St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-08
name of protection to American labor Stays
frenzied Slays.
MURDERoUs AND Tn1Ev1NG.
Tariff Plunderers Are Responsible
/ for the Carnage at Homestead.

Tariff Plunderers Are Responsible
/ for the Carnage at Homestead.
Chicago Herald Editorial. July Z.
The monopoly tariff is q crime against the
American people. 1t is a crime involving
robbery and murder. 1t steals and it kills.
The benefciaries of this crime are compar-
atively few. 1t victims are many. The men
who profit by it are rich. They can corrupt
/ the ballot They can bride congresses. They
can substitute newspapers. They can control
courts. They can hire aud maintain private
armies The victims of it are weak, and in
many cases ignorant. They are accustomed
TO poverty and they have experienced hard
Ship. Men whom they have reason to respect
delude them with lies and intimidate them
with threats. and they vote new burdens
upon themselves and their fellows.
The present Infamous tariff system is sus-
tanned by falsehoOds which are easily eX-
posed and yet prolific of mischief. 1t is a
new application of an old iniquity. Before
its benefciaries became drunken with greed
they made no SUCH absurd claims in its be-
half as they now advance. Their swindle
has grown in magnitude, and their defiance
of truth. honesty and common sense has kept
pace with 1t. Heaping up their ill-gotten
gains, they have piled1ies mountains high to
correspond with them.
The American people must meet this issue
squarely, and they must meet it soon. They
cannot plead ignorance much longer. Events
are forcing conclusions. A protected mill
ionaire, enjoying in his Scottish castle the
unexampled bounty of the wicked Mckinley
law, orders a sweeping reduction in the
wages OF his employees. and civil war results.
Who is to blame forthe carnage at Home
stead? On whose head is the blood that was
shed there yesterday! Who introduced the
system that produced this swollen plutocrat
at one end of the line and three or four thou
sand improvised and deluded workingmen
at the other end of the liner Who taught
these misguided laborers to look for profit
elsewhere than to their own industry? Who
promised them plumber and then failed to
deliver ity Who Knocked them in their exas-
peratiOn and sent mercenary army among
them to intimidate and to kill.
The Republican party. led by Benjamin
Harrison, is the offender. Its corrupt news.
papers, its hireiing orators and its horde of
lobbyists and vote buyers.are accessories be-
fore and after the fact. Theirs is the guilt.
They have sown the dragons teeth of tariff
lies for the deception of the people and
crop of armed men in rebellion is the result
They are the authors of national scandal
that is rapidly becoming more grievous than
human slavery ever was
There can be no compromise with CRIME
of this magnitude. 1t is poisoning the ma
tional life. 1t menaces the public peace. It
disgraces and discredits us in the eyes of
mankind. 1t is destined, if urcorrec,ed and
unpunished, to bring upon the country
train of calamities the end Of which no man
can foresee.
This is democratic republic. Carnegie
ism is baronial. If feudalism comes in con-
tact with democracy, feudalism. will go. 1t
should go with the triumphant election of
Cleveland and Stevenson next November.