Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — Studying the Tariff. [ARTICLE]

Studying the Tariff.

Suppose this strike is averted, and suppose we go back to work at our old wages—if such a thing were possible—hasn’t the firm shown that it means to cut down our wages instead of raising them, or even keeping them up to the former mark? Wouldn’t they be compelled to give in this time just because it is a Presidential year and they wanted our votes? That game might have been played years ago, but it won’t go down now. My, we are all reading Henry George’s works now. A year or two ago we wouldn’t have been seen touching one of them. Now every man is reading them and talking about them... Twenty thousand copies of Henry George’s “Protection or Free Trade?” of the Congressional Record edition have been asked for by members of the Amalgamated Association for distribution where they will be read. Of course, the political changes in our ranks may not make much of a hole in the Republican majority in Pennsylvania, but they will be quite effective in. Ohio, and in some towns there, such as Youngstown, they will count mightily. These places may make Ohio Democratic.—A Homestead striker.