The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-07-21
THE RESULTS OF THE TARIFF

THE RESULTS OF THE TARIFF
Mr.. Terence Y. Powderly he
great Knights of La!'or man, in
speak ny of The battle bel ween
Pinkerton hirelings and he lock
ed out lalorers OF Homestead,
Pa, last Thursday says, ''this
fight is but the rumbling OF the
coming revolution. MIR. Pow der
ly's remarks are prophetic. On
one side there is st;,rving labor
atrling for bread, on he other
is the power of wealth grown
arrogant, defiant ard mrrciless,
treading with cruel feet upon eN-
cry right of American workmen.
This battle for bread will con-
tinue and in the mills and the
mines the protected industries of
the North is the ground upon
which it will be fought. The
5000 troops held at Homestead
under military orders at an ex-
pense to the State of Pennsyl-
vania of $4,000 per day is an
object lesson and fifty illustrated
the Infamous tariff robbery per-
petuated upon the whole Ameri-
can people-a robbery that the ly-
ing, hypocritical horde said was
in the interest of American work
man."
Now that Mr.. Carnegie, the own
er of the mill, wishes to donate a
large sum of money to the Repub-
lican party for campaign purposes,
in order to aid them in perpetuating
his privileges to rob the American
people, instead of taking the sum
from his large accumulated profits,
he cuts the wages of his workmen
that they might bear it instead of
himself. This is the way tariff pro-
tscts American workmen.
The great iron mills at Home
stead, owned by Andrew Carnegie,
are valued at twenty-five million
dollars. The number of men re-
quired to operate these mills are es-
timated at five thousand. These
five thousand workmen have be-
come experts in this special class of
work. They know this and nothing
else, and when they are thrown out
of this special work it leaves them
utterly helpless.
Nor is that all. The most of the
wolkmen engaged in the mills own
little homes in which they and their
families live. This is their all. 70
drive them out of the mills and re-
fuse to employ them means to drive
them from their homes pennIless in
to pauperism This is what makes
your tramps, and this is what makes
your anarchists, and this is what
makes your bomb throwers, and this
is what makes the laborer an enemy
of capitol.
A set of internal cut-throats and
robbers have run this government
for power and plumber almost unin
terruptedly for the past twenty years,
and during that period pauperism
has increased more rapidly than at
any other in the history of this gov
eminent. AT the same time mil
lions have been made faster and
money has been piled up higher in
the hands of the lew than ever be-
fore.
These are the legitimate results of
a government that is run in the i'm
terest of the few against the interest
of the many; government whose
laws are passed and put in force
with view solely Of making the
rich richer and the poor poorer
government whose .'eins are held by
the hands of those whose pharasai
cal hypocricv said it was a hideous
crime to hold four millions of black
men in bondage, but who think it a
Christian duty to hold twenty mil
lion in miserable abject poverty and
serfdom, with liberty-yes, liberty
to work when and where and for
how much the Royal Tariff Robbers
will consent to permit and give.
The damnable system is fifty con-
trasted with Carnegie in his Scottish
castle, surrounded with more luxury
than any ruler of Europe, while his
poor laborers were here target for
Pinkertons' guns, wanting to work
at reasonable pay.
Carnegie's income is estimated at
ten thousand dollars per day. His
laborers income was the privilege to
work for enough food for themselves
and family.