Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 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 t’be Renublicanjfalseh' od that the Democratic party is responsible for present labor tro abler. Rejecting the Governor s miserly contribut o i 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 th in. Lerhaps the miners would have dom- better to have pocketed the eontri but-on as a small recompense for the in jur; that protectiouism has dine them, but their action is i. stiffed beerftise of the violent misrepresentation of Republican politicians who imagine that miners can n< t penetrate the hypocrisy of protection pleas. Protection is responsible forthe impor tatioa of foieign laborers to crush native miners, and for the pauperization of wages in i lie coal and coke regions. With a high tari d 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 yearsof high tariffs wages have steadily deer- used until Ulmer the culmination of protection atrociti -s there is an unrest and a business depression unequalled in a score of years. ’J he miners are n t to be deceived by the by ocritical sympathy and subterfuges ot the McKinley press. With a full understanding of the condition of labor at the end of thir'y years’ of protectionism, and the evils of Republican tariff an 1 financial legislation a plain matter of re ord “the locating of causes and effect in thi succession of evils crowding on the heels of the Cleveland administrating since its inauguration is us easy as repeat ing the alphabet from A to Z, and those who re so s upid 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 xepu lican form of government. ”to quote from an esteemed contemporary.—Lafay. e te Journal.