The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-07-26
The Tragic side oft.

The monopoly tariff, insuriDg great
/ operators in this country against foreign
| competition, encouraging trusts and
/ com Indications less compact TO put up
| prices on the one hand, or TO stop pro-
| ductiOns and curtail work and wages on
! the other, is, according 10 MT. HaTri-
son, Mr.. Blaine. and the Federalist-
| Rspublican-Trus party, great nation
/ al blessing.
Previous to the last election Ameri-
/ can industry In all its branches WAS
! promised untold advantages from the
] support OF this baT Toarous iniquity. The
/ rich being made richer by their ability
| under this arrangement TO fix their own
prices upon the necessariss of life,
/ which we must have, and likewise upon
| our labor, which We must sell, or perish,
| were going out of their own sweet
| pleasure, to take the most tendsr care of
/ the American workingman who thus
( placed himself at their royal mercy !
The natural and the logical results
| are already apparent all over the
| country in the extreme distress OF our
| laboring people, and especially in the
/ lOckOuts and strikes in such highly pro-
| tected enterprises as those OF Mr.. Car
negie and the other financial chiefs of
the trust party. But probably the sad
coal miners ir Illinois and Indiana. who
after numerous reductions, declined to
submit TO the fresh cut, which brought
them down to about 60 cents a day.
Required to purchase the necessaries of
life, clothing, bedding utenses, salt and
sugar out OF such wages, at tariff and
trust prices. they saw that i: was
starvation whether they should strike or
submit, and they chose TO strike.
They are the same unfori innate miners
who were loaded into excursion trains
by their employers and carried to In
dianapOlis bY the thousands to wait on
General Harrison and express their ap-
pToval of that wOrlEy's disInterested
stand against any reduction of the be-
nefcent mOnOpiy tariff. II is not likely
that many of these men were actually
deceived by the pretenses of the capi-
talists and politicians who thus used
them, but their bread and butter de-
pended upon compliance, and they
obeyed. The tales OF want and suffer
ing which come up from them now are
enough TO move a heart OF granite,
while, for the blight which has fallen
their industry, and deprived them of
earning their bread, they are as little
responsible as are the inhabitants of the
Conemaugh for the desolation o, that
valley.
a workman of Pirtsburg, Democrat,
with head and heart honestly devoted
TO the interests of his class, and sympa-
thizing with these winers in the ca,ami-
~ which has overtaken them, has |
started for their relief the tariff reform
ers' fund, to which he and the Pittsburg
Post invite contributions of any amount |
from any part OF the country. The re- |
spOnse TO this appeal ought TO be as
great in proportion as that in the case !
of JOhnstOwD. These men and their |
families are in state quite as soTrowfuI,
except for the loss of life, as were the
others. In some instances, it is said. |
they are actually starving. The Post
will receive and forward every thing
that may be sent TO il, and we devoutly
trus. the great at-hearted Democracy from
the lakes TO the gulf will answer this
call to their humanity.-N. Y. Globe.