Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1889 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XIII

TIE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL democratic newspaper. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, BY f as. Yv. McEwen RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. ' 75 a jlvei’tisiiAg Rates. , ar SBO 00 6ian*.i car * 4000 COIUIOI*. „ 8 0 0° rtw M 10 oO ‘ ' hth rn Mot added to foregoing price if ,gj£K» to occoptr more then ' .'ale column width t at equ jtable rates or a y 1 inch spacei ® m6S . S *<ffor six months ; $ 2 for three iSotioel and adi ertisements at esrJNshed statu bUcation 10 cents pot® atton'ih.re.nor e cent. « "fe»rli> artcertlßement^mjJ^^oh.n.ert quarterly (onoein thi < { extra charge. •£ 3 a*per county, must when less than euarterty °n a/rance when

jtfc- — — : T.J,McCcy AVTbmdM.'Cot, HoLUNGgwoaTB . A. SPCOY & ©0«, bank®* *» Successors to A. McCoy &T. Thompson,) KENSSELABU, XND. D bought and sold, oQ ftV ava fiable issued Collections Arm of McCojr '%te Office same place as oiq nrm g^ o Thompson uw Attorney-at-li*^ INDIANA Practice. H» «■" C S?»°c l on“Bon» a a sft' =SKS3Sk. M “S K THOMPSON & BBMBSELAEB, - PrActie oiu ftUtte Courts. autON L SPITLER. Collector and Abstractor* -, Qte particular attention to paying tag • yK?o P aml leaslag lands. v 2 n4B W. H. H. GRAHAM, * ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ReEBDELATB, IBDIABA. Money to loan on long time g ®^ t |° l o,^ * JAMES W.DOTJTHIT, AND NOTARY PCBLIO, «- in rear room over Hemphill <fc Btore| uen»Bclaer, Ind. „ ,-p it7mmont> William B.Austim, iDWIN r. HAMMOBW HAMMQKO & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT'LAW, ■Rensselaer, In» fWiee on second floorr ofgpoWj of Washington and A anltenssuaei l6bßpg „s»S£.wr»*»» xX'*'" instruments. . W WATSON, a tio«ney-at-laW otic* up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, RENSSELAER

v*r W. HAHTSEIX, M » gOMdSOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. «*melaeb, - - ™diana. ITOtiromc Diseases a Specialty.,4gJ OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11.1884. _____ VICTOR E. LOUGHEIOOK J. H IiOUGHRIDGE & SON, Physicians and Surgeons. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, gecond door right-hand side of hall. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vmi DR. I B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon Rensselaer, Ind. Sails promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. a-— — IJARY Jffi. JACKSON, M.D., PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, Special attention given to diseases of women and children. Office on Front street, corner of Angelica. 12..24. Zihbi Dwigginb, F. j. Sears, Val. Skis, p President. Vic-President. Cashier CITIZENS’STATEBANK BENSSELAK.V VD TYOEB A GENERAL BANKING BUSINB88; U Certificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms at lowest rates and oUmoafavorable terms

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY JULY 5 1889

MINER'S WAGES.

BRAIDWOOD’S CURSE. (From last week —Concluded.) Cobey Applies the THUMB.scr.EWs H»ving reduced the scale to 80 cents a ton and introduced the truck sto?e, the company was not long in finding a new source of oppression. There was no longer any great danger of a strike, he men were submissive and apparently stupefied by the fearful strain on their strength. So the screw was given another turn. The coal, when excavated is loadec onto a car which carries about 1,500 pounds. In hauling these cars along the rough roads to the mouth of the shaft, it was inevitable that some of this coal should tall off. In former years this was taken into allowance by the weighers and the fiainer .given credit for the coal which lay scattered along the roadway and whicn was eventually picked up After the protected workingmen and farmers of the United States had elected Harrin son President, and free trade had been dealt a death blow, Superintendent T. B. Corey, of the Chica* go, Wilmington and Vermillion Coal Company, issued an order that the company would allow weight for just the amount of eoal found in the car. Men were fcl en employed at small wages to pick u:: this coal. One man ccmld thus collect a large amount of coal iu a day, far more than the most skilled miner o> uld place to his eredit. It seems almost incredible, but the men claim that the company has conspired to deliberately rob them by this scheme. They allege that the road has purposely been made rough so as to shake the coal from the cars. The men in the rooms have not been supplied with a sufficient number of cars, being thereby stimulated to pile on & big load, part of which would more certainly fall off. This humane and Christian scheme has made lots of money fer the company. It has been a great success. The miner was compelled to either throw on a small load and remain idle for hours with a certainty of diminished wages, or pile on a decent load and have part of it jolted off and appropriated by the company without pay. Another Turn for the Quiv’eing Wretch.

