Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1888 — Page 3

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1888. 8

BULLDOZING IIIS EMPLOYES.

MILLIONAIRE ATKINS IS DESPERATE. i De Pi sell arge t Four Efficient Men Bmom They are Democrat, aad Make Some Vgj Threats The Affidavit of One of the Victim The Law. On the 10th day of July a letter from E. C. Atkins, the well known saw manufacturer of thia city, wa printed in Tn . Bextweu In this letter Sir. Atkins, among other things, said: The men who are ia ray employ belong to my fraternity, so to speak. They are gentlemen, worthy of good treatment by gentlemen, and can answer this charge (that of threatening them with diachar,)in a manner satisfactory to me. J do not emptoy men on Hie bust of polxiic, and do not know what ticket large numbers of the men rote. I do know that they are not all democrats, and seme who are democrats are cot tariff-for-reyenue-only democrats. I do expect that our works will poll a strong rote for Ben Harrison next November, and don't you forget it. To answer the charge for myself, I say no! J could not ttoop to low. To illustrate, I may mention that the saw-maker longest in my employ is a democrat The employe next longest with tu la a stanch republican, fonht through the war for the old flajj, and is as true as steel i to his country. He deserves of his country a liberal pension, too. Again, we have a distinguished democrat with as, and for aught I know a member of the democratic club you speak of. He was a skillful workman, distinguished himself as a worker for his party, left our employ of his own accord, was rewarded by the suffrage of his party with a seat in the common council, and by a democratic administration with a lucrative post, but for some cause his democratic employer came to the conclusion he could do without him, and he applied to us for work. We pay him hia hard-earned wages every Saturday. Mr. Atkins, it seems, according to this statement, on July 10 "did not employ men on the basis of politics," and wad not able to "stoop go low" as to threaten men with loss of employment on account of their political views. It appears, however, from the following atiidavit, filed yesterday, that he has changed his plan, and that he proposes now to employ men on the basis of politics, and that he ha not only "Ftooped ho low" a3 to threaten hia men with discharge on account of their political views, but has even stooped lower and discharged them: tate of Indiana. Marlon County, ss: Randall J. Abratns, bring duly sworn, on his oath lays that he is now and for seven years last past has been a resident of the city of Indianapolis. That for more than five years rast he lias been employed at the saw works of tL C. Atkins & Co., and for three years past Las been foreman of one of the departments In that establishment. That on the 13th day of September, 1SSS, said E. C. Atkins x Co. notified affiant that he would be discharged from their employment two weeks from that date, and that affiant's brother who was also an employe, would be discharged at the same time. That affiant at the time of receiving said notice asked E. C Atkins, the president of aaid company, if thin discharge was baaed upon any neglect of duty or inttücieney or incompetency upon affiants' part. That said Atkins answered that the affiant's eerrices had been entirely satisfactory, but that the discharge was for the reason that atEants were not iu sympathy, politically, with the members of said firm. fbuit said Atkins further said: "I am going to make a desperate fiht in this campaign, and am coin.: to commence in this way. If Harrison and Morton are elected, I may forgive some f the re$t of the boys; but if they are not, I will diacharce all the , democrats in the employ of the company; that on the 24th day of September, ISSi, Mr. Atkins gave affiant the following recommendation: INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 24, 16-S8. This is to certify that Mr. Randau J. Abrami has been ia our employ during nve years past, and we have found him trustworthy and laithfui in the perlormance of his duties. - ' E.