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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29
The Battle Ground.

1t is fitting that this terrible opening
battle in the conflict being brought on
by the communism of capital should
be fought in the banner high protection
state of the union, and doubly Sitting
that it should be at the works of the
Carnegie Steel Co., for Mr.. Carnegie is
the ideal high priest of high protection,
as he is also the self-appointed cham
pion of the cause of the gold-bug of
England and America. 1t will be re-
membered how ENORMOUSLY he advanced
the sophistry of the English bankers in
his now famous article on the A. B. C.
of Money He stands, as does no other
man outside of active politics, pre-emi-
nently the representative of the in
famous legislation which has produced
an insolent and arrogant plutocracy on
one hand, and millions of bread-win-
ners, who to-day are suffering pinch
ing poverty through contraction of cur
rency and other class legislation, on the
other. Carnegie types the present
financial condition for which BENJAMIN
Harrison and Grover Cleveland stand.
as well as the economic condition for
which the republican wing of the pluto
cratic party is chiefly responsibility
o. P. Bliss, in New Forum.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29
LOOK AT THIS.
Pen Picture of British subject and
Would-be Lord Who Leads ia Cypress
ing the American Laborer

Pen Picture of n British subject and
Would-be Lord Who Leads ia Cypress
ing the American Laborer.
The New Forum said last week shat
Andrew Carnegie may not have lived
in vain" This was written before the
battle of the 9Th. Who, of all men, could
have been better selected to commit the
first overt act that led to an armed con-
tict between capital and labor than
Andrew Carnegie? An alien-a British
subject-not a lord, but would-be iord
an aristocrat at the head of the great
est iron industry in this country, having
no sympathy with our democratic-re-
publican institutions toady to royalty
in his own country, and toe-kisser to
the distinguished in America. A poser
before the country in mocliish attitudes
in public prints, playing the roll of phi
lanthropist in the bestowal of princely
gifts to libraries from well-filled Golfers
gorged with money stolen and robbed
from his workmen A commercial
prince living in castle, described as a
palace, living as lord. A fit man sure
ly to attempt to ingraft upon our insti-
tutions the feudal system of Carnegie's
ancestors. Then think Of it reader:
Andrew Carnegie, the alien, the British
subject, the great iron-monger prince in
Cluny Castle, Scotland. directing the
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29
Malice Aforethought.

1--WE are prepared to furnish uni
formed men whenever required, by the
day, week or month for day or night
duty, and we respectfully call the at
tention of railroad and other corpora
tons which have TO deal with large
numbers of patrons or disaffected or
striking employees to the advantage Of
our patrol system. To corporations or
individuals DESTROYS of ascertaining the
feeling Of their employees and whether
they are likely to engage in strikes or
are joining any secret labor organiza-
ton with view Of compelling terms
for corporations or employers, we can
offer any number Of competent detec-
tives. At this time, when there is SO
much dissatisfaction among the labor
ing classes and secret labor societies are
organizing throughout the United
States, we suggest whether it would
not be well for railroad companies and
other corporations, as well as individ.
uals who are extensive employers OF
labor, to keep close watch for design
ing men among their own employees,
who in the interest Of secret labor so
cieties are inducing their employees to
join those organizations and eventually
to cause strike. Extract from q
Pinkerton Circular.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29
Waking LIN.

The armed encounter at Homestead.
Pa, between workingmen driven to
desperation and the hirelings of our
modern barons is drawing the attention
of Christian ministers. They begin to
see that the surroundings of Carnegie
and the surroundings of the toilers who
created the wealth he enjoys, is not a
proper manifestation of "the fatherhood
of God and the brotherhood of man. "
Rev. J. A. Lord, of the Christian church,
and Rev. NJ. B. Irvine, of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church, both deliv-
cred impressive sermons last Sunday,
handling the labor and capital question
without fear or trembling. Their SER
mons have been the subject for favora-
comments among all classes of our citi-
zens-Johnson County Mol Union.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29
AN OBJECT LESSON.
The Very Existence of Capitalists Proves
That Labor Is Being Robbed.

