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the'' Homestead men and will probably
declare the strike off to-morrow.
LOSSES THAT IT CAUfllD.
The strike at one time involved nearly
10,000 men and the loss in wages will
reach, it is said, in the neighborhood ot
$2,000,000. Then there ia the immense
loss to the firm, which cannot be esti
mated, but which conservative people
nut at least double the amount lost by
the men in wages. To tbia can be added
nearly $500,000 paid to the state troops
and the cost to the county of Aliegneny
for the riot, treason and other cases
ffrowinsr out of the strike. At least thirty
five deaths were directly caused by the
strike. The attempted assassination of
Chairman Frick of the Carnegie com
pany ia also indirectly credited to the
strike.
00MMSHTS ON THE ACTION.
St. Louis, Mo., November 20. A copy
of the dispatch from Homestead an
nouncing that the strike had been
officially declared off, was ahown by an
associated press reporter to leading men
in the Knights of Labor to-night
General Master Workman T. V.
Powderly had not heard of the action
of the Amalgamated association. After
reading the bulletin he shrugged his
shoulders and simply said:
"Wa11
"What have you to say regarding it?"
asked the reporter.
"O, nothing. I was not expecting
such news, but do not care to make any
statement. I suppose the Amalgamated
officials know what they are doing.
womld, of course, have preferred to see
the workmen win."
A member of the executive board and
congressman-elect from Kansas, John
Davis, said: "I regret that the work
men did not win, but I think it is better
to have this action come now than later
It teaches the workingmen this lesson:
They can't fight money and go hungry;
they can't whip Carnegie's millions while
tbeir stomachs are empty. Evils of this
kind should be met at the ballot box.
They must defeat the agents of the cor
porations when they are running for
office. Some years ago our Kansas farm
ers thought they could get along by bor
rowing money at 6 or 7 per cent, but
they have learned differently. They
have also learned that while expenence
is a sad teacher, it is an effective one.
I think the Amalgamated .association
did all they could and the best they
could under the circumstances."
It's Our Victory.
By J. R. Detwller, president Fourth District
Alliance.
Aa Populists we rejoice over a victory
more sweeping in its character, far-reaching
in its effects, and beneficent in its
ultimate results, than any political event
since the fall of the Bastile.
From the base of the pedestal upon
which liberty stands with her beacon
light, to the golden gate whence pro
ceeds the shades of night, the banner of
plutocracy have met defeat, and man
hood occupies the most exalted seat In
the recent political revolution the super
ficial observer sees nothing but a triumph
of the democratic party. He anticipates
no change except a new deal in the pub
lic service a division of official boodle
among the Tammany braves and civil
service mugwumps, who united under
the skillful generalship of Grover Cleve
land. If this constitutes the net results
of the late election, the plain people
would have very little cause for rejoic
ing. For us it would be a barren victory.
Bat I am glad to be able to recognize a
much deeper meaning in the verdict of
the people. I am glad to be able to dis
cern that it was not the Chicago, but the
Omaha convention, that drafted the bill!
of particulars upon which the republican
party was arraigned. The indictment
upon which the people returned a true
bill is found in the People's party plat
form adopted at Omaha, and reads as
follows:
The urban workmen are denied the
right of organization for self-protection;
imported pauperized labor beats down
their wages; a hireling army, unrecog
nized by our laws, is established to shoot
them down, and they are rapidly degen
erating into European conditions.
The national power to create money ia
appropriated to enrich bondholders: a
vast publio debt payable in legal tender
currency, has been funded into gold
bearing bonds, thereby adding millions
to the burdens of the people.
