The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31

u0Sl6 dFAuOE p1dCo fduOSs
The frauds which your committee have found
are worthy to be called crimes The servants Of
the Carnegie company whether with without
the knowledge of the company 10 increase their
gains, deliberately continued for many months to
commit acts whose natural probable consequences
would be terrific loss of men tim es OF war and
perhaps the dearest to the nation. To fine or
make mere money compensation is an inadequate
atonement for such wrongs. Such committee do
not consider it within their province to draft a
criminal statute but they do feel under obligation
call the attention of the house to the importance
of protecting the lives of our seamen and the safe
ty Of the nation by appropriate legislation, de-
nouncing as crimes all such acts as the frauds
practiced upon the government in connection with
the armor plate and other material of war, and
making such acts punishable in all persons who
commit them or aid their commission.
The Carnegie armor plate was much
ly protected, but will not protect. Bet
ter try some of William McKinIey's tin.
TO "A SCAB" IN THE DARK HORSE.
In last weeks Dark Horse someone
who hides his identity under the sob
riquet of ga Scab,'' attacks unionism
and takes issue with the editor of THE
REPUBLIC for advocating its principles.
There is a time-worn and historic say
ing, bequeathed us by our revolution
ray forefathers that is just as true
just as important today as ever, which
we recall for the benefit of ga Scab.'
1t is: Omitted we stand, divided we
fall" "a Scab" says:
The great boast of the Peoples party is equal
rights to all and special privileges to none" THE
GooDLAND REPUBLIC processes to be an exponent
of that principle yet directly in the face of tina
fair declaration it boldly advocates the principles
of an organization that claims special privileges
for itself and that, too in defiance of law and the
peace of society.
"a Scab" thinks that in advocating
the principles of union labor we lose
sight of the "equal rights motto
From Republican standpoint we do
But we want labor to have equal rights
and privileges with capital to organize
for its protection and advantage. The
same rights to be recognized by the
laws and courts of our country. The
same rights to call in the powers of
government to preserve it's equities and
liberties. In all his long TRADE "a Seab''
never brings up the union of capital,
the trusts combinations and monopo-
lies, which are more coersive, arbitrary
and compulsory than any union of Ia
Dor would dare to be- Capital, in GA
Scab's" eyes, has all rights, while labor
has none. From the dawn of history
unions of people have existed, and
from these unions the human family
owes its progress and advancement To
unite is as much a primal law of nature
as self preservation, for without that
unity destruction would ensue.
Uniontsm has played an important
part in the history of our country since
the heroes of 1776 laid down the prun-
ing hook and took up the sword to
fight against the tyrannies of England
and for the freedom of the American
people. To the union of the ID original
colonies this great republic owes it's ex-
istence, for by individual or noncon-
certed action the success of the coloni-
al forces could never have been con-
sumated or the republic established
Had it not been for this same spirit of
unionism which ga Scab'' so harshly
attacks, he, today, would be paying tri-
butte to Queen Victoria and the debts
of Albert Edward
To preserve this same union, this
country underwent the horrors of four
years of civil war, which cost billions of
dollars and the lives of half million
human beings.
The real cause of that bloody strife
was the desire, on the part of certain
class, to propagate the system of hui
man chattel slavery. To this same in
Suitable greed for wealth and the pro-
fits of human toll, without a fair equi-
valent in return, can be traced the real
causes of the late great railroad strike
to which "a Scab" refers with so much
bitterness. Failing to control labor by
chattel ownership, this same class have
so conspired and worked, favored and
aided by legislation until today the in
dustrial classes of this country only
need the shackles and the drivers whip
to make them serfs in reality.
Since 1865 there has been persistent
crowding to the wall of labor by CAPT
tai, meaning by labor, not only those
who toll in the shop, factory and mine,
but also those who pillow, SOW and reap.
And this country, the whilom land of
the free, now sees the rights of the
common people made inferior to the
rights of the almighty dollar; sees the
high and mighty courts of the land, en-
trenched behind the barricade of un-
just laws, rendering decisions in favor
of accumulated wealth and against the
privileges of divine-created man; sees
hunger, want and restitution in the
midst of plenty; sees thousands of men.
ready and willing to work, tramping
the streets of our cities and the high
ways of the country, begging for a
chance to toll and make a living for
those dependent upon them; sees the
armed forces of the government called
out at the bid of capital to shoot down
laboringmen whose only crime was ask
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