Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-27
IN. B.: THIS is sARKAssum."
Typical Republican Friends of the Work.
insman.

ingnan.
This is an educational campaign, indeed,
not only as relate< to the tariff for the
protection of monopolists, but in variety
of ways. The wage Garner, to whom ar
guments are being addressed by both par
ties, is learning number of things hith-
erto unsuspected by him as having any
existence in the universe
He is learning. for the first time in his
life, that his employers sole object and
ambition in life is to pay him high wages.
Heretofore he has been compelled to or.
gauize, to make scales" and to threaten
strikes in order to make his employer pay
him living compensation. Now the en-
ployer is urging him TO vote the Republ-
can ticket, in order to enable the good
man to pay high wages.
That his interests and his EMPLOYERS
ought to be one he has known for some
time, but not until now has he discovered
that they are, To tell the truth, however,
he is so suspicious Of his employers good
intentions toward him that he is con
WINGED that he can most likely benefit
himself by doing the very reverse of what
his employer asks of him If the success
of the Democratic ticket really involved
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must, he knows that the employer would
be for it, not against it. He has learned
that much, any way.
Now, it has seemed clever to the astuts
persons who are conducting the Republi-
can campaign, to send out 10 men who
employ numerous workmen envelopes
covered with printed arguments In favor
of the Republican candidates, in which to
n4r hat- boz 10. ,,,1a II,
large numbers have adopted this cheap
and easy method Of preaching the gospel
of monopOlies. The amount of anxiety
exhibited for the working classes by
these gentlemen, measured BY the fervor
Of their appeals TO vote against Democ-
racy, would touch the heart of the White
chapel murderer If he could be brought to
contemplate it Alright. 1t is so genuine,
so sincere, 50 consistent with the general
conduct OF these gentry that nobody can
reasonably affect to doubt it.
For example. there is the firm of Tim
Walersten q Co, of Troy in this state.
which manufactures shirts, collars and
cuffs on large scale 1t is not known
precisely how much It pays its sewing
women for shirt, but since trousers are
made at the rate of 10 cents a dozen in
-'Vn YIN We dTb uOL luCllutu 10 DellbVb
that shirt making is very much more
profitable in Troy. However that may be,
the firm Is deeply concerned lest the
Democratic tariff of AZ per cent, should
reduce the princely wages of its shirt
makers and is putting forth every effort
TO have that pauperizing reduction of
per cent. repudiated That is thought
fu; 1t ought to be acknowledged
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protecting the laundry workers of the
United states against the pauper laun,
dresses of Europe, why do not Messrs,
Waerstein & Co employ free labor to
starch and iron their shirts, collars and
cuffsr If they are so profoundly inter
ested in the welfare Of the industrial
masses why do they send their goods to
the Sing Sing state prison to be done upl
Perhaps they thought that this little
business of theirs would not be found
out; that they can pose as devoted friends
OF the American workingman and still get
their work done at minimum prices BY
convicts without being called on for al
explanation. But they cannot Their
miserable hypocrisy is engraved for al
time on the archives of the stace, IL
memoranda summed up in the following
portentous statement:
Tim Walerstein & Co, to the State Of New York
To laundry work in State Prison at Sing
Sing, from Nov 1886 to July 1888. ...-.. s1s, 20
II these gentlemen really love thu
American w'orkingman as they profess II
do, why did they not pay out this bill o.
$7S,292 for laundry work to free ant
honest American workingmen and work
ing women? The answer is that these
gentlemen like the knaves Of the ware
house, steel, coal, sugar and other trusts
hate the American workingman and ar,
always on the lookout to plumber and de
ceive him. Their solicitude for his wei
fare Is a frand. And the wage Garner has
at last learned that fact. -Brooklyr
Citizen.