Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-09

VA
Carnegie has been favored by protec.
tive Legislation to an enormous and
entirely I'M ustiiable extent We
must admit that we are "exceedingly
obtuse" in an effort to understand the
very vague arguments that the Hatchet
is dealing out concerning the Home
stead affair. 1t has spread itself over
so much spoce IN its advocacy of the
"free trade England system, versus
protective America hat its argument
is really pretty thin suhstance--"ex-
! ceedlngly obtuse'' reading for American
workingmen. The STAR can not recall
nor ran it find in the Ratchet files any
"cold blcoded facts and figures" show
ing that MIR. Carnegie has been favored
by protective legislation to the detri-
ment of workingmen or American
interests. The Ratchet can not produce
any such facts and figures. For this
reason we again ask the Hatchet the
question "wllo has been robbed by
Carnegie or the system advocated by
the party of protection?'
The Elatchet says s'we have nowhere
asserted that the condition of the
laboring classes in other countries is
better than IN this" which is a SUR
p:isingly plain statement for that
paper to make, and is a sufficient ac.
acknowledgements to satisfy the STAR
upon that point. But now will the
Hatchet be honest and admit that the
condition of the laboring classes in this
country is better than in other
countries? The condition of the
classes certainly is not the same, and if
it is not better in other countries, then
certainly it mus. be better here. Come
now.
I'VE should r%ejolce,' says the Hatch.
ct, "at the establishment of any
manufacturing enterprise here at Hot
Springs, but we should prefer to plug
along without it than have all injustice
committed to bring it here.
Injustice to who, for heavens sake,
England?
And still again, the Hatcllet chews
at the am chestnut in this wise:
"We simply say that it (the condition
Of affairs at Homestead) should be i'm
possible under a republican form of
government, not that there are other
forms of government under which it
would he impossible
What the lIatchet is talking for,
and about. then, we can not UNDER
stand. If there is no other form of
government which will do away with
strikes, and the Condition of affairs at
Homestead what OH earth is that
paper kicking about.
We are not surprised that answer
ing the questions that have been pro-
pounded by the STAR has been tire
some for the Hatchet, but we can
sympathlze with that paper, for truly
we have that tired feeling that we
read about whenever we peruse the
Hatchet's attempted answers. They
effect the reader in the same manner
that they do the writer, only perhaps
not to such an extent.
''These happy Homestead men are
many Of them at the point of starva-
ton. and are kept alive by labor Or
CARNATIONS in other states says the
Hatchet. Strange thing. that. What
has kept them alive heretofore? The
Carnegie works. of course; an industry
that the Hatchet would prefer to plug
along without than have an injustice
committed to bring it" to this country.
Our e. C. is again reminded that there
would have been no Carnegie works
there to keep those families from starv-
ing We're it not for the protection that
the republican party has given to such
interests.
Trusting that it may not be so "tire.
some" for the Hatchet to answer 1t
we venture another question. If the
republican party is responsible fol-
protection to railroad magpates, and
class legislation in their interests, how
does it happen that they are not all
republicans?
Yes, and another, please; what has
been the cause of the Buffalo strike.
and the various other strikes through.
out the country-and the world fol
that matter: Is it the republican
system Of protection?
The Hatchet's proposition, from
which this discussion sprung. that the
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