The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08
Blaine,s Statements.

For many months past the newspapers of
this country, and 70 some extent of Europe,
have been noticing the movements OF disting-
uished party, junketing amongst the hills OF
Scotland; and you have read various dispatches
recording the arrivals and departures of
splendid tally-ho coach, bearing in a sort of
triumphal march James @. Blaine and Andrew
Carnegie. Mr.. Blaine needs no introduction to
you, perhaps; Mr. Carnegie does. He is one of
the greatest iron barOns and steel nabobs of
Pittsburg the headquarters of the high pro-
tective system. He has been protected, and he
counts his millions many times over; he has
not toiled, neither has he spun, yet the lilies of
the valley, with their radient dyes can not
make the display he can. His are the softest
beds, the most exquisite luxuries of the table
the earth can afford. / have been told that he
is regarded by some as a kind-hearted. benevo-
lent-minded man. He may be so in theory; he
is not In practice. have introduced his name
in this connection while he is rolling in wealth
and splendor in Europe with the champion OF
protection, in order to emphasize the condition
OF the labor in his own home and from which
he has drawn his substance and his magnificent
proportions. desire TO know whether his
laborers have bee1 as well protected as he has?
Allow me TO read from that able and excellent
paper, the Labor Signal, published at Indiana
pOIIs-s IL says:
The Pittsburg correspondent Of the New York
World has been going 70 headquarters for tariff
facts He has been visiting the protected iaborers
OF the great icon manufactOries-the unskied work
men who asked 10 pay with cheerfulness higher
prices for their tnware and potatoes for their cloth
ing and the lumber in their dwellings in order that
their own wages may be maintained at their
lofty standard and their own opportunity for en-
pigment be made more secure.
Here is a description Of the headquarters and the
record OF the facts the World correspondent found
them:
Following the north shore Of the Monongahela
eastward from the South Sile bridge row OF aged
and decrePit shanties is reached. They are flied
with palld humanity, but not overstOcked with fur
nture the creature comforts Of life. Black with
age, painless carpetess and uncomfortable, these
little habitatiOns hug the side Of the hills and sug
gest the nests OF the cliff swallows. In they
dreadful places to live in The bare hills
on each side, making sort OF urn In which the hot
sun turns the dense air fetd. The sewage runs
through open cutters. DishwateT and Stops
tossed into the Streets from the doors and windows
and good hard rainstorm Is great blessing here
as amid the tenement districts OF New fork's uD-
cleaned streets.
1.-THE student of human life does not have to resort
20 any stratagem to discover the sort Of existence
which is had in this sOrrOwfu side Of the smoky city
walk through the streets tells all. There are no
disguises2 The bare. brown doorstep the table
through the open doorway the frOwzy bed standing
by the open window, all bear their testimony Of
eOmiortess life In PLAN view oil the passerby You
may know how much Tor how littlel the families have
70 eat; you may count the household gods the
children the NANCY dogs and eats or you may know
how many times the groTler crosses the street TO the
saloon If IL goes at all and who gets the benefit of its
contents. CoartshP and marriage sickness and sor-
row, deaths and births-all go on ia the purvew OF
men, Tor poverty afford no secrets and the cliff
dwellers Of the Monongahela very poor. Luckily
which not and the enforced publicity of their life
Is little harrassed by impertnent curiosity.
"A group Of the human cliff swallows was stand
ing idly about the door OF Of their shanties when
the World correspondent approached. They
told what President Kea Ing had said an hour or two
before that the tariff benefited the lab0rers and not
the manufacturers; that the workingmen live good
deal more extravagenty on this side than their breth
Ten the other, aud that they have luxuries here
which they have learned 70 look upon necessities.
'Oh, it's Injuries, said young man sarcastica-
There's my Injuries. He pointed 70 the open door,
the bar 10 his wife and children, all barefooied
and bare-legged."
II Mr.. Carnegie, knowing this sketch Of
squalid, miserable life among the laborers Of
bis own home TO be true, as he does, and that his
avn great estates are founded on their wretch