The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-10

have directed pubic attention to this
Irish mode of coercion,in remarka-
BILE degree. The Knights of Labor,
or at least an organization claiming
to work under the parent authority
of that pame, has bloomed out AT
Galveston and Houston, and has at
tempted to force itself upon thelpeo-
pie by formal declaration of with
drawal of patronage and further
declaration as 10 an effort to prevent
others from pstronizing those who
have been unfortunate enough to IN
cur the ire of the order. Now. we
wish IL understood in the outset, that
the EXAMINER has no feeling for the
working man other than that of kind
ness and sympathy. Nor do we con-
denim the principle of organization
aud cooperation. That is all right,
where it is done in the interests
OF the working man, aud not of
hangers on aud roustabouts who steal
the livery of honorable labor to serve
the devil in. Organization and CO.
operation are elements of strength
when properly handled, but when the
organizers and co-operators forget
that they are utintegers and not the
sum of all that is interested, and
proceed without reference to the
rights of others concerned, they
place themselves outside of the
pale OF sympathy, and the balance Of
the population will proceed without
reference to their wishes or interests.
No single class of men can run this
country. The capitalists, the rich,
cannot do 1t. The scientific, the
learned or the ignorant, or all to.
gether cannot do it. There is law
of right which is omnipotent. This
law is well understood by all. A
learned man has no more advant-
age before 1t than the ignorant; the
rich have no more edge under it, than
the poor. ALI are upon an exact
and even level. 1t is this: In
order to push my fortunes or
protect my interests 1 have
no right to put to tine hazard, the
rights of any other man or class of
men. If cannot afford to work for
Mr.. Jones for 81 day, | have no
right to prevent my neighbors doing
so, If he elects to do So" All must
come under this broad principle. 1t
must not work In one case and not in
another. 1t must not spply 10 the
rich and not to the poor, to the poor
and not to the rich.
The laborer, If be is agrieved, re-
fuses to work. But it would be a
travesty on justice if he had the
power to say that some other man
should not work. IL he is
agrieved, as under the boy
colt rule now prevailing, he NOT
only will not work himself. or
let anybody else work. but he issues
his order that the merchant shall sell
no goods to the aggressor, shall moi
advertise in the offending newspa-
per, or give nickle to the minister
offending. The Knights Of Labor OF
Houston say to Mr.. Cleveland, you
shall not advertise in the Age, be-
cause it condemned the Galveston
strike; to Judge Goldthwaite, you
must withdraw your professional
card from the Age for the same rea-
SON. The penalty in each case is the
boycott. People are prevented from
trading with this house or pstroniz-
ing that lawyer,not for evil done, but
for a refusal to comply with the edicts
of the order. This will not do.
" Is an unwise policy to make de-
mands which we cannot enforce. If
there are any two men in all broad
Texas, who are practically independ-
ent on this score, we should name
VIM. d. Cleveland and Judge Gold
thw ate. The Nominations against
them are therefore ridiculous and
will bring down upon the heads of
those making 1t, tho rigie condemna-
tion of every honest, fair minded and
right thinking man in the state, be he
iaboreror millionaire. --