Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — WAR IN PENNSYLVANIA. [ARTICLE]

WAR IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Yesterday’s papers brought news I of a beautiful riot in Pennsylvania. As our McKin’ev contemporary said in its. lurid headlines, it was only the old story of “men driven from their work by maddened Huns and Slavs who marcheu from place to place app*ying the torch and committing all kind* of excesses.” These men are the constituents of air. Brosins, who said, in ducussing the coal tax the other day, that “free coal would leave his constituents naked and defenseless.” In discussing these remarkable words, we called attentian to the feet tuat those constituents had always been paid miserable wages, and that American labor in the Pennsylvania mines had been largely displaced by foreigners. And now we find that this new outbreak, which is only the last of a lo ig line of similar occurrences, is the work of Hans and Slava.

Such things as this revea: the frightful hypocrisy of the whole firotection business. American abor is uniformly sacrificed to the cupidity of American capital. We tax the |necessarie«i of life, whioh American labor must have, at the highest rate, and thosefin whose interests these scandalous taxes are levied, import Huns and Slavs by the shipload to take the places of Americans who have bdtn guilty of the crime of thinking that they were entitled to|some of the benefits of protection. We keep out the gooas and let in the linn who produce them, and call that protection of American labor.— More than that, we ruin foreign industries, so that the men who are thrown out of employment in Germauy and England and Russia have to oome and do come to this country, and so depress the labor market. Whereupon the MoKinlevites go into raptures of delight. We think American laborers understand how they have been swindled. And we believe that they understand whit Mr. Brosiut means when he whines about his constituents. Tb »y are Huns and Slavs who have been brought hare by t' e millionaires who ere vow bullying Congress in the hope that th»y can foroe it to tax clothes and warrn'h in their pwn iuterest.News, republican.