Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — SHANKLIN COMPLIMENTS CONN [ARTICLE]

SHANKLIN COMPLIMENTS CONN

On His Recent Utterances on the Tariff and His Appeal to Manufacturers to Keep Their Mills Itunuing. Evansville Courier, Aug. 5 Congressman Conn, o. eof t e larg nt manufacturers in the state, is also a student and thinker. In a recent interview he declares in favor of free trade in these words: “The revision of the tariff will come after the financial issue has been met.— The Democratic party certainly intends to change our tariff policy. As a manufacturer, I confess that I believe in a thorough change of the tariff policy in this country. Under juesent conditions the confidence in a lormantnt home market concentrates capital, narrows the field of American ingenuity and allows combinations to fix prices. My ideai< that the wall should be thrown down and our manufacturing industries put upon their own resources. These are abundant, and we can meet the. rest of the world of com. petitors and beat them." Mr. Conn is not only a free trader and a believer in the superiority of American workmen, but he has solved the labor problem in bis own great establishment by dividing his annual profits with his employes. The first vear he divi ed $9,000 last year he divided $22,000 among his employes, while hisfown profits were as large as ever, and the product of his factory absolutely perfect. Mr. Conn was interviewed in Washington week before 1 st nd urged all manufacturers to make sacrifices if necessary to keep their mills running that their employes might not feel the stress of the times. Hera is a Democrat and a citizen Indianiahs should be pjoud to claim.