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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-03-30
MICHIGAN CENTRAL
"Ths Niagara Falls Route" :"
Time Card in Effect.

Daily Daily except Sunday. Parlor car on
day trains and sleeping cars on night trains
j. WHITING, Ticket Agent.
O.w. RUGdLES. @. p. & T. Agt.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-03-30
WITCH HAZEL OIL.
A POPULAR FAMILY.

ylNrIE: "How is It, Kate, that you always
Seem to catch on TO the last new thing2 Do
what may, you always seem to get ahead
OF me-"
KATE "I don't know: 1 certainly do not
mako any cIertion In that direction"
JENNIE: Well, during the last few months,
Cor example, you have taken up painting,
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-03-30
Godey's Lady's Book,

Box Ii. H., Philadelphia, Pa
In Club with this paper, Godey's and the
ARGUS, price $3.50, which should be sent
to the Office of this paper.
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Detroit, Bay CITY & AIpena R.R,

sDaily except Sunday. tDaily except Monday.
l. NJ. REEVES. MILO EASTMAN,
agent, AIpena. Genl Supt
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
ARBITRATION ADVISED.

Rev. j. d. Sands. of the Seventh q. p.
Church, Gives His Idea of the Home.
stead Contest - Something Radically
Wrong When Such Acts Take Place.
In the Seventh q. P. Church, on Fourth
street, Rev. ]. D. Sands spoke on the Home
stead trouble. He said that during the past
week something very unusual had hap
pened in the county. He thought that the
first thing to be taken into consideration
was the question of the rights involved.
The question OF wages was past. It had
become struggle between two powerful Or
ganizations for supremacy.
The Rev. Mr.. Sands then gave a history
of what had been done to settle the matter
In dispute and continued: "The gospel
teaches men to regard their fellowmen as
brothers. The MEN in Homestead have
their homes there at the invitation of Mr.,
Carnegie and thinking the men helpless, he
tried to reduce their daily earnings. This
the men resisted, and when hired incendia.
ries were sent to rob them of their homes
and daily bread, they arose and, with their
life's blood, defended their homes and fire.
sides
''To my mind, the matter should be left
to arbitration. On Monday, the Fourth of
July, the people of this city held grand
celebration, and lawyers and orators ali told
what grand and glorious country we have.
When such acts take place as that of
wednesday, something Is radically wrong,
and should be remedied. What has hap
pened is liable to happen again."
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says that labor ID worthy of its hire.
1t il to the best interests Of
the employer to pay good wages,
but in this connection it must be remem-
bered that capital has some rights. Some
times this Is not considered, and trouble
follows Whatever the grievance the
workman may have, he has no right to defy
the laws He can resort to every means of
stratagem and fair fight, but he has not the
privilege to cause loss of life and property.
Arbitration is proving to be the missing
link between capital and labor In France
the Government has charge Of all troubles
between capital and labor and think this
would be good plan for the United States
to adopt. It is sometimes said that arbi-
tration causes but does not prevent and in
its stead cooperation is offered
as solution. There are also grave obsta-
cles which in some cases obstruct its adop-
tion, but think the world is slowly DRIFT
ing toward this solution.
The troubles of to-day all center in the
selfshness of the human heart If we all
loved each other all labor troubles,
strikes and lockouts would be forever
wiped out. Let us pray to God that He
will speed the day when events like those
we have witnessed on the bloody battlefield
of Homestead during the past week will
have been forever blocked by the love that
one man should bear for another"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
IN THE VOTERS HANDS,

