The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-09-04
The EASTERN LABOR RIOTS.

THE EASTERN LABOR RIOTS.
That Is an unfortunate labor wal up in
Ohio and Pennsylvania just nj present,
\ state of affairs where the troops have
H. bc thrown against the poor, toiling
masses, speaks a savagc criticism upon
somebody. Undoubtedly the enemies
ofDemocracy will tryt to make capital out
of these troubles and Gov. HoApL EY'S
action IN the premises, but it will be cap
ital manufactured out of IN executives
stern discharge of duty.
Strii,.rs have no right to engage in the
destruction of b.roperty, or to beat and
murder other men who are willing to
take their places. When possessed of
an honest grievance and bearing it not
riotously, nor aggressively, they ought
to have the active sympathy OF every
eenerous-hearted man and IN But
when they go further and kill and burn
and destroy and say none but themselves
shall work, the strong arm of the law
must oppose them by such force AS is
necessary.
GOV. H6ApLEY has acted with com.
mendable spirit in surveying the field IN
person, and his consequent dispatch OF
state troops to the scene Of action. was
doubtless both timely and wise. He
should be honored for maintai ming the
peace against mobs and rioters.
But those poor, miserable miners
have much to a~ggravate them, much
that can be set down IN eXtenuation
To see the scum, the real, human YER.
min of Europe brought over under &
bonded slavery and placed in theil
places at prices that would hardly
daily, buy Il dogs food, and they and
their families turned out to starve, is
raSping.
1t is a suspicion more than probable
that the operators, the bosses, having
contracted for a villainous assortment
of these Hungarians and Swedes, them
selves p~recipitate the strike of the hon.
est American laborers by cutting rates
then when tho latter, in a fit of natural
| indignation at seeing themselves be-
trayed by a base trick, raise a hand
against the imported solutions, they are
grabbed by the strong arms of capital
and military power and thrown into
prison pens.
A fearful r%etribution must be visited
upon the party in power in permitting
labor, native labor, To reach so desperate
a pass. Have the Republicans at any
time within the past twenty years
when they could have done so, ever
moved a step towards restricting or pre-
venting the introduction of the pauper
labor of Europe, the importation OF
which is the chief cause Of the strikes,
riots and restitution to-day, among
American born laborers?
If the great mass of the people en-
joyed any benefits from this reduction
in the wages of labor and the substitu-
ton of foreign slaves, there would be
some excuse, but the -PriSss>of fuel and
manufactured articles remain the same.
Thousands of American workingmen
are thrown out of work, not to benefit
the general public, but merely to feed
the greed Of the employer and manu-
f%acturer, whose profits are doubled by
halving the pay of labor.
Against the honest, healthy, poor
foreigner who comes here on his own
money to identify himself with the
country as a citizen, no man can have
,unbt ~ COW LOT him coma and lat him
enjoy all the privileges and profits ;of
citizenship. 1t is against the herds of
diseased, filthy paupers, who
come on the money advanced them
by corporations, and to pay back
which they bind themselves to long
slavey fer the company, who breed pes
thence and know neither decency or vir-
tue and form a physical and moral nuis-
ance where they ATE located, that we in
sist should bo kept from the land alto
gether. These are the people who are
driving out respectable labor and aus
ing %bloodshed to-day in Ohio and Penn
s~ylvania. The company to which
BLAINE belongs has been introducing
this labor by importation into West
Virginia. Let Europe support its wi
paupers as we now compel China to keep
its Coolies.
Why should the Pacific slope be pro-
tected against Chinese vermin and the
slope be left to the tender mer-
cies Of an unlimited importation of
bonded slaves from Europe? Is this a
iusf broad impartia1 Governmental
policy? The Democratic party emphati-
cally answer in the negative and in the
present campaign il is of its grand
purposes to protect eastern labor from
Europe, as Pacific coast labor is guarded
Asia. The w%orkingmen, If true
to their best interests, ought to pray for
the fastening OF the time when Demo-
policies and protection shall pre-
vail at Washington.