Show 1CRTlVnYT ULEKIES Are the great strikes of the protected pro-tected I laborers in the coal and coke regions of the eat in which our American Amer-ican laborers with such names as Sconesk Youski Skoleski and Schen onski are slain by the minions of the 3av while trying to drive out other laborers caused by any fears that the McKinley tariff will be repealed by the wicked Demourats Or are they caused by the fact that the owners of the mines got a tariff on coal coke andiron and-iron ore solely for the protection 1 of American lalw and then absent miadedlv forgot to pay over the money taken from the pockets of the consumers consum-ers o coal in higher wages to the American laborers but instead dropped It into their own pockets and then that at least a part of the money filched from the consumers should be paid to them coolly discharged them and imported hordes of Poles Huns and Bohemians the scumof the countries coun-tries from which they came many of them savages in all but the name to take their places But it seems that even these savages have thPlr weak side and learning that the American people have licensed the mine owners to plunder them for the benefit of their aborers so that they can pay them high wages persist in demanding that the money so raised for them shall be paid over to them And when an expresident goes about the country telling about the unusual peace and prosperity existing throughout through-out the country during his administra tion he forgts to consider the case of the tens of thousands starving miners and their families of Hocking valley and the protected coke and coal regions re-gions of Pennsylvania and the Homo stead riots DEMOCRAT We fear our Democrat is rather earcasttc in his queries anJ In asking for information seeks to impart It in an ironical way by referring to coke find the riots which aiv disturbing the east We regard the demands of the working people for high wages and the strikes inaugurated to force them as She logical l sequence of the protection argument The high tariff as Its promoters pro-moters have maintained was imposed for the of purpose mektng high wages or of keeping them up to a given standard I stan-dard Why should not the workmen for whom protection is said to have betn Increased receive increased com jpensation for their labor The demands made upon the government govern-ment by the mobs marching to the capital cap-ital are in the sam line Protection means paternalism It is the companion and ally of socialism It is the root from which the present disturbances have sprung These are but the opened blossoms of the plant that has been rowing for years They are no sudden sud-den development They are too widespread wide-spread and general to be the crop of one season I Democrat has put the fact In a I prominent light and the working people of the country should look at itsquare 3y Protection means the fostering of monopolies not the advancement of labor la-bor It Is In the interest of the rich ie < v at the expense of lie struggling masses Tt is wrong In principle and has proved pernicious in practice Projection Pro-jection In the Republican sense of the erm must go j j rlf 1id |