They ana They Only Have the Power to
Stop the Battle Between Capital and
Labor-Rev. B. F. Bea zen Tolls How tho
Differences May Be Settled.
In the st. Paul Methodist Episcopal
Church yesterday Rev. B F. Beazell, d.
D., spoke on the situation In Homestead
In the course of his sermon he said in his
opinion that if man would not work be
should not eat. The bread of industry is
sweet, but that of idleness is bitter. The
old italian adage declares, 1.-THE busy
man is tempted by one devil, the idle man
BY thousand. The obligation to work is
the oldest law of the race. Work is not a
curse, but . privilege. Our text declares
that If man will not work he should not
eat. But suppose man is unable to pro-
cure work. Then it is the duty of society
to aid the individual to procure it.
''There is . genuine socialism, as we'll az
the spurious article. I am q Christian
socialist. So is every man if he looks at
the question dispassionately, We must
face these issues as citizens. The present
Homestead trouble is only a symptom of a
widespread disease. lay the responsible
ity OF this, not upon the millionaire or his
tool and certainly not upon the infuriated
men, but upon ourselves as citizens
We are able to apply the rem
edy and have not done it, As for
Pinkertonism we have likely seen the
last of this abomination. You ask. who
is responsible?' The community, stirred to
its depths undoubtedly feels that it is the
man who poses as philanthropist on both
sides of the Atlantic. They say the man in
charge of the works is only tool, and q
coarse one at that Bnt are there not faults
on the other side? Undoubtedly. Men
in hot blood, with club OF coer-
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cion, certainly damaged their own
interest as,well as that of their employers
But there IL . better way. The time has
gone by when private individuals can settle
their disputes by shooting each other down.
Neither should capital and labor longer
be allowed to employ the method of cut
throat and duelist The public has rights
which these are bound to respect. Business
and social order, to say nothing of Christian
civilization, demand q change.
II firmly believe the thoughtful voters Of
this community have the key to the solution
of this problem. They and they only are
able to say with emphasis and authority,
let us have peace If even 1OO.0 .06O voters
OF this State, dIsregarding tariff and pro-
lection and other namby -pamby schemes Of
politicians, should this fall demand clear
cut and explicit law, compelling both the
employer and employe to submit all dis
seutions to an impartial tribunal for de-
cision, before next July, we should see the
last of such wretched business. 1t is relic
of barbarism, and employer and employe
are interested in its Obstruction"
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criminal and ignorant quality of much of
the immigration from Europe might be re-
ssponsible for the prevailing contempt for
law. There was no liberty, he went on to
say. without law; there might be license,
but that was wholly different If there was
only one man in the world he must lay re-
straint upon himself or he would cease to
exist Noisy demagogues pander to the
passions of the populace, when, if the prin-
ciples which they advocate were put in
practice, society would cease to exist.
For this reason we regret the condition
of affairs att Homestead, the sermon con-
tinued. We could have wished the dis
pute settled by arbitration. We believe in
organized labor. Men have perfect right
to form their unions. In many instances
such unions are beneficial. They are neces-
sary in dealing with employers who other
wise might become selfish and cruel. The
workingman is also justified in seeking
proper legislation in his behalf If dissat-
isfed with our laws he is at liberty to use
his influence in having them altered or re-
pealed.
Better to Seek Pea aceful Settlement
The workingman is at liberty to strike or
refuse work. Should the union so decree,
it may extend the strike to all its members
There is nothing in Justice to prevent this.
But before general strike it is very much
better usually to seek a peaceful settlement
and avoid the idleness, the suffering and
the temptations which arc set for the uD-
employed. When strikes occur life, law
and property should be held sacred. The
strikers at Homestead have laid them
selves open to severe criticism in failing of
respect for law and life. Seldom is the
world called upon to look uponsohumiliating
spectacle as men under flag of truce
beaten, insulted and abused. As men we
are indignant that such outrages should
have been perpetrated. As citizens we
lament that the law has been so lightly
esteemed. No doubt there is danger that
pauper labor and a crowded labor mar
ket might enable the employer to crush the
laborer to the wall, but, if this is
so, it is law that must be looked
to for remedy. Legally these
men are at fault until they restore the prop
erty at Homestead into the hands of those
to whom it belongs While we have much
sympathy for the laboring man and realize
he is often unjustly treated and deprived OF
pleasures and comforts. vet as citizens we
must ask that he preserve the peace and re-
spect the law.
DR.. Benham closed by expressing the
great responsibility of those who incite
violence and endeavor to arouse mob pas
sions. Whether in the pulpit, on the plat
form, or in the sanctum, men who address
the multitude must be prepared to give an
account of their words.
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NO EXCUSE FOR BLOODSHED.

Rev. j. T. McCrory Thinks tho Public Had
Right to Expect Different Treatment
From tho Carnegie Company Con-
demned the Menace Of Armed Detectives.
Rev. J. 7. McCrory, of the Third United
Presbyterian Church, yesterday took his
text from Samuel % :32-33 He drew q
comparison between the action of David to-
wards Mabel and that of Carnegie toward
his men and then said: 'Nothing will
settle labor troubles but fair, full and
frank recognition of justice between man;
not mere legal justice; not what is Justice
according to acts of legislature; but what is
Just in view of the circumstances, and sur
roundings of each particular case. The
laboring man has rights that grow out Of
his social surrounding.
"Home is not merely house with man
and his family in il. A man grows into
community. That fact must be recognized
by his employer. Life Is not all summed
up in this question of bread and butter.
These social ties must not be rudely sun
dered. You must not treat a man as you
would mule and take him without consid-
Grafton from one place to another. On the
other hand there is something to be said on
behalf of capital. If want to live in this
community and Ia Dor for you must con-
cede something to you. Nothing, how
ever, let it be said with emphasis, nothing
can ever justify a resort to violence and
bloodshed
MANY precious lives have been sacri-
feed to frenzy. Somebody must bear the
awful responsibility. God will require it
Let US condemn it If we will, the menace Of
the armed detectives. This community had
a right to expect different treatment from
that company. But that will not excuse
the bloodshed. There is dark blot on the
fair name Of Pennsylvania, and both par
ties to this controversy must bear their
share of it. Let wise counsel prevail now.
Let weapons of war be put away, and let
truth and fairness and justice prevail"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
CHICAGO PINKERTONS
Re-Enter Their Own City Still in Mortal
Terror-They Fear q Mob OF Working
men at Their Destination-One of Them
TalIs His St0rv