-C. Atkins A Co. By E. C. Atkins, President. That several weeks prior to affiant's discharge, Barney Daugherty and Thomas Woolen, who had been for a long time in the employ of said E. C. Atkins i Co., were both Ui.v charged, and said E. C. Atkins, at the time said to affiant that he discharged Daugherty and Woolen because they were democrats. It. .1. Aerams. Subscribed to and sworn before me, this, lit day of October, 1SS& W. W. Roberts, seal. Notary Public The man who makes the foregoing affidavit i3 a gentleman of the highest character, a member in good standing of the church of which Mr. Atkins is an official and has been for several years in the latters service in a responsible capacity. His statement upon any subject would not be questioned by any one who knows him, whether sworn to or not. It would appear from this affidavit that Mr. Atkins, according to his own admission, has now discharged lour of his employes because they were democrats, and that he is trying to intimidate the rest of his democratic employes into supporting the free-whisky-monopoly-tax ticket by threatening to discharge every one of them if Cleveland and Thurman are elected. The Sentinel has the names of three other concerns in this city which have discharged, or threatened to discharge. men in their service because they refuse to support Harrison and Morton. The evidence fixing these offense upon them will be produced in due time. The Sentinel proposes to print conspicuously the name of every employer in Indiana who resorts to such illegitimate methods to influence the political action of workingmen. Every democratic paper in the United States will, it is hoped, reproduce the facts, to the end that democrats all over the country mav govern themselves accordingly in making their purchases of such goods as are produced by the offending firms, individuals or corporations. The law bearing on this eubjoct, being ßec. 277 of "an act against public offenges" passed in 1881, is as follows: "Whoever, for the purpose of influencing a Toter, seeks, by violence or threat of violence, or threats to enforce the payment of a debt, or to eject or threaten to eject from any house he may occupy, or to begin a criminal prosecution, or to injure the business or trade of any elector, 'or, if aa employer of laborers, or an azentof inch employer, threatens to withhold the wages of; or to dismiss from the service, any laborer in bis employment, or refuses to any such employe time to attend at the place of election and rote, shall be fined not more than one thousand nor less than twenty dollars, and imprisoned in the state prison not more than five years nor less than one year, and disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office of trust or profit for any determinate period. NEGRO IMPORTATION. Bow the Republican Managers Are Preptr. Tn Skxtixel has repeatedly of late called attention to the wholesale importation of republican negroes into the state for the illegal purpose of voting on election day. liemdes their audacity in bringing them by hundreds on special trains they have a scheme to get them packed like sardines into Indianapolis. Kvcry delegation that comes to visit Gen. Harnlon liaa ouite a number of negroes. If anyone will take the trouble to notice ft crowd from another state as it comes in mtA 9u it trnrm nut it will tie Keen that a v majority of the colored delegates have vn lost in ine cuy. in one prrciuc yassed recently forty-five more of fj wr found than belonged there. ( 800 have been located in Marion .y. Last Friday and Saturday two I from Chicago landed 500 in the lern part of the state. Vo Ararat. - Kassian savants. Prof. Mark off and ofl, accompanied by six guides, mein reaehiD the top of Great Ararat in I week of August, lhey erected a ! tie summit in commemoration of the

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THE SENATE TARIFF BILL WAS THE WORK OF THE MAJORITY, Without the Sanction of the Minority A Document in Favor of Monopolies From liegt nnm;r to EndBoth Ileportson the Bill. WASXIINGTOX, Oct. 4. The minority and majority reports of the finance committee on the senate tariff bill were presented in the senate this afternoon, and, with Mr. Beck's Tiews, ordered printed. The report of the minority makes a document of twelve printed pages. It begins with the statement that in the preparation of the substitute for the houte bill no member of the minority of the committee was consulted or informed as to its provisions until it wai reported to the full committee on Sept. 25. The minority recites the work of the subcommittee in hearing the "statements, arguments and appeals of manufacturers and others who demand that the present high rate of tariff taxation shall be maintained, and in most instances, prompted, not by any revenue necessities, but alone for the purpose of increasing their own profits at the expense of 00,000,000 tax-payers." Continuing, they say: "It is safe to say that all the interests benefited by a high protective tari'Jf have been fully heard and nave had much influence in shaping this substitute, while the great body of the people, the tax-payers and victims of this policy, have not been heard." It is