Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1889 — TRUSTS AND LABOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRUSTS AND LABOR.

Read the spe ch of Senator Turp.e on first pnge The Democratic State Central Committee will hold a meeting at Indianapolis next Tuesday—January Bth. The Indiana Legislature will c onveje at Indianapolis next week. We trust that among its first enactments will be a stringent election law, and another tojsmash up rhe school book monopoly. The millionaire monopolists are in daily consultation with Presi-dent-eleet Harrison. It seems he does not vouchsafe to them the reformation he gave to a labo" or-gan-zation that called upon him recently, to-wit: “The election is over.”

flie trust is the natural offspring of the protective tariff. The pro-* tective tariff we are told is main • tamed solely in the interests of American labor. To what extent labor ii benefitted the Chicago Sentinel briefly tells: “List week Senator Vest rolled up his sleeves and pitch id into the whiskey, the sugar trusts and the copper syndicate. If the Missouri Senator had gone farther he might have referred to Stewards stati tics of Idleness and found out that the combined industries of the country Say the Vu’can steel works of St. iouis $400,000 to stand idle, thus th ’owing its workmen out of employ. The Waverly stone ring pays quarries thousands of dollars—in one instance $4,500 a year —to do nothing. The salt works along the Kanawha were bought up by the American Salt Manufacturer’s association and have n**ver employed a man since. The Standard Oil company b iys up competitors and dismantles their works. The tank manufacturers buyout a refrtctory fellow who would not join the pool, and not a wheel has turned since. The Western Lead and Shot association buys the shot tower of Dubuque, lowa, to keep men from working there. The bagging-mills at Dixon, in this State, have been idle for three years, while the proprietor draws a dividend from the pool for “limiting production” greater than he could realize by running his works. Sioaii & Co. stop as many coal mines as is necessary to prevent the output from exceeding the limit agreed upon at the “annual meeting” of the combination. At the very same time that the Senator was making his speech a -seoret meeting was being held at Springfield, 111., to promote the interests of the great soft coal trust. It was held “to discuss the question of prices in the Northwest. The contrail Illinois operators entered the pool by agreement for a secret consideration not to enter into competition with the Northern association in lowa, -Minnesota. Wisconsin, Nebraska, Dakota, or Montana. It was decided by bot i assoeiations to maintain a uniform price throughout the West and the Northwest for the entire output, the pi ice to be regulated monthly during the season of greatest consumption.”