St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-12
SEES A REVOLUTION.
The New York Post Assumes to
speak for Business Men.

NEW YORK, March 1.-The following
editorial from the Evening Post on the
Southwestern strike is said by business
men of the city to represent their opinions:
The statements published by Receiver
Brown OF the Texas Pacific and
Vice President Hoxie of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, which, owing to the nature of
the demands made upon them by the knights
of Labor, are very significant, because SYM
| tomato of the condition of industry and So
ciety everywhere. There are very few en-
| ployes of labor, whether individual or COR
| porate, who are not lying awaee nights think
| ing Of what Is going on in Texas and Missouri.
There are no intelligent persons, whether
employees or employers, who are not looking
with anxiety for all the news from that quar-
ter and trying to form some idea of what the
end will be. There are those who believe
that a Socialist revolution Is and has been
for long time impending. Although the
avowed Socialists are an extremely small
part of even the most densely populated
cities, the belief is entertained by careful
| observers that their ideas are spreading
AMONG THE TRADES UNIONS,
which have been for the most part their
avowed opponents hitherto. and that if some
great strike or convulsion of industry should
result disastrously to the strikers the main
body would adopt the creed of socialism for
better or for worse. Socialism has a great
/ many queer faiths, but division of property
- dI tue DOtlOu OF IntIn Ill. IulS slR0lQeS
the overturn of law ana the temporary stop
page of civilization. We say temporary, be-
/ cause after any possible social disturbance
| the worst conceivable society must right it.
| self somehow. In the first two years of the
| French revolution those who called them
selves ''the people" employed themselves in
butchering the aristOcratS, snd the next SIX
| years in butchering each other. But the re-
| suit proved that anarchy could not last for
ever. If there is such coming evil it is quite
| useless to run away from it. The supporters
| of law and and order, whether capitalists or
not, ought to and must put themselves in
readiness to meet il, and instead of compro-
missing law and yielding here a point and
there point of authority and majesty, they
should make firm stand on the nrst well-de-
| fined issue that presents itself. The Texas
Pacific case appears to be such an issue. The
| statement of Receiver Brown is to be taken
as sure one until proven otherwise by some
| thing better entitled to credence than the out
burstings OF street rabble. The Texas Pa
| cific road is
| ABANKRUPT CORPORATION.
1t was built in advance of any real need for
/ il. By a real need is meant such q need as
would enable its operation in the country ad-
/ jaceut and tributary to il to pay running eX-
penses and fair rate of interest on the cap
/ ital employed. The indispensable condition
of successful industry was wanting. 1t was
accordingly taken possession of by the officers
/ of the law, of whom Receiver Brown is one
/ ian inferior one), to be made the most of in
the interest of Its creditors. Its creditors, in
/ the order of preference, are: First, its en-
/ ployes; second, those who furnish its needed
/ supplies: and third, those who have loaned
/ money TO build il. OF the seven propositions
| submitted by the Knights ofoLabOr to the re-
| ceiver for his signature, all but one are of
/ kind which he had no authority TO sign or
agree to, because his position was that of a
/ subordinate officer of the law. He refused to
| sign and the Knights of Labor struck. In Or
/ der to make this strike more effective, they
struck on the Missouri Pacific and its leased
/ lines. This was
| THE LARGEST BOYCOTT
| that the country has yet seen. 1t boycotts
not only the Missouri Pacific system, but to a
| large extent the states of Texas, Arkansas
/ and Missouri. There are probably more
workingmen in the city of st. Louis alone
/ than the whole number of bOycotters in the
/ Gould Southwestern system. The question
now is whether Receiver Brown and Vice
| President HOxie will stand firm until public
| opinion is aroused by the oucOming of misery
/ TO assert the majesty and authority of the
/ law. \ telegram from Fort Worth Tex.
i says that the Farmers alliance is in sympathy
i with the strikers and will join them in pOliti-
/ cal steps to control the state. This is not at
| all unlikely. The farmer has been so ac-
/ customed to look upon corporations as his
/ enemy that he will naturally join forces with
! any other enemy who comes in sight. Yet
/
/ the farmers interests require speedy and un-
/ interrupted railway transportation. More
/ over. in the long run, he will find that to
/ whatever extent the artesan class get more
/ than
| A FAIR SHARE
/ of the aggregate earnings Of the nation,
more than the share which free competition
| would yield, it must come out of agriculture.
/ There is no other source from which ii can
| come. Still, the farmer will probably side
with ''organized labor" in the beginning. If
Receiver Brown yields to the demands pre-
sented TO him he must begin by asking the
court, whose officer he is, for permission to
sign paper which is virtual abdication of
his office. If Vice President HoXie's state
ment is true, unless there has been some re-
cent change in the practice of law, no yield
ing on his part would affect the status of the
Texas Pacific in any degree. 1t would seem,
| therefore, that no case could be imagined
upon which the supporters of law and order
could take firmer stand or where the neces-
| sity of their doing so could be more impera-
tive, let the constituencies be what they may.