The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-09-09
WAR

The country has been in state of actual
war, and blood shed by military organiza-
lions ordered out by the Federal and State
governments to shoot down their own citi-
zens. This too in the great republic of
America, the worlds greatest nation under
government Of the people who are suppos-
ed 10 appoint by popular election the men
who adm mister the laws which are made by
the peoples representatives. Why should
the people be dissatisfied with their own free
will and voluntary acts This is an anomaly
which demands investigation of the most
careful and searching character.
This irrepressibie conflict is war between
The masses and the classes which has, in its
advance reached the dangerous point where
armed men in opposing lines are shedding
blood AID falling in battle. If we follow
the sound of the guns and reach the battle
field we find on one side corporation classes
claiming and exercising special privileges
which they claim are guaranteed them by
law. and on the other the individual citizen
who claims that his rights are being Violated
and his liberty trampled upon.
Away on the far off frontiers of Wyoming
a syndicate of English lords and American
capitalists take possession without authority
of law of large tracts of luxuriant grazing
land, the property Of the government, and
stock it with thousands of cattle. They
oporoooh tbn tbou
each others stock and couditio of open
war is soon the result. The syndicates
collect force of their mercenary army and
invade the territory of the State of Wyoming
without any more authority Of law than the
road agents have who hold up railroad trains
and rob passenger and express cars. This
army of the English and American syndi-
cate is ordered by the cattle kings to wipe
out the settlers and clear the country Of
them, and they begin business by numbering
the first ones they meet and burning their
houses, the same as the Indians used to
operate on the border settlers. These hardy
settlers of Wyoming frontier did as the set
Tiers of the older states when an Indian raid
was directed against them, sounded the
alarm, collected an army of themselves and
soon had the army of the cattle kings hem
med in and were preparing to do the "wip-
ing out" on the invaders which had been
intended for themselves, when the favored
cattle kings implored the President to send
q detachment of the United States army to
the rescue Of their hired cut-throats, which
is done with alacrity, ana the murderers and
burners Of the settlers and their property
are spirited away and escape trial and
Punishment.
Again in far away Idaho hemmed in on
all sides by lofty mountains we find the same
class which our government delights TO
honor, company of American and English
capitalists in possession of rich mineral
lands and working extensive mines, oppress-
ing the miners till they are goaded to strike
in self protection, and again the corporation
lords send band Of their melcenary, hired
soldiers, who taunt and goad, and finally
commence open war upon the striking
miners. who rise in their might, and the
hired thugs of the mining barons are soon
vanqushed and captured. Again the
wealthy barons call upon the government in
the name of law for protection from the
citizens they had driven to arms in self de-
tense, and with ready alacrity the nation s
army is sent TO crush the citizens and uphold
the banner of plutocfacy. The citizens are
seized, ironed and cast into prision with
every outrage, insult and injury heaped
gang of shy locks, abandoned by The govern
ment, after delivering them into the hands
of their deadly enemy.
Again at Homestead, right in the heart
of the country We see one of these bloated
corporations, having piled up capital by
tens of millions under the protecting and
fostering care of the government. grown
arrogant by wealth and power, declare that
the iaboring class shall not form associations
for mutual aid and protection, but shall be
known in future to that corporation only as
isolated, individual hlrelings, subject tc
every command of their proud, corporation
masters. With this ignoble purpose in view
of these thousands of ireemen whose homes
had been bulded out of years of toll which
piled up tens and scores of millions for The
favored individuals whom government
fayoritism had clothed in the panoply Of
corporate power, a high picket wall armed
with electric wires and loop-holed, was
built about the worke. The works were then
stopped and these thousands of American
freemeD told that their Amalgamated Asso
citation would not be recognized by the
legalized Carnegie Association or the man
ager of that bloated despotism of wealth. one
Prick, each indigidual should either submit
10 such conditions as he was pleased TO
impose. or go ont, abandon home ard starve
for ought he or his incorporated despots
cared. This was a virtual command 10
choose between liberty and wage slavery
which carries with it all the pains and
penalties of chattel slavery, intensified by
.heartless cruelty and hopeless poverty.
In carrying out the details of this diabol-
cal plan to enslaVe the workme1, an army
of hireling Pinkertons, equipped and officer
ed for battle was sneaked up the river in
covered boats in the silent hours Of the night