The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-08-12
THE LABOR PROBLEM.
The Situation at Homestead Still I'm
changed, and Not Likely to be
for Some Time.
THE POSITION OF LABOR WILL ADVANCE.
This Trouble win be a Milestone Around
the Neck Of the Protection
Policy

The labor problem as localized in the con-
ditions at Homestead has nearly run its
present course. 1t may be epitomized by
saying that organized capital has more OF
The immediate fruits Of the struggle than
has organized labor But it must be very
slain to every thoughtful man that upon the
great chess board of both social and political
action, the position of capital has retro
graded and the position of LABOR has adj
vanced,
1t requires no great d'scernment now to
comprehend the full intent and methods of
capital in the struggle. SO far as legislation
goes 1t has secured about all that consum-
mate skill and unobStructed opportunity
could suggest as possible to engraft upon
our present form of government. From the
seed thought of the Hazard circular; from
the time when it was suggested that it
would be more profitable to transfer slavery
from the person to the product person, all
the cunning Of legislation has been expended
In the effort to concentrate all power in the
hands of the few and all toll in the person
of the many. The experience of every stage
of the varying conflict has been quickly
scented by the trained bloodhounds Of
monopoly, and step by step have they fOrti-
fed until today it Is difficult to detect n
weak link in the forms Of despotlc power
within the semblance Of free American in
situations. In Allegheny county, in the
state of Pennsylvania, Is to be seen today
the elimination of this mOnstrosity, man
whose hands have not yet been washed
from the blood of the Norwood furnaces,
and whose soul, If human, should be haunted
by the vision of that dead Hungarian girl,
shot down because she shielded the body Of
her lover from the Pinkerton assassns,
goes on unwhipped OF earthly Justice, from
| bad to worse. In the gray dawn of awaken
ing day he hurls his hired assassns upon
| Homestead, and kills her citizens, but his
| forms of law are so constructed that the
assailed are charged with murder, and ban
| dts who could not under the same cOndi.
| lions show their heads In Naples or Bel
grade, are to be admitted to testify against
them. This red handed assassin, was
| stricken down by a student Of his own an
arrhstic school, calls to his aid the most
violent and despOtiC system of espionage
and rakes hell with fine tooth comb to
find, ii possible an association OF men more
detestIble than his own. To accomplish his
ends he has DESTROYED all civil freedom and
! SCI up u lul'llhIg ubSpOllhIu' ne HIS tNlCtbll
tenants with cruelty beside which Irish
landlordism has been tender mercy. lie
has overturned all semblance of freedom
and dignity Of American labor, and works
his spawn of serfdom within prison walls
and under the guns Of Pennsylvania mill
tarY. lie claims that it Is Il success. God
pity the administration organs of Benjamin
Harrison that echo the sentiments.
On the 1thcr hand stands forth the rep
reSentaIiyeS Of American organized labor.
Truth never fought Il grander battle than
in this struggle at Homestead. The specta-
Gle has arrested the attention Of all worlds
They have commended for the highest and
hottest rights that men ever died to defend,
No crime has been proved against them that
patriots in all ages have not been proud to
Gail their own. II they are finally over
whelm I'd it will only be by that same sup
erior brute force that has tied down the
throttle aud sat on the safety valve.
The lessons Of these DAYS are spreading
| like beacon lights from hill top to Hill top,
Never did the Indignation Of humanity
spread as 1t is doing ut this time. Never
were the hearts Of all labor running together
as they are now. Tie end is not yet. The
success of Frick, II 1t should be accomplished
will be IL milestone around the neck Of a
protective policy that protects nothing but
! absolute -NOnCOnfOrmist.