Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-07-07
CAUSE AND EFFECT.

"Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad"
Could we look, from political stand
point, at the actions of the protected
millionaire ironmasters of Pittsburg and
vicinity, and consider the injury to the
party which gratified their every wish,
to make their purses fat, in the framing
of the Mckinley act, we would say
these men are mad, they do not see that
they are fastening to their own destruc-
ton. We could smile atSthe discomf-
ture of the republican party managers,
and point to this result of protection,
the rich growing richer and more
arrogant, the poor, poorer and less able
to resent injury or assert their rights,
with great pleasure in the contempla-
ton of assured democratic victory in
November.
Another view of the matter now I'M
fortunately presents itself, and the de-
struction of human life becoming a con-
sideration we can find no words strong
enough to express our condemnation of
the actions of such men as Carnegie and
Prick; and the policy and condition
which make such men possible. Those
men have brought about this state of
with great GOODNESS and careful prepar-
alton. First the fort is erected, the
death dealing electric wires are placed
about it and the boiling water is ready
to scald the approaching workmen; the
military code of signals is adopted and
Pinkerton's thugs are engaged to man
the Notifications.
Not satisfied with the millions which
high tariff for protection has enabled
them to amass on the promise that they
would share the profits to some extent,
at least with their workmen, they do
not think their Golfers full enough yet,
and so another cut must be made. Mr.
Frick, chairman of the Carnegie Steel
company, says it is small one and will
affect only 286 men; the locked out men
isay this is not true, but that a general
reduction of from eight to ten per cent,
and in some cases as high as forty per
cent has been made and we believe the
men ought to know.
Does Mr. Carnegie remember the arti-
Gle on "The Surplus" in the North
American Review of March 1888, and
does he recognize these words penned by
himself: "Well, let us see-ten pei
cent reduction upon anything at one
step is pretty strong pull ~ This
referred to the scale by which
President Cleveland wished to reduce
the rapidly accommodating surplus and
he was opposed by a strong organiza.
ton, the republican party, for the bene.
fit of just such men as the iron kings OF
Pennsylvania, of which Andrew Carne
gle is the most powerful. Well do they
know the benefits of organization, sc
they would destroy the labor union, fol
then they may laugh at the idle protests
of individuals; for "the workman alone
is a cipher" Consequently the $25,
O0O,O 900 organization of Carnegie posts
the following notice:
thereafter the Homestead SCee
works will be operated as a non unior
works. We shall not recognize the
Amalgamated Association of Iron ant
: Steel workers in our dealings with the
men. The mill will be an open mil
where all men may work regardless o.
their utilization to labor organization.
The organization gone, the individual
must work for whatever wages are
offered. This action is resented by iror
and steel workers, and the American
lpeople are learning a lesson in pro
lection which draws them powerfully
to the principles Of democracy.