Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — ANSWERING ITSELF. [ARTICLE]

ANSWERING ITSELF.

A Republican Newspaper In tl»e Great Act of Swallowing Itself. The Chicago "Herald" on the Chicago "Tribune." The spotted Chicago Tribune now finds itself engaged in a political campaign end it is, therefore, strenuously in favor of a monopoly tariff, which it advocates with all the false and foolish “arguments” that play so important a part in the maintenance of every great wrong. In its issue of yesterday, referring to Roger Q. Mills of Texas, who is not more of a freo trader than is the Tribune itself when no election is pendlpg, it says: Mr. Mills hae been frank enough. He haa told the people of Wisconain that it la the intention of bis democratio party to substitute | for a protective tariff a “tariff for revenue only.” That change would olose avery American factory or mill and bring the Wages of the men employed in them and every other kind of businesa done in olttes and town* down to the European atandord, Are the Wisconsin vdteri quite ready for that obange ? , Let us secure an answer to this folly and falsehood from the Tribune itself. On the sth of May, 1888, it said: The lowest wages paid In this country for labor at ail skilled are m Industries having protection, and none at them pay any more than the market rate for labor, while alt strive to ap. propriate the entire tariff bounty to themselvel and give workmen no share. On the 11th of February, 1888, the Tribune said: In point of fact protected workmen ore the poorest paid town laborers in the United states, and the more highly protected the factories are the less the wages. \ On the 6th of January, 1888, the Tribune

said: > 1 New England has two strongly distinguished classes of population—tarirt-proteoted monopolists and ooupon-ollppers so rich that they don t know how to spend their money, and pauper faotory hands who never get a oent e worth of protection out of the tend. The Herald might multiply these quotations almost without number, but the above will suffice. A campaign is on, Jim Blaine has winked and bis servitors in all parts of the country have put their consciences to sleep. The monopolies are to be saved again, and the Chicago Tribune is foremost in the fight in their behalf.