Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-07-29
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM M. McKAIG,
OF ALLEGANY COUNTY.
WHO Is TO BLAMEf

As we remarked last week, Pennsy lvania
is one of the most prosperous of the favored
American common wealihs. The Keystone
Stale has for citizens hundred mllionaires
aud thousands Of wealthy people These
shop made aut ocrais of an age of brass have
accumulated their princely fortunes in this
generation The leading industries of Penn
sylvania have for thirty years received a
lions share of the benefits OF Il system which
imposes heavy taxes on G5,000,000 people
Tor the benefit of seven or eight thousand
The people of the West and South, depend
ont principally upon the production of
hreadstulfs aud cotton, have sold their pro-
ducts in the open markets and in competi.
ton with all the world, and have been com
PEELED by law To buy manufactured goods
of protected trusts and trade combines com.
posed largely OF rich corporations, many Of
whose stockholders are citizens Of Pennsyl-
vanis. The owners Of Pennsy vania's pro-
tected coal mines, who are among the wealth
lest men in the world, have not scrupled to
during the long winters which prevail upon
the Atlantic seaboard are at their mercy
The oil wells of Pennsylvania have made
millionares by the dozen. In all respects,
aud in all lines of business, Pennsylvania
Is the prime iavOrite OF u system of govern
meut iavoritism which in less than thirty
years has given TO America list of million.
aires who are the envy OF the pets of class
rule in the old world-a list which includes
siKiy men who have fortunes twice as large
as those of the sixty wealthiest men in Eu.
rope, and whose incomes are nearly four
times rs large M the incomes of the sixty
wealthiest men on the other side of the
Atlantic.
What means this conflict between Car
negie and his men2 Who is to blameI Why
Is IL that in the business affairs of the com
mon people of the country the courts and
the ordinary processes and officers OF the
law are sufficient TO maintain order, and sat.
islactorily adjust all differences, while in the
conduct of the business of our lords and
masters the trusts, strikes, lock outs, riot
log, the destruction of property. followed by
the intervention of soldiery, are not un
usual.
The frequent use of the military is incom
patible with the perpetuity of free govern
meut. II the necessity therefore arises from
the unproyoked lswlessness of the people
1t is in consequence of an alarming deca
dence in the patriotism and sell control o
the masses. IL these frequent uprisings are
in any sense justified by the invasion of thu
rights of humanity, then the cause must b.
removed or the time Is not distant when th,
cities Of the republic will swarm with sol
diery. II the ascendency Of the Carnegie
of the country can only be maintained by
the use OF the military the people are LEI
10 choose between the perpetuation of IRE,
government, aud the obiteration Of an in
dustrial system which by class legislation
has transferred control Of the business o
the country from the people To monopolies
corporations and trusts. and now calls upoI
society 10 maintain the ascendency of tn
plutocrals by the use of the bayonet.