Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-08-04

there is stOppage of movement which
Will bring immediate distress FOR 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 as leaders, and of their
weakness that stood by as helpless as
sheep, and let few roughs drive them
from theif subsistence.
HOW 1T 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 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 real rioters. Such
victims die as the fool dieth. Their fate
suggests only this question What
brought them there?
BOTH WERE WRONG.
pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.)
The reduction of wages was made with.
out consulting the workmen, 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 he 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 It has a right
to demand it. Neither party can stand
in the way of this demand. II the strikers
continue their course, public opprobrium
will fall on them, and so Of the Others.
We must have peace at all hazards.
"MUsT BE QUELLED AT WHATEVER
PRICE"
philadelphia North American.)
Such violence must be met by the logic
of force must be quelled at whatever
price. When this organized revolt has
been SO quelled, as it will be; when the
law has been vindicated when the pro.
moters of needless suffering have been
made to share that suffering, and busi.
ness rcYiyes from an attack long assured,
every activity will awaken and the
country will make great advance. All
the discussions which view the railway
riots to-day as ordinary disturbances over,
look an important and the grayest factor.
There may be sympathy for those who
are misled and those who are killed
under mistaken ideas participating in
great wrong. That sympathy is first
challenged for the nation, whose indus
tries are nipped while in the flower; for
tie 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 a 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 IAppeal.)
The merchants of the country owe but
little sympathy to the great railroad cor
poratiOns now wrestling with the poor
laboring men, 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
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