Omaha daily bee., 1892-07-11
WRONGS IND RIOTS.

Chicago Times: Lawlessness is to be de-
plored, to be repressed, but the prosperous
gentlemen VINO find satisfaction in the reiter-
alton of this platitude should reflect that
Plnkerton mercenary with a Winchester
rifle is as lawless an Individual as the strike.
whom he goads TO deeds of violence.
New York Commercial The appearance
of the Pinkerton men OH the scene and their
attempt to make a landing was in essence a
breach of the peace which the strikers as
citizens bad moral right to resist. AS the
story goes their resistance was Deaceable,
though resolute, up to the moment when the
Pinkerton army replied to their protests with
ball cartridge.
indianapolis News: Grievous wrongs
have been committed at HomeStead-a
frIghtful tragedy enacted. There Is fault
somewhere certainly. Such things do not
happen causelessly. The duty of the hour is
calmly and dispassionately to ascertain
where the fault lay and whose it was and
then with judicial fairness to devise and TO
apply the proper remedy.
Cincinnati Commercial: To one PROPOSE
ton of this lanentaole affair IN Pennsyl-
vania we think there will be common assent,
and that Is that the Carnegie people com
mitted grave error in summoning an armed
body of the Pinkerton police, unauthorized
by state or national law to act in military
capacity. The brutal treatment of the poor
fellows composing the guard when they had
surrendered will be everywhere denounced.
Chicago Inter ocean: III Is no eXabgera-
tion to say that millions OF people in this
country have an especial detestation of the
Pinkertons. This feeling extends to all CEN
ters of organized labor, small and great, and
it takes in all ages, from the lsping toddler
with his mud pies To the grandma with her
knitting needle The working classes have
come to look upon the Pinkerton system a
method OF organizing and arming the worst
buns Of our great cities to override aud shoot
down working men who go on strike.
New York Sun: For this the World holds
him (Carnege) up the public execraton as a
scoundrelly foreigner who has placed his
heel on the throat of American labor.
Invariably, within our observation the riot
ing and destruction have been done by the
alien, the lawless, aud the criminal, while
American labor was Saying at home and
attending to its own business. And if Mr..
Carnegie doubles up any lutruders with his
electricity, or douses them with his hose no
sensible man will condemn him for the act
or villify the independence and resolution
tnat enables him to protect his property aud
his rights.
Chicago Tribune: The Homestead strike
has turned up in congress, as might have
been expected, and democratic demagogueS,
eager to make political capital, are rushing
forward with all sorts of propositions and
moving for all sorts OF Investigations. While
congress has no power to say what shall or
what shall not be done in this Pinkertonian
matter, there would be no harm in passing a
joint resolution suggesting TO the states that
1t would be more in accordance with the
spirit of republican institutions If they would
put an end to tho whole mercenary militia
Pinkerton business, so far as it is independ-
ent OF the civil authority, Dy tho passage OF
appropriate legislation. There would be
nothing out OF the way in such resolution,
and 1t ought to 90 passed unanimously.