St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-28

four years ago, "Put us back in power
and work will be plentiful and wages
will be higher" The Mckinley bill
was passed two years ago. The men
who passed it and advocated it prom
lsed that it would draw down upo n til e
people of this country all the immune r :
able blessings of Providence. Two
years have gone by. and is
there laborlng man in America who
can say the wages of the class of work.
men to which he belongs have been
raised? Two years have gone by, and
III all the history of America there have
not in any two years or in any ten years
been SO many strikes and SO many lock-
outs as there have been during the last
two years. [Cheers. Within the last
few weeks the entire militia of three of
our greatest states have been called out
10 arOitrate between capital and labor.
within the last few weeks the saddest
chapter OF the struggle between capital
and labor has been written in this land.
Home" and "HOmestead" in our his
tory have expressed the noblest ideas of
life. There was a time when "home-
stead" called to our minds the indie
pendence and the majesty of the men
who made this great Northwest to bios
som as the rose, as it does today. There
was a time when Homestead" meant
the sturdy pioneer upon his claim;
when 1t meant the pioneer starting out
with his young wife, following the SUI
aud carving out his fortune in this
blessed land of the Northwest. That
time has gone. "Homestead'' today
calls to the mind of every lover of his
kind the most horrible scenes written
III the history of America. Even the
magnificent intellect of Ignatius Don
nelly, in one of his late publications,
where he describes the end OF civliza-
tlon-eyen his words of horrible de-
ScrlptlOn of the calamitieS which befell
the peOple-fall weak and fiat in
comparison with the actualitieS OF
Homestead. Husbands and fathers
shot down in the presence of their
wives and children! Dynamite, burn
Ing oil. cannon, the interpositiOn of the
executive of the great state of Pennsyl-
vanla. 5000 armed men in these days of
enlightenment. in this end of the nine
teenth century, marching to be arbiters
between employer and empOye! The
telegram which An irew Carnegie sent
to Benjamin Harrison congratulating
MN uOOn his renDmllatiOn will forever
go down i'll the history of the American
republic with the scenes at Homestead.
On that beautiful summer day. loiling
in his castle i'll Scotland, he touched the
key and the words flashed to the man
who mad been nominated for the preSi-
drncy: The American people knows
a good thing when it sees it, and wants
it once asain." IL tighter and loud
cheers. But when the struggle came
between the employer and the employee.
no word, OF cheer, of sympathy or OF
ENCOURAGEMENT flashed under the
ocean to the protected" men who
worked in tue ''protected' Industries
of Pennsylvania. [Chters.] l say that
there is question in this cam
paign higher and hotter than the ques-
ton of dollars and cents; it is Il ques-
ton of political morality. 1t is the
same question which confronted the
men OF the loyal North when they
marched forth in the COS to strike the
chains of slavery from the limbs of
millions of their fellow men. | say
that the man today who pays for a suit
OF clothes SD more than it is worth, and
pays II into the pockets of the protected
InOnopOlist, is white slave in very
truth, and ill worse degree than the
black slave OF 1860 who bent his head
beneath the lash of the slave-driver.
[Cneers.