The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-22
THE POPULIsT SENATORS AND
LABOR.

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The Populist paBty leaders are always
posing as the champions of the workingnlan
and the wage Garner generally. As is well
known, there are three Populist Senator's.
They are full of views and professions. The
Journal desires to call attention to several
of their votes showing that their profess
sion of devotion to labor is a shallow mock
cry. Senator Allen was ofhsh about voting
for the Sugar Trust abomination. but. as
his vote was needed, 1T was bought just as
were the votes OF other Senator'S. The price
which the Populist Senator's Allen and Kyle
demanded included free sawed and planned
lumber and free barbed wire. If they had
stood by their guns they might have re-
tanned the sugar bounty. and beet-sugar
growing was becoming an important in
dustry in Nebraska But they did
not. All that they wanted TO en-
able them to go hom and parade
as demagogues was the claim that they
had got lumber and barbed wire on the fee
list in the interest Of Nebraska and Dakota
farmers. 1t was no sort of consequence
that the great lumber interest of the coun-
try. employing $4,000 men and paying them
s63. 400.oO as wages, should be turned over
to Canadian competitors. turning thousands
of men to idleness and crowding some of
them into Coxey armies. so long as it has
afforded them opportunity to shouts: eve
gave the farmers of Nebraska and Dakota
free lumber" So with the barbed wire in
dustry. All other sorts of wire are subject
to duty, and all of the iron and steel out
Of which barbed wire is made. The fact
that several thousand iron ore miners in
Michigan and Wisconsin have been saved
from starvation by public charity, will
again be in danger of unemployment and
must take much lower wages does not APP
peal to the narrow and selfish trio of Popu-
barbed wire fence is on the free list at their
demand. They sold their votes to put a
cent a pound on every pound of sugar con-
sumed. expecting to get wire fence a quar-
ter Of a cent a pound cheaper because made
in Europe by displacing American iron
workers No wonder Senator Allen WINGED
when Senator Chandler showed up his shall
low demagogy-
The country the past six weeks has been
full of the coal strikes. The Populist states
men nave taken a land by supporting vio-
lence and danorncfnr the money mower
The other day all of them voted against a
duty of 40 cents a ton on soft coal. when
they knew, or could have known. that this
scheme to put coal on the free list is in
cited by a syndicate of New York and Bos-
ton capitalists who nave bonded the ex-
tensive coal fields of Nova Scotia, which.
with cheaper labor, will enable them to
grasp a large part of the immense coal
supply Of the manufacturing New England
States and New York. taking the place OF
millions and millions OF tons of coal pro-
two virginias, and thereby depriving tens
of thousands of men working about mines
of employment and many thousands en-
ployed by the railroads and steamboats,
transporting 1t. Free coal would cause sew
eral thousand miners to be discharged and
force a reduction OF the present too low
wages to a lower scale in order to compete
with the Nova Scotia syndicate. Could
there be action more narrow and heartless
in legislation than here noted?