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Show h- company, they would try the same i tig in every part of our country wnere -it- is any lubor troubles. B'i then who is responsible for organ-4 organ-4 1) n' or 'f not the capitalists and the u, .oii-t.t hv did workmen organza organ-za if not 10 protect themselves from a eduction of their starvation wages, it the monopolist had not attempted to -urve them to death or to replace them with foreign pauper labor, there would nave been no trouble. The Carnegie Co not satisfied with this sent an armed force to Homestead to compel the workmen work-men to submit to the company's de-mauds, de-mauds, if they resisted they were in danger of being shot down like dogs, and all this happens iu America, "the land of the free and 1 he home ot the brave," but we daresay if monopolists had their way and were allowed to import armed forces to compel com-pel workmen to submit to their demands it would soon become"the land of the des pot the borne of the slave," But thanks to God and our government in Washington Washing-ton there will be no more such outragos. We believe there is no grander, or nobler organization In the world than one banded ban-ded together for the protection of its members from poverty and starvation ana rroui oecoming staves ana sens, ine following is clipped from a telegram recently received from Homestead: From a source close to Carnegie it was learned that the firm had the names of 215 strikers against whom they believe be-lieve they have enough evidence to convict con-vict as accessories to the murder of the Pinkerton men. It is their intention to enter information every day until the entire 215 have been arrested. So the company intend to arrest 215 men and have them tried for murder. They may arrest a thousand men If they choose, but we doubt if they can convict one of them because they will havs a very bard time to define the killing of the Pinkertons as 'murder." The men fired in defense cf themselves, if they did fire first they did it because they knew that if the Pinkertons were permitted to land their chance of freedom would be gone. Taken as a whole both sides are to blame but the main fault, we believe, is with the company. AT HOMESTEAD. The killing of Pinkerton bloodhounds at Homestead has caused a great deal 0' erltisim both adverse and favors-' organized labor. Some eon--if the worklngmen h' ' zatioa there wo-'' .. " , of Import.- , -"ling that 0n - nad ho orglni- -id have been no neet! ...g the hireling" of tha Pickei oiaughter house, because lha men Individually, ould have reeded ti iue aemanae ot.tae company, end we' add.the company wonld no eooner have made one reduction than they wonld attempt to mete anothfr, and then another until finally the men wonld not be able to earn their salt lunch less their bread. Nearly ail the blame is thrown upon organized iabor, because the union men at Homestead stood dp for their rights lite trno American citizens, citi-zens, and when they did they voiced the sentiments of evtry American citizen who believe there should he ,:eqnal rights to all, special favors to none.'1 ! They believe as do all true, honest Amerl cans that the Pinknton men had no right in Pitfsbnrg or Homestead and consequently looked open thorn as a foreign for-eign enmy, and they were right when they did so. The PInlrnrton detectives had no more right at Homestead than ail armed force cf Hungarians or an army from any foreign country, and the men not only defended their own tights but the rights of all Amerlcrn wortmeD, for if the Pmkerton's had l,een allowed to land at Homestead and froce the men to submit to the demandt |