest the methods that have found much favor among the democracy of New Y( rk. That is, the organization of tariff reform clubs throughout the state to be under the supervision of a state convention. These clubs could secure a permanent footing by introducing a social feature. They should be composed mostly of young democrats and those interested in the movement. Attention should be given to local politics and efforts made to sesure good, honest men on our party ticket. In Indianapolis there is ample material for one these clubs and as 1 see that a number of republicans have revived the Slick Six modus operandi for the next city campaign it would be well for such local clubs to give their attention to this city’s government. The rings in the present city council and the bad administr *tion qt the present mayor give us an advantage that we mnst not lose bv failing to be on the alert. I think it would be well for your paper to “agitate” this question of a local club. G. L. D. ludiavapolis, N v. 29. An organization has been effected in Indianapolis under the name of “The Turpie Club.” We see no reason why they should not exist in every township in the State, Established on a “social” as well as "political” basis, the meetings of such associations could be made both instructive and entertaining.

TARIFF REFORM.

It looks as if the Republicans, with that beautiful consistency which ba - ever characterized party politics, would start in and steal the Democrats. * tar ff reform thunder. The Boston J ournal, a strong Republican paper, says, without a smile:

The first and most urgent duty which will confront a Republican Congress is a revision of the tariff. As another Republican paper, the Globe, says: It is amazing and amusing to see how fast the Republican papers and statesmen are coming out for tariff reform. The high tariff arguments seem to have convinced themselves that Cleveland was right. Another Massachusetts paper, the Springfield Republican, says: blow let the Repul licans retaliate by stealing back the tariff-re-form issue the Democrats filched from them. It would be swallowed by the whole country without a spasm as a dose of genuiue, healthy Protection where, coming from the Democrats it might have looked like poison. W e care not under what name it comes, but it must come.

The Pauper Labor of America.

E change: “Me maka fif-i-ty cents a day, me liva fiva tollass a month, and me send money to olla country.” It is a pity that the man who made this statement and his surroundi gs could not be reproduced in a photographic picture for our readers, says the Philadelphia Record correspondent, writing from Hazleton, Pa. It would tell the whole story of the degradation of labor by powerful corporations in the coal regions. This man’s case is an extreme one, of course, but his story illustrates all the evils which have been inflicted upon the Lehigh coal country by the introduction of cheap foreign labor in and about the tames. He is an Italian and stood in the doorway of atypical Italian shanty at Honey Brook this afternoon while he talked about his work, his wages, and his hopes of returning to Italy a rich man some time in the future, on 60 cents a day. The man was not young, bat appeared to be reasonably vigorous. He works in a breaker, for 60 cents a day, and said that there were 40 or 50 others in the neighborhood who were glad to get work in the breakers at from 80 cents to sl, and many loaded coal and worked as miner’s laborers at $1 a day. Five other Italians stood about riffle this man talked with a reporter. They were "11 young, stro g and active men. Two of them were working iu the strippings, where the coal is taken from the surface aUer a few feet of soil has been stripped off. These men said—through their friend, the worker in the breaker—that they were paid from $1 to $1 10, and appeared to think they were lucky to get this, as some of their countrvmen, they said, were working at other places for less.

How Workingmen Are Duped.

Now, as the election is over and the working classes have resumed their normal condition, we wish to call their attention to a few facts: We have always contended that a contribution to campaign funds by an employer was only money loaned, or the equivalent, and now we are more convinced !hnn ever, from the recent action of such men as E. C. Atkins, the saw manufac urer of this cby, who was so terribly worried over the prospect of having to r educe the wages of his employes if the people sustained the Democratic party in its position on the tariff question; Jklr. Higgins, the large carpet manufacturer of New York, was also terrible state of mind for the same reason; so, also was Mr. Carnegie, the iron prince of America. AU|of the above gentlemen were, we believe, contributors to the fund of corruption, and also loaned their individual efforts by the argument that wages would be maintained if their party was successful. Now we find that Mr. Higgins has, within the last two weeks discharged from his employ 600 of his employes, and reduced the wages of the balance. We also find Mr. Carnegie forcing the twelye hour s /stem on his men and discharging the surplus labo” made by the longer work day. And to-day it is reported to us that Mr. E. C.

