The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-06-03


The little trouble at the Wayne
county CO., coal mine has been SC
promptly met by the State militia
that it does not promise to be much
greater. The story is short one
The proprietors Of the Silver Greek
Mine proposed to employ ,colored
miners from Virginia. So they
brought about 200 Iaborers Of that
complexion to the mine and set them
to work The aggrieved white men
of the neighborhood held meeting,
and voted to drive these sable miners
away. Could there be anything more
absurd? anything more wicked? any
thing more brutal? The owners had
a perfect moral and legal right to Sc
lect their employees. The persons Sc
lected had an equal right to accept
the proposal. There is absolutely no
body in the wrong except the white
workmen, who are all wrong. It
does seem strange that men of COM
mon sense and ordinary conscience
can be so deluded. They claim what
they are unwilling to concede. They
assume to act with perfect indepene
.ence, regardless of the interest of OF
ers. Yet they refuse to those othe :,
the privilege of emf Toying whom thu
please and Of paying them what the
please. They do not or will not Sc
if they have right to look afteSS
their own interests, every other marc
be he employer or laborer, has RICH,
to look after his also. Instead Of
conceding this, as logically as he must
the artisan who wants all that he cal
get, assumes that he is entitled t.
more than his employer sees fit t
pay him; and that the employer has
no right to look to cl eaper market:
for labor, which is as much com
modify as iron or cotton. Going fur
ther still, he also claims that nobod,
has a right to work for less than som
CLIQUE or association has declared t.
be fit and proper, and il anybody ap
pears who is willing to do so, he pro
ceeds to break that offenders head, O
to shoot him from behind fence, o
to burn his house, or otherwise t.
damage him or his wife or his chill
dren.
Tyranny is tyranny, whoever ma,
exercise it; and if man cannot enjo,
his personal freedom in working fo
whom and for what he likes, h
might just as well be a serf unde
some autocrat as a citizen of th
United States. These despotic pei
sons show an ability to take care 0
themselves! Let them loaf, or labor
as to their proud souls may seem best
But we deny their right to coerc
their fellowmen into following thei
right to maltreat and impoverish col
ored persons, who are specially guard
ed against such cruelty by a provisio
Of the Constitution of the Unite
States. Until they have. succeeded i
amending the Amendment, do not le
them undertake to dictate to the
fellow-creatures, and to compel ther
to be idle against their will.
These ardent souls have mistake
the persons whom they should try t
coerce. They should mob the Legis
latures. They should hang the judges
They should exterminate the militi;
They should abolish the sheriffs. The
should tear down the jails. And hay
ing done all this, they should decla1
not an equal division Of property, fo
that would be great mistake. Wha
they want is such a readjustment c
the present arrangements that the
shall be rich and everybody else poo
This is evidently their cardinal notion
For this did Kearney howl. For tn
did his sympathizers in this city NEE
and speechify and resolve. For tn
are these wonderful reformers strug
Cling And this, we take it, is pr
cisely what they will not get.