St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-08
PROTECTION
Is Millions for Carnegie, and
Death Both to His Slaves and
Hie Hirad accassins

Is Millions for Carnegie, and
Death Both to His Slaves and
H is Hired Assassins.
Chicago Times editorial July7.
The Republican party prefers to describe
this legislation as designed to tax the multi
tude for the benefit of American laborer,
bat when the Pinkerton rifles, that ought
not to be permitted any place whatever in
government of the people, by the people,
for the people, ring out, who falls? A Slav.
Who ruSheS to his rescue and meets death
on his way? A Welchman. There is free
trade in labor if there is none in iron The
ironmaster rolls up millions for himsel I'M
der system defended as protection to
American labor, yet introduces to the serv-
ice of American iron mills the very pauper
labor of Europe against which it is said to
guard.
What drove real American workmen from
the iron mills which Carnegie Owls? That
which Republicans call protection to Amer
lean labor. What armed mercenary and
murderous guards unknown to the due and
orderly process of law whereby the Slav and
the Welchman are struck down in an instant.
Protection. What in the name of the pros
perity of American labor reduced the price of
labor to the Slav and Welchmau whom pro-
lection brought to the mills in the name Of
American labor? Protection. The bullets that
pierced the breasts of the non-America ms
who are today at war with Carnegie and his
hired rifles came from protection. Protec-
tons at Homestead is millions for Carnegie
and death both to the Slav who worked for
him and the assassins whom his wealth en-
ploys, when his reliance for the protection
of his property ought to be upon the laws Of
a country which has enabled HIM to amass
his millions. Protection protects Carnegie,
but it leaves naked to his greed the DOOR
devils with whom he has driven out real
American laborers. They have been told
that they share i'll the benefits of protection,
but at a period described by the Republican
convention as one of unexampled prosperity
they are Informed that their wages must be
cut down, and their employer distributing
largest in Scotland directs that they be locked
out. They ought under the circumstances
quietly to give way, but was it in human nat
ure thus peacefully to retire? They felt
themselves wronged. They saw starvation
for their families, while their naughty en-
ployer was rolling in luxury beyond the seal
They had been taught time and again. that
the tariff which made him multimillionaire5
enriched, enobled, and dignified them. What
betrayed them into the anarchy, which is no
greater upon their part than upon the part of
employers, who, ignoring the duly appointed
officers of the law, buy the services of armed
assassins who have no warrant for their
trespass? Protection-run- mad for the benefit
Of Carnegies.
Americans are warned against the suppo-
sitious evils of free trade. Can any possible
distress of free condition Of trade and COM
merce be worse than the anarchy and con-
fusion, the poverty and distress. the desola-
ton and ruin. the murder and manning at
Carnegie's mill? The greedy American IRON
master has driven the American laborer from
his workshops, and in the name of the pros
perity of that laborer has substituted men
from beyond the sea untutored in American
ways. Did they suppose they could raise
hope in the breasts of these men, disappoint
THIN. and expect quiet assent to their plans?
Order must be restored at Carnegie's mill.
Murder done either by q maddeIed workman
or a mercenary rifle must cease. When quiet
obtains anew let the American electorate ask
if they want to combine a system which
makes millionalres Of q Carnegie and in the