New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-15

and resisting the police force tina
sought to disperse them. The mos
that can be done by any government is t.
compel the labor contestants to keep tn,
public peace, within which they may I'm
doubleday adopt any rules of combination
among themselves for the better organiza
ton of labor and capital. No Republican
has questioned the right of Joseph Arch
to organize the land laborers of England
in their threat of self-expatriation or 6
larger share of their own labor. No one
doubts the RICH. of the printers to organize
a trades union, fix rates, and even to
pursue those who are willing to contract
their labor at less rates as traits of the
most opprobrious character. The system
OF labor unions is too well estab-
lished to be overthrown so long
as confined within obedience to law,
and tn ough We may be q little FESTIVE
whe n this principle of cooperative labor
affects our own interests, we know too
W ell that the right of labor to unite in
defense of its own interests as against the
supe rior power OF capital, is too strong to
be assailed, and too sacred to be aues.
toned by any Republican.
We look in vain for any reason in favor OF
a new election in the Fusion assaults upon
Hon. MIR. Allan for having driven another
mans buggy, and in these unfounded
b rges against 1.-THE negroes To our
mind it would not strengthen the appli-
cati on if it be shown that our State is a
prey to highway robbers Of the stage
coach, shooters of sheriffs and judges,
and a revolutionary band who murder,
burn and outrage. Such "a state
Of society should rather. if it ex-
listed, be restrained by the strongest
exhibition Of legal force. To throw
an election into such a state of disturb
ance as the F%usionists represent to exist
might be fatal to property and peace. No
person sincerely DESTROYS Of q new cleo
ton could have published such unfounded
charges without some motive. We will
assign one more probable. The instinc-
tive hostility of q certain class of politi-
clans to the rights OF the people is IRE.
pressible. Conceal it as they will, under
the noblest names, and it exposes itself
i~ncessantly. In the name of Democracy
the doctrines of Thomas Jefferson are
habitually assumed, as under the name of
q republic Spain suppresses the freedom
OF the press. evicts one government and
installs another without popular CONSENT.
In this question of capital and labor.
that Democratic organ, the Picayune,
takes unreseryedly the side Of capital: |
The summing up is that the planters will |
have to stand firm, no matter what happens.
They have been giving way to txtovtionatc
demands for six years past, and the result |
Is an intimate acquaintance with insol- !
vency. For that, and for every reason Of |
prudence. consistency, good faith, man |
hood and self respect, it behooves them to |
abide by the pledges they have made. Bet. !
ter To let the years crop go implanted than I
add another chapter to the history of fail.
ure.. and establish a fresh precedent Of
weakness and irresolution.
Now. we submit. that this is very violent
counsel. 1t is to be the 6a.ons and the
serfs over again. and our disciples Of J.f-
fersoa take the side Of the barons. ''Bet.
Ter zen crops go implanted" This may
De he notion Of some thoughtless politi.
who see nothing except the suppress
ZION Of negro suffrage and the elevation Of
he upper classes in the loss of a crop. But
hose who see that this invaluable body Of
abor must emigrate in such an event. this
between labor and vested capital
1ears another inspect. They foresee the
lands in the United States
rowing up in cottonwood and sold
taxes. Tie sugar planters and
actors are ruined and the land q prey
, the disorder of another great social
reorganization. This great question is
OF political. 1t should be left to settle
self by the usual compromises Of interest
ere as elsewhere. the civil authority,
,eantime. being ever on hand to prevent
interest from doing violence 20 the