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A STIIIKK.
An IiiHiKlit Into How Protect
ion Kllecta l4lor.
Nearly 5000 workmen attbo gretit.
Carnegie Steel woikfi near Pittsburg,
Pa., are now on a Ktriko on account
of low wages. I 'i reading what we
aro going to print below, from the
New York World, it must, be botne
io mind that the McKiuley tariff
bill fixes a big tariff on steel rail.".
It should be remembered, too, that
it is claimed by pioteclionibts that
this tariff is lor the benefit of the
laborer !
Tills Carnegie Trouble 'Must
Be "1'atcutHl Up at All
Hazards."
Washisgtos, D. C, July 1 Chris
Mdgee, the Pennsylvania Kepubli
can Itosb, has had a somber of con
ferences with tbe President this
week, lie has left for Pittsburg
with an important commission from
Mr. Harrison.
From exeelleut authority it was
learned to-night that the President
had become alarmed over the object
lesson in Protection furnished at
Mr. Carnegie's mills at Pittsburg
and had directed Mr. Magee to car
ry the message to the milliowneis
that the trouble must be patched
up at all hazards.
Mr, Magee was told, according to
this authority, that upon bis suc
cess In effecting a peaceful settle
men would depend the President's
tavor in the distribution of Federal
patronage in Pennsylvania.
History ot (lie Case.
Homestead, Pa July 2. An
drew Carnegie is the most promi
nent figure in the group of million
aires who have grown and fatteued
upou the bonuties of the high pro
tective tariff which these United
States of America maintain. He is
an apostle of Protection, tbe etiief
of the apostles in fact, because he
has a few more millions of dollars
thau the others.
Wheu Gov. McKiuley and the
rest of the eloqueut Protection ora
tors tell of the beauties and benefits
of Protection they do not poiut to
such men as Andrew Carnegie and
say to the people of this country :
"If you want to see what a Pro-
tective tariff does, look at him. He
has 40,000,000 and employs 20,000
meu."
That sort of illustration would fall
rather flat. The Republican voters
would say in return :
"We see what Protection has done
for Mr. Carnegie. Who is he that
we must pay high prices for our
blankets and our clothes in order to
maintain a system that makes many
millionaires like Mr. Carnegie?"
So the champions of Protection
leave out all references to the mil
lionaire Carnegiea in their speeches
and confine themselves to high
sounding declarations like this of
Chairman McKinley's at the Minnes
apolis Convention :
"We staud for a protective tariff
because it represents the American
borne and fireside, the American
family, the American girl and the
American boy, and the highest pos
sibilities of American citizenship. A
protective tariff encourages and
stimulates American industries aud
gives' the widest possibilities to Am
erican genius and American effort."
The defenders ot Protection sav
that a tariff on imports is required
so Uiat American workmeu may
manufacture at high wages tbe
same things that the laborers of
Europe make for low wages. The
higher the tariat'thev sav. tire hiirh
er will be the xriies of Americau
workingmen. Aoybody who reds i
the newspapers can tell whether j
this is true or not. Take the casej
of Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg j
I ironmaster, the ideal Protectionist
As Andrew Carnegie's millions
i have increased from year to year so
! have the waees of his employees
i decreased. The strike at tbe Home-
j stead Steel Mills tosday may be tbe
i decisive battle in the war between
1 Andrew Carnerrie and tbe Atnalsa
'mated Association of Iron aud Steel
! Workers which has been waged for
years. Slcwly but surely the anion
workmen have been driven back.
One by one Mr. Carnegie's mills
I ironmaster, the ideal Protectionist . IS iy mauuiaciurcr
! Does the tariff benefit him or doe8 ! pig-iron is lo the mauufac:urer. It
iiC benefit bis 20,000 workmen? i was made the basis of a sliding
1 a. xAr n,,..a nr.iinnoUcale of a?es. which Mr. Camefiie
have been filled with European la
boreis and the American workmen
have been scattered and driven
1 oi tb liom their homes to seek a
living among strangeis. Now the
battle is on at Homestead.
"Vht have employer and em
ployed been fighting about all these
years V you ask. The answer is
brief :
Wages.
Eveiy year Mr. Carnegie has tried
to red n co wages. lie has not aU
ways been successful, lnt he has
sever relaxed his efforts. The ideal
Protectionist, the man of millions
acquired through the workiuga of a
high tariff on steel, is the foe of or
ganized labor because organized la
bor can and does keep tbe scale of
wages at a living rate. Unorgan
ized labor must work for what Mr.
Carnegie offers to pay, and it tbe I
scale is too low, it must submit, be
cause it has no friends and no le
course.
