The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-08-02
STRIKES AND RlOrs.
Public sentiment rs Reelected
by the Press.

1
While a mob in one place utters
! hypocritical calls for bread" mot
in another place burns an elevator
filled with grain Boston Herald.
As soon a. the strikers become a
mob, and join fortunes with the Grim
inai classes who are lying wait for
lust such pretexts TO rebellion, their
grievances count for nothing. -Ros-
ton Advertiser.
The peace must be kept. The state
must not delay TO use its authority.
III UNEQUAL To the occasion, Ii must
not delay to call upon the Federal adj
ministration and the administration
must not delay to act,-Nea York
Encniag Post.
The conflict between railway COM
nanies and strikers, SO far as II Is one
of force, ought to be settled only by
the punishment of law-breakers. Civ
ilized society can have no comprom-
ise with those who make war upon
its freedom of labor, its regularity OF
commerce, its peace, order and SUI
premacy of law.-Ne,c York Tribune.
Every honest and respectable labor
err in the city of Pittshurg is the poorer
To-day. both actually and in prospect,
for the wicked destruction there OF
many millions of property, the ae-
cumulation of past labor, and for the
damage done to the credit of that city
by the exhibition which has been
made Of the feebleness of its local gov
ernment.-N.U York World.
1t il morally impossible that this
- l. afnt
long against the sound judgment and
the right feeling OF the community,
and against those energetic measures
which the authorities Will everywhere
adopt, supported promptly and heart
ily hy every right-minded citizen.
The one duty of upholding the laws
and yindieating at all hazards the
neace and order of the community Is
that which il now before Us, and we
shall see that il is speedily triumphant.
- Boxtan Joraat.
In this conflict the question Of the
grievances of striking firemen and
brakeman has no place. II Is now
purely question of order or anarchy.
The law-ahiding of all parties, OF all
conditions in life, are united on tue
one hand. The criminal and disrep-
u,able GLASSES are the only allies al the
strikers who take the law in their
own hands. The result is as certain
a. sunrise. Recklessness is no match
for organized society, and Is sure to he
defeated, The sooner the better.
sympathy with private wrongs Is out
of place while greater public wrong
i inflicted to redress them. Boston
I1g.rtisef.
AT last the respectable mechanics
are taking steps TO defend themselves
against molestation. At some points
along the line of the roads they have
notified the rioters that they must
not and shall not be interfered with.
Men going to factories and attempting
to turn out the workmen will receive
severe treatment at the hands of the
latter. This is as ii should be. W hat
tyranny can be worse than that OF a
mob which drives Il mechanic from
his work and orders him into the
street. To submit to such dictation IS
to surrender one of mans dearest |
rights. Buffalo Commercial idref- |
fiser.
The Baltimore and Ohio road con- |
tinues to pay 10 per cent dividends,
but il is likely to come down to sper
cent. at no distant day, The Phila-
ielphia. Wilmington and Baltimore
pays 5, the Pennsylvania has come
down from to q, the Erie pays moth |
ing. the New York Central $. Capital
works for nothing, therefore, on the
Erie. and has submitted TO some re-
iuction on the other roads. We think
he Baltimore and Ohio directors
ought to have put the last reduction
IN capital rather than on labor. They
lid not, however, and those employees
who could not submit to the terms
should have contented themselver
with quitting the service and seeking
, more eligible livelihood elsewhere,
Republican.
Outside of railroad men, there is the
gang of irresponsible
characters, thieves, tramps, and Naga-
bonds of the types which have infest-
I'll all American cities since the War.
Thew are under all circumstances
md at all times the arch-enemies of
civilized society. They have seen in
this strike of the railroad men an OPP
TO mix in with the crowd,
start riot, and burn, and plunder,
and pillage. The vagabond of this
class would burn a business block for
the chance of stealing, during the con-
fusion, q suit of clothes or a brass
watch. 1t is against this class that
the vigilance of American cities
should now be exercised until this
labor controversy on the railroads II
settled 1t il these men who go
round and command workingmen in
factories, mills, and machine-shops to
cease work and join the idle throng-
in the streets. The ease illustrate. the
danger To which even honest and
wcll-meaning men are exposed, when
they defy the rights of others and
take law aud justice into their own
hands. The railroad strikers are not
directly answerable for what the
thieves and tramps do, but their eX-
ample has reused the dregs Of society
to instruction until these vagabonds
have hung themselves like milestone
To the neck of the labor movement,
and will do their utmost to drag it
down to utter contempt.-Tereitutd
Leader.