then said that the short time that the substitute has been in the bands of the minority has made it difficult to ascertain its effect, but the essential dill'erence between the house bill and the senate substitute is apparent and radical at the outset in the matter of revenue. The one is framed in the interest of the public treasury; the other in the interest of private pockets. The one is framed in the interest of the whole people; the otlier in the interest of 300,Oix manufacturers. The one is destined to reduce both government revenue and taxation, the taxation especially which hears heaviest on the necessaries of life; the other is intended not to raise public revenuer-, but to maintain private revenues by lncreaiuj and retaining taxation on ail the necessaries of life. The minority continues: "The advocates of the substitute freely propose to reduce duties or abolish thein on those things which yield only government revenue, but rei'use to reduce or abolish duties on those things w lach produce private revenue. I5ut the minority thinks it is safe to say that the chief reductions iti tariri taxations, as provided by the substitute, are confined to the articles of su?ar and rice, with jute and a few other unimportant articles put upon the free list, while there is an increase of duties imposed upon the multiform manufactures of cottcn, wool, iion and steel articles that the whole people, and especially the poor and most needy classes, are comp lied to use. The substitute relieves the non-necesary, tobacco, in all its forms, except cigars, cheroot and cigarettes, from internal taxation, and k'ives free alcohol to the arts. Practically, the substitute oilers to the people free whibky and tree tobacco, leaving all the expensive QiAcbiai cry for the collection of revenue and enforcement of the law in full force, while it increases taxation upon actual and Indispensable necessaries of life." To illustrate their point, the minority o ite the case of railway iron, where it is said the burden of tax is laid upon the entire trade oi the country ultimately to fall with crushing force upon the agriculturist. In this case, they say, the house bill made a great stride (or the farmer's relief when it reduced the tax to $11 per ton. The minority continues: "The rods out of which the farmer's iron fence ia made are not apparently changed in rate, but by various changes in clas.siiication, actual and important additional burdens are imposed. A reduction in the dutiable value from three and a half to three cents per pound weight accomplishes this. An additional size, number six, added without an apparent change of rat, does adroitly increase the rate paid on wire rods of this size from 45 per cent, to about 54 per cent, and is an increased tax on this one size of wire rods of ucarly three hundred thousand dollars upon the basis of the importation of 187, and there is added a proviso by which rods smaller than No. 6 are classified as wire, and thus effect a third distinct increa.se of tax in this one section and this is called part of a "system,' and rightly so called. bbel ingots, coed insrots, billets, bais, etc., now pay 45 per cent. Uuty if valued at less than four cents per pound. By the substitute, if valued at one cent or less, they are dutiable at cue-half cent per pound; and as some of these items were valued at seven-tenths of a cent per pound in the imports of 1837, the rate of one-half cent is an increase from 4 to over 70 per cent., and nearly a million dollars tax added by this one section. Cotton ties also receive their careful consideration. It is not enough that the most formidable and insolent trust which ever laid ita hands upon the throat of honest labor, threatening every clas, from the poor colored cotton picken whose few pounds of crop he could not pet to market fer lack of means to wrap it to the merchant and capitalist who bad advanced the necessaries of life to sustain that labor through the season. To these come the proposed revision, not with helping hand, but other burdens, and the cotton ties which their own friends had reduced to 3-3 per cent, in the tarilT of 1H3 (one of the bright cases in a desert of iniquity) they omit by name, but include in a new classification, so that instead of S5 per cent, it must pay according to the valuation of 1M7 over luo per cent., addine nearly a quarter million dollars to tax on the imported ties alone, all of which is a lous to the cotton producer. Even .with thii they are not content, but , rtill further tax the struggling agriculturist in this schedule by raiin the duties on tracechains, and all other kinds lees than three eighths of an inch