Re-Enter Their Own City Still In Mortal
Terror-They Fear q Mob OF Working
men at Their Destination-On Of Them
Tells His Story
CHICAGO, July 10.-A number of the Pin
kerton men who were in the fight at Home.
stead returned to this city last evening.
One of them told reporter thrilling story
Of their experience on the barges
''It was a place of torment" said he.
'Men were lying around, wounded and
bleeding and piteously begging for some
one to give them drink Of water, but no
one dared to get drop, although water was
all around US We dared not move for fear
of sharpshooters on shore. We were hun
cry, too, although there was plenty to eat
on the barges; but the fear of being shot in
going for it oyercame the cravings of hun
ger. And then the booming Of the cannon,
the bursting of dynamite bombs, the burn
ing oil on the river and the yells and shouts
on the shore, made our position and tor
lures appalling. 1t is wonder we did not
all 60 crazy or commit suicide Some of
the men were greatly affected, and on our
way here one man became crazy and kept
shouting: oh, don't kill me; for God 8
sake, don't kill me, and when near Cleve-
land he jumped from the train, and, it is
said, was killed.
to New York, from which city the Chica-
goans returned. One of the crew of the
train on which they came in said to re-
porter: EVERY one of them appeared to
have been caught in the scuffle and hurt
some way or other. Blackened eyes were
most popular in the party, with broken or
bruised heads close second. Some of the
poor fellows limped, while others were un-
able to use their arms and hands on account
of cuts and bruises. 1 don't know how it
was before our crew got hold of the men,
but after we took them they could not have
been more. uneasy and frightened if the
train had gone down through bridge.
'This feeling increased as the train ap-
preached Chicago. Some of the men seemed
to have got il. into their heads that a mob
was waiting here to receive them, and give
them another dose like they got down East
When the train got to South Chicago one
man who saw the coast clear, got up and
left, and he was followed by dozen others,
the lot of them scampering off in different
directions This was repeated at all the
as far as Twenty-second street. ex-
cept when any unusual sized crowd happened
to show up on the platform. Then our pas
sengers crouched down in their SEATS
tell you, felt sorry for them.'
ssDid any of the men tell you how they
happened to go.to Homestead?"
81 talked to number OF them, and they
nearly all said they had been misled, and
many Of them seemed to bitterly repent
having gone into the service at all You
could not get one of them back there if you
gave him the whole steel works.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
CONDEMNING LAWLESSNESS.
Rev. Mr.. McAllister Calls on the workmen
at Homestead to Obey the State Laws
He Rebukes Them for Maltreating Pink

Rev. Mr.. McAllister Calls on the workmen
at Homestead to Obey the State Laws
He Rebukes Them for Maltreating Pink
erton Detectives.
In the Eighth Street Reformed Presby-
terisn Church yesterday Rev. D. McAllis-
ter preached a remarkable sermon. He
took for his text the distribution of prop
erty among the early Christians.
'This is a question of not only capital
and labor, but one of law and good order, I"
he said. "The sympathy of the press and
public has been with the workmen so far,
but their behavior to private citizens
in DENYING them the right to move freely in
Homestead, and even rejecting people
whom they disliked is wrong. There can be
no redress of labor troubles while defiance
of law is going on. The best thing the work.
men can do is to keep within the laws of the
Commonwealth, for the moment the law is
defed it opens the gate to lawIessness.
''The employment of Pinkertons to guard
the works was just and right, for the reason
he has the right to take forcible possession
of it, and the number of persons he employs
to do it does not alter the case.
The daily routine in Homestead is
diurnal reproof to the Governor for not
having the troops on the ground inside of
"a hours Sympathy with the workmen
should not warp our judgment, but rather
act as stimulant to us to observe the law.
There is room for cooperation, and to my
mind the labor question will never be set
tied without it ="
In conclusion Mr.. McAllister stated that
when he heard of the trouble in Homestead
and the inhuman treatment of the Pinkerton
men after their surrender, he felt like post
poning his trip to Europe and shouldering
his musket, and with other good citizens
going there to, assist in compelling the
people to obey the law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
THE LAWS DISAGREE.

