The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-07-14
THE LEGITIMATE FRUIT.

In tue Oiu, Olu udyo Dnlolo eho Wos'
the plantation owners of the South
protected their negro slaves with
shackles, whipping posts and blood
hounds, but they owned no arsena
stored with cannon, Winchester rifles
and the missiles of death. They did not
kill their disobedient slaves, because
the supply of slaves was then unequal
to tne demand.
But we have now reached another
plane of our more modern and Intense
civilization, and the white slaves OF the
Protected barons, are protected with
arsenals, erected for their especial ben
eft, and the more active instrumental
ties of assassins armed with Winches-
ter rifles, trained 10 murder by the
beekoning hand of the lords of Protec-
ton. There Is another difference: In
the old days of African slavery the
victim of the manacles had name by
which he was known; but under the
more intense civilization OF today, the
men who work in the monopoly mills or
modern Protection are known only by
numbers. Hence the Associated Press
report of the killings at Homestead
says number 30, (name unknownl, a
Carnegie mill man, was killed, and NO.
81 severely wounded. Here is an ex-
tract from the Associated Press report
"rwo unknown Hungarians are kill
ed. Their names have not been learn
ed, as most of them are known by num-
bers."
In all human probability the names
of these American (2) laborers, work
ing under the glorious protection af-
forded American labOrers by the great
Mckinley tariff, will never be known.
They will fill uncoflined graves, and
there will be no board erected above
their unshrouded corpses, with daub
of paint, saying:
"Here lies No. 36, who died lighting
for Protection"
Or:
"Here lies, in a shoddy blanket, No.
4S, who died at the hands of a Plnker-
ton detective, for the glorious cause OF
Andrew Carnegie, higher wages and
Protection to American homes"
If Protection is for the benefit OF
American labor, as the author of the
Mckinley bill has said a Thousand
times, why does great Protected
industry build an arsenal, and why
are the Pinkerton detectives, armed
with deadly weapons, hired to do mill
tary duty, and If necessary to shoot
and kill.
Protection is a kindly word, and the
good Goo is supposed to vouchsafe 1t
TO all of His children in the glow of the
sunshine, in the generous bounties of
earth.
But what of the Protection that was
born of the greed of few men, bent
upon the robbery of labor for the en-
richment Of themselves.
All, read the reports from Homestead
and answer for yourself. The culmin-
alton is written in human blood.
First, the greed of man drove all or
ganiZed labor from his great works, IN
order to get cheap pauper labor from
Europe. To do this American laborers
we're driven out of the works to become
| beggars and tramrs, or to crowd out
other laborers in other fields.
Then the Huns, and Poles, and Slavs
and Italians were brought over from
the slums of cities in Central Europe
at 81 per head, and they were given
| numbers, and put to work in Carnegie's
mills, with just sufficient pay to keeI
alleged souls III degraded bodies
The whole American people were put
| under tribute to pay the $50 OOO, 600 thai
Carnegie is now worth.
Years, short years, have since elapsed
and these pauper Huns and Poles anC
Slavs have caught a slight scent OF
American air. They have learned that
| they have right to a small share oi
their own earnings, and they have
organized for self protection and pool
mans chance.
Then comes the lockout, the arsenal
the Pinkerton detectives, murder, ano
civil war.
The man of greed claims these mer
have no right to organize for the pro-
lection of themselves and theil
| families.
He claims the right to buy his labor
in the open market, either in this
country or in Central Europe, wherever
he can buy it the cheapest. AT the
same time he claims the exclusive
right to control the home market
through the operations of tariff taxes
to the exclusion of all other competi
tion. He denies the right oflabor (thal
produces all wealthy to buy where 1t car
buy the cheapest, but proposes to fix q
price for labor in free trade market
and to fix the price of all that labor is
| compelled to consume, in a market
controlled by monopoly.
This is the alpha and omega OF
modern Protection, as tittingly anC
logically illustrated with arsenal, CUR
boat, Pinkerton assassins and murder
at Homestead.
Four years ago tie great commonel
of the American people-Grover Cleve
land proclaimed the true doctrine OF
industrial emancipation to the laborinl
men of America, in a Message to Con-
gress.
Then Carnegie opened his purse anC
gave 100000 to beat the true friend Of
the people. Others of Carnegiei
brutal kidney gave more, and whole
states were debauched and degraded
men were gathered in blocks of five anC
the tool of Plutocracy walked into the
White House. Laboring men, elected
Harrison President, and the Mckinley
bill was the pay In dollars to the
cormorants of greed, who put the dol
lars in the Presidential campaign wher
| Grover Cleveland went down.
Let US see how many dull ears will
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