Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1889 — Protection’s Works. [ARTICLE]

Protection’s Works.

If the first half year of President Harrison’s reign has filled the two richest and most productive States in our country with want and starvation, what may we look for before protection runs its course? The stupidest observer of passing events can easily see that the processes leading to the present deplorable state of things are not to be-made for the better, but from bad to worse for some years to come. A light winter and limited consumption of coal is urged as a cause of the present trouble. Everything would be lovely and workingmen would all be happy if it had only Been a h of a cold winter. Five hundred thousand hungry, destitute men, ready to take the places and the crusts of those who have already been starved out, has nothing to do with it; of course not! Oh, no; It is all right if you will only protect them against pauper labor! Yes; Mr. Harrisen and his backeis will protect these hungry workmen egainst pauper labor, bnt the means employed to do so will not be better wages and better living, as were promised during the most villainous political campaign this country ever experienced. It will be shotgun ana Pinkerton protection, and the starving miners who were fooled or forced to vote for protective tariff and Republican rascality will find plenty of time to curse the day that they voted for protective starvation. Experience is a dear school—but, etc. — Cor. Chicago Herald.