The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-13
And Are Not Deceived by the False
Pretenses OF Protection
Advocates.
Not an Operative in All Connect
cut Has Had His Wages
Raised by 1t.
That State IL for Cleveland and tho Dem
ooratio Ticket At tho November
Election.

Connecticut was u doubtful state politically
and after the wal ii was the first MINOR
wealth in the north to ignore politics and
settle down to the consid Grafton of the liv-
ing issues. The people of Connecticut afs
q sturdy. hardy, industrious progressive
race. In the rural districts the people are
more puritan than they are in Vermont or
Massachusetts,, and in the cities they are aa
cosmopolitan as the New Workers. Con-
n~ectiout ia peculiarly what Mr.. Blaine de-
soribed as an industrial state. Manufac-
ture is the chief business of the people. 1t
has long been assumed that the action of
Connecticut politically was to a large ex-
tent influenced by New York.
This is not 30. The Nutmeg folk do their
own thinking and also their own voting.
Connecticut Ia a delightful state to make
a journey in. Those of us who are familiar
with the magnificent distances in the west
and south, between towns and cities, can
not help being agreeably impressed with a
state like Connecticut. whore one oan jump
from New Haven to Waterbury in less than
two hours; from Waterbury to Hartford in
an hour and a half or so, and from Hart
ford to any of the principal points of the
Nnb WaihS y AhaA PAeAAa& NV ~~SSAs
From New Haven to Waterbury there 10 a
succession of town, or rather, 1t might be
expressed. q succession OF factories.
Scarcely has the factory smoke in one W
ship disappeared when the smokestacks in
the next village loom up. The Naugatuck
valley, sterile, rocky and unproductivs,
so far as the soil is concerned,
is picturesque in scenery, and by the in
dustry of man and the ingenuity Of the
Yankee can now compare in prosperity
with any region of like extent in the world.
This valley, from Derby to Winstead, has
more varied manufactures than any other
region in the United States. Birmingham
and Ansonia have iron and brass works.
Seymour has wooden mills. Naugatuck
makes everything that 10 made out Of rub
her or gutta psrcha. Waterbury is the
head center of the brass manufacturing in
dustry in this United States. 1t ia the brass
city. There is nothing that there is brass
in that is not made there. except. perhaps.
cheek like Abe Slupsky's or people of his
grade. Thomaston 10 the great clock
manufacturing town, and at Winstehd
there is a variety of manufactures that
would fairly puzzle the inquirer to find out
what is not made there. The same descrlp-
ton applies to New Britain. 1t 10 a city of
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particular material.
II ia the vote of these manufacturing
towns that controls Connecticut politics.
In 1888 the factory workmen were to a great
extent influenced by the promise of higher
wages in the event of Hariison's election.
Since then the Mckinley bill. enormously
lncreasing the tariff. has become q law, and
not an employe in q factory in the Manga
tuck valley can show an increase of wages,
except through natural causes. The work
ingmen of Connections have become con-
WINGED that the tariff is for the manufac-
turer, and not for the operatives. The
ablest politicians in Connecticut are Of the
opinion that Cleveland will receive at least
5000 more votes in Connecticut this year
than he did in 1883. A correspondent OF
the st. Louis Republic oonversed with
factory operatives in nearly all the towns in
the Naugatuck valley above named. To
a man they expressed the belief that
80 far from being a benefit to the Ia
borer, the tariff was a delusion and a snare.
There il nc doubt that there are more DEM
ocrats than republicans in Connecticut
The independent vote in the state il large.
and invariably has been able to influence
the decisive result of a state election. This
year all the indications are that the indie
pendent vote will be for the democratic
party. Not only is Cleveland strong witt
the democrats, but the sympathies of the
people are with the democracy on state ia.
sues.
The conditions in Connecticut are almost
peculiar. Manufacturing 10 the chief busi-
ness of the people. and while the water
power ia utilized in some places. as a gen.
eral rule the motive power must be pro-
duced by coal. The people of Connecticut
BY virtue of the Mckinley law, are taxed
S2.5 70 II ton for coal for the benefit of Penn
~. vania. They are now paying $1.7I
a ton for coal in Connecticut. III
increase of $3.50 ton since the
passage of the Mckinley bill and tn,
formation of a coal combine which was
maze possible by the Mckinley tariff. o
course the protectionists assert that there
is no duty on anthracite coal, which is thu
article mined in Pennsylvania, but there il
a tax on bituminous coal. IL the people OF
Connecticut had the privilege of importing
bituminous coal from anada they claim
that they could fill their stoves. furnaces
and boilers with it and compel the Penn
sylvania anthracite cormorant to come
down.. The prices of coal in Connecticut
just now the democrats believe will bt
, worth many Thousand Votes to them III No
vember. Nor 10 it the poor fellow who re-
quirss coal to cook his dinner III a simple
stove in his house or tsnement that is do
ing the kicking. The manufacturer fee
the weight of the coal combine, too, and
while many of those who are highly pro
tected themselves are remaining 81
lent, most Of them believe firmly that thu
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in open daylight. The demand for raw ma
terials by the manufacturers is steadily
growing. and many of them are becoming
convinced that their prosperity would b.
greater under a democratic low tariff will
free raw material than it is now undo thu
extreme republican high tariff and the in
%cessant attempts of the republicans tt
sueeze the fat ont of them.
Both the external and internal condi'
tons in Connecticut are favorable to Cleve-
land. Thu democrats are entirely har
monious and are earnest because they fee
that they are suffering from an outrage
The present governor OF Connecticut, Bulk
ley, was neither elected nor voted for b,
the people AT the lsst state election. Nor
ris was the democratic candidate and Mer
vim was the republican candidate. The pro-
h%ibitionista and the socialists had candi
dates, who received II couple of thousan,
votes between them. Nor Is, the democrat
had a ~lurality of about 1000 over Meryin
but he fell q few votes short of an absolut
majority over all, largely because the cleo
tion inspectors in tho interior counted on
ballots that were honestly cast for Morris
Under the Connecticut constitution can,
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