People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-08-12

of the system of wholesale bribery to
control and in many instances, con-
trolling the actions of the party,
a. Two months since, the man
ayers of the great steel works at
Homestead, Pa, commenced to en-
close their works like a fertilization,
with three miles of a high fence, loop
ed-holed for musketry, on the top of
which was stretched barb wire to
be charged with electricity. A no.
tice of the reduction of the wages of
the men was given to take effect at
the time of the completion of these
warlike measures the men burned
the efigy of the agent of the steel
works who superiEtended these pre-
parations. In retaliation they were
locked out two days sooner than the
notice required. A fotillation Of
iron encased barges, filed with three
hundred armed mercenaries from
other States, were brought by the
steel agents to drive their employees
into obedience. Like the English
troops under Major Pitcairn, at the
village green of Lexington, they COM
manded the men to ''disperse" and
seconded the command by a deadly
volley from Winchesters they ig-
ANONYMOUSLY failed. All this is shock
ing enough the people are stupefed;
they do not half comprehend the
awful import Of these developments.
The time for this assault on organi-
lied labor was premeditatedly and
deliberately chosen for one of the
darkest purposes. We must remem-
Der that since 1888 foreign capital
has made a stampede to our shores !;
it came by hundreds of millions, and
commenced to invest in the brewer
les as one Of the greatest financial
and political powers, and is going on
to buy and control In a great measure
every other Enterprise in our country,
in which great sums Of capital are
used.
In the last months of Mr.. Cleve-
lands administration the United
States laws were so amended as to
authorize the acknowledgement of the
United States army to distribute one
hundred and fifty stands of cadet
rifles, fifty rounds per year of ball
and cartridge ammunition per rifle
for "target practice" and two three
inch guns with one hundred rounds
of blank ammunition per year per
gun and graduate of West Point
to teach military discipline, while
paid out of the United States treas
ury, to each sectarian, religious or
other school that would claim that
at had accommodations for one hun
dred and fifty male students" I'm
der this law, arms and ammunition
have been distributed to what extent
is not known. 1t is now admitted
that the force of Pinkerton is now
about twenty-five shousand nearly
equal to the regular army of the
United States at this time. After
all this preparation, the assault Of
capital is made at the moment after
the national nominations in the hush
and preparation for the great ap-
preaching campaign. Every in
formed person knows that the time
was not accidental, it was chosen de-
iberately; not by either old party
it is wormwood and gall to them
now. By whom was it timed? The
evidence is clear-it was done by
timid, scared alien capital and do
nestle plutocracy. One of its insti-
gators was safely ensconced in Eu-
ropesn castle, feting on alien pauper
nobility, on means wrung from
American labor, and telegraphing his
and their congratulations to the
nominee of their choice. By the
assault at that time on organized
labor the plutocracy says to the par
ties "It is not sufficient assurance
to us now that you have made LON,
bard and Wall street platforms, that
you have each nominated our choice
for candidates. We propose to take
time by the forelock now and deal
at eertainties. We furnish the money
for the campaign; you shall not
escape by US any half service. You
shall now come boldly to our side of
the struggle against organized capital
in the use of the State and National
military.
1--WE know you tremble at the re-
sponslbllity, and that is just the rea-
son we put you to the test now"
And to-day Democratic governor
in Pennsylvania and the Republican
administration in Idaho are walking
the capitalistic plank in the use of
the State and National military at
the behest and on the side of alien
capital and against organized Ameri-
can labor. 1t is an awful, a supreme
moment in the great approaching
revolution. If the State and National
arms are now to be carried on the