bo successful was this scheme that the company was encouraged to adopt another and similar method of reducing the wage fund. It had been the custom to weigh the coal before it was dumped onto the screens. This gave the miner the benefit of all the coal which had not fallen off on the road. Superint ndent Corey decided that in the future the eoal should be weighed after it was sifted, and that the men should receive nothing for the weight of the screenings. That settled it, and an order to that effect was posted forthwith. The men re>d it in silence and turned away. By this ingenious plan the company obtained without expense for mining screenings

which have been sold in the Wilmington and other manufacturing towns for thousands of dollars. There are other though smaller sources of revenue for the company Two blacksmiths are employed at a salary of S4O a month. Each of the 1,400 men have 25 cents a month deducted from their wages to pay for having their tools sharpened. This makes a total of $350, from whith deduct SBO as the wages of the blacksmiths and there re* mains as loss to the men and profit to the company the sum of $270 a men+h, or the snug total of $3,250 a year. No petty tyranny whieh the ingenuity of the company could devise was spared. The wages were slowly but relentlessly forced down until it seemed as if organized selfishness would go no further in the oppression of faithful workmen. The limit had not been reached. With the average wages less than 118 a month for the year ending

May 1, j. 889, the company announced a reduction of 10 cents, a cut of 12$ per c?nt. For digging coal they offered 70 cents a ton. Deducting the exactions so systematically made from the men’s wages this scale fixed t%e pay per ton at less than 55 cents. By the hard* st kind of work the men have been unable to mine two tons of coal a day. It would have been possible to slightly exceed |hi» amount had the company furnished the men with the requisite number of cars and placed but three men in a ro. m instead of four., Such a course was agiinst the policy of the company. High wages would give the men money to spend outside the truck store, and the company did not propose to any such nonsense.

Wages and the Tariff. The tai iff on.coal is 75 cents a ton The Braidwood miner actually receives less than 55 cents a ton for digging it out of the ground. They do not even receive the tariff. To state it another way, the Chicago, Wilmington and Vermillion uoal company is er abled to get its work dope for nothing and receives 20 cents royalty from the United States for eacli ton hoisted above the surface of the eaHh. Adam Smith aud John Stuart Mill did not calculate on any such condition of affairs when they pennei works on political economy. During the presidential campaign of last fall a large, red-faced man with a hoarse voice and plug hat made a speech at Braidwood. He told those of the miners who had strength enough left to drag themselves from their miserable shanties that thj protective tariff enabled the mine owners to pay them wages whith were princely compared with those rdeeived by the pauper and free trade laborers of Europe. This great orator and statesman went on to tell them that but for the republican party and its policy of protection to American industries the workmen of this country would dieoff like rotten sheep thro’ competition with the sore-eyed and palsied cripples who made up the pauper labor of Europe. He drew a glowing picture of the pi osperity of the United States and recalled instan«s!where friends of his had arisen trom obscurity and were now wonh $20,000,000. He told the men that any American workman could save his money and become wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. In the course of a lengthy speech he told the m many other things equally true and convincing. Braidwood and her protected imerican workingmen gave a round majority for the republican ticket, the old ffag, and protection for American workingmen. Were the msn entirely to blame? The word was pissed around that the man caught voting other than the republican ticket might consider himself discharged. The men

had been taught to believe that their prosperity depended entirely upon the prosperity of the com pa* ny, and that big profits for the company enabled the latter to pay them high wages. So they crawled up out of the dark corners of the earth and deposited their votes for the grand old party which freed the slaves. . Not all of them did this. Many of them had already begun to see the enormity of the political crime of which they were conspicuous victims. They realized for the first time that antebellum slavery was merciful compared with their thralldom. They had been forced by semi-starvatiou to learn that the profits of a pro-, tected monopoly and the wages paid its w< rkingmen bore no more relation than the length of a mule's ears does to the movements of the heavenly bodies, But the majority were either yet ignorant or intimidated. They had no time or opportunity to read and learn. The horizon of their world was limited to a coal shaft and a wretched cottage. When work was over and the tired limbs of the unfortunate man had dragged him home, sleep came like a merciful death witha short reprieve from his misery.

Many a Braidwood miner has gone to his home so exhausted by the fearful work as to be unable to partake of the humble meal set before him. Under conditions such as this, it is little wonder that men live in ignorance and die in poverty. The great vorld is with them only a myth. They are bom, exist for a time and die without h vmg lived. They have not had a chanee to fight in the battle of life.