thick, from '2lA centa which is equivalent to 44.t7 per cent, to 6 cents per pound, equivalent to a rate of 61.57 per cent. Can ingenuity go further? HThat tajryers iron should be raised from SO per cent, to 60 per cent.; that tsble cntlery for the poor should be raised by specilio rates added to ad valorem; that knives for the poor should be heavier taxed and made cheaper for the rich; that breech-loading shot guns should be made cheaper for the two-hundred dollar grade and dearer for the fifteen-dollar grade by making each pay $10 and 4.25 per cent, ad valorem; all these and more are no longer itartlingand prepare the mind for a thousand other inconsistencies and discriminations hidden by new and obscure classifications tijit only time and patient investigation will reveal. In the cotton schedule nain the great process of "leveling up" is called 5nto requisition, to what end or for what purpose, who cau say ? By changes in classification and by new subdivision, suil further complicating th ad-mlui

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i V &V6SS'tano a n u im (an tration, and by changes in rates, in effect principally increasing taies; most glaring inconsistencies and discriminations are perpetrated in thin so-called revisiou. In the woolen schedule the substitute not only retains a duty on rnvr wool, but increases the duty from 10 to 11 cents a pound on clothin? and common wool, and the existing duty is retained on carpet wools, which all parties acrree are not produced in this country, and the changes made in the manufactures of wool increases the taxation and to that extent increases the cost of the manufactured article, and especially the cheaper grades the clothing of the poor. The miuoritv criticises in a similar manner the lumber, salt and provision schedules, and then discusses the subject of "trusts" as follows: ' The present tarilT is tho nursing mother of trusts. It is the wall behind which these combinations are formed by which the people are plundered. Tarid' keeps out tue foreign competition and the combination suppresses the domestic, and the whole people are at their mercy and must pay whatever is demanded, language is inadequate to describe the iniquity of these corporations against the rights of the people or to depict their disastrous effects upon the general weliare. As the tariffs, which render trusts possible, are established aud maintained at the special instance of those who form them, it would seem but simple justice as well as good policy to tear down as much as possible of their cover and refuse to longer aid them in wrongdoing. They are not "private affairs." as has been asserted, but public evils of the gravest character, affecting the price of every article which contributes to the comfort and support of the people. The provisions of the substitute favor thcrn greatly, and will serve to encourage their formation in still other branches of manufacture. Many of those belonging to the trusts appeared before the finance committee, clamorous for such legislation as would promote their interests. They are all opposed to the house bill, which should commend it to all who condemn ihdr methods. It is bad enough to permit those who are most interested manufacturers to appear before our committee and suggest the legislation they wish, but surely we should not listen to the trusts and aid them to rob with both hands. The report then continues: "The minority can not pass by in silence the absurd accusation that the house bill means "iree trade," the ruin of industry," and the "degradation o American labor." These charges are as false as they are misleading. How the flow of surplus money into tn! treasury can be stopped without reducing the taxes which produce it no man can devise; how these taxes can be reduced without tnkin od from the top toward the bottom no imagination can conceive. Therefore, it would seem, no man can propose to rut oil excessive taxation without sub jecting himself to the charge of "free trade," because any reduction whatever "looks toward free trade." True government revenues might be reduced by making duties so high as to prohibit importauons altogether; but that is the other end of the road, which increases the taxes paid to private persons. If the lirst method of reduction leads to free trade the, other leads to free plunder, whih is worse. Republican presidents and secretaries of the treasury for) curs past have warned congr-si of the accumulating surplus and advised the reduction of taxs. Were they all free-traders, advising the destruction of industry and the degradation of labor? The finauce committee based its bill, which is the present