Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — CARNEGIE’S GREAT STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

CARNEGIE’S GREAT STRIKE.

A strike in sixty iron mills, involving between 80,000 and- 40,000 operatives, is imminent. The workmen evidently believe that the tariff is a question of wages—Cleveland Press (People’s party). The most imposing and impressive Cleveland meetings of the campaign are now held daily and nightly by the thousands of employes of Mr. Carnegie’s steel works, near Pittsburg.—Philadelphia Times (Ind. Dem.). Can the Republicans show to the public any protected* industries which have advanced wages in consequence of the McKinley bill? If they can, they should lose no time in doing so.—Baltimore Sun. Mr. Carnegie has got all the protection he needs against foreign pauper labor. His fortress in Pittsburg is to protect him against American labor which refuses to be pauperized—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It would appear that the tariff does not enable Mr. Carnegie to pay snch wages to his workingmen as they think themselves entitled to, or if it enables him to do so, he prefers to put the money into his own pocket.—Omaha WorldHerald (Ind.). If, in spite of a heavy tax to support the doctrine of protection, wages may be cut down the same as in an every-day free trade country, what benefit is it to the working people aside from the general pleasure of contributing to the tax? Kansas City Star (Ind.). As an illustration of Mr. Harrison’s pet theory that a highly protected industry always results in an increase of income for the grimy toiler, and that, therefore, the grimy toiler ought to vote the Republican ticket, this little incident will serve a valuable purpose.— New York Herald (Ind.). Mr, Carnegie’s firm will not yield a cent to the demand of laborers for the increased pay McKinleyism was to give them, but their contribution to the Harrison campaign fund will be handsome. Carnegie believes in McKinleyr ism. It batters his bread if it doesn’t butter the bread of American artisans. Chicago Times. A protective tariff, if nothing else, is a sneaking scheme of granting bonuses. Like all forms of indirect taxation, it was devised first to blind and then rob its victim. Bounties as promoters of industry and raisers of wages are more effective, when directly distributed, than the tariff, since there can be no doubt as to their recipient, while there is a grave suspicion that the money made from the tariff travels no farther than the treasury of protected barons like Carnegie.—Chicago Herald.