People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — The Promises Realized. [ARTICLE]

The Promises Realized.

Gov. McKinley said in his Massillion speech that the prosperity that would tfiow to all the people by an indorsement of the republican ticket in Ohio would be felt from one end -of the country to the other. A return of this confidence has already been felt by the workingmen in his pet institution in Canton. The Dauber-Hampden Watefe Company of Canton notified their men on Wednesday morning (one day after the election, after it was fully known that the people have believed the republican promises) that their wages would be cut 25 per cent and employment giyen only three days in the week. Nearly three-fourths of the men were laid oft tor a week to give the management time to readjust the scale of piece work. The cut means that men employed in the factory who could make under the old wage scale sls per week would be employed half time at 75 per cent of their former wages, or $5,621 per per week. We are glad to note that the election promises are so soon realized. We admire people who keep their promises, and we have the most profound respect for the fellows who are so gullible as to believe them. There is no doubt that the protected workingmen of the Deu-ber-Hampden Watch works are thankful they are alive this

week. But then they can live on promises for the next twelve months.—. Second Money.