Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — Carnegie to Harrison. [ARTICLE]

Carnegie to Harrison.

There was bloodshed, tumult, disorder, oppression, anarchy at Hoifiestoad. But there came no word from Andrew Carnegie. The Minneapolis convention named its candidate, and quick as lightning was the message from Andrew J. Carnegie at Sunningdale, Scotland, to Benjamin Harrison at Washington: • “The American people know a good thing when they get it. Heartiest congratulations. You deserve this triumph. * Why was Carnegie thus swift? When in 1890 more than 1,000,000 majority of the popular vote declared against the monstrous system of mad under which the Carnegies become forty-millionaires and American labor is denied its promised share in tariff spoliation Benjamin Harrison, defying the voice of the people, officially declared to the Reed Congress that the McKinley law must stand. Andrew Carnegie knew a good thing when he got it. Hence these swift congratulations to Harrison. Hence this profound silence touching the awful situation at his own iron mills. Seventeen and 15 years were the respective ages of a young couple who eloped and got married at Edgefield, 8. C., one day recently. Every sin is a big one, no matter how small it looks.