Forced to Seek Charity at Last* Aid should be given these men, and should be given at once. The Herald will receive and forward to the proper authorities any contributions which may bo made. The 1,400 miners of Braidwood have received from all sources less than S6OO since May 1. How they have existed is a puzzle bevond the solution ot the writer. The majority of the men have large families dependent on their work in the mines. There is absolutely no other form of employment : n or around Brnidwood. Though many of the miners own their own little houses, they cannot eat them. It may be suggested that the ouses can be sold or mortgaged. Td whom? There are no purchasers for Braidwood property. A large building on the best site of the principal street in the city was erected five year* ago at a cost of SIO,OOO. It is renting to-day at sl6 a month, and could not be sold for $1,500. There are houses in Braidwood represent the total result of twenty years’ hard work—the combined savings of some honest workman. One of these houses could not be traded to-day for two barrels of flour. The people have abandoned ad hope They watched the steady growth of the Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Company and Been it wax on the lives of starved men, women and babes. They have seen their property decrease in dire proportion as the dividends of the company increased and nothing has transpired which sheds a ray of hope for the stricken people of Braidwood. They ai e cursed and abandoned. During the past twelve m >nths the company has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the purchase of valuable coal gelds Three thousand acres were purchased in Bureau county and 600 acres adjacent to Braidwood. In the face of such prosperity and with the certainty of starving innoernt people to death, the Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Company has the brazen effrontery to again reduce the wages of its workmen.| Help Needed in Any Event.

From a careful investigation Tbe Herald is convinced that thi striking miners of Braidwood are entitled to the support of all charitable people. Should the mine owi e >s relent and throw open the mines for work it will be weeks before the men would receive a cent. The company takes no chances and advances no money. The miner might starve or be killed before he had earned the small sum advanced in wild-cat money. But the mine owners will not re* lent. They deliberately forced the strike after having laid in a good stock of coal. They are now engaged in raising the price to the protected consumer, it has already gone up 25 cents a ton. In a week the price will again advance. By the tims the miners have been properly starved into submission the price of coal —through the coal famine —will have advanced from 75 cents to $1 per ton. The men will then be allowed to return at the reduced scale of wages and the company can divide the proceeds among its stockholders. — Chicago Herald.

Thus it is seen that so-eallel protection to labor is a farce. Monopoly alone is benefited, and it has been truly said that monopolies are soulless. The evil can be corrected at the ballot box. The

laborer has vastly more to fear from monopolistic greed and competition upon our own soil with the pauper labor of foreign lands, than he has rrom competition with the produets of Europe. Loose’s Red Clover Pile Remedy, is a positive specific for ail forms of the disease. Blind, Bleeding, Itching, Ulcerated, and Protrude ing Piles. Price 500. For sale by Long «; Eger A good suit of clothes may now be had at R. Feudig’sfors4, never before sold for less thans6 50. Loose’s Red Clover Pills Cure Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Indiges - t on, Constipation. 260 per Box, ft boxes for sl. For sale by Long & Eger.

IS CONSUMPTION INGURABLE?

Bead the following; Mr.C. H. Morris, Newark, Ark,, says: “Was down with Absoess of Lungs, and friends and physioiane pronounced me an Incurable Consumptive. Began tak* inrr Dr, King’s Now Discovery for Consumption, am now ou mv third bo’fl ■». and able to ov rsee the work on my farm. It is the finest medicine ever made ” Jesse Middleware Decatur, Ohio, says. “Had it not been for Dr. King’s Now Discovery for Consumption I would have died of Lung troubles. Was given up by doctors. Am now in best of health ” Try it.. Sample bottles free at F. B. Meyer’s Drugstore. 6

Buy EosdKMwi hi Parties wishing Fruit Trees will do Woll to examine my Nursery Btoek at Luther Ponsler’s farm, 2 miles north and one-half mile east of Kensselaer. 1 have over 6,000 Apple, 1,000 Cherry, and 400 Pear—all choice varieties. ThesA trees are in a thrifty and healtfff condition. I also have the agency for the Greening Bros. Nursery at Monroe, one of the best Nurseries in the State. All stock bought of me guaranteed true to name, and insured for one year where properly taken care of at the followingprices: Apples— Home Trees— -20c. “ Michigan 30c. Crebs, 30c.; Cherry, 30c,, Ac. H. B. MURRAY. ELECTRIC BITTERS. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention A 1 who have used Electric Bitters sing the same soDg of praise. A purer medicine dees not exist and It is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric* Bitters will cure all diseases of tho Liver and Kidnevs, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and other affections cans - ed by impure blood —Will drive Ma. laria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers;—For euro of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitters -Ed** tire satisfaction guaranteed or money ' refunded.—Price 50ets. and $1 00 per bottle at F. B. Meyer’s Drugstore. 6 <«» . WANTED. Good men to solicit for our firstclans Nuisery Stock, on salary or commission, paid weekly. Permanent employment guaranteed. Outfit free. Previous experience not re* quired. We can make a successful sales nan of any one who will work and follow our instructions. Writ* for terras at once to Jokes & Rouse, Like View Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. Mention this paper.

m mu! • min CHAS. M, PAXTON, Proper., RENSSELAER, «* • • INDIANA. All kinds of freshfand cared meats, and all of the best quality, constantly on hand. The hlgaest market price pa’d for good f&t cattle, calves, &c. Qiqe me a all and a share of yoar patronage. * CHAS. M. PAXTON. Bay 8,1869.

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