Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — JUDGE BALDWIN'S VIEWS. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE BALDWIN'S VIEWS.

Judge Baldwin contributes an artiole on the Homestead strike in a reoent issuj of the Inaianapolis News, in which ha exposes the fallacies of protection as applied to wages He says: “Thirty years ago Mr. Carnegie wai without a cent. The United States Government said to him: ‘lf you will manufacture iron and steel we will find you n market. We will oompel our oitizens tu buy of you, and If they attempt to purchase cheaper elsewhere we vill flue Them.' 4 “Agreed," said Carnegie, and he has mada ¥40,000,000 out of this partnership.--Msde it how? By the Government’s fore-• stalling and controlling our iron and steel market in Mr. Carnegie's interest. How about his workingmen? What ha* the United States ever done for them?— Not a thing except s .y "root hog or die.'* It has left them to Carnegie's tends? mercy. Mr. Carnegie and party that mad,« him rioh say: “Bat see the wages I pay tu my men." That requires ua to examine how he came to pay them. HU men. finding the Government did nothing for them, out let the Dagos and the offsoouring of the old world to oompete witi. them, have gone to work and organized a, self-ptotucting company called “Tha Amalgamated Iron Association,” and bymeans of combination have compelled Oernegie to pay the wages he is now seeking to reduoe by filling his mills with “scabs." Are these high wages the offspring of protective tariff? Not at all,— They are the result of a rival influence and organization among hie workmen, the object of which is to compel an equitable division of his profits. Tha United States Government is on Carnegie’s side. Publio opinion is with the under dog in th s fight—the men who are ■eekinß to compel Mr. Carnegie to give them a share in his profits of 92.000,000 p*r year Where did Carnegie’s ¥40,000,000 come from? From the tax-ridden • people of the United States? His wealth represents a forced oonscription, at the buok of which is the United States government. Tfiere is something monstrously wrong in legislation that allows any man to make ¥40,000,000 by fort ing and keeping up the prioe of as neoessary an artiole of life ae iron and steel.” The Monon will ran a World's Fair exeursiou to Chicago Sunday, July 31. The fare for the round trip from Rensselaer will be only ¥1 00. Tickets will be good returning until and including August Ist. Carpets very cheap, at I. J. PoMtfu’a. TIiUBTEE'B NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that I will be at my office at John A. Knowltoo’s, in Joidun township, oi the Fourth Saturday of eaoh month for the transaction of business connected with tb i duties of Trurtee. JAMES H. CARE, Trustee Jordan Township |