Talk tariff to the 4,600 employees
iu Andrew Carnegie's sieel mills at
Homestead; quote the protection
plank in the Republican platform of
1892 ; cail their attention to Major
McKinley's stereotyped speech : "We)
demand protection for American
iudust.ies, protection for American
workmen, protection for American
homes,'' and they will reply as did
John McLuckey, Burgess of the
borough of Homestead and a work
er in the Carnegie mill :
'I travelled through Arkansas
last summer on my vacation. They
don't take much care of their cattle
out there. The herds are big and
the grazing rauges are bigger, A
calt suckles its mother from birth
and keeps on suckling until loug af
ter the time when it should shift for
itself. Toe consequence is that the
calf hasn't learned to look out for
itself and hasn't learned to eat grass,
and when separated from the cow it
weakens and dies.
"1 saw a bull calf, big and strong,
a yearling in fact, trying to gets its
nourishment from the mother. The
cow was dry. The yearling could
scarcely get a drop of milk. He
kept bunching and hunching, aud
fiually, when he found he couldn't
get his meal, be turned and butted
his mother and nearly ripped the
entrails out of her with his norus-j
That's a common occurrence out
there, they told me, but it set me to
thinking, and it struck me as a very
forcible lllusaratiou of our position
as workmen in the Carnegie mills
and voters ot the Republican ticket
to-day.
"We have nurtured and protected
and fostered our infant industries in
this country until away past the
time when they should have been
weaned, At last when we have
been milked dr', and there is no
more to be got from us, our protect
ed industries, now long past the in
fant stage, turn around and try and
rip the very heart and life out of
as.'
This homely talk was made to
4000 iron and steel woikers iu
Homestead two weeks ago. The
big opera house rang with cheers
from the throats of Audrew Carne
gie's men.
They will talk tariff' to you at
Homestead in a style that yoa don't
hear on the hustings at election
time. They will tell you that tariff
on steel billets was kept up for years
at the bidding of Andrew Carnegie
and men of his Ilk and that it was
reduced in the McKinley bill at the
same bidding because Mr. Carnegie
juses steel billets tociab down tbe
demands of his workingmen for a
fair da.v's pay. And this is howhejLL'. Hie new scale, ne says, is
"oes it. i based on 82 minimum. He tells
A steel billet is four iuches wide j the public nothing aVout the reduc-
ud deep and of varying lengths. It j tiou of wages, which will average
, s to tne steel manutacturer nHi!'. o - "'J1"a''
Ucale of cages', which Mr. Carnegie;
land the Amalgamated Association
i of rou and steel womers signeu
I three years ago. The market price
of stel billets as quoted on board
cars at Pittsburg was to govern tbe
- i ly of the men who used their
! and brawn and muscle and;
energy in operating the furnaces
and mills of tbe Carnegie interests. ' the contrary, his puwisoea utter
When the scale was signed in lS89,jances have contained as many plat
after a strike which was marked by iitudes about the rights of working-
exciting t-ceufs and mjuiu bloodshed
at Homestead, the maiket pi ice of
steel was The miuiiunm price,
for the purposes of the hcale, was
never to be below '.'5. It did not
remain at $-8 long.
Audrew Carnegie had manipulat
ed steel rails once as he was about
to manipulate steel billets. That is!
an old story and a long story and
quite another story. It datea back
twenty-six years, to the time wheu
the Pacific railroads secured thous
ands of acres of land from the Fed
oral government on either side of
rail load tracks which were never
built. The Pacific railroads came
very near beins called to a full aud
complete account of their laud hold
ings more than ence, but they al
wax 8 had friends enough to save
them from total disaster or a full
disgorgement. There was a time
when Andrew Carnegie's kind offi
cos and his influence with a Repub
iican Congress saved them. After a
prolonged visit to Washington and
just previous to his famous coach
ing trip through Scotland with
James G- Blaine and other Rpub
licans, the Pacific railroads felt that
they could breathe more freely about
their land holdings- Andrew Car
negie held a contract to supply the
Pacific railroads with steel rails at
32 a ton, 28 in money and 4 in
mortgages on the laud that the
railroads owned by the right of pos
sessiou.
As he had manipulated the steel
rail industry, so Mr. Carnegie began
to manipulate the &teel-billet indusi
try. From $28 a ton the price of
steel billets dropped to $22. Duriug
the three years just ended the min
imum price lor the sibling scale was
$25, and the employees at Homes
stead have been payed accordingly.
Even at. $22 a ton Mr. Gamegie is
so amply protected against foreign
conpetition that be has none. Iu
the McKiuley Tarifl bill the oyly
product of Mr. Carnegie's mills that
was affected adversely was steel
billets. The duty on them was
lowered and the market price drop,
ped accordingly.
