The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-09-02
IS 1T POL1T1cALq

All eyes for month now have been
turned toward Homestead. The news
papers were laden with opinions, ac-
counts and narratives of events hRv-
ing their origin in that unfortunate
occurrence. Paramount above all
others stands the question OF 'protec-
ton of American labor" and this
makes the question political one in
spite of the efforts OF demagogues to
throttle it. For thirty years the re-
publican party has sung into the ear
Of the worSingman the song OF the
siren and lured him to the arms Of
this deadly seducer, only 70 crush the
life out of him aud leave his body
shapeless mass on the shores of the
sea of pauperism What was once
supposed to be an honest sentiment
uttered by an honest party has now
developed into HD artlul deception
created and fostered only for the pur-
pose of getting votes, and the real
effect OF the laws made by these saga
cious prOlectionlsts has been TO pro-
tect American and European capital
instead of American labor, and money
lords We been made by law who
would put TO shame The wealthest
titled nobility OF all Europe. Millions
have been legislated into mems pock
cts until they hive become so AFRO
giant that they consider the men who
work for them to De mer3ly machines
OF flesh and blood, deserving as much
and no more consideration than the
iron machines they tend. They are
TO be furnished only enough food as
will keep them in sufficient repair to
enable them to stand up before the
iron machines and produce the great
es amount OF wealth possible, which
wealth at once becomes the property
of the barons, who have been IayOg-
ties OF the ruling power.
Politics has made it possible for
men tU grow rich of the labor Of
others, and the more wealth they ac-
cumulate the more selfish they be-
come, aud since the law has brought
about such a condition of things as
now exists, only by the enactment
and enforcement OF law can the evils
be abolished and the oppressive
wrongs which hang like a pail over
the homes OF workngmen be righted.
The law gives Andrew Carnegie an
opportunity 10 pay his men much
better wages than ne now does, But
like the traitor to the country that
made him, he refuses to share with
the producers OF his wealth in u just
proportion as the law intended he
should, and now it is time that the
law interfere in behalf of those who
have been deprived Of IA Just compen-
sation for their labor by the band OF
single mercenary.
All the time that American work
ingmen are spending quarreling
among them, elves over the Situation,
Mr.. Carnegie aud his secret agents
are busy in Europe sending men over
to America to take their places.
Nothing could have been more clear
than this when Mr. Carnegie an
nounced that he intended to run his
mills with non-union men. He could
not secure them in America, so under
the pretense of making an annual
visit 10 Clunev Castle 10 Scotland he
goes out and secures all the men he
wants 10 take the places of American
workingmen.
Mr.. Carnegie poses as patriot at
this time because the arms of the
United States are open to the down
trodden and oppressed the world over
and he is but doinga sacred duty to
his country, nc says, when he in
duces high-class mechanics to come
here. He does not contract with
them, not he He is n law abiding
American citizen, and would not dc
that; oh, no, not he. He simply calls
their attention to the beauties O
American progress and they come
over of their own accord.
The law not only protects but en-
courages Mr.. Carnegie in this, and
the newspapers herald the fact thai
his agents appear in Philadelphia
and employ non-union men TO take
the places OF union men, and he de
mands the protection OF the law il
his nefarious business. He demands
that armed troops see to it that h,
turns Americans out to starve anC
puts Europeans in their places.
The law brought this condition o
things about and the law must chsng,
conditions. The law must protec
American labor along with American
capital. Tho law which permits I'm
counted thousands Of foreigners T.
land upon our shores and take tl
places o, snr wOrkingmen mus be re
pealed lr@ 'egs protecting Americas
workingaeSS Gust be enacted.