Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — MISLEADING AND FALSE. [ARTICLE]

MISLEADING AND FALSE.

What Workingmen Say of Statements Made by Mills and Others. . The following letter has been received by Congressinan McKinley, of Ohio. The signers represent at least half a million workingmen: “Deay Sir—Haying seen by the papers that Mr. Mills and ptliete, in their speeches ju the house of representatives upon the tariff bill, have asserted that wages paid to labor were no higher in the United States than in Europe, we, the undersigned, desire to state, through you, to the members of congress that such statements are misleading and false. WageS are higher in this country than in any other in the world. Not withstanding the fact that the stater ments have been made by" members on the floor of the house- of representatives that the tariff'only benefits the manufacturers, and they receive all tlie advantages from the protection given by the government, we know that we receive our share of flie~benefits of protection on the industries we- represent. “We therefore emphatically protest against any reduction of the duties that will bring us on a level - with the low prices‘paid for labor in Europe. We insist, upon the maintenance of a strong protective tariff,— ife-order to maintain an, American stanulard of wages for American workifigmen. Respectfully yours, “William Weihe, president of Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers. ••William Martin, secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Tron~and worker’s. “John Conkling, master workman National Assembly Iron, and Steel Workers - Knightsrrf Labor—.3’ “John Coffey, master workman Glass Blowers’ Assembly 149. “Louis Arrington, master workman Glass Blower:*’ Assembly 143. “Janies Campbell, president of Local .'ssembly iUK) r ,Kaigirta of Labors -Win.-t„ do-' - Glass Workers of America. “William J. Smith, president American Flint Glass Workers’ union. “William J. Dillon,secretary.—lndianapolis Journal. United States Senator Allison says that the expenses of the national' government under our “economical'’ Democratic admixfistfatidn are $95,000,000 more than dttwrg t-he four years of the last Republican administration. But Mr. Allison’s figures are liable to be almost doubled. He can not tell how much more money may yet be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1889. The excess is quite likely to reach $150,000,000, and may reach nearer $200,000,000. Not drily lias a surplus for the immediate future been guarded against. The proposition now is to clear out ah the old surplus from the treasury. Express. ' The Enquirer says the way to kill the bagging “trusts" is to take off the tariff from bagging, which would destroy the American bagging industry utterly. That would lie hs sensible as to c«re corns by amputating the feet. Th’e proper way is to send the managers and members of the “trust" to the penitentiary. And when that is done with the managers of those three worst combinations of all, the Standard oil trust, the whisky trust and the sugar trust, there will be a collapse of the Democratic party. ' •" L Charles R. Liclitina,n^generalSecretary, of the Knights of Labor for the United States, has written a strong letter to Chairman Quay, announcing his adhesion to the Republican programme, and his willingness to do everything he can for the cause of labor against the ruinous dogma of free trade. “Every "dollar of labor value imported,” says he,, “is by so much a reduction of home laborers’ wages.” When a man thinks straight to the mark that way itris not strange that he turns his back on Cleveland, Mills & Mr. T. 11. Bailey,. mayor of Enon. Ohio, has gone square back on Cleveland and free trade, and will now support Harrison and protection. Mr. Bailey is a native of South Carolina, came north at the close of the war, and has voted the straight Democratic ticket for thirtysix years. , Capt. R. P. H. Staub, of Baltimore, an ex-Confederate officer, who served with Stonewall Jackson’s brigade and Ashby's notorious cavalry corps during the civil war, has recently pronounced himself an anti’-free trade Republicans, and is now doing excellent work on the stump in New York/ J. L. Baker, of Morris Cross Roads, Fayette county, Pa , has always l>een a Democrat and comes of a family that has never failed to support the Democratic candidate for president. Mr. Baker is for Harrison and Moi ton on the tariff issue. ' .