Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-07-19
Comments on Cnrnerle.

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Comments ON Carnegie.
What a mockery it is to attemp
to frighten Carnegie's workmer
with the British free trade bug
aboo while their bodies are pierced
with Pinkerton bullets! -Buffalc
Courier.
Grievous wrongs have been com.
mitted at Homestead, frightfu1
tragedy enacted, There is fault
somewhere, certainly. Such things
do not har~en causelessly. - In
dianapolis News,
Harrison might make Sir An
drew Carnegie chairman Of the
republican National committee.
He owes enough to the party to
give it assiduous service and he
does not shirk from carrying out
his urpose.-Kansas City Times.
To send hired band of private
detectives at night armed with the
deadliest rifles, charged with bul.
let's for the hearts of American
workmen, was worse than reckless.
I
1t was lawless, criminal. 1t was
to invite a bloody encounter.-New
York Herald.
Firing upon a mass Of men and
women without the excuse of una
voidable danger, without the au-
thority of the law and without the
menace of harm to public interests
is startling event in our era of
peace. Human life is not precious
enough around Pittsburgh to draw
out $1,0OO,OOO campaign fund for
its protection. Iron is dearer
than humanity to the Carnegies.
But tthey have reached their limit.
Kansas City Times.
If Mr.. Carnegie should spend
less of his time on his baronial
estate in Scotland and more Of it
in studying the needs and spirit of
American workmen, he would know
how to get along without Pinker-
ton mercenaries and riots. If in
stead of giving away 100000 to
public institutions Mr.. Carnegie
had shown a little more love and
mercy toward his men, he would
occupy higher niche in popular
fame. Minneapolis Tribune.
If the tariff is of no use in keep
ing up wages, what is il good for -?
The protectionist will answer !:
"At least it fosters American in
dustry." Does it ? Then why
do such eminent representatives of
protected American industry as
Mr.. Carnegie plead that they are
compelled to reduce wages, even in
those branches of their business in
which they get labor for less than
it costs their competitors in free
trade England E? San Francisco
Examiner.
What fool or fend among the
Carnegie authorities was it that
conceived the insane idea of fur
nishing the one element needed to
provoke bloodshed E? If these err
ing representatives of capital had
either human hearts or sound
minds they would never have
thought of bringing into contact
with the workingmen the Hessian
deputies, whose trade is insepara-
bic from that of murder, in the
eyes Of organized labor. -Roches-
ter Herald.
The very existence of such a
body as the Pinkerton guards is a
disgrace to American civilization,
a shameful reproack to American
government TIE Pinkerton or
ganization is really an army, raised
and sustained by private enter
prise. It's service is hired out, and
its presence implies that the
regular machinery Of justice and
the proper officers Of the law are
not to be depended upon. To find
a parallel for the existence Of such
a body one must go back to feudal
times, when war in satisfaction of
private feuds was carried on by the
aid Of mercenaries.- Pittsburgh
Chronicle.