Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-03-10
Homeless Rem dy,
nifty.

Regarding lrOnDles anu interruptions VIZ
the Missouri Pacific Iailio lines, IL may be
that II Ia tho unexpected that Is to happen In
this case, and that n re.ion 30 sequestersd as
Texas Ia to witness strike develop into O
final and exhaustive battle between the con-
II citing demands OF the railroad companies
and their employees. Texas may well wish
TO be spared such spectacle but II me con-
fiict is to take a violent character there may
be something to mitigate aInrm In the re-
lection that the inelde al disasters cannot
DO 30 great in n state like Texas as they
would he II the conflict occurred IN sec
ton with crowded population, great cities
and vast and costly works liable TO
injury. IL would be cause for congratula-
tlon, too, II the conflict could be fought out,
ones for all, nj comparatively small cost
with the effect Of concluslvely establishing
that the strike Is fallacious remedy for the
strikers, not advancing their Interests, but ns
n rule leaving them In worse plight. The
right of railroad work men or other work.
men 10 try the remedy Is not in question.
They have perfect right, singly or In com
binaticn, to demand higher wages or to re-
fuse TO work for lower wsges-in short, a rer-
iect right to decide on what terms they Will
sell their labor. Thus lar the strikers
however numerous, however well organized
md di.c,nliped bo,vever datsrmineda miner
alstent hoWoyer important their labor in its
oras,.nuhIic .snect n. when n ia q vital fac
t,r In ra,Iroad t,afnc. md hoyever rreat the
Inconvenience and lops which their course
,,oy = ,uss IN sreclal intetests and tothe gem
| raj com .nunity-are within their riuht. md
xtthin thu law. Thcy would be slaveA were
,hia nat so. nut when they GO urther. 10
| co.rea other workmen to ioin thee. or Ces, Il
| mr. absta,n from po,h. and when they pro-
oeed To take forcible control OF property
| which does not helong ia ham. thsy nre out
of their right. and out of the law. When
| tbev do this authority cannot nro, erly do
Iess Than To meet their violence with decisive
| force. and the conseryatiyesentim mt of good
| cIt,zena cannot reasonably do less than 10
approys the employmen, against them of nil
necessary measures of repression. Nor con a
str,kers. arler invading the freedom Of others
after putting a tyrann, upon others-yery
we'll COMPLAIN II they themselves were sinh.
iected TO like treatment by any superi,r
power. And when tried even as a sti ictly
peaceful remedy the strike, in the light OF
both experience mud OF calculation. ia
fonnd N he eoually mistaken and honelass
Say hat thousand or II We thousand strikers
stop work Indefinitely on no ground that
.ne pay onere s, ,ns,n Is lhSuhoieht. But
Then ,he,r idlsn,ss in an sconor,Ic sor soy I.
a constant loss of the daily value OF their
labor. Then. again, suprosing that the In
a,snS wn.on 'noy ,. soShaoh rs 70 go on
and in other pursu,ts Or T ~
none at all, are drawn into II and
the totd number looking TO that industry
LOT ,uo ',s'suse - 'rre ponainsly Increased
the vases Of tho ,ahors1s y mns, c.m s,n,
lower or large portl m of them 20 p. rma.
neutly out OF tnat particular employment,
mhsseLer m,sy &c en' .,ue remedy where
tnS,r wages ,nsuti liant tho s,r,sa nSn nna
blusry measure Tor forcing them no. is
domonstrably not that remedy. lts ten.
aehey IL 20 MAKE tne strikers ultimately
ployed IN nny given ,nSas,rv ana pi ma Srn
turblng business, limiting production and
reducing profits, 10 make less the volume OF
oSp,.a SvS,~U.s ,or waves ana The yolome
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