law, upon the report of the tariff commission of and announced that it would reduce duties at least '20 per cent,; yet nil advocates of the house bill, which reduces only 5 percent, are free-trader, so denounced by those who in '83 proposed a out in duties four times as great It is safe to say that there is not a senator in this body, or a man in any way prominent in any way in the counsels of the republican party in the United States, who at one time or another, had not admitted the necessity of reducing taxes in order to stop the surplus. They are, therefore, free-traders, and desire the ruin of industry and the degradation of labor. The minority report respectfully submit that these are the enemies of American labor who supplant it with the labor of unnaturalized foreigners, whenever that can be obtained cheapest and who receive by the law of 47 per cent, from the consumer in trust for the American labor which makes their products, and fraudulently withhold more than half that trust fund from its owners, and who also lessen and restrict the amount of labor by limiting production and markets by tarius and trusts; and that those are its true friends who seek to shut oil' unnatural and heathen competition, enlarge its products and markets and to lessen for it the cost of the necessaries of life. The minority deny that tariff revision will reduce wages and conclude their report with the following remarks concerning free wool: "The minority are lirinly convinced that besides the incalculable advantage to the whole country which would result from the placing of wool upon the free list, it is easily demonstrable that no class will suffer, but that each will reap his share of the benefit. With a consumption of CaJ.O0O.000 pounds of raw wool in 16S7 and a population of 60,JUö,ÜlO, the average per capita consumption is easily reckoned at ten pounds, or tidy pounds to the average family of five persons, and the northern farmer, constantly exposed to the rigorsof our winters, consumes something more than the average. It requires from three to four pounds to make a pound of cloth so that from twelve to sixteen pounds of woolen clothing for the family will be seen to be a low average. This is now the taxed from 55 to nearly 90 per cent. The manufacturer is not benefited, because his finished product comes into competition with the foreign product made not only from untaxed wool, but cheaper wool. If the tax be taken off wool, we will import more wool, of course, and in no other way can our great factories prosper, because their capacity is beyond our own wool, production. When the factories are turning out more product the employes have steadier work and better wages and indirectly, of course, the whole country ia benefited. "Under tho house bill the manufacturers, with free wool, secure even a higher competitive advantage over the foreign than under the present law or substitute. The manufacturers will export woolen goodi as we now export cotton and leather, and the demand for the wool will better the wool market and enCourage increased production, while the average wool-grower himself will reap from cheapened doming more benefits than he ever did from a tax on his product, which he must himself pay. "The minority, therefore, dissenting from the report of the majority; commend to the senate and the country the bill of the house of representatives No. 9,001, as a measure for the reduction ot taxes based alike upon justice aud good policy. Isiiam O. Harris, "Z. It. Vance, "D. W. VOORHEES." "I concur In the above report, indorsing the house bill in respect to articles placed upon the free list, but desire some modifications in the dutiable list. J. It. McTimiso.V. Senator Beck, in a lupplemental and individual report, eulogizei the Mills bill and says tLat the senate i ubstituU aims In everj f eatuxt oi

it to increase the cost of goods to the home consumer and to close the marketi of the world against imports and exporu as well, except such as are clearly agricultural and have to be sold abroad for auy price they will brinsj in the free, open market with foreign competition. The object which the majority of the committee seek to attain ia the right to plunder the people. The present surplus in the treasury, be says, is not only needless, but dangerous and corrupting in all its tendencies; but it must continue to increase unless taxation is reduced. Senator Beck then proceeds to make various citations from the president's annual message and letter of acceptance, and says of the presideut: "lie, at least, will not be accused of evasion or cowardice in the presentation of his views and recommendations. If any president ever satisfied the American people that he subordinated private endi to public interests and had the courage to express his convictions regardless of personal consequences, President Cleveland in this message, in his veto of the dependent pension bill, and in his enforcement ot absolute integrity in the conduct of pub'.io offices, high and low, has satisfied them that he is acting with an eye ingle to the puldio good." Continuing, Mr. Beck says the time has come when even the colored men in the cotton-fields owe to themselves to ask Gen. Harrison and his supporters what justice thre is in forcing them to pay a few American cotton manufacturer! 