St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-28
How the Poor Are Bied to Fill
the Money Chests Of the
Monopolist.
The Laboring Classes Left I'm
protected Against the For
eign Emigrant.
st. Paul Dealers Lay Bare a
Great Injustice to the
People.

Dental campaign.
Cleveland proposed to reduce the
tariff.
The leader Of the great Democratic
party believed that it was IN the inter-
ests of the people-the whole mass of
the working people-that the tariff
should be reduced SO as merely to pro
vide sufficient money to run the wheels
of the government.
Upon this proposition he was fought
and defeated by the Republican party.
The laboring classes did not defeat
Cleveland; it was the moneyed men be-
hind the Republican party. They
stopped at nothing to secure the cleo
ton of Harrison, who. puppet-like, had
| pledged himself to their protectionist
| principles. Eastern manufacturers con-
tributed hundreds of thousands of dol
| lars to debauch the electors. The hand
ling of this money was entrusted to a
| mana fit leader for the Republican
| party-wiI0 70. months has refused to
| break sile ice under charge of embez-
Element ct public funds. The Eastern
manufacturers kn"w what they were
doing. A reduction of the tariff threat
ened a reduction of their enormous
| profits. What more natural than
| that these manufacturers should seek
| to protect themselves by a subscription
| to the Republican campaign compaign
funds. 1t was a kind of Investment,
and, as events prove, mighty good in
veStment.
The Republicans assumed the reins of
government?
Has the condition of the working
| classes materially improved? Have
their wages increased? Who has re-
ceived the most attention by the legisla-
ture-the laborer or the manufacturer?
Let each man answer these questions
fer himself. If he considers them at all
intelligently he must come but to one
conclusion-that the Republican party
| is the foe of the working classes.
/ There has been no material improve
ment in the condition of the laboring
/ people.
| Republican stump orators promised
an era of great prosperity when once
the Republicans regained possession of
the White house. Work would be pro-
vided for every one willing to work.
these professions are now too apparent.
But they served their end at the time.
| The people were hoodwinked and cor
rupted in the most barefaced manner.
The working classes can now decide
| who are their friends.
Actions speak louder than words.
Congress has been in session eleven
/ months. The major portion of that time
has been spent in discussing bill to
| raise the tariff-the so-called Mckinley
j bill. In whose interest is this bill
i framed? Read:
Louis o. Vessel. of the dry goods firm
of Durocher & Vessel, interviewed,
said:
1 TT is quite true-too true, in fact-that
! there is going to be a general rise from Is to
| 25 per cent in woollen goods, and you might
4 say also in cotton goods. Even to-day we
! cannot buy at the prices we were buying at
| gone up from 10 to 20 per cent The retail
dealers make nothing out of this: it's the
4 manufacturers who are making all the
money. The increase is not merely upon
imported manufactured goods. but also
/ all goods manufactured in this eoun-
/ try protected under the provisions
of this Mckinley bill. Who pays for the
| extra cost? Why, the purchasers, OF course.
| The manufacturers get the rake eff; the re-
| tail merchant gets nething-he simply has to
| raise the price on his customers for the ben
| eft OF the manufacturer. In the end the re-
| taller will suffer. The increased price for
| goods must necessarily control the demand
hence you win see how this bill works solely
and entirely in the interests of the manufact-
tailers next The manufacturers. on the
1 other hand, grow richer day by day.
This is the return the Republican
! party make to the Eastern manufacture
! ers. to whom they owe their return to
| power. These manufacturers are paid
at the rate of Is to 25 per cent increased
profits for the investment they made
towards c0rrupting the ballot, and
securing the triumph of the protection
lists. Aud the people pay for all this
the poor people, too. Winter is fast ap-
preaching, and the man and woman who
have toIled hard all summer to
provide warm clothing for the winter,
will find that Is to 25 per cent of their
earnings is eXtOrted from them merely
to satisfy the rapacious greed of the
Eastern manufacturers.
And this, too, is made possible solely
by the action of the Minnesota con-
ressmen-Messrs. Snider, Lind. Dun
nell, ComstocE and Darius S. Hall.
/ Let every citizen of Minnesota re-
member this. If they do. month
/ hence these gentlemen Will be relegated
to that position Of ObScurity which their
seryile subserviency to the party whip
/ justly fits them.
They were returned to congress to
/ represet the people.
/ Whath have they done?
They have sacrificed the people to the
money power of the East. The manu-
facturer has been protected, but the la
/ .borer has been left unprotected. Immi-
grants pour into the country by the
thousands. They swarm the labor
markets throughout the union, and
/ their presence has but one
4 reSult-a reduction in the wages of the
wage-earners. 1t cannot be otherwise.
The wage-earnerS are not protected, and
the competition of the foreign emf
grant tends to bring wages down.
But the Republican representatives
| in congress heed not the workingmen.
They are bound body and soul to
money. Money got them to their pres
ent position of power. and money de-
mands its pound of flesh.
! Workingmen, if they only will, can
make themselves felt even with Rppub-
| licans in power. Let them mark the
man who has voted to perpetuate the
power of the lordly millionaire at the
| expense of the poor day labOrer. If
| they do this, and refuse to support him
| on election day, there will be less of
| these iniquitieus Mckinley bill and
l protective tariffs.
/ To show the far-reaching effects of
1 this bill, the following interview with
ID. M. Dyer, OF the firm of w. j. Dyer &
Bro, importers and jobbers of musical
merchandise, clearly illustrates:
1 1.-THE effect of the Mckinley bill I'm our
| business will be to make a general advance
| upon that large portion of our stock that
Tf,HQ no Low,
musical instruments are subject toa tax of
| % percent In this new bill they are not
classified. but will besassessed the rate upon
the material of which they are made. This
4 is great mistake and will undoubtedly
i cause much confusion and annoyance.
i There Is no reason why uniform or
/ a specified rate of duty should not
have been provided, aud strong argu-
i ments have been made before the commit
tees fer this purpose, by members of the
i Musical Merchandise Beard of Trade of the
] United States, but without avail. The i'm