Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — COSTS TO CALL OUT TROOPS. [ARTICLE]

COSTS TO CALL OUT TROOPS.

Soldiering ia a ooatly bnaineaa to the State. The two regiments recently sent to the coke regions at an expense of oxer S2OOO a daO already aggregate abont $20,. 000. Judge Black once said it wonld be cheaper to pay laboring men the advance wages demanded ont of the state treasury than to send soldiers to quell stirkes.— The capitalists and railroad companies make most of the money out of the coal business, and jus now they are fighting the tax bill before the legislature beoause it requires them to pay something nearer a fairer proportion of taxes. They want the State to protect them against the lawless Huns they imported some years ago, because they would work cheaper than Americans, Irish, Germans and others.— But at the same time these big coal and transportation companies insist upon the farmers continuing to pay more than their proper share of taxes, although they never ask or require any police protection from the State. —Meadvule (Pa.) Messenger. While the Camegies are an oppressive, grinding terror to their poor employes, they are an expensive luxury to the State. At the moment of his presentation of a $1,000,000 edifice* to the cityl of New Tork Carnegie was requiring an expenditure of $20,000 by the state to reduce to submission his starving workmen in the ceks regions.