Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — CARNEGIE CARNAGE. [ARTICLE]

CARNEGIE CARNAGE.

IT WAS THE FIRST GUN OF THE CAMPAIGN. The “Protection to American Workmen” Faroe Demonstrates Itself—Republicans In a Reckless State of DemoralisationThree Great issues- - By It* Fruit*. % At the time when the Carnegie-Pinker-ton assassfns were shooting down American workingmen at Homestead Benjamin Harrison and various members of the fat-frying National Republican Committee were in session at the White House. They were discussing a new campaign in the interest of the protective tariff and its thieving beneficiaries. They were considering the question of leadership, the question of ways and means and the question of public deception. Who was to be chairman? What man among them was most likely to fry the fat out of the Carnegies? What Bums could bo wrung from this industry and that? What new lies could be circulated to mislead the ignorant and frighten the timid? At the crisis of this interesting council a telegram from Homestead announced that the slaughter had begun and, as one telegram put it, “a deep frown settled on the President's faeo and his associates eyed each other in silence.’’ There was no more discussion that day. The conference ended abruptly without result, and the questions which it had been called to settle were left unacted upon. And no wonder. The dead and mangled bodies of American workingmen —the victims of protective tariff delusion and of protective

tariff rifles would strike speechless even men of greater hardihood than Benjamin Harrison. He knew, and his white-faced associates knew, that in the deliberate judgment of mankind every gaping wound at Homestead would speak to the moral sense of the world in tones of thunder against tho folly and the crime of protectionism. The dead and wounded at Homestead are the fruits of the protective tariff delusion and crime as truly as the mankilling and child-stealing of ante-bellum days were the fruits of the slavery delusion and crime. Every rifle and every bludgeon used in Pennsylvania was urged by passion aroused by that prolific source of all uncharitableness—the monopoly tariff. It sets man against man. It deceives the laborer and then robs and murders him. It promises a division of its plunder and then reviles the poor dupe who asks that Its pledges be kept. It vauntingly proclaims its paternal regard for labor and then answers labor’s demands at the muzzle of a Winchester. It employs one class of bread-winners to make war upon another class, and when the ories of the widow and orphan till tho laud, Its beneficiaries, financial and political, sneak away to castles in 'Scotland or to the fastnesses of tho Aclirondaeks that their eyes may not see and their ears may not hear! Blood is offensive to nice people. When it Is spilled in their interest they prefer to be out of range. The lies of the Ben Harrisons, the Bill McKinleys, the Tom Reeds, the Joe Forakers, and all the lesser supporters of the tariff Iniquity have done this thing. They knew they were lying when they said the tariff was not a tax. They knew they were lying when they told workingmen that a high tariff made high wages. They knew they were lying wher they threatened the poor and the ignorant with “pauper wages” if they voted for free trade. They knew they were lying when they proclaimed the monstrous falsehool that the foreigner paid a tax. They knew they were lying when they promised labor any benefit from the tariff that was designedly laid to produce millionaires, out of whose greasy hides they could fry fat. They now slink away to their summer retreats because they know that their lies are all exposed. . The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1864 was not more necessary to die cause of American freedom than is the election in 1892 of Cleveland and Stevenson. In the presence of wrongs like these, in the face of villainy such as that of the Carnegies. In the shadow of murder and oppression such as that at Homestead, there can be but two parties in this country—one for and one against the devilish greed that afflicts the republic like a pestilence, and is hurrying It at break-neck speed to physical, moral and political death.— Chicago Herald.