Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — ANARCHISTIC METHODS OF PROTECTION. [ARTICLE]

ANARCHISTIC METHODS OF PROTECTION.

The truth comeß to the surface occasionally. Not verv long ago there was a strike in a factory down in New Jersey. It was more of a lockout than a strike, as will presently appear. The industrial “captains" of the factory cut wau g p s and the opeiatives struck. That was just w. at the “captains” wanted. -Presently Senator Smith, of New Jersey, one of the Hill..Gorman crowd, appeared on the scene. There was a conference between the “captains,” the operatives and the senator. 'the senator stated that he would do what lie couid to have the particular industry concerned cared for in the tariff bill. Thereupon the “ca; tains” told the men that they could go to work 8t the cld wages and the strike was ended.

The “ca'tains” had accomplished their purpose. They had made sure of a “democratic” senator. How they had do ie it is suggested by the statement that the senator was entertained at a banquet by th<-m the night before the conference with the operatives. They had their senator, at all events, and tney improved the opportunity to | impress it upon the minds of the ra-n that their wages depended on the tai iff. How well they succeeded does not appear. But when they resumed, paying tl e old wages and that there had been no reason for the cut except they wisned to influence legislation. What was true of these N. w Jersey mill bosses is equally true of oilier bosses throughout the country. They have cut wages right and left, provoked their men to strike, and sought iu every way to increase the deDression and distress necessarily following the sil-ver-protection panic. They have done thisto deceive their employes and frighten weak-kneed and tim- | id congressmen into giving them j whatever tariff they askeu for to j minister to their greed. Most of them have been careful not to

“give themselves,'away” so openly ae the>r blew Jersey co-laborers did, but their motive is plain enough to anyone who can see just & lit le. These meu aro using the method of the anarchists—making the situation as bad as they can, intolerable if possible, to influence action Dy congress and opinion out of congress for their own personal gain. Fattened on tariff spoil, they can afford to let their works lie idle for months, or so long as there is any chanoe of securing more spoil than the pending bill allows them. And they are ably seconded in carrying out this anarchistic programme of insatiable greed by the McKiuley press of the country. The way to put an end to this heartless and cruel mode of influencing egislation is to legislate; choke off the republican senators who are employing the methods of anarchy in a double sense, and pass the tariff bill, such as it is, and have done with it. The factories will open when there is no longer a hope of perpetuating the McKinley robber system by keeping them closed. —Chicago Herald.

No law ever met a more bitter political opposition than the new tax law of Indiana. As soon as the legislature adjourned the republican papers, which had opposed its passage, began denouncing it in tha iuost exaggerated terms, and the next republican convention “arraigned the democratic party of Indiana for enacting an unequal and unjust tax law,” and pledged the party to pass a law “whiah shall place a just share of the public burden on capital and incorporate property.” In every way the republican managers endeavored to deceive the peon pie as to the effect of the law, even going to the extreme|of increasing local taxes, wherever they had convrol, to an aggregate amount of a million and a h*lf of dollars, and claiming the increase was due to the tax law. The recent state platform also condemns the law, and, on behalf of the democratic party, we accept the issue most he. rtily The democratic party stands by tlie tax law.—lndianapolis Sentinel.