Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
Harrison, Protection and Good Wa
ges.

1.-THE American system of protection
to American labor" worked queerly
during the strike against reduced wages
at Carnegie, Phipps & Co.'s Homestead
steel works. A lot of Hungarians and
Italians were obtained to take the pla-
ces of the workingmen who failed to
notice that protection filled their din
ner pals.
A Brazil coal miner came home the
other day to find not a particle of food
in the house. There was an old banner,
relic of last campaign, in the garret.
inscribed with the legend, Protection
and prosperity. Free trade means star
vation."
CARNEGIE's BIG CUT.
PITTsBURe, Pa, July 19.-(United
Press. Carnegie, Phipps g. Co. to-day
made the greatest cut in prices ever
known in the steel and iron business,
reducing the selling price Of steel plates
So per ton. The firms that signed the
association scale are thus shut out from
competition, and are outspoken in their
Indignation.
| woN'T RETURN.
BRAZIL, July 1s.-(Special. To-day
the miners of the block coal region have
been voting on q proposition to yield to
the terms of the operators. The vote
will be officially canvassed tomorrow.
Reports from private sources place the
vote of Harmony, Knightsville, Perth
and Cardonia, as taken to-day, at 406
for the strike and liz for going to work.
Doubtless the entire vote of the district
will show about the same ratio.
THE TRUTH CAN'T BE HIDDEN.
i Nine-tenths of all the monopoly
trusts we have are the logical creation
Of excessive tariff taxes, aud it is wor-
thy Of note that trusts have multiplied
rapidly since the election, because mo-
n0poly tariff taxes are regarded as Sc
cure against reduction. Tt is' worthy
OF note also that while monopoly COM
bines have rapidly increased since the
election to increase needless taxes on
consumers, there has been steady and
almost universal reduction of the wages
Of labor in our highly protected indus
tries. The people now see the truth be-
cause it can be no longer hidden from
them. m.-Philadelphia Times.
Five hundred money kings and
queens In New York city-five hundred
individuals who can check . million
dollars from bank, and still have q COM
Portable sum left. AS most of these for
tunes have been acquired within the
past twenty-five years, the question
naturally arises, what will the next
twenty-five years bring forth?
PROTECTION DOES NOT PROTECT.
There has not been week during the
four months that Harrison has been
president that there have not been se-
riOus reductions in the wages of almost
every class of workmen, ranging from
10 to 80 per cent. All this has occurred
under the very protective laws that our
republican friends were so loud in prais-
ing and which it was claimed were 30
necessary for our welfare. Capitalists
and manufacturers have precisely the
same protection they always had and
vet they have been reducing wages right
along. Had this happened under q
democratic administration, what howl
would have gone up. The truth is that
protection does not protect and the re-
publican cry Of high tariff is only q
scare crow used to serve party ends.
The people are fast becoming enlight-
ened on this matter and nothing has
been more productive OF good than the
dismal failure Of the Harrison adminis-
ltration up to this time.-White County
Democrat. ft
| Still one thing more, fellow citizens: