The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-11
on THE HOMESTEAD CARNAGE
The Rev. Mr.. Carson Thinks Combiued Cap
ital Should Rceognixe Comblned labor.

The Rev. Mr. Carson Thinks Combiued Cap
ital Should Rceognize Combined Labor.
The Rev. J. F. Carson preached last even
ing in the Central Presbyterian Church.
Tompkins and Willoughby avenues. Brook
Ign. on Ring Politics and the Home
stead Carnage" He said that people
suffer under high taxation to-day be-
cause OF the demands Of party leaders. In
Brooklyn. he declared salaries are paid to Of
fcials out of all proportion to the work done.
and the people are burdened to support men
who are not in office. and yet who have no
business but politics. He said that the men
who refuse to become the slaves OF political
bosses were the ones who ought to be put in
office. The bright thing in the coming cam
naign. he said; Is that the standard bearers in
the greet parties have declared Their indepen-
peals to the manhood OF the country. Rofer-
ring to Homestead affairs. Mr.. Carson said
Men spend thousands of dollars for their
sns hat Rey Sas T tRsr
workmen they give to charity. They build
ries. and do It all in the name of philanthropy.
when he said; Their Inward thought is that
their house shal! continue forever. and their
dwelling places TO all generations: they call
their lands after their own names. Neverthe-
less concludes David. man being in honor.
M would be GnseT
he USED some OF the money that he puts into
music halls and libraries In paying his work
ins9me en- larger wages; and what Il he diI ex-
he made his workInen sharers In his profits.
"Whateyer be the teGhnica!ities OF, the DO;
plorabe situation in Homestead. 1t Is the old
struggle between organized capital and organ
izedlabor. There is but one opinion to be enter
1t is an essential part Of the ownership Of
property that tho owner shall have tho right
the ana sfn TO-
Tor higher wages and better terms. and
right to prevent owners from occupying their
own works, or employing whom they. will in
@s HTnscs sh f'tn9ss
matters. Now. in SO far as the Homestead la
borers haye invaded those rights OF propri..
Tho provocation may be very groat. but In re-
sorting to violence the workmen have commit
ted wr1nS which nclipses the wrong that
Now with this unepuvocal condemnation
look Ut tie otker side say that tSs
contest is ono between organized capital and
organized labor Tho Gt;arnog.Ss and fourteen
which the iron and steel Industry is pursue
combined together under tho title Of tho Car
st Sat yoa y e hs
1t has set out. backed BY millions OF dollars.
to overthrow ORGANIZED labor. It absolutely
association. In other words. com bincd
capital refuses to treat win combined
individual laborcr Thi; is unjust and
only by orsanIzsd labor nnd when trusts nre
protection: otherwise they will become the
slaves Of capital. In union there is strength
esomranic.yS into one. but they say to tho work
comes from union. But labor replies that it
shall and will, and so 1t ought to have. Capt.
tai, In the control OF corporations. or comDina-
tions; Is the agency that is working in tis
the owners OF money and the wage workers
Trusts dissolve the personal bond between the
man who pays and tho man who works They ro-
move Iersonal responsibility lr%m the rich.
Scotland. and 10 fances that he has no TO-
sponsibiity for the affairs IN Homestead. He
ought to have n responsibility. and that sys-
tenn which relieves him from ths personal re-
tions in so far as they sink individuality and
individual resp9nsIhlity. are ini,Pical TO the
speedily como when all organizations that de;
stroy individual responsibility shall be cru he'd
bcnsath the tread OF advancing manhood