The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-07-16
Carnegie,s "Good Thing.o


increase wages, but merely keeps
them from decreasing. That is
what the Journal has said very
frequently and that is what has
been howled by every Republican
orator for several years past. The
congress that passed the bill and
the president that approved it
were Republican and were elected
on the most radical protective plat
form that any political party ever
ventured to make. After the cleo
tion of 1890 we were informed that
the bill had been too hastily con-
demned and that it "would work
out all right" Well! it is working
out. What do you think of it?--
Indianapolis ,SentneI.)
We know nothing of the merits
of the controversy between Mr..
Carnegie and his workmen. We do
know that Mr.. Carnegie is rolling
in millions, that money is pouring
into his Golfers until he is able to
spend vast sums in establishing Ii
braries in Europe and building pal
aces for his own use, and that the
workmen at Homestead are barely
able to live out Of their earnings.
There are great plants there, cost
ing several millions. Outside of
the works there is poor collection
of cottages. We do know that the
the American people have contrib
uted enormously to the millions
passing through Mr.. Carnegie's
hands by levying a protective ta-
rig upon the goods he manufactures
-Neao Orleans Neao Delta.
The terrible result of the Home
stead steel mill lockout is an object
lesson, showing every workman in
the United States that however
successfully the tariff laws may
protect such men as Carnegie and
Frick, they certainly do not pro-
tect him. But why should Carne-
gle and Frick be protected? What
earthly object can the working
classes of the country have in vo-
ting to protect men who have al
ready acquired millions through
methods of business that show how
Indifferent they are to the rights of
other men ?-EU0nSviLJe Courier.
1t is hard for the Republican or
gans to abandon Carnegie, but it
looks as though they will be forced
to do so or lose the respect of every
intelligent workingman in the
country. TO go back on him and
and his methodsis to condemn Nc
Kinleyism by practically admit,
ting that it is wrong in theory and
a failure in practice.-DGytOn
Times.
Andrew Carnegie was given the
fl eedom of Aberdeen yesterday
and opened public library tc
which he had given 5000 of the
dollars wrung by him from the
workman at Homestead, Pa, Elev.
en- workmen and some others were
given the freedom of the celestial
city at about the same hour.-St
Louis Chronicle.
Carnegie makes too many ap
peals for protection. First, he
wants a protective tariff against
importation of his products. This
done he wants protection from his
starving employees who knock hun.
grily at the gates of the fortress he
has reared.-Qui'acy Herald.
protection be intended, as is
claimed, to secure "Americar
wages to American workmen,'
why are its champions so given, as
at Homestead, to supplanting
American with "foreign pauper la.
bor," even at the rifles mouth p
NeaO YOrk World
Those Pennsylvania workingmer
seem to know how to shoot as wei
as swing the hammer. Now if they
know how to vote as well as they
know how to shoot and strike, la
Dor troubles will soon come to al
end Dayton Times.
If Andrew Carnegie can contrib,
ute to election corruption funds
and hire an army of Pinkertons
why is he not able to pay his work.
men the wages promised them by
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