The Forrest City times., 1902-08-15
TO FILL PLACES OF STRIKERS.
'umigrants Coming Into This Coun-
try TO Take the Places of Coal
Miners aud Others.

| mote Tree tTd0e ii men. anu Il i tie
only kind Of free trade am prepared
to promote"
This has always been the policy Of
the rotectionists-that i. of the re-
publican party. which has ever been
the home of the protected manufacture
ers and the enemy Of the laborer and
farmer. Observe now how beautifully
their system is working! J. 7. Nor
1 gan and his coal, steel. railroad and
steamship pals encourage great
| strikes. when their steamships are
| dumping thousands of immigrants on
our shores every week. willing to work
! for considerably less than the coal and
other strikers have been getting.
For the year ending June 80. 1902.
Gas. 743 immigrants reached our shores;
457.711 were from Italy. Austria-Hun-
gary and Russia. They were driven
out of these countries partly by suc-
cession of poor crops. but more espe-
cially by the very high tariff and in
ternal taxes which prevent the people
from obtaining foreign goods except
a prices almost prohibitiye. Thus, the
lowest price for refined sugar is l / cents
in Italy, and IL cents per pound in
Russia and Austria-Hungary. al
| though the same sugar is sold in Eng
| land for 21s cents per pound.
| Undoubtedly. also, many immigrants
came over after reading the glowing
promises of high wages in America
made in the advertising pamphlets Of
Morgan's railroad and steams hip lines.
certain 1t Is that hundreds of thou
sands OF them are here to flood the Ia
Dor market and keep wages down and
to Increase consumption Of goods and
thus enable the trusts to give prices
another lift It Is a beautiful system
for the protected manufacturers, mine
! operators and railroads. y Senator
John F. Miller. Of California, said in
lss2:
The average manufacturer is in
terested generally in two things. name
~ the highest protective tariff and the
cheapest labor. The a6miS-
| sion of Servile laborers into this cdun-
try without limit means high
prices for the products Of manufacture
and low prices for the labor that pro-
| duceS them"
Is it any wonder that the coal aper-
ators refused 10 arbifrafe and that
they are but little worried about the
| outcome Of the Strikea They are ir
no hurry 10 begin to operate the mines
because they are getting from seven to
/ ten dollars per ten fer the surplus coal
which they had stored up in anticipa-
! ton Of the strike.
In the meantime. they are builaipn
stockades around the mines and nut
ting armor on cars 50 that when they
decide to dump a few shiplaaGs Of i'm
migrants into their mines. they can.
with the assistance of Pinkertons.
state militia and national guards. DEFY
labor unions. examiners and nublic sen
timent. About the only thing worry
the operators is the fact that the public
Is getting "nosey" and asking why tb-
operators do not work the mines or
offer to arbitrate. and is suggesting
that il has some rights. that the coal
was not nut there in the ground for
the exclusive use Of a few mine owners
| I
rareous conduct. are taking the short
est cut to state socialism and com
munism. The operators are reDlyino
that the mines are their private prom
erty. and that il is none Of the business
Of the public what they do with them
Tnouesionably. the mine owners
(railroads) could. even in ordinary
times. sell anthracite coal at nresent
prices But they are afraid of the
public. They need an excuse furnished
bv strike and a pretended shortage
Of coal. The longer the mines are left
idle. the better the Dublic will heeoTe
accustomed to high prices of coal and
the less reduction in prices will have
to be made when mining i resumed
Protected PENNSYLVANIA i the state
Of great strikes. great riots low WAGES
seryile laborers. protected mills ter
if-made miIlionaires and Nautical
bosses of the most obnoxious TYNE i