The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-10-09
New York Herald.
BLAINE DEFENDS THIS.
Seven Hundred Helpless WOrkmen Turned
Out to Starve by the Great Sugar
Trust.
- LARGELY "A PRIVATE Az.
EAIR.''
A the Same Time the Price Of Sugar
is Pat Up by the Kings.


h1OnU OH lnO UDTcSnOIu OF Winter, Wncn
starvation and nakedness stares the idle
man in the face, the great sugar trust
has thrown several hundred men out of
work in Williamsburg by ordering the
two refneres of De Castro 81 Bonner to
shut down, so that the price ofsugar may
be kept up.
This cruel act, which will darken the
homes Of so many honest and faithful
toilers through no fault of their own,
was completed yesterday, and groups of
white faced men, standing out in the bitter
wind in front Of the towering buildings
from which they had been thrust, savage
ly cursed the millionaire president who
thus heartlessly put his foot upon their
bread trays
That the news Of this merciless lock-
out will ring from one end of the country
to the other and stir mems hearts where
ever any sympathy is left for the helpless
workingman goes without saying. 1t was
the sensation in New York and Brook
Ign yesterday.
1t is the most dramatic and pathetic
thing that has occurred since the match
less leader of the republican party came
back from his coaching tour through
Scotland to tell the wage workcrs-the
very men who stood shivering in front of
the closed refnerles yesterday-that
trusts were sacred and must not be in
terfered with by Congress, that they
must be allowed to say when a man may
eat and when he may not, as we'll as to
say what he shall pay for what he eats
a FRIGIIrFUL PROSPECT OF MISERY.
The situation Of these discharged men
is pitiabe beyond description They
have been working for about fifteen cents
an hour and have been unable to save
anything Nearly all of them have wives
and large broods of children Last win
ter some Of them were driven to actually
beg for food during the shut down or.
dered by the trust. Their wives had to
do the toughest and most degrading work.
Their little daughters swarmed into the
factories, and some-God help them :
have never come home again and are won.
dering among the brothels of the mctrop-
Oils. What the order OF President Have
meyer means to the seven hundred men
whom it crashed, none but the victims
themselves can tel.
Ii Mr.. Blaine coull have walked along
Kent avenue Yesterday and talked to the
unfortunate men cut alritt in order that
the sugar kings may keep the supply
limited they might have recalled the hll-
NOR with which he said 10 the toilers of
America only few DAYS ago: eve
might safely bury all the Presidents pre-
dicliOns of evils from the trusts in this
country"
How remorsclc>s is the logic of fate?
1t seems as if it were only Yesterday that
the great defender Of trusts and champion
of tariff stood hooking the earnest and
manly warnings of President Cleveland
to the workingmen OF America against
the perls Of trusts, and now, with sin
gle stroke of his pen, the president Of the
sugar trust sends seven hundred men out
into the streets to starve.
WORKINGMEN WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND
BLAINE'S Philosophy
OF course trusts are private affairs.
The seven hundred workingmen bitterly
deny it. But what Of that? Mr.. Blaine
ana President lIavemeyer know that they
are private, and that no one has any right
to interfere no, rot to save these men
from death even Mr.. Blaine and Pres-
dent Havemeyer are in perfect accord,
and it is only the Ignorance and perverse-
ness of the seven hundred that keeps
them from seeing that Mr. Blaine's and
MIR. lIavcmeyer's policy is calculated to
make the horny handed sons of toll happy
and prosperous. And these seven hun
dred are perverSe and ignorant They
will point to their unhappy homes and
tell you that laws should be made that
will prevent colossal conspiracies organ
lied to control the price Of the common
necessaries of life, trampling the lives and
homes Of the poor, throwing men and wo-
men out of work merely to regulate the
supply and make food dearer They will
tell you this and utterly ignore the great
economic truth which Mr.. Blaine promul-
gated for the party that loves working
men, thai trusts are private affairs and
must not be intertered with.
The seven hundred men were not all
discharged at once 1t has taken several
days to clear the two large reiineries.
The last men to leave walked out of the
gateways on Kent avenue when the whis.
tie blew last night. They found scores
of those who had been discharged no
Saturday and Sunday waiting to talk and
sympathize with them.
MALEDICIION ON THE TRUST.
"May God blast and destroy them"
said one old man as he sat down his emp.
ty dinner pail and wrung his hands. 81
don't know what the little ones will do
this winter. dread to 60 home tonight.
This will be a sore time for all of u.s.
The extraordinary thing and the fea-