The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-10
FAIR Play FOR THE DEAD.
An Attack on the Late w. 9. DePauw Dis
proved by Facts and Figures.

New York Press
Depauw, after fattening beyond al reasonable d.
peace with society by donating miiiioE dollars to
aa Z. And 50 the good bishops honored
name was thrown overheard and the big endownene
BY the glass sS % e
Mr. DePauw being philanshropst, is merely
pleading for the protection OF american Labor
sympathy with the workngmen. 1t Just roiis GU. OF
as believe ss siir tired Of Importing
can laborers a few years and got An agent II
mechanics with whom he contracted at 90 cents
q dayl That's the way tariff protecss American iaoor
OF course Mr. DePauw wants the stealing TO go on;
DePauw bank account and not IN the name Q, sns
can iaborer he has debased.--The Telegram.
The Press can hardly believe that the Tele-
gram desires TO perpetrate cruel injustice
upon the memory of one OF the most pupa nc
spirited men tho country ever produced Mr.
DePauw dead. During his life be spent q
large portion of his fortune (which was not
made in the manufacture of glassl IN charitable
AID benevolent deeds, and at his death he LETT q
million more for charitable and educational
purposes.
Mr.. De PAW started the manufacture OF glass
in this country because be felt we ought to De
able to develop this important industry here.
He never made anything out of the business
Up to Jan. /, 1879, he had over 81. 300 600 in
vested. That year he took an invoice, and
learned that the total losses in tho business had
been 5000. 900. From that year to 1882 he made
q small profit but it never reached per cent.
per year. From 1882 to the present time the
profits of the factory carried on by his SON. Mr..
N. T. De Pauw, have never reached more than
10 per cent
The Press knows these to be absolute facts,
and, if necessary. can produce sworn statements
as to their accuracy. 1t moreover invites the
Telegram TO contradict the following statements
First-That all money put into plate-glass
works in America prior to 1879 had been a total
loss.
Second--That some Of the shrewdest, most
energetic and successful business men in Bos-
ton, New York, Philadelphia Detroit, Chicago.
ST. Louis. Louisville had in the aggregate in
vested millions in plate-glass enterprises and
lost the whole Of it
Third-That no plate-Rlass had been made
in America without loss to the maker prior to
1879
Fourth-That after a long struggle, and the
sinking of $780, 900. the DePauws have succeed
ed in making glass at small profit
Fifth-That Americans are now paying less
than half what they paid for plate glass prior to
the time plate-glass was made in the United
States at the works of Mr.. DePauw
Sixth-That Mr. DePauw never employed q
man at such a rate as 60 cents per day in his
WORKS and that the only importation of foreign
labor he ever made was that Of skilled men
whose knowledge was necessary to start the
new industry in this country.
The Press feels this coarse, this cruel, this
now dead whose noble deeds are known through
out this country. It challenges the Telegram to
print these facts and deny one of them 1t APP
peals to every fair-minded free-trader, and asks
them what they can expect to gain for cause.
no matter how good, by such an attack as the
one quoted above.
And it will not ask in vain Fair play, at
least for the dead even if he American
manufacturer aud a Democrat. as Mr.. DePauw
was, ought not to be asked in vain.