It Mr. Carnegie had influence at
Washiugtou, and could tave the pa
cifio railroads from an accounting,
could keep up the high tariff rates
on the products or ms mills tor
years, and rise from tbe possitiou of
a mes-euger boy to the ownership
of twenty millions or more through
i he bendficient effects of a Protec
tive tarig, why couldn't he save his
steel billets from a reduction of duty
iu the McKinley bill, y ou ask I The
4,000 employees at Homestead an
swer the question very readily.
"As the price of steol bii'ets is re
duced," they say, "so are our wages
reduced. Steel billets were made
the basis of our scale, but we make
very few steel billets at Homestead
now. Their manufacture has been
transferred to a Carnegie mill, where
non-union meu are employed, tbe
same as steel rails were taken away
'.from us after Carnegie bad obtained
control of the maiket. Steel billets
are down to 822 now aud Carnegie
makes that price the basis of the
new scale he proposes. He also in
cludes a reduction of individual
wages of iron 12 to 40 per cent, aud
insists that the new scale empire on
Dec, 31, iu mid-winter. In his
statement of tbe present difficulty
nothing is said of the reduction in
wages or of the change in the time
at which the scale terminate?: His
argument is that the last t-cale was
signed when steel b liets sold at
j 28, with a miuimum of 825, and
tbnt now tbe price has fallen to
. ,
j "or of the stipulation tht tbe next
jacale mast be s.gufd in midwinter.''
These observations on Mr. Car -
These observations on Mr. Car -
j uegie - course in tinkering wnn tne
; ouuw VmxS
i cry of "Protection to American
workmen" is not re-echoed in
Homestead, not Protection theories,
it is not a sentiment wun wr.
It is not a sentimeut wun air.
Carnegie; it is nothing that he has
! ever written a pamphlet about. On
men to organize and tha benefits to
b derived from such organization
as they have about the oeniticent
effects of the protective tariff iiut
actions speak to the workmen at
Homestead very much louder than
words. They realize now that Mr.
Carnegie is a business man, not a
theorist ; that his admiration tor
the tariff, like his admiration for
"co-operation," is based on strictly
business principles. Tho tariff' is a
toy, to be manipulated as the mas
ter spcs tit. A high tariff is the
rule, but there are times, according
:o Mr. Carnegie's experience, xvhen
a Iojv tariff on a single article as
ateel billets, for instance cau be
mide to inure to his benefit.
'Co-operation, iu Mr. Carnegie's
acceptance of tbe term, meaus co
operation of the woikmgmeu in
r.uilding and loan association-, in I
social organizations and in woiking
for tbe inteiest of the employer,
Mr. Carnegie has had nothing but
praise for this soit of co-opei at ion
auoug his nou onion men at P.rads
dock. Bat when his workmen co
operate to strengthen themselves
in their positions and to insure the
permanency of fair wagee, the Irons
master, as he likes his British
friends to call him, is not at all
pleased.
It is the firm belief of the people
of Homestead that their town is to
wituess one of the most importaut
'struggles betxveen capital and labor
that this country has ever seen,
Carnegie Dure the Home
stead Hull with a Slierill'M
Homestead, Pj., July 5 Sher
iff McCleaiy paid a flying visit to
the town this morning to notify the
people that Andrew Carnegie had
callt-d upon the country of Alleghe.
ny to assist him in cutting down
the wages ot his men, as the Iron
King had for years called upou the
Congress ot the United State to
aid him in his accumulations of mil
lions with a high protective tariff.
The appeal of Mr. Frick to the
Sheriff is as follows :
Pittsburg, Pa., July 4, 1892
"ff'm. H. McCleary, High Sheriff of
Allegheny county. Pa, : j
"Dear Sir: Will you please j
take notice that at aud in the vicin
ity of our woikN, iu Mifflin Town
ship, near Homestead, Allegheny
County, Pa-, aud upon the highways,
leading thereto from all directions,
bodies of men have collected who
assume to and do prevent access ot
our employees to and agrees from
our property, ami that fiom threats
openly made we have reasonable
cause to apprehend that an attempt
will be made to collect a mob and
to destroy or damage our propyl ty
aforesaid and to prevent us fiom its
use and enjoyment.
'This property consists of mills,
buildings, xvoikshops, machinery
and other personal property. We
therefore call upon you as Sheriff of
Alleghany County, Pa., to protect
our properly from violence, damage
aud destruction; and to protect us
in its free use and enjoyment.
"The Cahxegie Steel Co., Limited.
"By Ii. O. Frick, Chairmau.
