The Labor enquirer., 1883-08-04
DYNAMITE is quoted to-day at 45c.
REPEATING THE DOSE.

REPEATING THE DOSE.
A short time ago the editor Of the
News aired himself in an article abusive
of the Central Labor Union Of New
York, which body, representing a hun
dred thousand workingmen, protested
against opening the Brooklyn bridge on
the queens birthday. He said it was a
presumption on the part of the Labor
Union, and gave his readers to under
stand that men who are compelled to
work for a living have no right to step
out of the trenches and take hand in
the management Of public affairs.
That article was reviewed in these
columns and our readers are familiar
with it, so it is needless to waste time
and space further upon it.
Sycophantic to the hearts core, the
self-constituted bonanza time aristocrat
who blemishes the editorial columns of
the News, seizes the first opportunity to
again pour out his insults upon the men
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moving and could paralyze the country
if they desired. In an issue Of one day
this week appeared an editorial, the first
paragraph of which reads thus:
For unexamped impudence the ad-
dress of the striking telegraph operators
to President Arthur, has no equal in
modern literature.'
The editorial goes on through quar-
ter of column in an attempt to prove
the correctness of that inspired para
graph, and the burden Of the writer's
song is that it was presumption on the
part Of the telegraphers to address such
a document as their memorial TO the
great and august head Of this govern
ment, which belongs not to the people,
but to a gang Of monopolists and thiev
ing politicians.
If the presumption was because the
memorial was addressed to the presi
dent, Chester \, Arthur, must say
fail to see it, If it was because the ad-
dress was presented to the president,
chief executive Of the land, | must own
to dimness of sight If Arthur is so
great and sacred parsonage that he
must not be approached upon matters
which vitality concern the welfare of the
the sooner the people emba,m his sancti-
fed precious carcass and place it with
Corcorans collection, the better.
It the power. of the government is not
to be invoked to settle differences which
may arise in its internal affairs and
threaten its peace and prosperity, then
it is about time to upset its distorted in
stitutions and substitute others which
will confer that right.
The News has said the government
should control the telegraph lines. The
telegraphers ask the same thing. The
latter see the necessity for immediate
action. But then the twelve thousand
operators represented in the memorial
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suggest as the liIliputian giant Of the
"Old Reliable.'
Singular the editor of the News has
nothing to say when the power Of gov
ernment powder and lead is used to
subdue workingmen when they have the
best of monopolies and corporations
There wasn't a word about ''impudence'
or presumption in his writings when
the mine-owners Of Ely, Vermont, me-
morialized, by telegraph, the state gov
ernment, asking for militia to overawe a
few men to whom they owed upwards OF
$4,000 wages,
Such insulting injustice and syco-
phancy as the managemet of the News
allows its. hireling to sbesmirch its col
umns with enthusiastically should be
repudiated by the public, and it will in