The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-04


proval of or sympathy with it. Indeed it
is not an uncommon thing for a senator or
representative to submit at the same time
memorials both for and against particu-
lar measure. The right of petition, so
grandly indicated by JOHN QUINCY
ADAMS, after long struggle in the popular
branch of congress, requires that the
members of that body should be the me-
dunn for its exercise. The Journals pa
rade of HARRIsoN's record as a petition
presenter as a proof of his friendship for
labor is not complimentary to the intelli-
gence of its readers.
The laboring men are also asked to ac-
cept HARRISON as their friend because he
is the advocate of high protective tariff
AS to this it is enough to say-without
entering here into a discussion of the
tariff question-that there isn't an OPP
pressor and despoiler of labor in all the
land who does not advocate high pro-
lection. The CARNEGIEs, the CHS
HOLMs, the PINKERToNs; the coal
barons of Pennsylvania, who have
imported pauper laborers from
Europe by the tens of thousands to rob
American workingmen of a livelihood.
and have converted the coal regions of
that state into An abode of wretchedness
and misery without a counterpart on the
globe; the lumber lords of Michigan
whose colossal fortunes have been hewed
out of the forests by ill-requited Canadian
laborers; the salt princes, the copper kings,
the iron moguls; all the monopolists and
forestallers; all the men who engineer
corners" in the necessaries of life; all
those who have organized trusts and COM
bines and pools; the GoULDs, the VAN
DERBILTs, the DEPEws-all stand with
Ben HARRISON for high protection. If he
is to be accounted a friend OF labor on this
ground, so are they. AS a matter of fact
it was they who dictated his nomination
at Chicago, and it was only the day before
yesterday that VANDERBITLr's son-in law,
ELLIOT +. SHEPARD, spread his aristo-
cratic legs under the Harrison mahogany
in this city and exchanged congratulations
with the cOngenial railroad attorney whose
organ now holds him up for the admiring
gaze of the workingmen as the ''friend of
labor"
Ii anything more were needed to fix the
relations of Ben HARRISON toward the
workingmen it will be found in the col
umns OF his newspaper organ. The hostile
attitude which it holds and has held for
many years toward organized labor is well
known to every workingman in Indiana.
1t is, and has been ever since it passed
under its present management, the bitter
persistent, implacable foe of labor organi-
cations. 1t will not to-day permit mem
Der of a trades union to work in its estab-
lshment. In 1877 il was violent, vindic-
tive and malevolent in its treatment of the
strikers. 1t denounced them without
stint, and it demanded that the most ex-
IRENE measures be employed against them
1t was then, as now, Gen. HARRIsoN's
personal organ. His influence then, as
now, was paramount in its editorial man
agement. He was then, as now, Justly
held responsible for its editorial utter
ances. 1t undoubtedly reflected his views
on the labor question then as it does to-
day. He ventured no protest against iCs
policy, no criticism of it. OF all the
humors of the campaign none is likely to
be more exquisitely or deliciously humor-
GUS than the spectacle which that inveter-
ate and determined enemy of labor, the
indianapolis Journal, presents when it
vouches for BENJAMIN HARRISON as the
friend of the workingman. A certificate of
his orthodoxy as a presbyterian from Bob
INGERsoLL, or of his soundness as a pro-
tectionist from DAVID A. Wells would be
as appropriate and as conclusive.