Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1889 — The Workingman and the G. 0. P. [ARTICLE]

The Workingman and the G. 0. P.

Mr. Butterworth detests tho woikingman who wants to secure $1.25 a day from Mr. Carnegie ia place of the miserable $1 which he is told is enough tor any workingman to live on; but he has no hesitation in tinkering the present oppressive tariff so that it will swell Mr. Carnegie’s profits from $1,500,000 a year to four times that amount. That is the true feeling of the party which Mr. Butterworth leads, toward the workingman and his employer. His candor is not without merit. He and men like him have convinced the wageearners of the cities that they can hope for no redress from the Republican party. Now they are helping matters along famously by carrying conviction even to the benighted rural classes who have heretofore blindly followed the Republican lead under the impression that the civil war is still going on. —Brooklyn 'Htizen. The American I Vool Reporter, a protectionist journal, is of opinion that the Senate tariff bill is a dishonest measure, and was known to be such by its framers. This is not its exact language, but it is the equivalent of its words. The wool schedule, it thinks, was finally arranged as it was as a matter of “parliamentary strategy,” so that if the bill went to conference the Republican Senators could apparently yield something while retaining all they really wanted.