Col. Charles H. Jones -- Silver Repeal -- President Cleveland's
Challenge to Great Britain -- Services for Peace -- The
Great Bond Fight.

THE OUTSTANDING event of the summer of
1892 was the riot at Homestead, Pa., where
many strikers were killed by hired Pinkertons and the
Coal and Iron Police, a private body employed by
the steel and mining interests. This was a labor con-
flict of the first dimensions and the World whole-
heartedly took the side of the men. The rights of
labor were more obscure then than now. Most of
the rioters were Slavs who had been imported to work
at starvation wages while their employers fattened
under a tariff passed to "protect American workmen."
Naturally, as the men became a little enlightened
they had discerned the unfairness of their position
and, having no backing but their own hands, resorted
to violence.

The World's support of the strike brought it much
criticism and Mr. Pulitzer was roundly blamed for
the animus shown by the news editors in charge.
The reproofs of his contemporaries led Mr. Pulitzer
to believe that the paper had suffered from overzeal
and he put a damper on. The reform in methods of
dealing with labor, the abolition of hired mercenaries
and the establishment of the State police in Pennsyl-

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