Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1893 — TARIFF OBJECT LESSON. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF OBJECT LESSON.

New York Press: “A leading Wisconsin manufacturer,” saic Mr. Scott of that State, to me yesterday, “was compelled to close down his works recently.” His establishment was the principal one in Kenosha and, of course, its closing was a great blow to the town. The proprietor met a party of Democrats (including one of the editors of the Sentinel, the leading Democratic newspaper) the day before he shut down. They were engaged in discussing the situation. ‘ls it true,’ they asked the manufacturer, ‘that you are going to shut down your works?’

“ ‘Yes, it is,’ he answered. “ ‘What,' said the editor, ‘are the poor men who will be thrown out of employment to do to get their daily bread?’ “ ‘For the past ten years,’ said the manufacturer, ‘I have been feeding them and you have been teaching them how to vote. Now I propose to reverse the order. You can feed them and I will undertake to teach them how to vote. ‘Probably 90 per cent, of my employes’, |he added, ‘voted against their own interests last fall.’ Perhaps they may learn something by 1896.’ ” “Democrats,” Mr. Scott continued, “are extremely scarce in Wisconsin at present. I havn’t seen one for nearly three months.”