Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — Take the Premium. [ARTICLE]

Take the Premium.

Tne Greencastle Banner-Times is offering its democratic contemporary a premium for citing any cases of advanced wages before the late election —which is a base scheme to induce the c ntemporary aforesaid to waste his time. — Indianapolis Journal. To which the Indianapolis Sentinel promptly re) lies: “Sure enough! All the democratic contemporary needs to do to take that premium is to reprint the follow* ing list of increast & of wages published in the Sentinel of Nov. 3, 1893, and which had fallen under the Sentinel’s notice during the campaign:

Sept. 26. New York sweat shop workers win strike, with increase of pay and a teu-hour day. Sept. 28. Philadelphia, Reading & New Englan 1 railroad comp ny gives notice of 15 per cent, increase of wages, to take effect Nov. 1. Sept. 29. New Cumb’land woolen mills increased wages 10 per cent. Oct. 4. Boston sweat 'shop workers win strike for increase of pay and nine-hour day. Oct. 14. Lake carriers’ association, controlling the shipping of the great lakes, advance wages of all employes $5 to 87 per month. Oct 15. Philadelphia shirt makers win strike and get 10 per cent advance in wa f es. Oct 18. Philadelphia, Jas. Baker, manufacturer of woolen and cotton mill machinery, increases wages or all employes 82 per week. Oct. 22. North Adams, Bldckinton mills resume work at 10 per cent, increase of wages. Oct. 24. riocheco mills, Dover, N. H., give notice of increase of 5 per cent., taking effect from Oct 15.

Oct 24. Broad Brook mills give notice of advance of 12| ner cent, to take effect Nov. 1 Oct. 25. Newark, NJ., hatmakers win strike, including advance of wages. Oct 29. Indianapolis stove company advances wages of all employes 5 per cent. Oct. 30. Chicago cornicemakers win strike and go to work at old wages with eight-hour day. Jet. 31. Newburg, N. Y., hatmakers receive advance of wages with promise of second raise in six months. Nov. 2. Wood & Brown, brushmakers, Indianapolis, raise wages 10 per cent. There were probably a great many instances that did not fall under the notice of the Sentinel,

but these suffice to show that increases were going on in all lines of business Some of them, such as the N-w York, Boston and Philadelphia sweat-shop workers and the Lake carriers’jassociatiou, in olnde a large number of establishments. In addition to these, to which the Sentinel called attention at the time, the following are a few more named by the tariff committee of the New York reform club, all of which occurred in 1894, prior to the election: Sept. 4. S. W. Korn & (Jo., New York, advance of 20 per cent. Sept. 4. Lowell manufacturing company, Boston, restere reduction made in 1898. Sept. 6. Rowitzer Bros., Stafford Springs, Conn., advance of 25 per cent. Sept. 27. Riverside knitting mills Cohoes, N. Y., restore ieduotion. Oct. 5. Glazer, Frame <V Co., cigars, Reading, Pa., advance of $1 per 1,000.7 Oct. 4. Woodstock mills, Nor*, ristown, Pa., advance of 10 per cent.

Oct. 12. North Adams manufacturing! Co., Braytonville, Mass., advance of*s per cent. Oct. 15. Cdhoos mills, Dover, N H., advance of 5 per cent. Oct. 19. Pontoosuc woolen company, Pittsfield, Mass., advance of 5 per cent. Oct 20. Briggsville woolen mills North Adams, Mass., advance of 8 per cent. Oct. 24. Carrie furnace company, Pittsburg, Pa., advance of 7 per cent., affecting 5,000 employes. Oct. 25. Krakauer piano coms pany, New York, advance of 5 per cent.| Oct. 25. Alexander Crow, jr., Philadelphia, advance of 10 per cent., affecting 400 employes. If any other republican papers want to offer premiums for instances of advances of wages after the passage of the new tariff law, Aug, 27, 1894, and before the election in November, let them issue their list at cnee. On account of the Battle Ground Camp Meeting, the Monon Route will sell tickets July 29th to August 12th, good returning until August 15th, nt the ra’e of $1.60 for the round trip.

John Adams wrote to his wife on the day following the close of the deliberations when it was decided to absolve allegiance to Great Britain. In that letter he said: “Yesterday the greatest question v as decided which ever was debated m America, and a greater perhaps never was nor will be dec’ded among men. * * * The 2d day of July 1776 (on which the declaration was agreed upon, though not signed), will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. lam apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be so’emnized with pomp and parade-, with shows, games, sports, bells, bonfire-s and illuminations from one end of this land to the other, from this time forward forevermore. You will think me transported with emhusiasm, but 1 am not. lam well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to defend these states. Y,l through all the gloom 1 can seethe rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see'that thu end is more than worth all the means, and that poss tenty will triumph in to-day’s transaction, even though we sho’d rue i , which 1 trust in God we shill not. Austin, Hollingsworth & Co., last December, bought what is known as the Stout ranch, in this county, for $13,000, and a few days ago disposed of it for the sum of 826,000-

Miss Anna Scott, who has been visiting relatives and acquaintances in Rensselaer, on Thursday left for her home, Great Bend, Kansas. “Where is hell?" inquires an exchange. If you are a universalist, look for i within the lines of party if this industrial prosperity keei s up a little longer. “Will it last?" asks the N. Y. Tribune regarding the brisk business revival under Democratic rule Yes; it will last, and in spite of all the calamity cries of republican organs. It may be a bitter pill, gentlemen, but you will have to swallow it!