Silver, which has been accepted as
coin since the dawn of history, has been
demonetized, to add to the purchasing
power of gold, by decreasing the value
of all forms of . property, as well as
human labor, and the supply of currency
is purposely abridged to fatten usurers,
bankrupt enterprise, and enslave in
dustry. A vast conspiracy against man
kind has been organized on two conti
nents, and it is rapidly taking possession
of the world. If not met and overthrown
at once, it forebodes terrible social con
vulsions, the destruction of civilization,
or the establishment of an absolute des
potism. Upon these charges the people ren
dered judgment against the republican
party, because the policy of that party,
having been in operation for thirty-one
years, is properly held responsible for
the deplorable conditions which now
exist While the democratic party re
ceivesthe immediate fruits of victory,
and has the largest number of states to
its credit, it has not received so large a
popular vote in the nation as it did eight
years ago, or four years ago. Our party
was in its formation state. Six months
ago, when the contest began, we did not
nave an organization in more than two
or three states. Many thought that the
most effective way to rebuke the repub
lican party was to transfer the reins of
power to democratic hands. Notwith
standing this, the number of recruits we
have received is unprecedented in the
annals of party organization. Our party
is now organized in every state, and we
have four years in which to gather
strength for the next great national
struggle. Upon the western plains we
have already won the laurels of victory.
We have raised in mid-continent a banner
round which a common brotherhood of
breadwinners, north and south, east and
west, may rally with hope and courage.
We must continue to push the battle
upon the lines a1ready marked out-
land, labor, transportation and money.
These are the great problems of the
present and future. The people demand
reform along these lines. They are in
dead earnest. They will be trifled with
no longer. Our party is constructed for
the special purpose of dealing with these
live issues. We shall move forward with
irresistible force until our victorious
banners wave over the national capital.
Now the repmblican papers are
kicking vigorously at the prohibition-
ists because the latter voted their
own ticket
Oxs of the most vexations ques
tions in Kansas now is, who will be
speaker of the next house.
Mister Bros., one of the oldest commis
sion firms at Kansas City, was established
in 1879, do a strictly commission business in
grain, seeds, hay and mill produce. Con
signments given personal attention and sold
by sample on their merits; also make liberal
advanoes. Hats one of the best wheat
salesmen on the board.
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soHdWL Mention this napr.
THE FIELD 13 0TOS.
An Able and Enthusiastic Address by
General Weaver.
Gen, Weaver bas Bent the following
able and important letter to Chairman
Taubeneck, of the People's party, it be
ing really an address to the Amerioan
people:
Das Morns, Ia., Not. 16, 1892.
Hon. If. E. Taubeneck, Chairman National
Committee People's Party:
Deak Sib: I wish by this method to
briefly address, through you, the friends of
reform throughout the union. Unaided by
money, our grand young party has made an
enviable record and achieved surprising suc
cess at the polls. We are but little behind
the republican party in the number of states
carried. As a result of the late election we
will doubtless hold the balance of power in
the senate of the United States, have
doubled the number of our adherents in the
house of representatives, secured control of
a number of state governments, hold the
balance of power in a majority of the states
in the union, and have succeeded in arous
ing a spirit of political independence among
the people of the northwest which cannot be
disregarded in the future. Not being formed
on sectional lines, our party, in a single
oampaign, has gained a large and influential
following in every state in the south. This
gives promise of good government in that
section of the union a thing ths republican
party has failed to do after thirty years of
almost uninterrupted rule and gives prom
ise, too, of correcting wrongs which may
exist through the people of the respeotive
states, instead of attempting to do so by in
fluenoes from without. We have awakened
fraternal feelings in all sections, and as an
earnest of our good will towards the south,
the grand people of Kansas, a state contain
ing more union soldiers than any other,
elected an ex-oonf ederate soldier of the Peo
ple's party to represent the state at large in
oongTess.
