Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Give the Boys a Chance. [ARTICLE]

Give the Boys a Chance.

Not the least injury from unrestricted immigration is the gradual closing ■of tho trades to American boys. It is a curious faot that the trades unions, whoso leaders’ main object is to prevent tho ranks of tho workers from becoming overcrowded, agitate much, more strenuously against admitting apprentices than they do against admitting foreign workmen. Mr. Auchmuty, whoso trade schools! in New York have had a good object and excellent motheds, has met with; constant resistance to his attempts to keep the boys out of idleness anil vice' by equipping them with trade skill. On the other hand, one hoars only of woak and occasional attempts to enforce the contract labor law. A report of tho New York Commissioner of Labor quotes a Hungarian mechanic, who was about to return to his mother country, as saying: “I go back to Hungary a rich man. There I live like a bdron. I got marriod and enjoy myself for all my trials here. * * * Capital in America wants protection. America had better Froteot its uativo-born poor workman. have got enough for myself. Now I can toll the truth." Why Bhould not tho Bons of our citizens have at loaßt as good an opportunity to oompete in the labor market as tho foreigner? Give tho Amorican boy a chance.— Youth’s Companion.