Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-19
GOING o FAR.

GOING Too FAR.
Under this caption the Enterprise
devOtes a short chapter to the late pro-
ceedings of the Miners Union of Ruby
Hill. The miners, in all legitimate Of
forts to keep up prices, have the sym
pathies of q vast majority Of this COM
munity, but they can not reasonably
expect to retain 1t should they resort
to violence or employ extreme meas
nres Of any kind. They have already
laid themselves open to adverse criti-
cism by prescribing who the CON-
panies may or may not employ. So
long as the price of labor ix main-
tanned At the Unions standard OF 81
per day, the rational view is that it
matters Tot whether the men employed
1t that figure are members of that or
%ganization or not. Mine owners as
well as miners have rights that should
be respected. However, we have a
we'll grounded belief that the present
troubles are but temporary and that
everything will shortly be moving
along tremendously as usual. Fol-
lowing is what our Virginia contein
porafy has to say on the subject:
"By our dispatches from Eureka q
state Of affairs Is shown which is all
wrong and which, il persevered in, will
result in serious hardships to people
generally, and to the Miners Unions
especially. The President of the Min
era Union at Eureka has given the
manager Of the Richmond mining
company notice that after a certain
number of days, he must employ no
miners who do not belong to the
Union. This is something no body Of
individuals in this land has any right
to do. The effects Of just such at
tempts in Pennsylvania have been fire.
quent murders, untold misery to hum
dreds of poor people and poverty and
distress % the miners themselves.
The relations Of labor and capital in
this country are intimate; each leans
upon the other and each is helpless
without the other. But capital always
has this advantage: 1t can Withdraw to
other fields or suspend its operations
when the distractions placed in It's
way are too hard or degrading to bear.
One white man who behaves HIM
self In this country is just as good
Is another, and the right to
seek and earn an honest liveli-
hood is open alike to all. And so he
who employs laborers is not bound by
any legal or moral obligation to find
out before he employs a man whether
he belongs to q certain order or not.
The course pursued by the Eureka
Miners Union Is about to produce its
results. The Superintend-
snt Of the Richmond Company says in
. card that, before submitting 10 such
dictation, he will close down the work
the property. This will be a severe
blow TO every interest in Eureka. 1t
will hurt the merchant, inc teamster.
the boarding house keeper-everyLody
10 business there. 1t will go further.
No capitalists will wen 50 to look at
property with a view Of purchasing in
! district where labor imposes such
penalties upon capital. The result will
be the miners themselves, II they pur-
sue their present course. will have to
ind q nav field for their energies. The
best way in the world is tor men to do
~ they would be dome by. Those
miners would think it very hard il they
we're compelled to buy goods at a par.
house, to board at n certain
place, to read u certain newspaper, or
Join . csrtain church. These men
what they would not submit
from another, and what will not be
to from Them" ~