Atkins, the saw manufacture! Cf this city, on last Saturday reunced his force, and also made a reduction of 10 per cent in the wage*of some of his men. So labor can easily see tha f no matter what support their employer gives his party, financial or otherwise, they (the laborers) pay the bill by a reduction of wages. — Labor Signal.

THE VOTE IN THE CITIES.

Alb ny Argus: The promise of the earlier returns of the elections are abundantly sustained by fuller reports in respect to Democratic gains in the cities. Whenever men who work for wages in factories, mills foundries and other industrial establishments are gathered in large numbers and have access to daffy newspapers of both parties, and have had fair liberty of discussion among themselves, there the Democratic cause has made remarkable gains. In New York City, the largest manufacturing city in the United States, President Cleveland, as already stated, gained 14,000 over his majority in 1881. Chicago gave a Democratic gain of over 13,000 and even Philadelphia, New York’s rival as a manufacturing city, redu ces its Republican majority by over 12,000. There is a Democratic gain of 7,000 in Boston, and other cities show similar results. Ihus Lowell gives the Democratic cause a net gain of almost 700, Worcester of over 1400, Fall River nearly 1,000, Holyoke 704, and so on throughout the list. In New Jersey, Newark and Jersey City show heavy Democraticgains, and in Connecticut, New Haven and Bridgeport largely increase the Democratic vote. The farmers of New York State turned the State over to the Reoublican party, and there is poetic justice in the fast that on them the burden of tariff taxes falls mo>t heavily. They have bought their whistle, and during the four long years they will have ample opportunity to reflect upon the; price they must pay for it if!

Alta California: Amongst what may called the queer results of the election is the declaration by William Walter Phelps that unless the gives the country eome drastic tariff reform it will bi beaten and permanently destroyed in 1892. While it may be said that Mr. Phelps, views are toned by the result in his own State, New Jersey, in which the manufacturing employers and laborers vied wilh each other in earnestness for the principles of the President’s message, it must in candor be confessed tnat thev have a broader base. Accepting the theory of protection as taught by Clay and all its great apostles, our “infant manufactures” begin to feel the restraint of their childish garments and are quickened by the purposes of completed manhood. They want wider markets, and accept Senator Evarts’ chance endorsement of commercial truth when he said, “If we wish to sell we must consent to buy.”

What the American Citizen Has Dons.

Puck: Having come to the end of the political campaign and elected him president for a term of four years, the American citizen may now sit down and ponder the nature and the consequences of the feat he has accomplished. He has saved his country from the dire possibility of free trade, a possibility which was not contemplated by any party engaged in the late contest. Ha has secured fair treatment to the Union soldier by defeating the re-election of a president who has signed more pension bills than any < hree of his predecessors. He has insured the safetv of this nation by driving out of power the paty that in less than four years has built up a better navy than the United States has owned in twenty-five years, r.nd by reinstating the party that reduced the strongest navy in the world to the weakest. He has provided for the prosperity of the country by continuing for four years to come a tariff of customs that taxes every man, woman and child in the nation tor the benefit of a fe ,> manufacturers, that breeds ‘trusts’ and other illegal combinations to raise the price of the necessaries of life, that has all but destroyed our foreign trade, and that renders commercial progress impose! ble— except to the favored few.

iinitn si. The Union Bible School will give an entertainment, Friday eve, Doc. 7th, for the benefit of the Sunday School The ship will be 12 feet long; the pleasing. Eve--y one cordially invited. See 'small bills. The election being over, American labor is getting with almost indecent haste the protection for which it wa? invited to vote. Before wo have ha-* time to direst the {newsjfrom Higgin’s protected carpet factory* which dispensed with half its employes last Saturday, reports arrive of a labor riot in the protei ted coal mints of Bevier, Missouri Protection is a name for this son ol thing. —Standard. The Union Bible School will give an entertainment Friday eve, December 7th. m iia if ib sup, Length of ship 12 feet. A varied and pleasing programme will be renderod by the children. You and your friends are cordially invited. See small bills. Go to Kannal’s Jewelry Palace for Ladi.s Gold Watches and Chains, on payments —s2s. School Teachers, remember here is the place for bargains. Remember the place—“ Gold Star Watch Sign,” Nowels’ Block, ensselaer, Ind. The best Sewing Machine in the market is the Eldredge. Call at the residence of Mrs. J. W. McEwen. Agent, Rensselaer, Ini

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