Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — MINERS’ REBUKE TO McKINLEY. [ARTICLE]

MINERS’ REBUKE TO McKINLEY.

The striking coal miners of McKinley’s home county are not to be misled by the that the Democratic party is responsible for present labor troubler. Rejecting the Governor’s miserly contribution of ten dollars to their relief fund, the Stark county miners say that they “emphatically refuse to accept a ‘mite’ from the hand that assisted’in smiting tlvm. Perhaps the miners would have done better to have pocketed the contri bution as a small recompense for the in jury that protectionism has dene them, but their action is justified because of the violent misrepresentation of Republican politicians who imagine that miners can net penetrate the hypocrisy of protection pleas. Protection is responsible fortheimpor tation of foreign laborers to crush native miners, and for the pauperization of wages in the i o>il and coke regions. With a high tariff on coal, the protected operators have been able to compel terms and pocket the difference .n addition to the profits given them by the duty. In thirty years of high tariffs wages have steadily decn ased until nnder the culmination of protection atrocities there is an unrest and a business depress'on unequalled in a score of years. The miners are n t to be deceived by the by ocritical sympathy and subterfuges of the McKinley press. With a full understanding of the condition of labor at the end of thirty years’ of protectionism, and the evils of Republican tariff and fi-iancial legislation a plain matter of record “the locating of causes and effect in th< succession of evils crowding on the heels of the Cleveland administration since its inauguration is as easy as repeat ing the alphabet from A to Z, and those who re so stupid as to be unable to discern the responsibility for the country’s present afflictions are deserving to be regarded as also lacking in intelligence to a degree which ought to disqualify them from participation in the privileges of a repu lican form of government, ”to quote from an esteemed contemporary.— Lafayette Journal.