The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-10-29
wAaeoNER WANTS TO KNOW.


One of the sharpest, crispest writers
In the United States on the tariff is
M. o. Waggoner of Toledo. Everything
he writes is worth repeating. Here are
few of his latest questions, pertly putt
Why did "Conger" of the Republican
national committee, who is largely en-.
gagedi in manufacturing in Akron, Ohio,
and Others of the same ilk throughout
Ohio, reduce the wages largely since
the passage of the Mckinley billp
What have you to say about Carnegie
and others, among the largest manu-
facturers in Pittsburg, who have re-
duced the wages of their employees
largely since the passage of the McKin-
ley bill and now send $4,000 into Ohio
10 help elect the author of the mon
strosity known as the Mckinley
"Bill"? Doyou think that is good evi-
dence of the genuine love of the wage
worker2
Do you think the Mckinley "Bilp
contains any clause in any way adapted
to the relief or protection of the 5000
old soldiers now luxuriating in the vari
Gus poor houses throughout the country
that has been cursed with projection
for about 30 years last past?
Isn't it lamentable to witness the
poor deluded protected" merchant who
is trying to keep his head above water
financially by selling goods at cost OF
less in the vain attempt to swim the
McKinley-lzed current as long as he
can and avoid posting in his front win
dows the ominous words, "Closed for
invoice"
How will the following do for such
fellows to indulge in occasionally by
way of cheerful change from the
foregoing gloomy aspect. Sayyou sing
the following chorus, to wit:
The Campbells are coming-O'ho-
Ohio!
The "liars" are going-O'ho-O'ho!l? ?
Mr.. Farmer suppose you sell your
wool unwashed aud washed at from Is
to 26 cents per pound to the protected
woolen manufacturer and then buy ii
back from him after 1t is spun into
stocking yarn or made up into cloth
and pay him from one dollar ten cents
to three dollars per pound for the same
wool, how long would your physical
and financial system hold out under the
taking of that kind of Mckinley
physic?
Are the tin-pail brigade among the
wage workers to be compelled in the
future to carry their dinners in that
"Dugus Piqua tin" pals and risk theiI
lives by tin poisoning?
Will you kindly bear in mind that the
expression reduction of wages" is nc
longer used by the protected manufac-
turers; it is now, if you please, "read
justment of wages" How do you like
this Carnegie, COnger ct al. style of ex
pressing the practical action of the
rObber tariff PAM
If the tariff protection tax principle
as put by the protectionists makes
goods cheaper, why did the. people in
Chicago, after the great fire, petition
congress for rebate of the tariff or
lumber, and also jim Blaine in the state
of Maine, after the great fire in Au
gusta, ask congress to "reciprocate" or
the lumber question: Why didn't
Chicago and Blaine make the b-l-a.r-s.t
ed f-u-r-i-n-e-r pay the tariff taxP
How about this old Ohio Lincolr
club green turtle banquet now being
prepared in Columbus in the coming
February? Will "little Benny" be OF
hand, or will he refuse to cOhdescend t
as much as answer an invitation. as h,
did last February at the green. turtl,
defaulting iasco in the goodly city o
Toledo?
Will you bear in mind tbati am au
thorized by Gov. James E. Ca npbell t.
put the oft asked question to \ cKinle,
or any of his advocates to nj ne on
workingman who has had his wage
raised by the an ,Kinley monstrosity /?
Will you bear this in mind?
Now without any superstition in tn
proposition, l prognosticte that as Il
the case of Tipping the copper for tn
"Ada debate" Billy got the "tail," =.
also will he do likewise on election da
in November.
M. o. WAGGoNER.
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