Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-07-21
powderlv Tells Some Plain Truths.

Powderly Tells Some Plaln Iruths'
Mr.. 4. V. Powderly, in the Journal
of The Knights Of Labor, has a long letter
on Carnegie and Pinkertonism, from
which we clip the following, to which
we invite the attention Of those people
who have been reading the wild raw
ings Of the Dickinson County News
and other radical free trade organs.
Mr.. Powderly says:
Partisan papers are endeayoring to
make political capital out of the terri
BILE scenes which took place at Home
stead the other day. The democratic
papers are vehement in their denuncia-
ton Of the republican party for the
enacting Of u tariff law under which
protection was afforded to manufac-
turers. There rs no lore for ,CorkDlen IN
The hearts Of these editors; a desire TO
serve party interests alone actuates
them. Let us review the situation In
brief. Tariff laws could not be passed
without discussion, and in all Of the
debates which took place In congress
over the Mills and Mckinley bills L
cannot find that a single amendment tods
offered by a democrat 10 gire INC toOrkmcn
a certain portion OF The uriB Chon col
lectcd. The Mills bill and the Mckinley
bill differ very little in the duty on
steel rails, plates, etc. One was a
democratic bill, the other republican,
The Mckinley bill reduced the duty on the
articles manufactured Ut Homestead, and
democratic papers In asserting that the
trouble at that point is due to the
Mckinley bill are but condemnlng the
very thing that they themselves adyo-
cate and on which they base their
claim to power-a reduction Of the tar
III. The Pinkertons existed before the
Mills bill was introduced in congress,
and the institution continues to -four
ish now that Mckinley bill is in force.
Whether the tariff went up or down,
disputes between employer and em-
ployed would continue. IYOrkingmai
arc not The fools hat politicians J,lierc
| Hcm 10 be, for we do not feel that the
coming of the millennium depends
upon The way congress legislates on the
tariff.
II our democrats who are 30 eager to
make political capital out Of this diff
Guilty will lend me their ears, / will
whisper to them that representative
Watson, Of Georgia, has had measure
before congress jon The loa tOiG or frC
months iCbich aims at he abolition Of The
PiBkerion as fdcior IL he industrial htt
Of Tie United States. The democratic
party has a sweeping majority in con-
gress; 1t has n full knowledge OF the
acts Of the Pinkertons on previous
occasions. | have presented evidence
enough 10 congress to prove that the
Pinkerton is an enemy to American
liberty. That democratic majority has q
kno,cledJe Of he existence Of lgotsOn'S biR
and il has up 10 hG present time dllieo
and ddilicd Wih Il and has no idea Of
passing Il. ave have petitloned fol
redress have endeavoIed to get the
ear Of congress, but "our repeated
petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury" and civil war al
Homestead. Democratic editors who
now rave about the Piukertons anc
condemn tho republican party for theil
actions at Homestead would lend al
air Of sincerity to their writings If the!
would but demand of the majority
held by their own party in congress, I,
pass the law which will wipe the Pink
ertons from the soil of America,