The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-10-29
THE GOOD WOMEN ARE AGAINST
M'KINLEY.


the Pittsburg Dispatch, that the good
women are against Mckinley.
And why should they not be? Nc
Kinley is against all the working wo-
men of the country, and the friends of
the working women are all patriotic
women. and should be all Christian
women.
Mckinley is not only against the
working women, but he has always been
against the patriotic women of the war,
including the army nurses.
He played his usual dodge game when
the army nurses bill was before the last
Billion Dollar Congress. The patriotic
women of Massachusetts, sent Mrs.
Reed ,(wife of a Massachusetts, ColoneD,
to Washington to work for the army
nurses bill, and although she was there
three weeks, and sent her card to the
committee room and to the floor of the
House half a dozen times, she could
never see Mckinley. He always sent
word that he was engaged. On the
other hand, the President Of the White
Lead trust, tho President of the Binder
Twine trust, the pottery kings of East
Liverpool, and the pig iron kings had
no trouble whatever to interview Nc
Kinley,at all times.
This good wife of the Massachusetts,
Colonel finally went home in disgust;
but before she left Washington
she sent letter to an Ohio
woman, in which she scored Mckinley
numerically for his cold blooded indif-
ference to the claims of soldiers widows
and the patriotic army nurses.
On the other hand, when Governor
Campbell was appealed to by the pat
riotic women of Ohio to endorse the
Army Nurses Home at Madison, Ohio,
he took hold of the matter with patriot
ic ardor and Democratic Legislature
made the appropriation and the Home
is now a reality. Hence the patriotic
women of Ohio are everywhere for
Campbell.
But there are other aud still more
vital reasons why good Christian
women are for Campbell. Bessie
Bramble tells it well, in the Pittsburg
Dispatch. 1t is because the working
women of the United States have been
sorely oppressed by the Mckinley bill.
There is paper called the WORKING
WOMAN, edited by Christian woman,
devoted to saving the chastity of work
ing girls, who, under the Mckinley bill,
are in many instances forced into prosti.
tuition by the wages of starvation. This
paper makes vigorous onslaught upon
Mckinley aud his robber tariff.
Mckinley catches it all around. He
is held responsible for the duty which
makes the working woman's cloth cloak
cost 40 per cent more, while cloak max
er's wages have Teen cut down 90 per
cent. He is held responsible for the
fact that, while the duty on linen thread
has been advanced from 40 to 80 pr
cent and on cheaper grades from 70 to
100 per cent, yet the manufacturers of
this highly protected industry have re-
duced the wages of their women work
ers 10 per cent.
Take the robter tariff on hats, which
robs rich and poor alike. 1t does not
keep up the wages of women, since
800 eiIls in the hat business at Dan.
bury, Conn, are striking against a cut
of 20 per cent in wages. They do not
see the benefit of the Mckinley bill
which has raised the duty on lace from
| 30 to 60 per cent, while the manufactur-
ers Of laces have reduced the wages Of
I their women workers from 10 to 20 per
cent. The duty on silk, say the silk
workers of Patterson, n. J is 60 per
cent, and yet the wages of the women
in the factories have gone down In a
few years from S25 to 80 a week. In
five of the large tailor shops of New
York the wages of the women were re-
Gently reduced so per cent. All who
demurred were discharged. Lots OF
tariff, but no protection, say the women
Women's wages In the barb wire mills
of Trenton, N. j., were cut from ~ tc
20 per cent in the last month. Isit any
wonder that women with hearts and
souls are fighting mad, at this bruta
robbery.
This Working Woman's journal
draws very pathetic picture of the
women who can only get $3.50 pei
week for their work, while their board
costs $3.50. II sets forth that there
are 10000 women behind the counters
in New York City whose wages are only
from 80 80 to "a so per week, while thu
rent of a little hall bed room is from s.
to So week.
Not only have wages gone down, bu
everything these poor women have Il
buy is enhanced In cost by the McKin
ley tariff. The voice of humanity 1
calling, saying in voice of thunder:
i Vote the Democratic ticket.
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