47 percent, more for their clothes thar. they cost in a foreign market, and for the fanners of the North and West to ask the same question. Mr. Beck declared it to be unparalleled impudence on the part of the republicans to assert that the Mills bill is a freetrade soiieme. The president's message and the house bill, he says, are both eminently conservative, lie is glad that the finance committee has gone to the extreme of protection, restriction and destruction. A Farmer's Talk With JU&lne. Xow, "Jeenies," les yon an' m her a firlen'ly chat, Sence yon her bin to Yurrnp an' all that, I 'epose you orter kno' a thing or two. An' so 'f you please I'd like to her a chat with ;on; Von say thet it is best fur everybody To take the tax clar ofi'n our "chaw" an toddy, 'R itber'a take It ofl'n our shirts an coats, An' i noes, an' hats, aa' salt, an' sugar, an' slob, A n' sell oar wheat an' com an' olr An' beef an' titers, sows an' little shoats, F.t prices tlx'd In "free-trade" Liverpool, An' alius work to make the boodlers rlcht Gosh, "Jeemcs," theai Aggers won't ketch farmers votes, An' wont be swallorei by everybody Yept a fool. You say the mors pr'tection tax we pay, The more we'll hev to spend on "rainy-day Tho more we pay in high pr'tection Ux, The more warm coats we'll her upon our bscks, An' stamps to lift the mTt'ge from our farm, An' shield our wires an' little ones from harm! Now, "Jeemes," thet's purty talk eouO, Ef t'was tLe truth an' not all lies and bluff; Sech lyln fig-r snd sech false pr'tense Ii insultln to ill men nv common seosei Tt's twenty year'n more we're bed this tax. An' all its burdens fell oa labor's backs. To pay it thet the rich might richer grow, An you are perjured ef you say it Ln't so; Duria' all that time monopolists, by stealth, Ilev sacked up all uv labor's hard-earned wealth, An' ill they're left as is your robber tax, An' rbeumatis ia arms an' legs aa' backs. While they in ease carort on Yurrup's shore An keep us workin' to !ncr aie their store; New, "Jeemes," you're wastin uv you'r time, b'gosh, A tryln to make as swaller alt this bosh, 'Bout high tariff benefitin' laborln' uen, An' tryin' to boost you'r little "Chinese Ben," Who kno's no more ur labor's huruhl j hut Then or the best time fur "elders to be cut." lie sei a cheap man's knuwu by his cheap cost. An' now b wants to get thet cheap man's rote; lle'll nurer git it, "Jeemss," fur our best frien Is in the white house now the bravest, best uvmen; An' he'll be thar en'uthar terra, ez sure es fate, An' then be fullered by en'ulher honest democrat. We're hedenuff nv you'r pr'tection, "Jeemes," Cor by It we git poorer erery year, it seems ; We're tired ur monopolies an trust, An' bound you'r plans ur robbery to bust; Jes look how stiddy labor's phalanx mores To handle little "lien" without kid gloves; An' there's the "idiot" greenback roters corns To see thet little "Chinese Ifen" shall stay to hum. Now, "Jeemes," ws bid a final, Lvt sdieu To all sech demmygogues an' frods es you, An' "Ben," an' Levi, an' all yer whole capoodle; We'll leara yon how to fool with Ysnke Doodle. Indianapolis, Aug., 1SS& W. D. Kkbjl A Letter To llorey. To the lion. A. P. Hovey: Sir Your letter to me of Oct. 1 Is at hand, and I will answer through Tue Indianapolis Sentinel. I enlisted in Company C, Sixtyeighth Indiana volunteers, Aug. 19, 1832, and served until the close of the war. While I am your comrade, I -do not forget that the gallant C. C. Matson was also a comrade, and I rejoice that he was never charged by any one with seeking promotion at the rear while bullets were tiyin? at the front. Your reference to President Cleveland and the "solid South" is unjust and unpatriotic, and I know by expetience that a soldier can obtain justice under a democratic administration. Do not the records of the department show that pensions have been more liberally granted under a democratic than under a republican administration? Did not Uen. Fred Knetler, under the present administration, truly