People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-08-26

bill, and there has been no act by TINS
Congress that people have SO thor
oughly Endorsed as this very act.
read the proceedings of the Senate,
/ saw the shutting evasive way IN
which they treated this proposition.
They said that they did not like the
| phraseology of the amendment, and
they did not think it was drawn very
accurately. Why cid not their giant
minds create according to their notions
proper amendment? Only to-day,
in conversation with members OF the
Senate, they stated that they were
willing TO incorporate provision 20
| prohibit the sending Of armed guards
from one State into another, and l
stated to them that the People would
accept that if they could not secure
| the entire amendment. That would be
| a compromise that meant nothing.
But this miserable makeshift is
practically a backdown by the repre-
| sentatSves of the people in the House
at this late hour. | realize how anxi-
Gus YOU all are to adjourn, but the
principles involved in tfe House pro-
| position will justify yea in standing
/ by the amendment we adopted, and
we oEght to compel that conference
committee, if the language Of the
amendment does not suit them, to
| change it's phraseOlOgy SO that it wilt
suit them. but to keep in that bill the
proposition that the use of armed
guards and the sending of them frOm
| one state to another, meets with the
intense disapprobation Of the People,
and that the American Congress, the
Representative Of the People, emph&-
sizes the sentiments of the People.
1t is a grand thing in free land,
where you find responsive legisla-
ture, one that feels the pulse of the
people and keeps in line with them.
Do not let this House act the coward.
,DOnot let this House weaken because
the elements of concentrated wealth
and capital oppose measures of this
kind. Let me tell you right here and
now that the only menace to the repub-
| lie lies in the danger that may come
from the improper use concentrated
wealth and corporation power with
it's own militia TO compel submission
by the people to its unjust exactiOnS,
In the interest of peace and good
will among mea put your heel upon
these armed guards. You may have
| civil war, because nobody Of free Afll-
erican working gaen will be crushed
by any band of hired assassinG
brought in for the purpose Of striking
them to the earth when they are con-:
tending for their rights. Do not ao-.
cept this makeshift. DO not make q.
promise to the ear only to break it to-
the hope.
The word PinkertOnyis used here;
and this amendment says: owe VIII
not allow PinkectOn detective to be-
%L,o ;c4 or NnJ Ia 10
But ask you to strike out that
provision, and TO go further and say
that the government of the United
States will not make 9 contract, or
permit any agent ct government to
contract with firm that uses such in
famous methods as these. Send this
back into conference. Stand by this
principle Gnd have ne fears but what
they will agree upon a proposition
thaG will be just to the people, and will
give life and vitality to the principle.
TApplause en- the floor and in the gal
lery."
Jerry Simpson said:
"Mr. Speaker, | desire I'm the three
minutes accorded to nae, to deHOunee
this c0wardiy surrender On the part
of the House to the representatives of
the plUtocracy Of the country. Ac-
6ording to the argument of the gen
tleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. BiBg-
ham, all these great corporations find
it necessary to-day to employ armed
guards in defense Of their property.
He refers to the great steel and works
where they make plate, and with
whom the United States government
are contracting for plate to plate their
armor -clad war vessels. That includes
Mr.. Carnegie, and that is the reason
these gentlemen stand up here tc-dav
and defend organized capital.
"There is a fatal admission in this, |
that express companies and all these
great corporations find the civil au-
thorities of this country insufficient |
for their purposes; that they find or
binary watchmen insufficient. and |
that they are compelled to employ |
these armed murderers and robbers |
and thugs who are denounced as such |
by the press all over the country, a |
force recruited from the Gums and |
outcasts of every city in the Union.
"ThOse are the men that these cor
porations say they find it necessary to |
employ TO defend the wealth that thew |
have gathered from the strong arm Of |
labor.
L say UnaG Gne representatives of the |
People in this House have forgotten
their duty to tee People when they
have surrendered on the question even
to the Senate of the United States, and
gentlemen, if am not mistaken. YOU
will hear from this IN the election that
is to come off this fall. And you ought
to hear from it, and every man Who
votes for this amendment ought to be
left at home, because he is not repre-
senting the true Interest of the People
Of the country. The farmers of nv
state, and the farmers of all over the
country, are in full sympathy with
labor.
SIN their meetings they have express
sed their sympathy with the laborers
in the strike at Homestead, and that
issue has been brought before the
country squarely. You know your
duty; you should have done it like
men, and stood by the people, and not
surrendered to representatives of
wealth. Disguise it as you NAV. the
day is coming when the People win
all take sides upon the question. and
am glad the gentleman from Pennsvl-
vania, (Mr. Bingham,l standing.
presume, for his party, has shown
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