The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-26
TREASON TO RESIST PINKERTOHsI
A Review Of the Charge to the Grand Jury
in the Homestead Case.
To the Edltor ol THR ApVoOATR.

Paxs0n charged the grand jury - 70 WnaG con
Btltuted treason against the state IN the case
duplicating the members OF the Homestead
strikers advisory committee
Upon the bench BaC the chief justice, judges
Stowe McClung, Porter and Kennedy, while IL
che place usually occupied by the clerk ga
Judge Slagle. The room was crowded &lmOs
70 suff0caiion. When the court opened judge
Kennedy turned to the grand jury and said ina
charges OF treason having, been preferred sgalnsl
certain persons, II seem9t meet Tor Lne county
court to request the highest judicial Gicer OF the
state to deliver the eharge.-NeO York Herald
He that stands upon slippery place,
Makes nice OF no vile hold 90 stay him up
-Sbdtespedre.
In the declaration of independence the
American people complained:
The history Of the present king OF Great
? Britain Is history OF repeated Injuries ana
usnrpatlOns, all having In direct object the es-
tabllshment of an absolute tyranny over these
states.
And 80 lie years later, the wsge-work-
srS Of this land may as truthfully COM
plain that the recent history Of the
Guild Of Greed "is history Of repeated
injuries and usurpatlons, all having in
direct object the establishment Of an ab'
solute tyranny over the workpeople of
this land" To prove this, let facts be
submitted to candid world"
Within three months, the states and
the federal government together have
had In the field against wage workers,
an aggregate army Of nearly 10000 menl
In what capacityH Not as posse to aid
civil authorities In executing their func-
tlons, but to actually supercede the civil
authorities as in time Of Warl In Tennes-
see, miners attacked the guardians Of
che convict slaves; and, without having
made the slightest attempt to deal with
the assailsuts by due process Of law, the
state instead sent troops to reinforce the
stockades, as In time Of war It would
have reinforced It's forts In anticipation
Of an attack by the public enemy. Yet
all through Tennessee the courts were
open and unobstructed-not an officer
with warrant had been resisted In at
tempting to make an arrest. The troops
were not sent to aid In making arrests,
but to give battle as In time of actual
war.
In Pennsylvania, the Homestead Strik-
ers were In control of the Carnegie plant;
but no writ of any charscteter had been
Issued to disposseSs them, no warrant
had been issued against single one Of
them, no resistance had been offered or
threatened to any civil officer in the dis
charge Of any official duty. The battle
between the men and the invading
Plnkertons had been over for days, and
even yet no warrants were In the sheriff's
hands when the governor moblllzed at
Homestead an army Of 5000 men. What
to dor Not to aid the civil officers In
making arrests or to execute processes
for possession Of the Carnegie plant, but
TO oVerswe the wage.workers by con-
fronting them with an army In battle
array as In time Of warl Civil process
being utterly set aside and ignored by
the state, the sole object was to restore
by military force the possession of the
mills TO the Carnegie company. The
project was a writ Of replevln, Of forcible
detalner, or Of eiectment, executed by
An army under military orders instead Of
by civil officer under judicial writ
Yet all the time every court In Pennsyl-
vsnia was open and unobStructed; every
magistrate was in the free exercise of his
functions; not a process had been re-
sisted, as to this day none has been.
In New York, some Switchmen at