Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1912 — QUESTION AWAITS AN ANSWER [ARTICLE]

QUESTION AWAITS AN ANSWER

Ho/v Has the Payne-Aldrich Tariff E"! Succeeded in its “Ejevatlon cf American Labor?” The /’ayne-Aldrit h tariff !:w wet.' ie.o effect August . •. more than 37 months; ago. - * •'*’ tnends- and ■:t j .it. rs of rs Payne rml At'-Ah i reap the btne.i's of the higher tax -. on aecessaries cf life right awav Six weeks !at_er the president of the i States publicly denounced the wool and cotton sehedu’es of the law f.s “indefensible.” Two months ago. alter waiting considerably more than two years for the increase o> wages which was naturally to have been expected as a result o! u law who e sole Object- was “the elevation, of American labor," the ertinldycs'cf the wool and cofon mills at T -awi\ nee. Mass., struck. Now they have returned to w ork or. ♦he promise of 5 per cent, more pay. an. adjustment w hick gives smte of hem as much' as 70 cents extra a week. ”be only question now i-: Was this Tmiticcly increase due to a tariff that ' cs mere than two and one-hob’ years p’.d cr to the t trike?—St. L.ouis Republic. «