That Labor Is Being Robbed.
During the last ten days, in the trouble
at Homestead, Pa, the people of the
United States have had presented to
their gaze vivid and striking object
lesson from which may be drawn some
valuable and potent conclusions and
which suggests to the mind of the in
quiring student of political economy an
interesting train of thought
The question or issue at stake does
not enter into the domain Of partisan
politics, unless, indeed, the passing
events may cause the American wage
worker to turn his gaze toward and
build his hopes upon party which adj
vocates the basic principles upon which
labor organizations are built. 1t is true,
republican and democratic papers are
pickering and carping at each other in
regard to the catastrophe, but as their
grasp and treatment Of the matter does
not extend beyond its consideration in
relation to the threadbare subject of the
tariff, their arguments are not worthy
of the serious discussion of thinking
men.
But to thoughtful and well equipped
member Of the peoples party the Home
stead riot, if riot it should be called,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29
GOVERNMENT BANKING.

If the Idea of Government Loans to the
People Is Ever Made Practicable II Must
BE Through the sub-Treasury system.
This is subject to which the mem.
bers of the peoples party ought to give
careful and immediate attention. II
the idea of government loans to the
people is ever made practicable it must
be through system of sub-treasuries
or government banks No other plan
yet proposed has been complete or gen.
eral enough to warrant adoption. In
the south the sub-treasury plan is famil.
lar and popular. The same may be said
of the land loan scheme in the west, and
postal savings banks in the east. But
all these plans may be embraced in the
plan of government banking.
1t is idle to talk of finance reform
through the issue of money alone. II
the machinery of the financial world is
left in the hands of the thoroughly or.
ganized bankers and money loaners
which now control the finances of the
country, how long would it take them
to reproduce the conditions which now
prevail? These organized bankers con.
stitute the most powerful corrupting
force in American politics Shall we
have this force in undisturbed opera.
ton?
Whenever congress fully exercises
its constitutional duty ito regulate com.
merce between the states" it must own
the two great instruments of that CON-
merce-the transportation system and
the banking system.-Lincoln (Neb.
Farmers Alliance.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29

conveys weighty arguments of grave
portent. In the bloody conflict be-
tween labor and hired minions of cap
italiSm he finds abundant justification
for the most radical sentiments in the
preamble to the Omaha platform In
the surrounding circumstances and adj
mitted attendant facts he finds forceful
arguments in favor of his contention
that the present industrial system is
radically wrong and woefully unjust.
Turning to his platform he reads:
Wealth belongs to him who creates
it, and every dollar taken from in
dustry without equivalent is robbery"
He then reads that Andrew Carnegie,
not so many years ago, was a very poor
man. This sets our populist to think
ing and he sson concludes that if the
declarations in his platform are in har-
mony with the eternal verities Andrew
Carnegie is asrobber and the Homestead
mills and Mr.. Carnegie's many millions
belong to his locked-out workmen, who
created them.
All wealth is produced by labor La
Dor must be before capital can be. The
fact that capitalists exist proves that
labor is being robbed. In the very ma
ture OF things the proposition must be
true that what we term capitalists are
simply sponges that, by reason of one
sided laws andsuperior cunning, absorb
the greater portion of the wealth pro-
duced by a community, of which they
are but one integral part.
Organized labor will not have full
filled its mission until it shall have OBJ
tanned the power and the right to de-
eide and dictate what portion of the
wealth produced by it shall be retained
by those who produce it and what por-
ton shall be set aside as a sinking fund
to keep in repair the perishable plant
representing capital, and finally replace
such plant when entirely worn out Elk
ploiters, bosses, proprietors, or what
you choose to call them, are entitled to
a proportionate per capita wage out of
the common fund of wealth produced
by themselves and the labor they ex-
plot or boss If this just and equitable
rule had been enforced from the start
there would never have been such a
person as capitalist, because all capi-
tai (wealth) would have belonged to
and been in the possession of those who
produced it.
Until this just and basic economic
principle is recognized and enforced
organized labor must hold the fort and
insist on receiving a fair and equitable
portion of the wealth which is the
product of its own laborious toll. This.
and not the inconsequential question
OF high or low tariffs, is the issue
presented to the consideration of the
thoughtful student of social and politi-
cal economy. Humanity is marshalled
upon its last battle ground to fight for
the rights of labor as against the rob-
berry and oppression of factor of its
own creation, called in modern times
capital. May God strengthen and crown
with victory the arms of labor.-George
G. Ward, in Phalanx.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29
Ominous Rumblings.