say that the pension department was more liberal toward tue soldier than ever before? If the republican party would not do ui justice when it had the power, by whit means shall we know that it would do better if it bad another opportunity? In conclusion, I am for Cleveland, tarill' reform and Comrade 0. C Matson. Joel Scott. Connersville, Ind., Oct. 4, Ilovey's Popularity. To Tint Editor Sir: The Indianapolis Journal of Oct. 2 tries to prove that Hovey, in a total rote of 37,265, in 1SSÖ, could show & gaia of several per ceat. over the rote of Gudgel in in 1SS4, in a total vote of 33,770. If the Journal is right, there must have been a decrease in the number of voters of the First congressional district. If the Journal had taken an increase of population into consideration, and had figured, notupon'an increase of republican votes, but upon the per cent, of democrats who stayed at home, it would not have laid itself liable to be considered aa catching at straws and little ones at that. The Journal has no doubt heard of the collegian who proved to his father that tw chickens were really three, and who was requested to eat that third one. The Journal stands in the shoes of that smart young man. The Journal acted upon the idea that figures do not lie. The Jonrn xl is right; figures do not lie; the falsehood lies in the application of the figures. 1'kitz TIL STXilTTEE, Alt. Vernon, laid Oäk 6.

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HOT 8HOT FOR MONOPOLY TAXERS. How the Lav for Which Ben Tlarrlson Voted Shut Up the Indianapolis Rollins Mills Free Raw Materials Meaas Higher Wages for Labor. 4 The Hon. Stanton J. Peelle: Unable to furnish an apology for tho oppressive provisions of the law to which I have been calling your attention, your assumed friends embark upon a sea of speculation as to the general utility of a protective policy. It is nard, indeed, to frame an excuse for a vote which shuts up our rail mills, stops work in our shoe factories and raises the price of the poor man's food, clothing and shelter, while it deprives him of the opportunity to work. If things go on for a while lonper as they are goinj? now, our streets will be infested with "tramps" men who become tramps not from inclination, but because your legislation drives them to beggary. "Vhy dornen tramp? Because nobody will hire them to work. "Why do men carrying on the protected industries refuse to give men employment? Because there is no market for the product of their labor. How so? The products of our factories must be Bold at home or abroad and our home market id glutted. Our capacity to produce is greatly in excess of the home demand and the cost of production is so much increased by the tariif on raw materials and articles used by our manufacturers, that we are undersold in foreign markets where our jjooda come, in competition with foreign poods. What must we do in order to sell our gooda in foreign markets? We must produce them at less cost, that is, must get the material at less prices than we now pay or we must lower the wages of the laborer. That is clear. "Which do you prefer? I say cheapen the cost of raw material and raise the wages of the workinjrman. By your law you increase the cost of raw material and not only lower the wages ot American workmen, but you throw them out of employment altogether. WThy is it that thousands of laborers are not now employed in the steel rail mills in this and other states? Simply because you tax the material necessary to be used in the mills so highly that it will not pay to run them. It is so in other branches of the iron and steel indu5try. Word comes to va that rnarry of the great iron mills will shut down in a few days. The Xewa on Tuesday last called attention to this and quoted from a Philadelphia paper it3 remarks on the demands of the iron workers for higher watjes. That paper said: "With a decrease of over 40 per cent, (this year) in the demand ol the feingle article of rails, it is easy to see that a general suspension of manufacture for a few months will be a God-send to the mill owners. Hence their refusal to accede to the workinmen's demand." While these mill owners are at Saratoga and Long Branch during the summer months, what will become of the unemployed workmen with their scantily fed wives and children? These mill owners who turn their laborers out with about as much compunction as a Mexican feels when his crippled burro drops by the wavside, spend their summers at Saratoga and their winters m Washington. You saw them there last winter, and you will see thein again when you go back, clamoring for more protection. As it is with the iron milhj so it is