| Show T TI A 1 rUO VOIE the courier journal of 0 the homestead strike tays says ia lift importance was nicols onlia enhanced nood by the iho fact enot ebat it 11 occurred nour tit bogin of ft a rump algo in bleh the ibe mrm lasts tho the lour issue und and la in abich the lue relations relation of tariff to lo wages were attract 1 great arteni ion fur for elih reason the most efforts wore iavolo to break the iho force of the alie lesson wit I 1 all the strike afforded 11 will the courier explain to A waiting public what object lesson was slip supplied plied by that strike has there over been any quest lou that the men in that strike luff ing baiter wages than they could obtain anywhere also on earth the establish mont meat of that mighty plant was mailo made possible by the tariff because ot of it right there thereat at homestead employees obtained employ employment mont all the contest v as with 10 per par cent cen t of tho the whole crowd crow i those men were receiving wages such its as they could not obtain in any other spot on earth many of them bad income householders and had bad largo large depoalis depo alls in tho the saving bunks banks there has never yet been a stat statement emont ventured oven even that what the mill owners asked of those men was not fair nod and yet yell w hen those men struck because of the discipline of the labor unions every mun man in the works struck the courier journal and every other newspaper of its kind in the iha united yules states encouraged the stir lUo slid and some men high in authority declared the that the men man had a right to take possession of the works borki and run rita thorn thom unless tho the owners would accept their terms the only object lesson we could over ever sen sea in it was yas the showing of the chiefs of the democratic party in being willing to gain a partisan point to incite the labor classes classed to dissatisfaction and mu mutiny lity and that spirit w want ant so eo tar far as to van even justify robbery and assassination that was an object lesson and it Is ono that tho the men with capital in this country will not noi forget v vory ory soon willie while oa on that theme we suggest that tho the courier or 01 plain a little further it if its ton has been right for the he act ton ten yours roars then it will be right to strike down the last vestige of the baric which protects such works as the homestead works and when that shall bo be done will the courier journal explain what wages those man will bo be goti gothing Ing will the journal and til all other newspapers that tor for the last at six months have been telling telline workingman how they ar anro a being wronged explain at about what waged the mou moo at Romes toad rill III work ibea if the works go on it Is all the sorriest rot on aa earth rth tho the truth li Is the moo men who have urged that business are men who do not want won t manufacturing establishments in our country who have an insane belief that it Is better to sell raw material and to buy goods although the history of the world shows nathl nothing n it but bankruptcy in any land that ba has s ever tried that experiment there never a was but bat one rich nation that abat advocated free trade or as nearly tree free trade as pass possible sible 1 and that Is a nation that before it advocated that doctrine had its factories all built under protection had its mines its factories its ships close together that had bad more tooney than all the rest of the iho world and so many skilled labor are that it had to ship thom them away to keep them from starving it wanted raw material and cheap food and it started the specious cry to a credulous world on the outside anat it would bo be better belter for them to exchange their commodities for manufactured goods which that nation could supply tito result has been bankruptcy with overy every land that lias bus adopted and ad hold held to its adelco and wo we can too see the spirit that actuates the controlling class in that country manifested to la the international confor noir dow it Is simply a demand that england shall have her bar way oven even it all the world outside be robbed fortunately this last astr robbery has none gone on until england herself Is on the verge of revolution because of 0 it liar her idla did raon moo are marching the iho streets by tens of thousands though tha she has shipped away her paupers haupers upon us tor for ono hundred years ono one in fit every twenty of tier her people aro are paupers haupers now though silo she has bus hal had the iho trade of the world to draw upon and though her rich wea men are rich beyond all comparison aall abo mass of tier her people are so poor that their children po go t ti school in the ho morning without breakfast and the iho courier and kindred shoots sheets that spectacle and then toll tell the working mon of this country that the thing to do Is to tollgate that old bruiser that all workingmen may bo be happy |