The reform press of the country for
several years back has been predicting
disaster as the result of hiring private
armed men to shoot striking workmen.
Such predictions have been scoffed at,
but the occurrences at Homestead this
week show that the social and indus.
trial rumblings for years back mean
something more than talk. The can.
nonading given the barges containing
the Pinkertons was merely the issue Of
these rumblings, and resembling the
coming TO head of very irritating
and long-standing boil or pimple. The
next time they make their appearance
in labor difficulty they will probably
be even more harshly dealt with. The
workers have many old scores TO square
with the Pinkerton men, who are put in
ostensibly to protect property and pre-
serve order but who invariably invoke
riots Fit Scott Kan. Lantern.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29

to be protracted struggle, the farmers
of this country will furnish provisions
enough to keep these men ten years if
necessary.-T. V. Powderly.
Lord Carnegie's acts in fortifying
his Homestead steel works and build
ing barricades around them so that he
may displace American laborers with
paupers from Europe, is not a strong
argument for protection, but it is ter
ribly strong argument for Weaver and
the peoples platform. Western Advo-
cate.
Wealth belongs to him who ere
ates it." The locked-out hands at
Homestead created all of Carnegie's
wealth. If, then, their labor has made
him multi-millionaire, why would not
their labor have been good security for
the repayment of loan of the peoples
credit, or money? Carnegie could thus
have been dispensed with.-Phalanx.
No republican workingman has a
right to find fault with the stand Car
negie has taken. The British gentle
man is expected to be soon called upon
to contribute to the Harrison protection
campaign fund, and he is simply taking
steps to make his workingmen pay the
contribution for him The beauties of
protection again exemplifed Elk
change.
Prick, the Homestead murderer
and Carnegie's partner, has been under
the fire of questions by the COMPRESSION,
al investigating committee. He evaded
every question possible, but had to &C.
knowledge that he made arrangements
with the Pinkertons for the use of fire
arms The indications are that the in.
vestigation will do Carnegie and his
company no good. Garnet Kan Agi
tator.
Some months ago there was great
strike in England of the iron workers
1t was then the protectionists' inning
Now the great Homestead lockout and
battle between Pinkertons and laborers
give the free traders an inning. In each
case the party that had the advantage
worked it for all it was worth. Is moi
here proof that neither tariff nor free
trade can give prosperity?-Missour
World.
What spectacle in republic o.
untold wealth! Men being shot dowr
like dogs for fighting for the right t
organize, which they feel to be the las
ditch between their present condition
and slavery And yet millions of these
same people, who could with their ballot.
bring about a peaceful revolution, viii
this year like sheep be driven by theil
bought leaders to vote for one of the
two plutocratic parties w D. P. Bliss
in New Forum.
1t must be Notifying in the ex
IRENE to Benny and Grover to have the
labor troubles coming in the form they
are as demonstrated at Homestead
They and their followers know full
well that the ugly front presented a
Homestead and the hearty sympathy
attended with the proffer of financial
and physical assistance if necessary
from all parts of the country-bodes ne
good to the old parties 1t is, perhaps
to them, the first positive evidence tina
the laboring people cannot be fooled
any longer by the sophistries and de
lusive promisssof the politicians. New
Forum.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29

organized labor defends its rights
bravely, well and prudently, without
useless destruction to property. Unor.
ganized labor fights and destroys blind
ly and foolishly. The safety and liber-
ties of this country depend on organ
lied and educated labor. Hence the
enmity of tyrants to labor organize
tons. National Waterman.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29

