The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-26

the PinkertonsY Within the chief JUS
tice's own charge TO the grand jury, no
war was levied against the common
wealth of Pennsylvania unless the battle
with the Carnegie meECenaries was q
levying OF war against the statel The
whole charge depends upon that alone.
Without that battle, all else ls lmma-
terlal. This Is too obvious to require q
moments discussion. Hence the charge
of Pennsylvania chief justice is inevi-
tably decision that, when hired to ''prO-
tect property" private murderers In
uniform represent the msjesty of the
state, and that to resist them with force
Is treason! This being so, 1t is difficult 70
reconcile the acts Of the grand jury; for
if the Plnkertons were a lawful body
representing the sovereignty of Pennsyl-
vsnla, how can Frick and others be held
guilty Of murder because the Pinkertons
killed some of the locked out Home
stead men? But who is deceived by the
grand jury's action In indictIng the Car
negle oflclalaP Who does not see IL was
done to make q show Of courageous inn
partialltyf Who 80 utterly stupid as to
suppose these officials will ever be serl-
ously tried?
Thus do we arrive at the animus of this
whole proceeding. Plutocracy Is at "the
last ditch" and mercenary assasSins are
to be henceforth the legslized army Of
Greed. Whom wealth employs TO kill the
complaining poor is to become therebys
soldier representing the supreme SOW
ereignty of the state. "The state -,"
said King Louis, "T am the statel" So
wealth may now say: 81 am the state.
Who kills for me kills for the statel"
And both the old parties approve this
sentiment.
What Is the worker to dor He, too,
has arrived at "the last ditch" The bat
tie must be fought out at last. With che
wage workers and farmers deserving tha
national guard, with legislatures likely TO
abolish altogether these standing armies
OF the corporations, and with a congress
refusing to increase the regular army Of
the nation, Greed must rely upon it's
Plnkertons alone. Take from these all
protection of the law, and leave them out
lAwed bandits whom 1t is lawful to de-
stroy, and no corporation will ever dare 10
provoke strike by its arrogance or It's
injustice; for il there be armed conflict,
then the plutocrats must themselves besR
arms TO resist their embRttled employees.
That stage reached, labor may hope for
justice. But II plutocracy shall win this,
It's last battle with the people, and sue
ceed in throwing over IFS mercenarles the
shield OF the states majesty, the toilers OF
this land will be abiect slaves. Are the
people foolsP Will they still refuse to
see that to vote for either Of the old
parties is TO join the ranks of those who
who will be the slave masters Of the
future should either of the old parties
become or remain supreme? Is any man
who lives by wages too blind to see, too
stolid to fell that the Peoples party
must win, or the poor are already en-
Slavedi My brothers, it is Waterloo OF
manhood and of greed. Either the Ia
borer and the farmer, or the robbers OF
them both will 20 down at the approach
Ing election. To quarrel over either
platforms or men ip, In this crisis, sheer
madness for us. We must overthrow the
Ollgarchy which means to enslave what
lRborers il needs, and to exterminate
those for whom It has no use, or the poor
must draw lots for slavery or death. This
10 no Idle speech. The awful fact Ia,
alaSl too plain: that all are not needed
to do the work Of slaves, and that those
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