The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

Jarrett the Tool OF Monopoly.
We find from the printed reports of
JOHN JARRETT's speeches at different
points throughout the state that he is
perhaps the most unblushing liar who has
yet taken the stump for the Doodle ticket
in Indiana, and that is saying good deal.
He tells his hearers that wages have in
creased in Germany since BIsMARcK's
tariff was adopted, when the reverse is
true. He tells them that wages have been
greatly increased blythe raising of the tariff
in this country, when official statistics
show the contrary to be the case. He
ignores the fact that wages average higher
in England to-day than ever before, and
are at least double what they were when
the prohibitory tariff was in force in that
country. He says CLEVELAND and CAR
Isle avowed themselves free traders only
few months ago-a statement utterly
without foundation or justification. He
doesn't tell the workingmen that wages
are much higher in the unprotected than
in the protected industries of this coun-
try, which is true; nor that the lowest
Oil NOu CcllAlA al III NbhAiNA ~ y
which maintain the very highest tariffs,
which is also true; nor that wages in
creased much more rapidly in this cOun-
try under the so-called "free trade" tariff
of 1861 than in any corresponding
period before or since, which is true
again; nor that we already have
absolute free trade in labor-which
is what the American workingman has to
sell-while of almost everything he con-
sumes the price is enhanced by the war
tariff, which is the most important fact OF
all. He tells the people none of these
things-which he would tell them if he
were an honest man-nor does he call
the attention of the wOrkingmen to the
starvation wages paid in the iron and steel
industries, and the coal mines of Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, and in the protected
textile industries in New York, Chicago
and other large cities.
JOHN JARRETT does not deal in facts.
That is not what he is sent to Indiana by
the tariff lords of Pennsylvania for. He
is sent out to lie to the workingmen and
to buy votes wherever he can find them
for sale, as he did in Col. MoRRIsoN's dis
trict in Illinois two years ago.
JARRETT is a fraud. He is a traitor to
the cause of labor. He sold himself
body and soul, years ago, to monopoly
He has not been workingman since the
tariff barons of Pennsylvania discovered
that he was both smart and INSCRIPTIONS,
and that they could afford to pay him
well to do their dirty work among the
laboring people of the country. He is
paid, and well paid, by the
tariff rings-by CARNEGIE and the
other lordly millionaires who have locked
American workingmen out of their shops
and mills; who have imported ignorant
and servile labor from Europe to take the
bread and butter out OF the mouths of
American, German and Irish-born toilers
who have converted the mining regions OF
Pennsylvania and Ohio into abodes of
restitution and misery that cannot be
paralleled in any other part of the civil
lied globe; who have degraded labor in
our great cities TO the level of absolute
pauperism; who have carried on a re-
lentless war against labor organizations,
and have employed bands OF trained mer-
cenarles to shoot down workingmen who
dared TO assert their rights; who have
formed themselves into trusts and COM
bines with the double object of grinding
down their labor and plundering the
great masses of the people; who have
builded for themselves castles in Scotland
and palaces in New York or Chicago or
Pittsburg and country seats on the Hudson
or villas at the sea shore; who sail yachts
and ride in private cars, and trot the globe
in search of novelty and pleasure, while
| their workshops are shut down and their
employees are kept in enforced idleness,
their families betimes crying for bread. 1t
is such hard-hearted, grasping plutocrats
as these-made wealthy and powerful by
the monopoly tariff and by the class legis-
lation of the republican party-that have
hired JOHN JARRETT to deliver the votes
Of workingmen to them when election day
comes around. There is to-day-and we
say it deliberately-no more dangerous
enemy OF labor in all these United States
than this same JOHN JARRETT. He repre-
sents the power from which labor is striv-
ing to emancipate itself. He is the mouth
piece OF the forces which are organized to
maintain in this country the European
standard of wages and living, which it has
already introduced here. He is the lick
spittle of wealth and the Judas of labor
the hireling OF capital and the treacherous
serpent in the field of honest industry.
Let the work'ngmen of Indiana treat
this man JARRETT as they would treat JAY
GOULD if he should come among them in
structing them as to their political duty.
JAY GOULD is to-day better friend OF the
American workingmen than JOHN JAR
RETT, and they have less to fear from him
than from this Anglo-Pennsylvania agent
of monopoly.
The Republican Plot.
There Is honest public sentiment enough in