The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12

The Transcript of North Adams, has
an editorial article from the pen of Judge
Robinson, that will attract attention.
He pays attention to the anarchists,
utterances in New York city, on the
Homestead labor riots, and then says:
at is significant spectacle of our time
this assemblage of foreign advocates
of revolution and anarchy in the chief
city of America, to defend and sanction
the murder of innocent men, to promote
reform We have come to grave pass
in our history, when these savages, these
human wild beasts are allowed to con-
spire against civilization and preach the
doctrines of devils. But perhaps this is
not the most threatening feature of our
situation. Back of these assassins and
madmen are certain leading mugwump
and Democratic newspapers and certain
blantant demagogues in Congress, who
have preached for years against the
owners and directors of great industries,
that they were robbers 'plutocrats,'
'monopOlists,' 'rioting in luxury on the
profits wrung from distressed labor
These malignant and infamous false
hoods and SANDERS have filled the atmos-
phere of our politics and poisoned the
minds of thousands of working men.
They have inspired the press and
speeches of the anarchist leaders. These
journals have performed, for this period,
the same function and part played by
the journal of Murat, the speeches of
Robespierre and the harangues of the
Jocobin club, in the French revolution.
They maddened the populace, they
stimulated violence against life and
property, they created that dreadful
reign of terror which covered France
with blood, horror and ruin. Demo-
cratic and mugwump demagogues and
slanderers have done more to create war
between labor and capital, to encourage
and promote violence against life and
property than the anarchists have ever
dene. These demagogues have assailed
the manufacturers of the country, as
class, and denounced them necessarily
as selfish and unprincipled body, max
ing fortunes at the expense of the people
and the sacrifice of labor. They have
called these men robbers 'tyrants,'
'aristocrats,' and appealed to the work
ingmen to vote them down. to vote
down the laws which support Them
while, as matter of fact, these rob
bers were furnishing employment to
these workmen and paying them the
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stead, the hated Carnegie was paying
over three thousand men from three to
fifteen dollars day, while these men
were living in comfortable homes built
by their surplus earnings in his mills.
Under the teachings of these dema
gogues, these we'll paid workmen order
ed strike, took possession of the mills,
denied the non union men tine right to
work and live, arrested this great indus
try at the loss of millions, finally ending
in riot, bloodshed and untold suffering.
When, at last, the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania called out the State guards to pre-
serve order, protect property and main
tain law, these demagogues sneered and
scoffed at the military display, and have
tried to incite popular resentment
against the troops. For baseness, for
meanness and mendacity and reckless
disregard of the public welfare, these
demagogues have never been surpassed
since the shot on Sumter.