The country is to be congratulated upon
the faot that the leaders of one of the here
tofore great parties have been abandoned
and overthrown by the people, and their or
ganization well nigh annihilated. This
leaves the former adherents of that party
free to align themselves with the great anti
monopoly and industrial movement. The
accession of the other party to power is the
result of violent reaction, and not, I am
sure, of the deliberate Judgment of the
American people. The national leaders of
the triumphant party are without any well
defined policy, except that of contemptuous
disregard for every element of reform
within the ranks of their own party and
among the people at large. The new ad
ministration will ignore the three great
contentions of modern times relating to
land, money and transportation, and will
not attempt to solve either. In faot, the
whole foroe of the new regime will be ex
erted to prevent reform in these important
matters. The urgent demand of the people
for the free coinage of silver is to be dis
dainfully ignored, and new obstacles will
doubtless be interposed to further restrict
the use of the white metal. In oontempt of
the doctrine of Andrew Jackson, European
aristocrats are to be permitted to dictate our
financial policy.
One of the most valuable results of the
late civil war that of a uniform legal ten
der currency issued by the government is
to be sacrificed and abandoned, and serious
attempt will be made to force the people to
return to the fraudulent system of state
bank issues which exited prior to the war
and which periodically swindled the indus
trial classes of the fruits of their toil. This
is to be sprung upon the people by sudden
stroke of policy by leaders who carefully
kept their motives concealed from the pub
lic The crime is to be enacted into law be
tween elections and before the people can
have time to pass upon the question by the
selection of representatives chosen for the
purpose. That this is the deliberate plan is
shown by the clause in the democratic plat
form whioh calls for the repeal of the law
imposing a tax upon the circulation of state
banks. It is confirmed by the fast that ilr.
Coe, chairman of the executive committee
of the American Bankers' Association, to
gether with a large number of New York
bankers, publioly gave in their support to
the democratic ticket only a few days before
the eleotion. The situation gives additional
importance to the great question whioh
few have comprehended for a score of years,
namely: Shall the currency of the country
be a legal tender issued and its volume eon'
trolled by the government, or shall it be
non-legal tender issued and controlled
by banking corporations? The issues
pressing for solution are simply tre
mendous and the situation porten
tous. Our party has not mada its
advent too soon. Its mission is to restore
to our government its original and only
legitimate function whioh has been well
nigh lost by non-user that of securing to
all of iU oitizens, the weak as well as the
mighty, the unmolested enjoyment of their
inalienable rights. This cannot be accom
plished until the relations between labor
and its creature, capital, are so adjusted ea
to cause eaoh to respect the domain of the
other. These important forces are now upon
a war footing, whereas under humane laws
they would naturally dwell together in per
fect peace.
The repressive policy, now fully inaugu
rated in this country, will not work well in
the closing years of the nineteenth century
It is the fatal blunder of weak leaders who
fail to comprehend the spirit of the age and
the growth of independence among the peo
ple. It denies to labor the right to organ
ize, relies upon the military arm to sustain
corporate pretentions, and when labor or-
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armed mercenaries, it adjudges the mem
bers thereof to be guilty of treason. Let
those who rob by law and oppress their f el
lows to gratify their thirst for power beware
how they trifle with an awakened people.
The violent political storms of 1883 and 1803,
whioh first swept the democratic and then
the republican party from power in spite of
the weight of patronage whioh they carried,
signify a turbulent condition of the politi
cal atmosphere whioh plainly foreshadows
an approaohing crisis. It were better that
it be not hastened by the enaotment of
measures whioh savors of usurpation and '
the extension of class privileges.
I sincerely trust that the work of organi
zation and education may now be pushed
with energy throughout all the states. The
field is ours, and we must occupy it without
delay. Fraternally yours,
J. D. Wamn.
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touches our ears, we think about getting
warm. California has the ideal winter
climate just far enough south to be suau
shiny and frortless, and yet with sufficient
tonic in the air.
Santa Fa route takes Jack Front's hint,
and hs arranged a series of personally-ooa-duoted
weekly excursions to California.
Pullman tourist sleepers, furnished with
bedding, toilet articles, etc., leave Chicago
and Sc. Louis every Saturday evening, and .
leave Kamia City every Hunday morning, 1
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