Those Of Man and Those OF God Do Not
Harmonizs Says Rev. W. A. Stanton
Much Wrong in Human Affairs That
Needs to Be Righted.
Rev. W. A. Stanton, D. D., of the Shady
Avenue Baptist Church, preached yesterday
morning on "a Remedy for Human
Wrongs" His text was: '"Thy kingdom
come, thy will be done on earth as it is
in heaven" Mr. Stanton said:
'Our Lord, who had been in heaven,
came to the earth and made contrast be-
tween the kingdom Of heaven and the
kingdoms of earth. This contrast implies
that there is much that is wrong and needs
to be righted in human affairs. This is
abundantly illustrated by the events of last
week.
'"The adoption of the Peoples party plat
form at Omaha was the most complete sum-
mary of national wrong-some of them real
and some imaginary-that ever read. If
that platform be true-and though exagger-
ated, it is not entirely false-we learn that
corruption dominates ballot-box, Legisla-
ture, Congress and Judiciary. Pauper labor
is imported to the impoverishment of Amer
lean workmen; tramps and millionaires are
alike produced by government injustice. A
vast monetary conspiracy is said to be or
ganized, which will result in terrible social
convulsions If not overthrown. Those in
authority are charged with being purposely
blind to the woes Of plundered people in
order to favor capitalists, corporations and
rings. The adoption Of such a platform
does not prove all its allegations, but 1t
does prove the existence of great wrong.
The riots at Homestead are sufficient evil
dence of this.
"Details are not wanting in Pittsburg to-
day. Certain facts are indisputable. Prop
erty has been destroyed; blood has been
shed; pain and death have resulted; homes
have been broken up; law and order have
been mocked; human passions have been in
famed; individual and legal rights have
been insisted upon to the ignominy of those
broader rights of common brotherhood.
This is not an occasion to discuss the merits
of either Sides Both sides have sinned,
and it is for human and divine law to de-
eide which side has sinned the more, but
our purpose is served by offering this array
of facts as proof that much is wrong and
needs to be righted.
1.-THE Sheriff comes and goes; hired de-
tectives come and go; the National Guards
of Pennsylvania may have to come, and the
United States troops may have to come,
and peace may be restored after much loss
of life, but would this right all wrongs?
No; the kingdom of God must first come"
In reply to question asked after the ser
mon, Mr. Stanton said: II believe that the
laws should be obeyed as they are, so long
as they remain on the statute books; never
theless the laws of the land as they exist,
which allow one man to own and control
the entire earth if he can get title to it,
evidently do not coincide with the laws of
God as manifested in the nature of things"
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promising moral and financial support were
adopted amid thunders of applause.
CHICAGO LABOR SPEAKS,

Their Moral, Financial and Physical Sup
port rendered the workmen of Home
stead-Tne Pinkertons, Carnegie and
Frick Arc Recommended for Criminal
Prosecution.
CHICAGO, July 10.-Labor turned out
en- masse to-day in response to a call from
the various labor leaders to ''protest against
the outrages committed by the Pinkertons
at Homestead. The meeting was held in
Vorwarts Turner Hall, and over 600 men
men. were present. Two chairmen-Will-
lam Holmes for the English-speaking por-
tion of the audience and August Nelson for
the German-presided over the meeting.
Mr.. Holmes called the meeting to order
and made few remarks, in which he de-
nounced the Pinkertons in vehement
language. Chairman Holmes announced
that the following resolutions had been
prepared by the committee, and he pro-
cseded to read them. The preamble sets
forth that:
The present criminal system, which con-
centrates aggregated wealth in the hands of
few non-producers and robs thousands of
wealth-producing slaves of their birth
rights, the right to labor and to enjoy the
result OF their toll, has again born its legiti-
where the producers of untold millions have
been shot down by hired mercenaries of
greedy capitalists, and. further, that the
shooting down of striking workingmen by
hired thugs ut the command of capitalists Is
contrary to the spirit of the American Dec
laration of Independence and great men,
ace to liberty, therefore,
Resolved, That this mass-meeting of cfti-
zens OF various foreign nations and native
born Americans protest against the policy
which places the lives and liberties of
wealth producers in the hands of greedy,
soulless corporations
Resolved, That while we are in favor of
stead workers received their invaders in q
manner bef1tting free men, who have homes
and rights to guard.
Resolved, That we protest against and
condemn the employment of Pinkertons, or
any other armed tools of capital, to over
mand that William and Robert Pinkerton,
Andrew Carnegie and Fl. G. Frick be prose-
cuted and held criminally liable for the
murders perpetrated at Homestead
Afterward another resolution was
adopted and ordered telegraphed to the
strikers at Homestead. 1t contained these
words:
Resolved, That we tender to our fellow
laborers our moral, financial and physical
support.
In his speech. Chairman Holmes held
that the Republican party was responsible
for the riot and bloodshed, and ne added:
SIT is fortunate that Pennsylvania has not
a Republican Governor; if such were the
case, troops would not be kept away from
the strikers at this time"