Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — Theory and Practice. [ARTICLE]

Theory and Practice.

We stand for a protective tariff because it represents the American home, the American fireside, the American family. —William McKinley at Republican National Convention, June 8, 1892. On all imports coming into competition with the products of American labor there should be levied dudies eqval to the difference between wages abroad and at home. — Republican Platform, June 9,1892. They ask whether I consider the McKinley bill just to the poor. Well, I should say so. A bill which has for its object the aiding of the poor by raising their wages, it seems to me, is a just one.— Ex-Speaker Reed at Buffalo, Oct. 15,189 ff

Pittsburg, June 12. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel W orkers has received from the Carnegie Steel company, limited, of Homestead, the firm’s scale for work in the ensuing year. In the open hearth furnaces the firm calls for a reduction of 19 per cent, from the present rate and in the armor plate department 20 per cent, of the old basis. In the plate mill the minimum is reduced from 825 to 122, and in this mill there is also a general reduction of 26 to 50 per cent. It is thought that there will be no change in the price for puddling. The rate is now (5.50 per ton and there is little support to a movement to advance it to (6.s6.— Associate! Press Dispatch.

CARNEGIE TO PRESIDENT HARRISON. The American people know a good thing whan they get ft. Heartiest congratulations. You deserve this triumph.—Andrew Carnegie, at Sunningdale, Scotland, June It was the McKinley bill that was to keep up the prices of labor. But why til these strikes?—Hartford Times.