St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-02
Workingmen Feel Sore at the
lmpositions of the Nc
Klnley Law.
What the People Who Pay the
Piper Say About a Pro-
tectiVe Tariff.
They Are Opposed to Being
Made the Catspaw of Mo-
n0polist Millionaires.
To a Man They Denounce the
Arrogance Of the Grand
Old Party.

| w OIhiuEincI uic iuuiS IidHt Ut tiiC
enormous increase of necessaries under
the Mckinley law.
There is no doubt about it.
The feeling among workingmen is to-
day so strong that general uprising
against the Ubiquitous law would not be
surprising.
For many years the workingmen have
been robbed by trusts and monopolistS,
backed up by an unholy protective sys-
TEN, and this addition to the tariff in
the shape of the Mckinley law comes
| like the last straw to the camefs back.
The workingman's back is almost
broken with the burdens placed upon it
| by the corruption of the Republican
party and the rapacious greed of mo-
nopoliSt millionaireS.
He will not bear these burdens much
| longer.
There is feeling Of unrest abroad.
| To determine the true feeling of the
workngmen GLOBE reporter yester-
day interviewed a number of them at
their homes and places of business.
Mast Wear Clogs.
Thomas 0'Mallry, blacksmith. of
| Rice STIR ct, WAS UuSy at the anvil when
the interview er al peared. He said:
Hops ar going up; they will soon be
| charging us more for beer. l just
bought Il WOODEN shirt. and had to con-
tribute 80 cents more than ever to some
| big combine. l sent the boy out last
night for small tin pail; he came back
with the information that the Mckinley
bill had driven the fve-cent pail out of
| existence. If shoes keep advancing in
price. we will all have to wear clogs.
| Groceries Are Up.
n. W. Turner, machInIst, of MiSsiS-
! Sippi street. said:
Il cannot tell you just what items
| have advanced, or how much they have
advanced, as am usually busy and my
wife does all the buying. This much L
| do know. however, it costs me more to
live now than before the passage of the
law. This is particularly noticeable in
my grocery bill. l am sure we do not
consume any more goods than formerly,
still my bill is more thSn ever before.
| AS said, cannot tell you just what ar
tlcles the prices have been advanced
on; still that makes very little differ
| ence, as the fact remains that it is cost
ing me more tn live now than before
the passage OF the bill. My wife tells
ME that almost ali kinds of groceries
have advanced.
story Of Suit.
! Ed Jacks, another machiniSt, of Mis-
| SiSsippi street, said:
| Il know very little about the effects
| of the Mckinley bill on the price of liv-
| ing, as have had occasion TO buy very
| little since IFS passage. | do know,
| however, that l went to tailor a few
| days ago to have him duplicate suit of
| "a mo fnr m mr.
for S2S; he wanted to chsrge me S32 for
| exactly the same suit now"
| Little Girls Cloak.
| John Geke, StOn coulter, of Arcade
| street. said:
| II should think that it costs me fully
| $40 a month more to live now than it
| did before the passage of the new tariff
| law. My wife buys all the groceries.
| and hence l don't know Oh just what
articles the advance has been. know
| that the same amount of money don't
| go as far as it formerly did. had to
buy cloak for my little girl the other
day, and had to pay S1.25 more for it
| than did for her last winter, and it
was not as good cloak as the one | got
last winter for less money. The new
law will be a great hardship to the
| working people"
Everything High.
X. F. Berkeley, carpenter, of Wa
basha street, said:
Before the passage of this now in
famous bill many of us did not under
stand or realize what it would do fer
for the workingmen. This has been
| changed. The skilled or unskilled
| laborer feels its effects relatively alike.
| The high prices now to be met with in
| the grocery, clothing and hardware
| stores indicate what we'll may be ex-
| pected in the near future. The cIothiers
| are beginning to raise the prices of
| their goods; this is especially true of
| the small clothier who did not have the
| means to stock up before the enforce
| ment of the tariff SwiDdle. The 'condi-
| ton that confrontS us is an increased
price on the commodities of life and no
| relative increase in our wages"
Mckinley Again.
Michael Sweeney, of North street,
| said:
Il know little of the bill in question,
| but do dnow that goods are going up.
| A few days ago | needed a new dinner
| pail, and in buying it was told that the
| price had been advanced. the reason
| given being the Mckinley bill. If this
is what the bill was passed for. 1t is GER
| tainly hurtful to all workingmen."
Strikes and Misery.
| Arthur Martin, a plumber, of Arcade
| street, said:
THE new tariff bill will increase the
needs and the demands of labor, but I
| do not think that it will increase the
| wages paid labor. The bill VIII make
| money more in demand, and will cause
| Door workingmen to indulge IN fewer
| comforts. think that increased prices
| for domestic articles, clothing and other
I .x,,I lot~
! make demands for increased wages
during the coming year, which, if not
| granted, will cause many strikes among
| the laboring classes. / think that the
year 1892 will be marked by more strikes
| and more misery among laboring classes
| than for many years previous"
| Dear Oyera1Is.
Olsen Jansen, labOrer, of Minnehaha
street, said:
| lit costs me more to live now than it
| did before the passage of the new tariff
law. Everything seems to have adj
vanced. do very little of my own mar
keting, and hence know very little as to
| just what articles have advanced land
| how much the advance has been. A
few days ago 1 had to buy pair of
| Overalls, and found that they cost me
| so cents more than they ever have be-
| fore, and the merchant of whom |
bought them told me that every kind of
| clothing had advanced On account of
the Mckinley bill"
| Blot 1t Out.
James Brady, bricklayer, of East Sew
| enth street, said:
| ''As workingman I must say that
| the new tariff bill is one of the most
pernicious measures the country has
ever been cursed with. They are rails
ing the price of hats. 1t hats continue
to increase in price in the next six
weeks we will have to wear cloth caps
as they do in England. A man cannot
buy piece of toilet soap now without
| paying an additional tax on it. The
| same is true of prunes. The price of
| prunes is up. Why they raised this 1
can't tell. do wish, however. that all
men would arouse themselves and see
to it that this perDicious bill is blotted
| out from our statute books"
Wages Too Low.