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THE VICIOUS ELEMENT on Tor,
Cincinnati Gazette

the realization of all this weak sacrifice
shall come, the workingmen will he
ashamed Of their folly that accepted their
worst enemies as leaders, and of their
weakness that stood by as helpless as
sheep, and let few roughs drive them
from their subsistence.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
buffalo Courier
Given the presence of a curious crowd,
a Parcel Of halfgrown Young miscreants,
the cover of darkness. and body of men
in uniform as 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 duarrels 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 real rioters. Such
victims die as the fool deth. Their fate
suggests only this question What
brought them there?
BOTH WERE WRONG,
Pittsburgh Commercials Gazette
The reduction of wages was made with,
out consulting the wUrkmcn. and the
strike without consulting the officers of
the roads. Both were wrong. Nor can
matters be set right by The strikers de-
claring that property shall not be moved
till their demands are met, any more
than under the demand Of the railroad
officials that there shall I've absolute sub
nilsson to their demands. We are not.
in this, discussing the right or wrong of
either party--that is matter by Itself,
to be hereafter considered. Now; the
community wants Veace. 1t has right
to demand it. Neither party can stand
in the way of this demand. If the strikers
continue their course, public opprobrium
will fall on them, and 80 Of the others.
We must have peace at all hazards,
MUer NE QlEILED 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 90 auelled, as it will be when the
law has been vipdicated when the pro-
meters of needless suffering have been
made to share that suffering, and bust.
ness rcvives from an attack long assured,
every activity will awaken and the
country will make a great advance. All
the discussions which view the railway
riots to-day as ordinary disturbances over
look an important and the gravest factor
There may be sympathy Tor those who
are misIed and those who are killed
under mistaken ideas participating in a
great wrong. That sympathy is first
challenged Tor the nation, whose indus
tries are nipped while in the flower; for
the hundreds of thousands whose liveli
hood is les5ened or destroyed and for
the good which being in hand, assured and
great, is being sacrificed to a spirit like
that which hurt France more than the
war with Germany, and by methods
which unnuelled make Republican gov.
eminent farce,
LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR THE RAILROADS.
memphis iAppeal
The merchants If the COUnti y owe nut
It'll, sympathy to the great railroad cor
pOratiOns now wrestling with the poor
laboring men, rendered desperate by their
necessities, their abject poverty and the
erie. of their starving children for bread.
When they recall the FREQUENT Nuctua-
tions III ileighl., 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 domineering spirit OF ownership
which asserts itself rs the men who
labor for them, as in the case
OF anderbilt's my" laborers.
Mobile Regist'rj
SYMPATHY Ar MOBILE.
When the industrious plebeians Of the
north. freed from the soul slavery in
which their masters have 50 long debased
them, will seek in the rich and hospitable
cline Of the south a place of rest and
plenty, let them Re welcome amongst us
~ suffering brothers escaped from their
persecution as our own slaves, when
fleeing from our mild rule, sOught--but
sought IN vaii--a heaven Of peace
amongst them.
RICH CORPORATIONS
lrirtsEu.g Herald
It il hard to get up feeling for til,
rich corporations who pay their presi
dents, vice-prcsidents, managers, super
intendents, etc, immense salaries. an,
who attempt to cut down the alread,
pitilul amount paid to the labOrers to
still smaller sum. Some OF the official
on these railroads get as much as lift
thousands dollars year, and oil OF til
higher officials get salaries out Of al
proportion to the wages paid those VIII
do all the hard work,
THE BoYs IN GRAY READY.
Richmond Enquirer
Let the president issue his call, an
promptly the gray will stand shoulder t
shoulder with the blue, an impenetrabl
bulwark against which mob violence an
communism will dash in vain. He wi
find that the veterans of Manassas an
Gettysburg still remember that the fir
duty OF a soldier is implicit Obedienc
toorders." With such men their persons
prejudice will weigh as nothing againa
the word of command. Friends an
foes must suffer alike from their bullet
or bayonets if the emergency so requires
We at first gave to the strikers on tn
b iltimOre and Ohio warm sympathy
They have suffered grievously. But TIT
reparation and relief they GEEK can nevet