Evening journal., 1892-07-26

the city Alter quoting an array OF
figures which there are no means Of veri-
flying, 70 prove that the Homestead
workmen we're getting better wages than
English workmen were getting the
editor says
Whatever other justifcations there
may have been for the Homestead strike
pressing hunger and necessity cannot be
urged as an excuse. If these few men
who caused the strike at Homestead
could not live on the wages they were
given and which was offered to them,
they ought to starve.
The Republican editors of ability and
learning elsewhere have said similar
things so that, while this editor is not
one Of the high lights in the party he
can be used to show the real sentiment
of the party in a contest between the
two parties Of the robber class-the
capitalist and the laborer-when they
fall out abont the division of the spoils.
This editor did not print any tables to
show what profits the Carnegies were
making in comparison to English iron
masters. He professed to state what the
worlSmen were getting and then coolly
tells them to take that or starve.
The other paper never has word Of
sympathy, OF weakness of any degree, for
the American workman The workman
is prince in wealth and comfort, till he
gets into a controversy with his masters
then he is damned This editor, drawing
a parallel for the information and en-
couragement of Brother Frick whose law
made profits are $4,000, 900 per annum,
says:
We bundled the Typographical Union
of this city into the street, simply be-
cause we were determined to manage our
own property as we judged best, or else
quit, and go to some place where property
rights were still respected
Granting that this brave service to the
American workman was right and just,
the cases are not parallel.
Mr.. Fricks plant is worth $25, 600, 600
and the three or four private fortunes
connected Herewith are rated at about
an equal amount, all of which is en-
trenched behind and has been accumu-
lated by means of a system of laws at
the expense of the people The people
have been contributing to build up and
preserve that industry and those marvel
ously large private fortunes on the lying
plea that they were imposing tax ON
themselves for the benefit of the work
men. The masters said give us a tariff
and we viii give our men better wages
than they can obtain anywhere else in
the world
They got their tariffs; they have been
able TO control the market here; to crush
out all smaller enterprises, and fix their
own prices. The men ask to have the
same wages they had before and they
were answered with Wincheste rifles
in the hands Of Pinkerton men.
A newspaper is not a protected bust
ness. 1t goes into the market on its
merits and makes or loses, as every other
business should be compelled to do, as It is
managed well or ill., Nobody can claim
that newspaper should pay more OF
less wages than the normal market
demands But the steel mill is leech
on the public. The consumers Of steel
rails are said to have paid a
bonus of $30,OOO,OO in one
year to prevent the destruction Of this
crippled infant from which Andrew Car
negie--a plain, hard-headed, Scotch alien
but lately naturalized-has pulled out
millions; while John Morris, who was
killed at Homestead leaves a wife and
FIVE children who are paupers.
These papers are excellent samples OF
Republicanism; one says throw out the
dog of a workman, who combines against
a combination of capital; the other paper
tells the men to take the bone that is
thrown at them and be happy, because
their betters have stripped it of meat and
they should be thankful to get even a
bone. English worlSmen don't get that.