Show NOT PROPER LYl ENDORSED YESTERDAY afternoon an esteemed friend called and asked if we bad observed a statement in the columns of a I 1 local to the effect that nine tenths of the workingmen of the 0 country endorsed the treatment accorded the pinkertons Pink ertons by the looked out men at homestead he expressed J i himself in terms of strong conde condemnation amna of such an assertion by a public publio newspaper as it was of a nature to injure the cause of humanity by inducing misi misguided people to perpetrate the most horrible excesses I 1 our friend was right the readers 1 I of the NEWS are aware that we agree H with his position we deem it a grave I 1 1 reflection upon the workingmen of this t nation to state that they endorse the I 1 inhuman treatment accorded the I 1 pinkerton men at homestead I 1 if r the m claim of our were true this republic could scarcely exist five years longer the most savage tribes on earth could have done no more than did man many y of the people at homestead on the day of the terrible battle every civilized in J was subjugated by the thirst for vengeance the pinkerton Piu kerton men re oest edly hoisted the white flag the token of willingness to surrender but it was several times shot down and eth forts were continued to blow up ahm theia or roast the beleaguered beleaguer ed m menh alive the flag bag of abuce truce is r coant z t wherever civilization it is aft appeal for fer mercy land and none but bu man mad blonds disregard it but worse still was the treatment after the prof preferred erred surrender wt was accepted an I 1 the men were in CM tody the fact I 1 is that all that waa n necessary ec essary to enable some of the people on that day to take on the worst forms forma of sava savagery gerv was for them to eat their victims they di I 1 their best to rout roast them we not only do not believe that nine line tenths of the workingmen of the united states endorse such aboh d ings but 1 N we are satisfied that even the greate t of the locked out people of home homer r A tead regard them with detestation New perA which condone such work arke a responsibility that we hope this J never could be i induced t sume flume it ig is the duty of every public citizen to take good journal aud and every such euch deeds a stalwart wart position against of blood as have disgraced our country during the last few weeks |