The Osceola times., 1877-08-04

such lawlessness is Suppressed promptly
and those melting and participating In II
are severely punished. 1t is not now a
question Of wages, but of the common
safety. 1t is not an issue between rail-
road companies and employees, but be-
tween order and anarchy.
THE VICIOUS ELEMENT ON TOP.
Cincinnati Gsze,te)
As 1t is here, 40 everywhere; the idle,
vicious and criminal elements are on top
They have subdued the workiDgmen
These everywhere stand impetently by
and sec the subsistence of their families
taken from them. All over the country
there il a stoppage of movement which
will bring immediate distress Cor food
on the whole population, besides the
monetary disturbance which will greatly
increase the distress of business men and
of all classes. As soon as reflection and
the realization OF all this weak sacrifice
! shall come, the workingmen will be
ashamed of their folly that accepted their
worst enemies rs leaders, and of their
weakness that stood by as helpless as
sheep, and let few roughs drive them
IfOHi tueiT suDslstcuce.
HOW 1T HAPPENED,
buffalo Courier
Given the presence of curious crowd,
a parcel OF halfgrown young miscreants,
the cover OF darkness. and body of men
in uniform as a convenient mark for the
missiles most pavements afford, there is
nothing to hinder a street conflict, at
tended with more or less serious results.
From all accounts yet received the Balti-
more riot was an affair of this unpremed-
itated description. The pity of it is that
when the military are goaded into using
their arms, the victims are nearly
always persons who had no quarrels with
the troops, and merely kept with the
crowd to see what would happen next.
But their presence helped to swell the
mob and encourage the feal rioters. Such
victims die as the fool dieth. Their fate
suggests only this question What
brought them there?
BOTH WERE WRONG.
pittsburgh Commercial Gazetie)
The reduction of wages was made with.
out consulting the workmcn, and the
strike without consulting the officers of
the roads. Both were wrong. Nor can
matters BE set right by the strikers de-
Glazing that property shall not be moved
till their demands are met, any more
than under the demand of the railroad
officials that there shall be absolute sub
nilsson to their demands. We are not.
in this, discussing the right or wrong of
either party--that is a matter by itself,
to be hereafter considered Now, the
community wants peace. 1t has right
To demand it. Neither party can stand
in the way of this demand. II the strikers
continue their course, public opprobrum
will fall on them, and so of the Others.
We must have peace at all hazards.
"MUsT Re QUELLED AT WHATEVER
PRICE"
(Philadelphia North American)
Such violence must be met by the logic
of force must b, quelled at whatever
price. When this organized revolt has
been 30 quelled, as it will be !; when the
law has been vindicated; when the pro-
meters of needless suffering have been
made to share that suffering, aud bust.
ness revives from an attack long assured,
every activity will awaken and the
country will make great advance. All
the discussions which view the railway
riots today as ordinary disturbances over
look an important and the gravest factor
There may be sympathy for those who
are misled and those who are killed
under mistaken ideas participating in a
great wrong. That sympathy is first
challenged for the nation, whose indus
tries are nipped while in the flower; for
the hundreds of thousands whose liveli
hood is lessened or destroyed, and for
the good which being in hand, assured and
great, is being sacrificed to spirit like
that which hurt France more than the
war with Germany, and by methods
which unquelled make Republican gov
eminent farce.
LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR THE RAILROADS.
memphis 1Appeal)
The merchants of the country owe but
little sympathy to the great railroad cor.
porations now wrestling with tho poor
laboring nen, rendered desperate by their
necessities, their abject poverty and the
cries of their starving children for bread.
When they recall the frequent fuctua-
tions in freights, the delays and want OF
accommodation they will not be apt to
shed many tears over losses that are the
legitimate fruits of bad management
and a domineering spirit of ownership
which asserts itself as the men who
labor for them, as in the case
of Vanderbilt's "mv" laborers.
Mobile Regist r)
SYMPATHY AT MOBILE.
When the industrious plebeians of the
north, freed from the soul slavery in
which their masters have 20 long debascd
them, will seek in the rich and hospitab'e
cline of the south a place of rest and
plenty, let them Re welcome amongst us
as suffering brothers escaped from theil
perst cution as our own slaves, when
fleeing from our mild rule, sought-bu,
sought in vain--a heaven Of peace
amongst them.
"RICH CORPORATIONS"
(vicksburg Herald
1t is hard to get up feeling for the
rich corporations who pay their presi
dents, presidents, managers, super
intendents, etc, immense salaries, anC
who attempt to cut down the alread,
pitiful amount paid to the laborers to
still smaller sum. Some OF the official
on these railroads get as much as .fft,
thousands dollars year, and all of th'
higher officials get salaries out Of al
proportion to the wages paid those wh'
do all the hard work.
THE BoYs IN GRAY READY.
Richmond Enquirer