The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1892-07-22
BEsT QUALITIES,
A Grave Crisis.


Rochester Post Express.
The Democratic press, with a lew
honorable exceptions, holds that It is
right for the woFxmen at Homestead
20 take possession Of the iron mills BY
force and keep ont the owners; and
they base their right on the fact that
iron manufacture is a protected in
dustry, and that the ironmasters to
whom the mills belong are rich men
whose wealth, it is assumed, D.
altogether the creation of the tariff
not n any way the result of individual
industry, enterprise or ability, but the
result of plumber. In taking THE
ground, they apply to the specific case
At Homestead the doctrine la'd down
in the Chicago platform that protection
is robbery and that the federal govern
ment has no constitutional power TO
levy protectiye tariff. Not only
does the Democratic press assume thiS
position but the leaders of the Demo.
cratic party in congress assert 1t, and
the Democratic governor OF PennsyI-
vania is clearly shaping his official
conduet on the same principle.
This paper said that the declaration
made as to the tariff at Chicago wa
wild, false and dangerous; but 1t did
not expect to see an attempt to apply
il 10 practical affairs withina fortnight
of the adjournment of the convention.
The EVening Post in discussing The
speseh of Senator Palmer on the
Homestead riot saya:
SIf there 10 such a thing as the
right to ssize other peoples property
and TO commit an assault, 1t must be
of very recent birth. Indeed we
gather from the telegraph report OF
Mr.. Pslmer's speech that these rights
are still inchoate, but are on the point
of being established. Whether they
are 10 Be fixed by act of congress Of
of the several state legislatures, or by
indicial decision, or by common con
sent, is still uncertain. Il is to b,
hoped that when the time comes TO
defining them, they will not be re
atricled 10 operatives in iron mllls
but made general, so that, for instance
If the hired men in a harvest field or
cotton plantation are not satisfied will
their wages, or If their employer dis
charges them for any reason, the.
will have the right to seize the farn
and commit an assault on the farmer
family. Such rights could not b
restricted TO any class without pre-
dncing hateful arlstocracy.D
Under the bitter sneer lies the onl
consistent policy of those who approv
of the condition of things at Homt
stead. fit is right for the working
men 10 seize Andrew Carnegie
property, II is right for them to sen
the property Of ironmasters; and II
is right for them to seize the propert
Of ironmasters, II Is right for them I
seize the property Of cotton and wooIt
manufacturers, railroad corporation
and pretty much every body else.
weare to have communism or socialism
let rs have il IN full force--with 1
that il implies. The Post EsPrs
has stood always for law and ordt
and for nainiaining the conditions
those personal and property rights
on which our presentindualral sysie
Ii based, 90 long 40 II is thought be
TO maintain that system; and wo q
ready for . better one # Il can be 9
yised and If onr constitutions ri
laws be duly modified to aecomm
date II.
If we are to have communism,
ne prepare for Il decently and
order, like reasonable beings, and n
seek Il BY the devious and bloc
ways Of aBarehy.