Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1891 — DOWN GO WAGES, UP GO PRICES. [ARTICLE]

DOWN GO WAGES, UP GO PRICES.

Not long ago some of the leading organs of McKinleyism made the announcement in their news columns that wages had been largely reduced in Mr. C ruegie’s Ed gar Thomson Steel Works. The Iron Age, giving some of the details, stated that the melters were to get 65 cents per 100 tons, instead of $1,06; that the vessel renairers would get 26 cents instead of 30 cents per 100 tons; that the ladle men were to get 89 cents instead of $1,19 per 100 tons; that vessel men were reduced about 50 per cent, and that “other departments have been reduced m proportion.” Since then the New York Tribune and other McKinley organs have printed a disp * r ch fiom Pittsburg, Pa., saying that the laborers in J ones A Lafiin’s mills have been subjected to a reduction of wages. “Heretofore the men have been receiving $1,50 tor ten hours’ work and $1,35 ior nine hours’ work.— Now they will have to work te.. hours and receive only $1,35 for it.” The dispatch adds that about eight hundred men refused to go to work under this cut. it ts not entirely irrelevant to state that the Jon?s of this firm is the ex-chairman of the McKinley republican national committee. About simultaneously with the publication of these items of news we find in the Iron Age and elsewhere statements to the effect that the trusts and kindred combinations to control the markets are either advancing prices or holding them firm. These statements relate to the iron and steel trades as well as to the glass and pottery trades. Thus from high tariff sources we may learn to appreciate the claim of the McKi ley philosophers that putting higher duties on iron, steel, etc., forces down the prices of these articles produced in this country, and thus enables the producers to pay higher wages to their men. isut we may not, without slandering sombody’s state and exhibiting to some minds a de ficie> cy in patriotism, indulge a suspicion that the “captai. s of industry” in the neighborhood ot Pittsbu g put up or keep up prices and reduce wages in order to coup the fat which wos fried out of them for the greasing of Mr. M Kinley’s Ohio Herald. “One tonoh of Nature makes the whole world kin.” Diseases common to the race compel the search for a common remedy. It is found in Ayer’s 8 rsaparilla, the reputation of which is worldwide, having largely superseded every other blood medicine in use.