New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-30
NEw-YoRK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY 80 1873

posits in savings banks than there are families,
this sort OF talk about slavery worse than
death is singularly impudent.
What is it that this man wants, or processes
to wantf His crusade has a pretended object,
at least, and be may take warning that the
press of the East will be sure TO make him
accurately known TO the people of the East,
by printing what he has to say for himself
This is the whole of his declaration OF pur-
poses and principles at BOstOn
Our war ia death monopoly, death to deoased cap
ital death to Monaghan slavery well as African or
any other slavery, and death upon death to political
Observation-Disclosures OF all parties. come not
here represent any particular class faction or Ism OF
ereed no nationality but American. come here TO rep
resent and 10 honest workDgmen fighting for their
rights because the flag that honor and have upheld
and will again is to-day n Hunting lie. 1t does not
wave for liberty IL waves protect band OF pirates
We propose to make It again for hberty-the I'D
erty of It's workingmen. We will make this fight by the
alo-that power which in the hands OF free people Is
welded potentially than the sword Of monarchies
1t will occur to all persons who haye not
lost their sensesthat this man is particularly
vague in his impressions. What is "debased
"capital," and why would death for that
sort be more advantageous to the country than
death to any other part of the fund devoted
TO the employment and support of laborT
What has Massachusetts to do with the Chinese
contract system, here called MOngolian slavery
For what rights are honest wOrkingmen IN
Massachusetts, "fghtingo3 They strike when
they please, and the only restraint the State
puts upon them is that they shall not rob
other labor of its rights, by forcing 1t 10
strike when it does not please. The
flag would indeed be ga Haunting lie"
if it did not protect the laborer who
wishes to work against the mob violence OF
men who wish not to work. AS long as it
does that, what sort of liberty" does Kear-
Dey want7 Is it liberty to mob and murder
people who work when he prefers to refuse
Is it liberty TO hang men who hire labOrers
who wish to remain free, and refuse to hire
laborers who surrender their freedom and be-
come the slaves of n trades uniOnf There
is no other "band of pirate" in this country
more detestable, or more deserving OF swift
and stern suppression, than those who attempt,
in the name of labor" TO rob 'laborers of
their night to work freely where they will and
for what wages they will.
All this vague and wild defamation, though
it will unfortunately be treated with contempt
by intelligent and practical people at the East,
ought TO be seriously regarded as one of the
worst systems of the present disorder. Pre-
ciSey in this lies the grave danger-the work
iugmen do not know what they want, and their
best leaders cannot tell them. IL any man can
come forward with a sensible statement OF the
real needs of laboring men, aud of practical
remedies, Re ought to be hailed as a public
To- Ill ha
coined by every intelligent capitalist or labOrer.
But nobody can answer wild rantng Nobody
can meet with reason men who do not know
what they want. nor why they want it. The
most dangerous force in society at present is
the vague notion of laborers that the hardness
of their lot is somehow due, they cannot tell
how, to unjust action or non-action by those
who hold the savings and capital of society,
and that it must, in some blind and incompre-
hensible way, be remedied by oyerturning
things generally. We do not say that all their
ills are beyond remedy by governmental and
social reforms, but very many OF them demon
strably are. Nearly every proposal in the in
terest of working classes has been so absurd
and suicidal that society would have been not
only foolish, but utterly cruel, had IL acted
thereon. The chief agitators either insist upon
some such mischievOus and dishonest schemes,
which, if adopted, would only fasten upon
labor harder lot and greater suffering, or
they rave and rant, in the loose and vague
fashion of Kearney, out of sheer inability TO
state what labor's remediabe evils are, or
how they can be remedied. And it is this
same wanton and reckless ranting, without
study thought or definite and honest purpose,
and barren as the east wind, which makes
this agitation dangerous. 1t is dangero"' to
society, but still more TO workingmca ~
them to demand they know not what.