Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-09-05
Lesson OF the Strike.

Colonel Thomas A. Scott, the railroad
king of the Pennsylvania Central and it,
vast combinations, has an able article in the
last North American RerieD, wherein hi
sets forth the peril involved, and endeavor'
to point out the remedy. lie says the recent
insurrection which extended through fonr
teen states, and in many cases successfully
defed the local authorities, presents state
of facts almost as serious as that which pre-
vailed at the outbreak of the civil war
Unless our own experience is to differ en-
Lirely from other countries-and il is not
easy to see why it should with the increas
ing population of our large cities and bust
ness centers, and the inevitable assemblage
at such points of the vicious and evil-dis-
posed-the late troubles may be but the
prelude TO other manifestations of mob VIC
lence, with this added peril, that now, fol
the first time in American history, has an
organized mob learned its power to terrorize
the law-abiding citizens of great commune
ties" The present laws for suppressing
outbreaks, he says, all unintehtionally favor
the rioters and the mob. A swift, sure and
crushing blow at the beginning will suppress
yond all control by local authorities. Al
present the mayor of the city and the county
sheriff must first exhaust their power these
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