Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — An Awkward Coincidence. [ARTICLE]

An Awkward Coincidence.

It is too bad that almost on the very day Major McKinley delivered his beautiful peroration about the protective tariff “securely shielding American labor from the degrading competition of the old world” the Trades and Labor Assembly of Chicago should find that many women.in that city "are- working; twelve or thirteen hours daily for 8150 per week. Perhaps it would be a wise plan, since protective tariffs are such good things, to let Chicago have one all by herself. Her women might then be able to earn $2 per week. — Louisville CourierJournal.