"Caknegie Piiipps & Co, Limited,
By H. C. Frick, Chairman.''
No sooner had the Sheriff return
ed to Pittsburg than ten deputies
were dispatched to Homestead
beaiing copies of the following pro
clamation :
To whom it may concern : Where
a3 it has come to my knowledge that
ceitain persons have congregated
and assembled at and near the
works of the C ruegie Steel Cora
pany, Limited, in Mifflin Township,
, ije3U(eny County, Pennsylvania,
an(I upot, tL roada and highways
e;,dmg to the same, and that such
pt.Ifc0a have interfered with work-
j m.-n employed iu said worSs, obtain-
m.-n empioyea
ing accef8 (0
C(Mtain pelQJ
1
rf lninrv lo m
the same, and that
ons tiave inaue inreais
iof ,njury lo tUjp!oyees going to aud
from sal(1 wolk?j aDfi have threat-
jened that if the owners or saia
, workg attempt r0 run the same the
property will be injured and rie- j
j 8tl0ye(j . I
Now I? William H. McCleary,
i Ulj,h Sherlff of the coanyf do here.
; by DOljfv au 1 warn all persons that
all tbe acts enumerated are unlaw
ful, and that ail persons engaged in
the tame in any way are liable to
arrest and punishment :
And I further command all per
sons to abstrain from assembling or
congregating ;us aforesaid, aud fiom
mterfeiing with the workmen, busi
ness or tho operation of s3id woiks,
and in all respects to preserve the
peace ami to retire to their respecc
five homes or p'aces of residence, as
tne rights of the xvorkmen to xvork
aud Ihe right of the owners to ope
rate their works will be fully prot
tected, aud iu case of failure to ob
serve these instructions, all persons
offending will be dealt with accord
ing to law.
William H. MoUlkaky,
High Sheriff of Allegheny County.
S her It's Oflice.
Pittsburg, July ft, 1802.
The Sheriff ftreU hed a poiut
when he wrote about "persons ju
te;Terintr xvith the workmen. ' There
have been no workmeu at the mill
since the employees were locked
out last Thursday. No copies of
the proclamation have been posted
on the barbed-wire fence surround
ing Mr. Carnegie's fortifications.
Tiie placds were taken from tho
deputies aud are at the headquar-
ters.
The deputies were taken to the
river's edge and run out of town
without violence, 'lis true, but with
a great public manifestation on the
part of the Homestead men ot their
determination that no man shall
enter the Carnegie mills until the
old hands are back iu their places
at the furnaces and in the shops.
Cupt. Alexander Ntipportw the
PlatforniM and Ticket, State
and National.
Wilmington Messenger,
House er Representatives!, U.S.,
Washington, D, C, July 1, '02.
W. P. Oldham, Esq :
Dear SIR Your letter of the
21(h, staling that you wrote the
undersigned letter, received. In
the letter to Col. Moore I stated
from information relating to some
of my critics, etc., I did not ret r to
all ot them.
When I stated in that letter I
supported the State and national
tnket it did not occur to me that
any one would doubt that I endors
ed the State aud natianal platforms
any more thai, one would doubt a
Pieabxterian endorsing the "Con
fesnion of Faith," But that you
may not misunderstand me, I state
that I endoise the Democratic State
platform made by the State Demo
cratic convention held in the, city of
Raleigh, N. C, in May last, ami the
national Democratic platform made
by the national Democratic conven
tion held in the city of Chicago,
111 , held in June last. I have been
in every campaign nince the war
sometimes as a private, oometimes
as an officer, and have done my duty
to the Democratic party as best I
could. If there be some who want
to Cgtit me for the nomination or
even scratch me at an election they
have a right to do so. Tne Demo
cratic party has always contended
for the greatest liberty to the citi
zen. Aud while I would appreciate
a renominatiou I would not have any
vote for me who is conscientiously
opposed to me. Yours truly,
S. B. Alexander.
Theie is a popular sentiment in
this country to the effect that a man
has a right to take newspapers and
neglect to pay for them. The obli
gation to pay for a paper rests light
ly on many conscience.. Even
Christians are uuder thr dominion
of this sentiment. Men standing
high in the Church have been known
to iay no attention to duos ou
newspaper accounts. Men need to
be instructed on this point. A man
who will willlully Cetraud the print
er out of his hard earniogs is very
much mistaken if be thinks he is a
Christiau, except in name. There is
no differeuce between withholding
two dollars due a publisher and
stealing that amount out of his
money drawer. If meu who wilful
ly delraud their fellow-men can get
to heaven, heaven is not the holy
place it is represented to be iu tho
UibleHokton Methodist.
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