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

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The two names are opponents Of
nsati ate greed, irresponsible power
nd crushing oppression. Home
tead means men who have done and
mean to do faithfully their part in
the worlds work, and having learned
their rights and true position in the
United States, intend to maintain
them. Union or non-union, laborers
and artisans share equally in a COM
mon cause-right against might
reason against brute force, every
where and at all times.
A few more such Iock-outs as the
people Of this country have just been
forced to behold in sorrow and sad
ness, will open the eyes Of unpreiu-
diced and candid men in all sections
of the country.
That single individual, proprie-
tor Of great manufacturing estab-
lishment employing millions Of CAPT
tai and nearly 400 workmen, could
so far defy public sentiment and the
government of the United States as
to audaciously take upon himself to
build around what he deemed his
own absolutely an impenetrable de
fence against the world, and such an
one as is tolerated only as weapon
Of war in times of war, of such ire
mendous proportions, verges on the
incomprehensible.
Think of the 400 acres containing
these immense iron works being sur
rounded by an impregnable war bar
rier against the outside world, and
50 ingeniously constructed as at any
time it could belch forth fire and
scaIding water upon any and every
possible assailant; and then making
use Of an army of degraded hessians,
the scum of great cities and towns,
hired would-be assassins, armed to
the teeth, and subject to the order to
shoot and kill, if need be, men, wo-
men and children, with a crude, i'll
formed and cowardiy purpose to pro-
tect, not only these iron works, but
to uphold gigantic industrial wrong.
Think of all this vast power and dis
play Of enormous wealth-a private
standing army! a private, insulting
war department in the heart of this
boosted Republic, and in one of the
foremost States of the union Could
anything half so audacious happen in
any portion of the civilized countries
of Europe?
O how shameful that we are com.
PEELED to witness such a spectacle in
this great country Of 65,000,0O0 of
people with all their untold natural
resources and industries Think of
it, that after $50 years Of struggle to
build a free nation on this continent,
we are compelled to witness a sight
which would have disgraced the
darkest age known to history.
But the brightest side of the pic
ture lies in the fact-so to be rejoiced
in-that the people, all the people in
all sections, are opening their eyes to
see the true inWardness of uncon
trolled money power. Not that the
men who WELD the power are by ma
ture worse than the rest Of US; but
unlimited accumulation by swift, and
too often by INSCRIPTIONS methods,
holds within it the seeds of injustice,
strife and bitterness. How impossi-
BILE, in such condition, to expect to
find genuine public spirit. Such men
become dwarfed by the intense de-
votion to business required Of them,
and they necessarily grow cod and
Indifferent to everything outside their
own limited spheres. Great men OF
character can never originate in such
source. Supreme power alone can
content them, and whether they rule
after the fashion of their own wills
in private business or in the more
important business of law making,
can by no possibility see any virtue
In law which does not rebound di-
rectly to themselves.
This being SO, the people have now
made up their minds that such sys-
tenn of industrial slavery as we have
been living under for thirty years can
no longer be endured. It's pathway
all along has been strewn with dis
order, hate, bitter antagonism and
discomfort. 1t has diverted more
than half the wealth of the country
to the possession of an insignificant
few. 1t has built up crushing mo-
nopolies. Will these powers get hold
of all the property Of the country,
and are we destined to become theil