The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-11-28
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II AnOtu0F Column we Reproduce
"Good Times and Fake News" from
the Daily States Of last week, in which
it is shown that the opening Of facto-
ries and the resumption Of business
heraled as following on the heels OF
Major Mckinley exist, in some instan-
ces at least, only ia the fertile imagi.
nations of enterprising newspaper re
porters, when not specially made UP
cases to suit the OCCASION.
Since then, we have received the
last issue of the Catholic Mirror pub
lished ut Baltimore and in it 40 find q
letter from Augusta Ga.. under date III
the 18th Inst. fr0m that aver interest
my writer, James r. Randall whose
comments on the same subject we sub
join. E.
II see that some of the batting
Democrats who vot,d for mckinley
and Prosperity" have swiftly had Il
dlsagleeable object lesson. refer to
manner in which one of the Republi-
can trusts laid its heavy hand on the
sugar refinery at Curtis Bay. The
Baltimore stockholders will probably
he able to mingle their tears with
Stockholders III your great railroad
company. The m%onopolies, trusts
and foreign bond holders may we'll
langl. at their victims. We hear mucl,
OF factories resnming operations, bnt
nothing, III ON quarters, of the other
side of the picture. An Ohio paper
states that a great railway corporation
made q reduction of 10 per cent, iii
the wages OF their section employees Of
this division, as well as discharging a
number Of them. The Cincinnati.
Hamilton and Dayton Company,
which was the father Of the railroad
employees ''sound money! club move
melt in Northwestern Ohio, d,scharc
ed several car builders and carpenters
employed in their shops here. Ii is
very fortunate Tor the gold men that
these reductions did not take place
befure election. The men who were
reduced 10 per cent in wages were re-
duced ID IL per cen in time,
This is a dispatch ftom Auburn,
Me.
Notices to the effect that If McKin-
ley we've elected employees Of the Asa
Cushmau Shoe Manufacturing Compa-
ny would get more work and better
wages, were posted in the shops sew
era! days before election. Yesterday
the vampers, wages were reduced from
eight to six cents a Case, and the
best men, who have been earning
SLIGO, will now average S1.2O a day.
This work paid from Is to 20 cents a
case four years ago, and to days cut
of 70 per cent. is very discouraging to
the men.
This is from The Bellaire Tribune /:
The Sante Fe railroad system that
sent all its employees on a free trip to
Canton has, since the eiection.a gone
into the hands of a receiver. The road
is to be wrecked, evidently in the in
OF the foreign bondhOlders, and
American stockholders are to lose
al they have III the road. It is our
opinion that the present decision in
Of the gold standard means the
ultimate ownership of the American
railroads by the foreign bondholders
n whose interest shey have been and
will be managed.
Since the election, the Cincinnati
branch of the Leather Trust reduced
he wages Of employees ten per cent,
md raised the price of their products
;wo cents per pound. Workingmen
Will prepare to enjoy Thanksgiving.n
Beside these instan les OF reductions
# wages, there have been numerous
'tbers reported in the papers, as we'll
Is business failures, since the an
louncement Of the first squirt of good
ines and returning prosperity. We
ote these facts, not that we rejoice
yer them, and would not have them
otherwise, if VIZ could, but simply 10
how that the .'good tImesn business
as been overione by the friends Of
he advanced Agent Of Prosperity"
Wanting will no bring prosperity
ut rather retard it, when tile truth
ecOmes known.
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