The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-14

and aiding in building up such establish
ment as Adrew Carnegie has founded,
he stands ready to champion any bill
which will remove every penny OF
duties from the products of the Carnegie
mills, and compel the Homestead work
men, who get the highest wages OF any
employees in the world, to compete Tor
wages with those who get 200 per cent.
less than they are getting. In speech
delivered on the floor of congress, April
II, 1892, Mr.. Simpson said:
Now, Mr. Chairman, l am free
fredericksburg. am not one OF those
men who are ready to compromise with
wrong" : 81 left the Repub-
lican party, and today / stand for abb
solute free trade in every sense OF the
word"
In Mr.. Simpsons estimation pro-
tective tariff is a compromise with
wrong" To pay workingmen high
wages is a compromise with wrong.
While the facts 90 to show that the
Homestead strike was caused by re-
duction of duties on the products OF their
mills Jerry Simpson demands that the
duties on the products of every factory
in the United STATES, >be not lowered but
absolutely removed, thus precipitating
strikes in almost every factory IN the
United States. And when q strike occurs
what does Mr., Simpson have to say about
it. After the murder of the men en-
ployed to protect the Homestead mills
Mr.. Simpson rushes to Philadelphia to
address the workingmen on the subject.
In speech made at City Hall Plaza.
July eth, he said: Il come to unite with
you, my protest against one of the most
dastardly acts ever perpetrated IN this
country, and against the system that
has sprung up of hiring assassns to shoot
down organized labor. Who would
dream that in this free country the
laboring classes would find themselves
confronted with force TO re-
duce them to the level of the slaves ard
serfs of Europe? l have no apology to
offer for the brave men who defended
themselves at Homestead. There is
higher law than that made by represen-
taliyes of capitalists-the law OF right
and justice, which we appeal to.
The men at Homestead said, 'We
made this place and we don't propose to
be turned out like beggars, and we viii
hold this place until we get our rights.
| don't care a straw what the law is
right and justice are on their side, and
hope they will stick to it, Organized
labor has in them achieved the greatest
victory it has ever won. The issue IS
struggle whether organized labor Will go
down or be recognized. Organized labor
had the power to withstand the attack OF
traitors to the common welfare. The oc-
currences of the past week are but the
first drops of the coming storm. In
Great Britain Carnegie and his agents
would have been tried and hanged for
high treason. They should have been
punished here"
The above are the sentiments of Con-
gresham Simpson. Now what does
such language as this delivered at a
mass meeting of workingnien mean? 1t
means that he was attempting to make
the working classes of this country be-
lieve that Andrew Carnegie, who was
the founder of an industry that gives
emplovmant to 10000 men and pays
them the highest wages paid to any en-
ploves of any factory in the world, ode
serves to be hung"
II means that a man who has substan-
tally founded and supported city of
100, 900 people; who has reduced the
prices of the product of his factory to
tleman. an author and benefactor, in
every sense of the word; but whose BUSH
ness has been so interfered with by a
reduction of duties on the products of
his factory as to require reduction of
wages or closing of his factory, and
because he attempts to protect his prop
erty and keep his business running, Mr..
Simpson saws he deserves to be hung.
Mr.. Simpson calls an ''olganized mob
"organized labor" and he has no apology
for the killing of Carnegie's employees
who were trying to get possession OF his
property and re-establlsh his business.
He saws to them: 81 don't care straw
what the law is; right is right and JUS
tice is on their side and hope they'll
stick to it"
Now. Jerry Simpson is himself the man
that deserves to be hung He ought
20 have been arrested on the spot for
treason and melting riot. The very
policy he advocates of ''absolute free
trade" would undoubtedly precipitate
such strikes and riots all over this coun
try. If Mr.. Simpson ever presents HIM
self as member of congress he
should be impeached and forever
prevented from holding office again
in this country. Does he not advocate a
policy that would develop strikes and
riots, endorse and commend murder
defy the law, and encourage the most
henious crimes known to civilization:
Yet this man has the audacity to pre-
sent himself as candidate for con-
gress again, and expects sensible men to
vote for him. Why not send Herr Most,
the champion Anarchist, to congress as
well?
Do the people of the big Seventh dis
trict Of Kansas want man OF such prin-
cipIes to represent them in congress: Does
Wichita the commercial center OF the
largest and one of the richest congress
sional districts in the United States
want to be represented by such man:
Why not have donkey to represent
them and be done with 1t.
DR.. Z. p. MILLER.
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