Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Debit These to McKinley. [ARTICLE]

Debit These to McKinley.

It will be remembered that the McKinley bill was to boom business, raise wages, kill trusts, etc. The following few of the more than one hundred items on the debit side of the McKinley account for another week show how the bill is getting in its work: May 15. To the report that all the tanners of the United States have signed an agreement to curtail production 50 per cent, for tho next four months by shutting down all tanneries for two months. May 17. To the report that Carnegie, Phipps & Go., Carnegie Bros. & Co, and the Keystone Bridge Co. will consolidate July 1 under tho name of “The Carnegie Steel Company.” The combined capital will be $10,700,00(1. It will be the chief of the great iron and-steel concerns and will make it easy for all to sustain present high prices and exorbitant profits. ■ _ ilay 19. To a report, in the Iron Age, that an attempt is being made at Pittsburg to form a new trust of all the plate-glass factories in America. May 19. To notices in the Journal of the Knights of Labor advising laborers to stay away from Pineville, Ky., because the miners there are on a lockout against a reduction of wages; from LaCrosse, Wis., because a serious lockout in the sawmills lias thrown hundreds out of employment; from Wardner, Idaho, because of the strike at the Cocur d’Alene silver and lead mines against a reduction of wages; from Tarkio, Mo., because wages have been greatly reduced; from Little Rock aud Argenta, Ark., because the cotton mills are shutting d(nvn and the railroads are laying off men. Sixteen other similar jijtices appear in this same journal. 21. To the report from Detroit, Mich., that 150 girls employed in the pearl buttpn factory there are on strike against a reduction in wages. The factory was started soon after the passage of the McKinley bill, and was visited by Governor MoKinley at the time of the Michigan Club banquet on Feb. 22 last. The girls who were making $3.50 a week will now be able to make only $3. Instead of striking, these poor girls should petition Congress to raise the 400 per cent, duty on pearl buttons to above 1,000 per cent, to enable the manufacturers to pay good wages, you know.