The problem of just compensation
for labor performed must be solved
Civilized and enlightened society can
not afford a repetition of the late
Homestead war
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-12

No one has ever told us exactly what
wit is. Dr. Isaac Barrow, famous
English divine and man of brilliant
wit himself, has given the best definition
yet known, and he confesses that '.often
it consistent in one hardly knows what"
He says, in his old fashioned style:
Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion
to known story, or in seasonable appli-
cation of trivial saying or in forging
an opposite tale. Sometimes it playeth
in words and phrases, taking advantage
from the ambiguity of their sense or the
affinity of their sound; sometimes it
lurketh under an odd similitude: some
times it is lodged in sly question, in a
smart answer, in quirkish reason, in a
shrewd imitation, tart irony, lusty
hyperbole or startling metaphor; some
times an affected simplicity and some
times presumptuous bluntness giveth
it being; sometimes it arises from a
lucky hitting upon what is strange;
sometimes from crafty wrestling of
obvious matter to the purpose"
Isn't this excellent? Study this clause
and find witticism to match it. |
have not given the entire definition, but
just enough to stimulate some one to
look it up for himself. New York Home
JOurnal
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One Way of Looking at ! .rot..

BILLY" Knox. who, about year
and half ago, went over to England.
has returned, and has conceived no
very exalted opinion of our cousins
across the water. The obtuseness Of
the average Englishman in the matter
OF seeing the point Of story or joke
has been much commented on, but Mr..
Knox brings new illustration, and
very amusing one He, in company
with some of the English reporters and
one or two Americans. was seated in
The Herald Office when the news Of
jeff Davis death came over the wires
The announcement called to tho mind
of Mr.. Knox the lines incorporated in a
letter to the deceased by Artemus
Ward. They were; ut would have
been money in your pocket If you had
never been born" Billy repeated them
and the American boys laughed hearth
ly, but the Englishmen sat sober as
owls, and after moment or two OF ST.
lence one of them broke out with
''But, l say, if he had never been born
he wouldn't have had any pockets,
don't YOU knowT"-Chicago Herald
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-12

When the proclamation ordering three
weeks of national mourning for the late
Duke of Clarence was issued it was signed
in the government Gazette Norfolk, Earl
Marshal" This hereditary title was con-
ferred on Henry Howard by Charles II in
1872, ITO him and his male issue, with re-
mainder to other branches of the family"
1t is the duty of the earl marshal to pub
licly proclaim war and peace, and he is
also president of the court of chivalry and
of the heralds' college. The present earl
marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, comes from
collateral branch of the family, and a few
years before he acceded to the dukedom
was poor subaltern in a marching regi-
ment, with several lives intervening be-
tween him and the succession. He is a
very Jealous Catholic and man of large
beneyolence.
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cite coal trade, and President A. A. Nc
Leod is it's head-likewise its profit"
Stated in the fewest possible words, the
consolidation involves these stupendous
facts: The Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road company, the Lehigh Valley com
pany and the New Jersey Central company,
with all their main tracks, branches,
leased lines, subordinate systems, terminal
privileges, franchises, lands, tenements
and hereditaments, are merged in one COM
pany, with a single management and a
capital of over $500. 00c, 600. The total
number of employees is over 100000, more
than are carried on the pay roll of any other
single corporation in the world. The gross
earnings for the year are estimated at
$1OO, 600, 900 and stock holders are guaran-
teed dividends of per cent. or more.
And finally, the combination has such
control of the anthracite coal trade that 1t
can decide at will between the cities of the
Atlantic coast SO far as advantages In
rates go.
The man who organized this great power
is but forty-fve years old and was literally
reared in the railroad business. He is Of
Scotch blood and American birth and
training, combining thus In one brain the
best qualities of the two most commercial
nations in the world. His name, Archi-
bald Angus Mcleod, is a condensed history
of his family It recalls the famous chief
tains of the Isle of Null and their kinsmen
of the mainland who have contributed so
many preachers and writers to Canada and
the United States. A capacity for organi-
zation is inherent in the race. They have
organized armies in Scotland and churches
or communities elsewhere, but this is the
first instance in which the family genius
has been directed to railroad combinations.
1t is claimed that the combination will
result in cheapening anthracite coal to the
consumer and increasing the profits Of the
reads, rs the services of an army of agents
and solicitors will be dispensed with. Un-
der one management the roads will be run
economically. and as there will be but one
company to negotiate with there need be
no drumming for trade or variation in
rates
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-12
curry
She Wanted to Ride.


