The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-15
FOOLS AND DEMAGoGUEs,
nearRon Uato the Voice Of the Nestor OF
the Democratic Party.
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the Democratic Party.
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We commend 10 tho careful attention
Of the fools and demagogucs Of this
community who have placed the re.
sponsibility for the Homestead rioting
upon the Mckinley tariff and the refusal
OF Republican manufacturers to carry
out the guarantees" which they onter-
ed into with their workingmen to adj
vance wages TO the following wholesome
and well-timed views OF that fearless
Democratic paper, the New York Sun;
I'VE regret to notice that some Of our
Democratic contemporaries arc treating
the Homestead incident in partisan
fashion, for which there is no excuse.
They assume that because Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie aud his associates at Home
stead have been engaged in an industry
protected by the tariff, aud because a
dispute as to wages has arisen between
the employers and tho employed, pro-
lection is responsible for the Home
stead murders and mischiefs. In Con.
gress, too, certain persons who suppose
themselves to be Democrats heve in
listed upon this view"
There certainly is mo excuse in rea-
son" for treating tho Homestead affair
after that absurd fashion, but then the
fool never reasons. He rattles away,
from day to day, uttering the same nom
scnsical rigmarole, and actually plumes
himself on his folly. 1t is hardly worth
while TO point out the fa!iacy Of such
reckless assumption, bnt our New York
contemporary does so in these pointed
words:
"If strikes we're never heard OF in un-
protected industries, ii, in fact, the
greatest strikes in tho country had not
occurred in unprotected industries like
the steam railroads and the horse rail-
roads, il. FREQ trade England were not a
country Of strikes, and il all thGsc facts
were not known to everybody with edu'
cation enough to read large print, these
assumptions might be worth contra
dieting. as tho case is, they arc so far.
fotchod and wildly absurd that VIC fear
thoy will bring discrodit upon the Dem
ocrats in the national campaign"
The demagogue' has education
enough" to read oven small print, but
instead of keeping him within tho pale
OF sense and reason, this qualification
the better enables him TO ring the
changes on his absurdities. The dema-
gorue has selfish interest TO subservo,
and places it before either party OF
country. II he is q newspaper editor
he tones his utterances to hold what
subscribers he may have, or possibly to
add fcw names 10 the list. ii he is d
mere politician, in Office or itching to
get in, he must talk for votes even
though law should DO trampled under
foot and the most sacred rights Of citl'
zenship should be ignored.
Listen then. ye fools and demagogues,
either or both, individually and collect
lively, to this sage advice OF Mr.. Dana,
the Nestor OF the Democratic party:
"This is not question OF partisan
politics: it is deeper than that, for II
COOS to the very heart OF social order
and the preservation Of all that has been
won for civilization. The Democratic
politicians and the newspapers that are
trying to obscure the real question are
doing all in their power to injure the
Democratic party"