with our shoe factories, which are closed be cause the tanil makes the cost of material bo high that we can not make shoes for foreign markets. If we depend on home consumption, poor crops or a season of depression from any cause will shut our factories. But if we have foreign markets to supply, and the shackles were removed from American labor, American enterprise would make a bold push for the commercial supremacy of the world. The fact seems to be lost sight o! by your friends who clamer for protection that the kind of protection you give by law is stifling and destroying American manufacturers. At a low estimate fourrifths of the imports upon which you place the taxes are raw material or unfinished products which are imported by American manufacturers. How long can sane men be deluded into the belief that such laws help and protect the men who work in our factories and shops? Excuse me for a moment while I turn aside to fillip the impertinence of one of your friends who snealcs into the columus of the Journal and assails me from the cheap defense of a coward nom de plume. Neither candor nor veracity is to be expected from one who adopts that method of discussing public questions. "Inquirer" says : Will Mr. Fishback explain how the tariff which is such a nice thing lor the Pennsylvania monopoly (as he terms it) ii so destructive to the rail mills here on which he sayi several hundreds of.thousands of dollars have been expended? Why do not the ponderous machinery in splendid condition under skilled workmen protected equally with the ponderous machinery in the Pennsylvania mills, glide as smoothly in favor of monopoly aa the eastern relative? I have already made this sufficiently clear to persons of ordinary comprehension, but 1 fear that a mind capable of constructing such sentences as I have quoted above are hopelessly befuddled. Nevertheless I will make an eff ort to enlighten "Inquirer." Reducing his gibberish to plain English, he means to ask, I suppose, why the tariif law shuts the Indianapolis steel rail mill and does not shut the Pennsylvania mills? I hope you and other intelligent persons will pardon me whilo I devote a few moments to the kindergarten instruction of this pecker after light and knowledge. If "Inquirer" will go down to the steel rail mill, where everything is quiet, be will Bee all the machinery ready for rolling steel into steel rails. If he asks why the mill is not running, he will be told that they have no machinery there for converting iron into steel and that the tariff on Bteel is so high that they cannot buy 6teel and mail rails at a profit. If "Inquirer" will go to the mills of the Pennsylvania monopoly he will find that they are running, have machinery for converting iron into steel, and are not compelled to go into the market and buy steel blooms. If "Inquirer" had been in Washington last winter he would have Been the ownera of the Pennsylvania mills lobbying for a high tariff on steel blooms, so that all the rail mills of the country would be compelled to shut up or buy blooms in Pennsylvania. If he had remained in Washington he would have seen you vote for a law which does exactly what the Pennsylvania monopolists asked you to do. If ."Inquirer" asks why the owners of the mill at Indianapolis do not put up machinery to convert iron into steel, he will be told that it requires an outlay of capital beyond their means, and also that the Pennsylvania monopolists have the exclusive right to use that kind of machinery a right which is not granted to others except on payment of a royalty which renders steel making unprofitable. So "Inquirer" sees, I suppose, that when you passed a lav putting a biih tariff oa rt&el

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iow, as to me snoe ousiness, inquirer" asks: Will he cite the section of the tariff act which taxes kid-kins at 25 per cent? Yes. I cite Sec. 2.504, U. S. revised statutes, page 477, which was in force until July 1, 1SS3. After that date, by the new law, the tax is to be 20 per cent., a lowering of the duty 5 per cent. I quoted what Mr. Howard M. Newhall had said when examined before a committee of the Massachusetts legislature last winter. Ho then said that the average tariff on the kid skins used by the manufacturers of shoes was 23 per cent As Mr. Xewhall has been paying this tariff, he probably knows what it is. The law which I have cited shows be was correct. Mr. Newhall said, also, what I repeat here in his own words, that "A removal of duty from all articles used in the manufacture of a shoe would be an advantage to the employer and employed." 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