A little girl. after watching WIN "
interest the passing of compan. .u =,
soldiers, turned to her mother an'
said:
II do wish l was a boy, mamma.
"why do you wish that you , wea.
a boy. Cathaiinef" asked the ,au ,. and
Because want to be a soicle' . ana
wear a red coat and fire gun 49,
ride on horse" ;, .x,s
But all soldiers do not rae no' nd
you know. Only the cayairylhe. ro,,
officers ride. Do you think tns.
would insist on having holse' Ia n
"Yes, mamma, wouldn't w so,,. !.
be a soldier if couldn't have nO
I should want the horse oesn ,,;cter
could get away from the war W had to
ON his back than could II n" Work
run on my own legs."-NeW -
Times.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-12

The annals of the Emerald Isle
bristle with incidents of duelIng in
which Irish humor, if not at all times
Irish bravery. is conspicuous, On
one occasion Sir Jonah harrington
fought duel with a barTister named
McNally. The latter had one leg
shorter than the other, and because
it was his habit when in hurry 70
take two humping steps with the
short leg to bring up the space MADE
by the long one, he was nicknamea
Zone Pound Two" McNally coula
get no one of his bar to fight hm'
and so he challenged harrington
who good naturally exchanged sno's
in the Phoenix park.
The baronet hit his opponent ~
the braces. then called the 'galiows'
and feared he had killed him. "hea
the result was made known one =.
the seconds shouted, MAC, you ai0
the only rogue ! ever knew VINO WA, was
saved by the gallows. Leeds hs'
cllrW
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He Sees Snakes Daily.

Fireman johnson at the Washington
monument sees snakes every day, and
some of the stories he relates would put
to shame Luther Benson, the author of
Fifteen Years in He'll" Something
about the engine room attracts the
snakes, and some nights they invade it
in droves, and he finds it necessary to
have general cleaning out every
morning before the machinery which
runs the huge elevator can be put in
motion Only a few mornings ago Mr..
johnson opened a drawer of his desk
to get some papers and there found
coled up an immense snake. A pair
of tongs was brought into use and his
snakeship was cremated. Washington
Post.
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Curious Legal Tender,

Almost every age and tribe as well as
every epoch, has had its peculiar cur
rency or medium of barter and exchange.
Not only gold, silver, copper, brass, iron,
lead and paper, but such out of the way
articles as bits of glass, shells, beads,
stones, soap, bits of various colored cloth
and numerous other objects, some of
them absolutely valueless to our way of
looking at the matter.
The Burmese, Karens, Hangese and
Ghans have no coined money, lead and
silver in bullion being the ordinary ten
der in trade, weight and purity being the
standard of value. For long time salt
was the ordinary money of the Abyssin-
ians.
Dried fish has long been, and is even
today to certain extent, the legal ten
der of Iceland. Shad scales are also the
medium of exchange in many of the
North Sea islands.-St. Louis Republic.