Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-02
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FEARFUL RESULTS OF SOCIALISM.
THE TROUBLES NOT YET ENDED.

We devoted much space last week to the
troubles in the North and West, which have
their origin in strike by the employees of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and rapidly ex-
tended over other lines of thoroughfare, until
business was interrupted on nearly every rail-
road in the whole section of the Union, ex-
tending from Mason and Dixon's line to the
Lakes.
Aside from the loss of life and destruction
of millions of dollars worth of property, all
departments of business are suffering, while
the provision markets in the cities are already
seriously affected. In New York the fear
was expressed last Thursday that if the con.
dtion of affairs did not soon improve, the
city would be without meat. For want of
transportation all other branches of business
are affected in the same manner-esp especially
the grocery, metal, hide, leather and wool
trades. While public feeling is feverish in
New York, there is a general conviction in
the city that the police and military authori.
ties are fully strong enough to quell any at
tempt to repeat the disorders there which have
been attended with such disastrous conse-
quences elsewhere.
There is greater cause of apprehension at
the seat of government, perhaps, than at any
other point. When Governor Matthews, of
West Virginia, applied to the President for
Federal troops to suppress the mob at Mar
tinsburg, to the great credit of the Chief Ex-
ecutive, he was slow TO act-preferring first
to be perfectly satisfied in his own mind that
such Intervention was warranted by the cir.
cumstances, as we'll as having full and free
conference with the members of his Cabinet
on the subject. On receipt of the second tel
egram from Governor Matthews, urging the
President to order troops to the scene of con-
fusion, the local authorities being powerless
to put down the disorder, the necessary Or
ders were given, and with what results our
readers are already familiar. But after the
strike assumed such extensive proportions, it
was ominiously telegraphed from Washing
ton that while the Government authorities
were sending troops hither and thither, they
were really keeping them as near to the city
as possible, the object being to protect Govern
ment property, and especially to guard the
treasury building against the attack Of the
mob. There was doubtless, and still may be-,
reason for this precaution, although the orig
inal strikers themselves profess to condemn
the destruction of property or other wanton
acts which have already rendered this out
break memorable.
Special meetings of the Cabinet, with d.
rect reference to the troubles, have been held,
and it is noticed in Washington that the off,
cials are more embarrassed than they are vii.
ling to admit. From the beginning Secretary
Sherman urged the immediate convening Of
Congress for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration the troubles and devising by ma
tional legislation a remedy therefor.
The strike has reached the BORDER States," !"
as we were wont to call them during the other
little unpleasantness but as yet, we are hap
py to say the railroad operatives In the At
iantic States have manifested no sympathy in
the movement, and it is not thought that they
will. Indeed, such is the love of order, and
so deep is the reverence for constituted au-
thority in the South, that we think the pro-
clamations heretofore issued by the President,
warning the strikers in the Northern States,
will have all needed influence in restraining
Southern men, even granting that they other.
wise would have foolishly entered into the
combination. President Arthur, of the Lo-
comotive Brotherhood, which organization
extends throughout the country, and is sup.
posed to include nine.tenths Of the railroad
operatives in the Union, declares that the
Brotherhood as an organization is not con-
nected with this strike, and his advice has
been not to jeoparadize theis lives nor COM
promise their manhood by joining in with it.
He says the Brotherhood sympathize with
the strikers, but not with the communistic
principles that the strike has developed,
We condense below the leading incidents
of the strike that have occurred since the ex-
citing scenes at Pittsburg, detailed in the En-
QuIRER last week,
At Louisville, Kentucky, on the oath, the
attempt to hold meeting to pacify the work.
ingmen was failure. Two thousand assem-
bled, but nothing formal whatever was acted
upon. There were many boys and negroes
present, and the crowd threw stones into win
dows and broke street lamps as they proceed