The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-04
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To the Editor OF the Sentinel:
SIE-There are doubtless great many
well-meaning persons who wonder why it is
that 50 deep-seated an opposition to the tariff
exists to-day in the minds of thousands who
formerly were among its supporters.
II these persons could visit the tenements
of New York, and also the homes of the
middle class as we'll as the lowest class in
Brooklyn, it would instantly become mani
fest that the tariff was sbhorred with reason.
As a matter Of fsct, sir, the middle and
the laboring class of persons in and contiguous
TO this city have grave troubles, that must
ere long be radically removed.
Failing in that, shall times the
like of which have never before in this
country been dreamed Of.
L wish could give the exact number of
unfortunate people who in the past two or
three years have committed suicide, because
they could neither obtain work nor money
sufficient to pay for miserable roof over
their heads Here, for instance, in the case
of worthy man who went on board Of q
Hudson River ferry boat the other night
determined to make an end of il, and thus
escape the ills OF our misgoverned country
The report of the police says;
The wound proved to be slight and yesterday
He gave his name as Gdorse II. Johnson, aged
hfty-one. of No. Isl Huron street, Brooklyn. He
Plesdsd guilty To the Justice he said: was
age OF twenty five years married young lady
Of very wealthy family After living IN Boston
York. where secured good posi- DSsm
ton Ia the Surveyors Office through
the influence of Mr.. Charles Sumner. After
u take care of my wife as she had been in the
habit Of living and finally she left me and went
be to her relations. tsking with her our only
child. That almost broke my heart. AID have
never sinee been the same man. For ten years
have lived alone, and. assure You, have led h
miserable life. have contemplated suicide sew
eral times aud yesterday made up my mind TO
DO the deed. Ny Intention was TO getsO near the
edge OF the boat that when tue pistOl'exDioded
would fall overheard tilled my pockets with
stones because wanted my body to sink TO the
bottom and thus save any Of my relatives the ex-
ing 70 kill myself was because my daughter viii
get some money ss soon as l em dead. Now,
Judge, you have heard my story. Do with me as
1t was impossible for this man to get work
Or take another item FROM the newspaper in
which be found the previous example:
CRUELTY TO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES BY THE
SOCIETY FOR ITS PREVENTION IN PHILADEL.
PHIA MILLS
[By Telegraph 20 the HERALD
PHILADELPHIA Pa, March 8.-In, their crusade
against mi l-OwDers, who..cOntrarY TO law en-
ploy children at the looms unde- age aud work
them OyerhOurs. the Society fer the prevention of
Cruelty to Children has made some peculiar dis
D eoveries. The aseats OF the Society who to-day
visited the Tracy Mills. at Darby, TO notice
on the owners that the law would be enforced,
found that the sIoaes OF iniantle haTdships. told
by Mary Mckinney, thirteen years old.
were true. This child laboEed to support
her drunken parents she Teat to work at
O'CLOCK every ntsn< and toiled at the looms until
o'clock the next morning She said, and the
agents claim that they heard others confirm her,
that duriug the night the arms OF the little
tOileTE became so tired and their eyes so heavy
that often their heads "bobbed" aud their hands
dropped the spools which they were putting upon
the machinery. There was ewatchman in the
factory part OF whose business was 10 go about
among the looms and give the drOwsy children
lsolS,s s-aAe or a Prsc win SICK 70 keep them
from dropping eSleep as they stood. One man had
his wife and several children at work in the mill
One of them was little boy WHO did not look to
be more than nine Years old. yho went up and
down on the elevator with / sskets of bobbins.
Now here are fir samples, merely, of
few OF the cuTre1t miseries of our city
POPULATION.
Yet the high tariff newspapers and pot
house orators tell Us Of the pauper labor
of Europe "
We need RSt.crOss the Atlantic for pau
per labor"
We have il m New York gaunt, haggsrd,
desperate, starving in the cherries streets
And the Tretched throng of uufortunates
grows larger every year, as direct conse-
qaence of system that puts hibitory
duty on ali the Door man buys, while let
tirg in free ST duty the endless stream of
panperism from the world.
1t was marvellous. indeed, that the 49,
600 600 OF Chinese were not admitted as
''servile class" according TO Henry Ward
Beecher. GoSd Lord deliver us from such
protection" as We stsgger underl Let us
rather have to'eompete boldlyw with the CIV
1lized world IN name as well as in fact.
Competition in goods will not hurt the poor
man nJr the farmer half as much as this
enormous system of taxation called a tariff
CLARKE w HARRINGTON.
No. 9 Koyt street. Brooklyn, N. Y.