Elkins On Wages

"Wages must go down, " says Senator Elkins in a recent interview published in the Cincinnati Enquirer. "Wage earners," continued the senator, "do not wish to see it or believe it, but it isso. " And again he said, "Wages in America stand against any revival of business." He was discussing the coal trade. He said, "We do not export coal to Europe because we have wages against us, and that is the whole kernel of the coai trade." Being asked whether black labor waa settled in the miues of West Virginia, he said: "Firmly. It is as effective as white labor and does not combine and conspire, and the negro spends all he makes, while the Italians and Poles send every cent out of the country. " The senator has just as decided ideas on the tariff question. He is firrnly couvinced that protective duties, especially those on coal, should go up. Tariff up, wages down. That is what happened under the McKinley bill and is what will happen and in fact is happening under the Dingley bill. It is all done iu the interest of labor.