The herald., 1897-03-29

Protection lives because the great mass
of the people have not become familiar
with the principles of political economy.
Skillfully handled by a few political
trust men, this popular ignor-
ance of fundamental principles has
been played upon to build private for
tune into colossal aggregation by per-
version of the taxing power. "Protec-
ton" is a partisan war cry. Indeed.
with many excellent but ill-informed
men patriotism and protection are in
separable. With these part of the
duty of the citizen is to increase the
wealth of the richest by taxing all.
The action of Rockefeller, Hanna,
Havemyer. Carnegie and of the whole
trust brood show what a moral
danger a man is in who sets
out false lights for the decep-
ton of his fellows. The most
cruel treatment of laborers that has oc-
CURED in civilization has been that OF
protection men in their various lines.
The terrible coal mine strikes are still
fresh enough in the memory of the peo-
pie. The sugar grind has more quietly
but even more completely eliminated
the American laborer in the Atlantic
states. The old hands passed through
the valley of death. Today the sugar
trust uses Russians and Poles fresh
from those countries in the wiring room.
The merciful thing in this is that the men
do not live long. Hannas name will al
ways be remembered in the winters of
death and starvation that drove Amer
lean seamen off the great lakes and sub
stituted aliens. 1t is so with all OF
them. Bribers in politics, debauchers
of public virtue, greedy and dishonest.
these protection beneficiaries, after
cheating the government in their con-
tracts, cap the climax by cruelty to
their workpeople which has never been
| euualed under slavery in its worst
form. The deliberate inhumanity OF
these tax thieves is almost beyond be-
lief. Deliberate in their relentless COM
/ bines to destroy all competition, they are
! equally deliberate in their Pinkerton-
| ian inhumanity. Protection is political
! folly. No ranker lie with a f1imsier
mask ever audaciously faced down a
| great people.
These cinchers. trust monopolists
! bribe givers and protectionsts, these
men who have deteriorated and degrad-
ed the free laboring citizen of the cen
: trail west until these protectionisrs
themselves cry out against the anarchy
| they have created; these are our pa
triots. When an outburst comes these
men applaud, and now bounty the
| bloodshed of their own countrymen
| That criminal acts were committed III
|
force was necessary for the security oi
property and life may be true. but the
killing of misguided men in civil dis
order is always a serious and sad event
1t is nothing to hurrah over. Nor is tbs
officer of the law, whether policeman
or soldier, in any gay business when he
| kills those who owe allegiance to tbs
same flag. Neither is any officer In sucs
an unhappy affair properly the subjec
of a millionaire bounty from Hunting
ton syndicate. This money Genera
Miles should refuse. He will, however
take the bloody gift and his staff writer
up will give us lot more on the self
praise general, showing that the killing
of citizens in cities is the greatest fea
ever performed by a military man
| These bounties taken from the tax pay
er and bounty givers to the blood taker
these are the men who announce tina
free American labor cannot compete
with foreign pauper and slave labor, ant
that for this reason the great body O.
the people must divert the taxes from
public to private ends. These are tn
men to whom has been delegated tn
care of protection Of American free labor