The Osceola times., 1877-08-04
TIE GREAT INSURRECTION.

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The GREAT INSURRECTION.
| Com snsentn. Suggestions. PROPHECIES, Nor
| niis,ng and Diagnosing by the Press
of the Country on the Reign
| OF Terror.
| brooklyn Eagle.
: QUESTION or FORCE AGAINST FORTE
1t is not a question now either of right
or wrong. 1t will become that hereafter
1t is now a question of force against
force. Capital has called on authority.
Law has been invoked by business, to
display its tnunders. The organized
military has been set against the organ
lied strikers. A new vocation has been
created, the one OF duressing mutinous
labor. If the case of the strikers was a
hard one, there is evidence enough that
there were hundreds oil thousands in
herde, lot. The places they threw up
because they were earning little, are
sought for, ten seekers TO one place, by
those who were earning nothing. II is
against the most distressed of their
brethren in straits that the strikers fee!
more anger now than anybody else. The
men who have thrown up work for poor
pay do not want to kill the men who paid
them so little, as they think, half SO
eagerly as they want to kill them who
are glad to get work at any price. Their
first quarrel was against capital. They
are now warning on as much of pauper-
ism as sees a chance to get living by
labor. The rest of pauperism, especially
the vicious part of it, is allying itself
with the crime that is meditatng raids
on society in its dives, its cutters and
boosting kens
AN INsURRECTtoN, NOT A STRIKE.
New York H. rald.)
The men who are blockading roads,
burning cars, attacking troops, breaking
open and sacking shops, throwing stones
into moving trains, are not strikers; they
are rioters; it il not strike, but an in
surrection, and it has not hope of suc-
cess. 1t may still further cripple the
railroad companies and disable them
from paying fair wages, it may put the
public TO great inconvenience, loss and
expense; but it will be crushed out; and
when tine dicomes, after all the disgrace
such anarchical attempts bring upon
the country and upon the workmen,
what good will have been accomplished?
QUEER SHARING OF GOODS"
New York World
save in the matter OF light and fire,
which Just at the present are not crying
necessities with. the poor of Pjttsburg, it
is difficult to see how the wholesale bum
ing OF property can be looked upon as a
sharing OF the goods OF the rich with the
poor. IT is only a man who believes
with Jack CaGe that the three. hoeped
pot should have seven hoops" who can
be brought IN suppose that destruction is
distribution, as TO these distinguishe but
anonymous lnternationalists il seems
to be.
THE STRIKERS PLAYING WITH FIIB.
| Detroit rost.l
This violence and riot brings the CON-
munity and the rioters face TO face. If
the spirit which is now rampant among
railroad employees shall win victory, ii
will be at the expense of the prosperity
of the country. No country can thrive
when property is at the mercy Of lawlcss
ness and mob violence. Such acts as
disgrace the country to-day are the same
in spirit and character rs those which
make Mexico and South American re-
pubiics so contemp.ibly weak. 1t makes
no difference to property owners, or those
who are ambitious TO own property,
whether their property is liable to
destruction at the hands of revolutionary
politicians or revolutionary labor leagues.
All countries where property is at the
mercy of mob law go down into the gull
of destruction, and there is no help TOR
them If reckless men can thus imperil
railroad property at a moments warning,
they are fast bringing the country TO y
condition where people will not build
and run railroads, or will do it under a
make short work with such anarchy
That will mean different sort of country
and government from what We have at
present. 1t will mean some sort of gov
ernment that does not depend upon the
votes OF the mass of people cut of which
such mobs are engendered. This means
a separation of society into classes, the
degradation of the laboring classes, and a
deprivation of opportunities to rise iu
the social scale. 1t means, In short, a
conversion of the America which is the
favored home OF the working classes into
an America which will no longer enjoy
that distinction. These strikers are
playing with fire, and sooner or latel
they will burn the roofs over their owl
heads unless they blow out their torches
| SIMPLY OUTLAWS.
| Cleveland Herali)
As for the men who defy the law, re
sist its officers, wantonly burn and destroy
property, and to threats and violence ado
arson, robbery and murder, they arr
simply outlaws, and should be treated Il,
such. 1t is monstrous that the business
of the whole country should be paralyzed
travel stopped, the mails impeded, cite,
given over to a reckless and murderou,
rabble, and the power Of half dozer
states and of the national government de
fed by mob of rioters The nation i
dsgraced by such proceedings as those a
Pittsburg, Reading, Baltimore and othei
places where the mob have had theil
sway. Society will be in peril unles