Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-28
CARNEGIE and PINKERTONS
The JekylI-Hyde Iron Kings
Preaching and Practice.
THROUGH BRITISH SPECTACLES
A Saint Abroad and a Tariff
Tyrant at Home.
How the All Bountiful Love OF Human
ity That Bubbles UP in Every Line of
Garnegie's Writings is Exemplifed in
His Dealings With American Labor.
London Chronicle Of July 10Th.


London Chronicle OF July 10Th.
The volume bearing the title that heads
this article C"Triumphant DemOcracy")
should find ready sale at the present
juncture, il only amongst those who
lind pleasure in the comparison of pro-
tession and practice. Its author, Mr..
Andrew Carnegie, is now known as the
Iron King of America. II was only on
Thursday that he opened the Free Lii
brary of Aberdeen, in the presence OF
live earl and countess, and large gath
cring OF the local gentry. Almost at the
same hour 5000 eXasperated strikers,
armed with rifles, revolvers and even
with cannon, were resisting the impor-
tation of 300 "scabs" and "knobsticks"
into the Homestead Iron and Steel
Works, near Pittsbufg, Pennsylvania,
under the protection Of 300 detectives"
belonging to the Pinkerton agency. The
works and rolling mill in question are
said to be the largest and most complete
system of iron and steel works in the
world ever controlled by one individual.
And its workmen are at this moment
locked out.
MIR. Carnegie has amassed huge for
tune in America; he has declared his
intention OF dying a comparatively poor
man, holding that his wealth sis held in
trust for humanity" Besides the i'm
mense sums he has expended Tor the
public benefit in America, he has laid
out several large fortunes in Scotland,
the land of his birth, in Frightening the
lives OF the poorer classes He built the
Edinburgh Free Library in 1886 at a
cost OF 100000; he spent 100000 on a
similar object in Ayr; on the swimming
baths and the free library in his native
town, Dunfermline, he has expended at
least as much. The land of mis- adop-
ton is indebted to him in the sum of
100000 for free library at Pittsburg;
t0O,OOO for musical institute in Allie
gheny City; and he has contributed
nearlya quarter of million sterling for
Libraries at New York and elsewhere.
How, then, are we to reconcile the
woodworking, world bestriding phi
lanthropist with the would-be employer
of blackleg labor! Is his generosity
intended for publication only, and not
us guarantee of anything in particu-
lar? Or is there DIR. Jekyll side to his
character, strictly for expectation,
masking DR.. Hyde moiety, which
superintends his business operations at
| home?
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In the work | have mentioned an all
bountiful love of humanity bubbles up
| in every line. In one page he depicts
Pittsburg, the Iron City, bursting into
song to the following effect:
| am monarch of all the FORCES,
have solved the riddle of fire:
The amen of nature to need OF man
Echoes ut my desire.
| ! search with the subtle soul of flame
The heart of the rocky earth,
| And hot from my anyiIs the prophecies
vi the miracle years blaze forth.
am swart with the SCOT of my chimneys,
Drip with the sweat of toll;
| lquell and scepter the savage wastes
And charm the curse from the soil.
fling the bridges across the CULTS
That hold us from the To BE.
| Ana build the roads for the hammered
march,
OF crowded Humanity.
~
This reads oddly in face of the news
detailed to us by telegraph that at the
Carnegie establishment ut Homestead
near Pittsburg, "a strike against a pro.
posed reduction of wages has existed
since June 30th." That is to saw, the
so.called strike is really a lockout,
which Is but part of a larger one ex-
tending over the whole of the Pittsburr
iron district. The mems resistance Is
directed against Il proposed reduction of
wages. This, the employers allege, las
tong been justified by improvements in
macttnery, which increase the earnings
of the workpeople without imposing
upon them any additional labor. So
that, in fact, the masters, amongst whom
Mr.. Carnegie is Chief, desire to reap the
whole of the benefits conferred by ma.
chinery inventions for themselves.
Compare the passage in italics with the
"banncred march" verse of the poem
The Homestead syndicate are deter.
mined TO break down the combination
of the workers by the Introduction OF
foreign laborers, who to use Mr.. Car
negie's own words, are
~
Taught now TO live and work for the
common veal, and not for the mainte
nance of a royal family or an overbearinc
arlstOcracy, not for the continuance of i
social system which ranks them beneath
an arrogant class of drones, children OF
Russia and German serfs, of Irish evicted
tenants, Scotch crofters, and other victims
of feudal tyranny, are transmitted into
Republican Americans, and are made one
in love for country which provides eaual
rights and privileges for all her children.
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And to make sure that the blacklegs
shall have safe conduct and protection
while they enforce the argument of the
drones upon the workers in the hive
the Carnegie company engaged the
services of 300 lighting men, armed with
Winchester repeating rifles, and sent
them up the Ohio in steamers and
harges to effect landing at the works
This was resisted by the locked-out
operatives and their wives and children
for, as Mr.. Carnegie very cogently saws
in "rriumphant Democracy :-"The
American citizen who will not fight il
attacked is unworthy the name, and the
American citizen who could be induced
to engage in aggressive warfare Is
equally so. Happily, there is no such
man. Except, perhaps, the men Of
the Pinkerton detective agency, who
are to be hired by the Carnegie Com.
pany, it seems, at the moderate price Of
two (tive) dollars day and all found.
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The story of the struggle is interest.
ing reading, if only for the reason that
as that lady-like organ, the Daily Neps
remarks 1.-THE shocking outbreak has
naturally reused the attention of tho
whole union. Our correspondent thinks
it will have an important effect ON the
| Presidential election" Yea verify, and