Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1907 — THE “HUNYAK” EXODUS. [ARTICLE]

THE “HUNYAK” EXODUS.

Tens of thousands of alien laborers are returning to Europe from the United States. They are of various nationalities that have been commonly called “Hunyaks” in this country. They were brought over by the big corporations, the tariff protected “infant industries” to compete with American labpr. When the panic came they started home with their savings and will spend their money in foreign lands. While in this country they voted the Republican ticket, when they voted at all, and helped to uphold the beautiful Republican tarriff which the eloquent Republican orators and the learned Republican editors have been telling American workingmen was designed fortheir “protection” and give them better wages. But the American workingmen know that the tariff does not increase their wages. Such protection as they have had they have gotten for themselves. With families on' their hands to support, they have bad to fight for living wages I against a horde of unmarried for-1

eigners who came,' free of duty, not to become permanent citizens but to get all the money they could and then go back home and spend it. They crowded out and crowded down men with wives and children, who, because they must live decently, and not after the manner of the Hunyak, were paying the heavy tax imposed by the beautiful and sacred Republican tariff.