Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — That Sheltering Umbrella. [ARTICLE]

That Sheltering Umbrella.

Nothing funnier has appeared since the election than President Harrison’s remark that “protection has failed because the wage-earner has refused to share his shelter with the manufacturer; he would not even walk under the same umbrella.” Considering that the operatives in the protected industries do not constitute more than one-twentieth of the working population, the assumption that their action decided the election is quite amusing in itself. But when the mind pictures the strikers at Homestead, nine-tenths of whom were paid less than $2 a day, “refusing to share their shelter” with Andrew Carnegie, wbo had pulled out more than 91,000,000 a year in profits, the comicality suggests its own cartoon. Mr. Harrison perhaps failed to notice the fact that 91,250,000 was contribted to his campaign fund by the protected “millionaires of Pennsylvania alone to preserve the tariff which they had paid for and made. Does the President really think this payment was pure philanthropy, toenable the paternal plutocrats to hold an umbrella over the wage-earners?— New York World,.