The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1877-08-01

! gines, cars, depots, machine shops
collect in masses along Railroad lines, in
timidatc men who will work, stop trains
and traffic, draw into their bands the des.
\ paradoes, cut-throats, thieves, and murder
ers that hover around cities, who are only
4 stopped from rapine, bloodshed and pill
lage, by an overpowering physical force.
31If friendship to the laborer consists in
sanctioning such acts, then we do not ex.
|ercise it, IA ~
4 We have never by speech or pen denied
4 the right Of the Railroad or any other
company employee to ssr q, if they saw
I I fit; nor can any one possessed Of even a
smattering Of common sense, draw any
such inference from what we have writtea.
i Laborers can strike and refuse to per.
form further service if they choose, as
4 they can will, fropriety and under the
!, law. But what we denounce now, and all
4 we did in any of our writings, was not
4 the mere strike or refusal Of men to work
for such wages asthey conclude they cam
not afford
We said in another article, than the one
referred to, that,
It is not a commendable characteristic
4 BY any means, of American citizens, this
4 uprising, and engaging IN acts of outkaw-
4 1y, murder, pt1lagi1g and destruction Of
property, : "the very essence,
LOT our government, is obedience to the
flaws, and protection to the lives, liberty,
and property Of its citizens This unpar-
allelled fendish conduct is the outburst
OF depraved, laWless and ;abandoneds
wretches, who are lost and blind to the
better and humane instincts and prompt:
ings of a good heart. But one way has
ever proved effective in these riots, when
| men are crageA and infursated with the
|hellish passions that rankle in demons
breast. = + + That way is what
young Napoleon adopted to quell the mad
| spirit iii Paris -G Grape and Cdnister..''
It's the riotous conduct that follows,
that then, and we still denounce, If you,
Mr. Critic, who ever you are, can
| find one word or line wherein we de-
lnY the right of men to quit employers
when they choose, Or in other words,
strike, your obsuse noddle is more fertile
In Imagination than your effort ut criti-
Ecishl is of common sense
If your ideas Of propriety permits you
TO meddle with that that is none Of your,
business. do not In your great anxiety to-
lbring yourself before the public, distort
truth and by false inferences attempt to
prejudice people against those who never
I have given -you cause for a senseless and
unwarrantable interference.
Men never lose anything by minding
:Itheir own business, and If 9 public jour
1nal states untruths and advocate measures
/ ]rspugnant to right and prevailing senti-
ment, it is only responsible to the public,
and not to the !snarls Of an individual ego
tist or blow-hard who spends his time in
isenseless gossip, and in parading his un-
called for -bombast .before any who will
listen. .l 5s5 s. 5s.9s III .;5f q
@ Whatever feeble effort we make in re-
viewing the exciting occurrences of the
day. we shall cndeaFor to keep within the
limits Of truthful statements, if they are
not expressed in as appropriate language
as writer's of superior skill can command.
The public is onr tribunal to Judge Of
that, and individual opinions are perfect
/ ly indifferent to US, whatever their source
"a Not when we are found approving such
deeds as have blackened the page of
l|Amcrican history within the past week,
1then we shall expect 70 be the target, not
only Of weak and selfconstituted carpers,
hut of strong, vigorous and able reason
ers, and entitled to the condemnation Of
] all law abiding citizens
Let men ctamor about low wages, and
strike for that reason, we have no censure
thus far; but when under the pretense of
depression, they go farther, and become
bandits, robbers, incendiaries and mur-
8Ederers, then we say, if they will not stop
without, use whatever force is necessary /;
for such outlaws, v hateye may have been
1.-The ORIGINAL Cause of their asssmbling,
when they inaugurate reign of tyranny
and run rampant with their hellish deeds,
4 deserve a worse and more lingering death
than Grape and Canister brings.
Talk about an s.lrrepressible conflict be-
tween; Labor and Capital Shades Of
/ .Sss.sardi s had the lamented Secretary and
Statesman lived to see his words murder
I ed BY such an application it would occa-
sion him lifelong regret that he had
4 ever uttered them. Better before borrow
] ing these terms, see whether they fit your
case, Tor there is q world of meaning in
that word .'irrepressible.' AS Mr.. Critic
/ has. applied it, where will his logic end
or bring him, when he produces his de-
4 ductiOns.
81 Is ii possible, iiias one wsiio has
i fully studied the course Of events during
the last few years, can not deny that be-
tween Labor and Capital exists war that
win never end conflict that will never
j ceaseY Tell us how one can exist with
| out the others Destroy capital and all
wealth, where is your demand for labor,
i End labor and 10 esis:.sl Of wealth can
be attained or accumulated.
i If the war or conflict Is airrepressible, =
then the careful student Of events, above