Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PROTECTIVE TARIFF AND HOW IT “HELPS” LABOR. For the second time in as many years President Tait has vetoed the bill to cut the excessive tariff on wool. In his latest veto messege, as in the previous one. the president refers to the necessity for protection on wool, and expresses the tear that he would jeopardize the woolen industry by “inviting com-' petition with the pauper labor of Europe,” In the light of the president’s secon-d veto of the wool bill, which veto gives the woolen trust, a continuance of its privilege to plunder the consumer while at the same time paying its workers starvation wages, a page from the hearings in the connection with the Lawrence strike inquiry makes interesting reading. The witness is Miss Sanger, a trained nurse. (Page 226, Hearings on {he House resolution 409 and 433.)

Mr. Pou—-Miss Sanger, were you instrumental in taking a number of' the strikers’ children away from Lawrence during the strike? Miss Sanger—Yes sir. Mr. Pow —Did you talk with the children about their manner Of living? Miss Sanger—Yes sir. I found that the children—-there were 119 of them in my party—seldom ate meat, and their physical condition was the most horrible I have ever seen. In the first place four of the smallest children had chicken pox, and they had not received any medical attention. They were walking about among the other"children, apparently without noticing the chicken pox or diphtheria; one of the i Children had diphtheria. Of the 119 children only four of them had underwear, and it was bitterly cold. We had to run all the way from the station to Labor Temple after we got to New York to keep from freezing. Mr. Foster—You say only four had underlcothing, what was the condition of their outer clothing? : Miss Sanger—lt was simply in rags. Their coats were torn to shreds.

Mr. Foster—Were the children pale and thin? Miss Sanger-—-Yes sir. and I want to say that when they had supper it would have brought tears to your eyes to see them grab for the meat with their bare hands. i Mr. Foster—Did any of them have on wooden clothing of any sort? j Miss Sanger-—No Sir. i Mr. Foster—And yet they all worked in woolen mills? I Miss Sanger—Yes sir. | In his veto message Mr. Taft has much to say about the “woolen industry,” and “foreign labor. He makes no mention of these poor victims of the woolen trust’s greed. | . ' " '■' ' I > I < Lumber. ; We want to sell you that bill of , luinber you are figuring on getting. INo matter how much or how little ’it may be that you want; of course ( you want the best and most that I your money can buy. Our stock is •complete and our prices as low as ‘you can get.' Estimates cheerfully i figured.—Rensselaer Lumber Co. Job printing of the better class type, ink and typography in , harmony—The Democrat office.