The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-03-27

and that HARRIsoN's election would
insure steady employment and high wages
for everybody.
OF course the organs OF monopoly knew
all the time that they were lying, just as
The SENTINEL knew that il was telling the
truth. They knew as well as THE SENTI-
MEL did that the workingmen would be
benefited, and not injured, by areduction
of taxes on the necessaries OF life AID the
raw materials of our industries. They
knew that HARRIsoN's election would not
make work plentier or wages better; and
they knew, too, that the reelection OF
CLEVELAND would not and could not inn
pair and would probably improve, the
condition of our wage-earners. Ben HAIR
RIsoN knew all this, too, and so did
BLAINE, and all the other captains in the
monopoly army. But the whole pack OF
them deliberately and wickedly lied TO the
wage-workers to the very last day of the
campaign.
HARRISON has now been president less
than three weeks, and wages are lower in
most of the highly-protected industries
than they were when GROVER CLEVELAND
was president. The movement for a re-
ductiOn is general. Among the victims
are the "highly-protected" p glass-work-
ers OF Indiana, who were so earnestly APP
pealed to before the election TO vote for
HARRISON and their own bread and butter.
The employees of De PAUw's great plate
glass works have just been compelled to
accept reduction in wages. They re-
sisted the cut for several days, but finally
yielded. This might have happened il
CLEVELAND had been elected; if so, it
would have been claimed as a result Of
democratic success. But what excuse can
Mr.. De PAW give now for reducing the
wages OF his men? The high takers have
elected their president. They have both
branches OF congress, and as their
control OF the senate during HAIR
RIsON's entire term is assured,
and as the congress to be elected
in 1892 viii not assemble until December,
1898, il is simply impossible that there
should be any reform of the tariff for at
least five years to come. The terrible
Mills bill is dead and buried. The manu-
facturers of glass are still protected about
100 per cent, while they pay their labor,
according to the census reports OF 1880,
only about 33 per cent. of the value of
their products. The tariff bill which has
been passed through the senate by the
protectionists, and will probably be re-
vived in the Fifty-frst congress, does not
interfere with this protection; if any
thing, it increases it. And vet the glass
manufacturers are forcing their employees
to work for smaller wages than they re-
ceived when GROVER CLEVELAND was pres
ident, and the tariff agitation was at its
height
What do the glass workers think of
this? What do wage earners generally
think OF it? The tariff increases the cost
OF almost everything they and their fami-
lies eat and drink and wear; of their shell
ter, and TOOLS and furniture; of almost
everything they have to buy. By paying
these increased taxes they are told they
secure for themselves steady employment
at good wages. Do they? Did HARRIsON
and BLAINE and the monopoly organs tell
them the truth in the last campaign, or did
The SENTINEL?
AS for the glass manufacturers, what
have they to say? Why have they re-
duced wages? Haven't they got enough
protection? Isn't 100 per cent. enough?
Are they in any danger of losing their
protection, or any part of it? If their
business doesn't justify them in paying as
good wages under HARRISON as they paid
under CLEVELAND why doesn't it? Let
them answer these questions if they can!