The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-10-21
CT. WooDvARp's mastery exposition


law should have its source in confidence
in the law and those who administer it,
and not through fear of those invested
with power, should bring reflection to
all. The school, the home where obedi-
ence is secured through the instrument
tality of the rod, never developes indie
pendent manhood and really blasts the
growth of feelings of moral obligation
and personal accountability. 1t makes
fear the guide of conduct and is fruitful
of all the consequences of cowardice,
distrust and dissatisfaction. The repub-
lican party is practically pledged to coer-
cion of labor under the thin disguise OF
a policy of prompt suppression of riots.
The workman is to be intimidated and
discouraged SO that he will make no pro-
test against any form of OPPRESSION
Labor organizations will be looked upon
as menace s'to law and order" The
laborer is to be kept down by strong
government. This is to be accomplished
By creating alarm because of the riots IN
Milwaukee last May which would now
be consigned to oblivion had the Mayor
of Milwaukee only used the ample means
in his hands to restore order.
Riots are senseless proceedings on the
part of laborers, but they are the result
of that very distrust which the policy OF
the republican party is well calculated to
intensity. The laborer feels he has moth.
ing to appeal to but the brute force OF
numbers and his experience gives en-
phasis to the belief. If he is made tc
feel that the laws do not discriminate
against him, that they are enforced and
interpreted SO as to insure him justice
he will appeal to them and not to force.
The anarchist finds a tool IN the laborel
because the laborer distrusts the laws
and those who enforce them so far al
they relate to controversies between hin
and his employer. 1t is criminal to still
further destroy the confidence OF so large
a class of people in the good purposes Of
the government and thus enlarge the
field of the anarchist and give force tc
| his arguments.
The riot issue is dangerous one an6
the republican party deserves to be dis
possessed of power for injecting it into 6
state campaign. While yet the militit
was on "war footing and before the
bodies of the innocent persons slaughter
ed on the public streets were consigned
to the grave, it was resolved to re-nomi-
nate and re-elect Governor Rusk on the
issue that he could be relied upon to cal
| out the militia and intimidate labor. L
is not said that Governor Rusk is hostile
to labor, but his individual opinion anG
his future actions count for nothing il
view of the policy upon which his cam
paigu is managed.
| 1t is the policy of the republican party
| for years past in national matters, prop
Cliy W uuoWOi dSouuCQ COiI-
ditions in state. For years the nation
al government was kept in republican
hands through adroit manipulations O.
sectional feeling. Discord between the
once hostile sections was carefully cult
waited so that republican ascendancy
might be maintained. All this time {
hypocritical assumption of patriotism
was INDUCED in with almost ferocioul
fervency, and all for political effect. The
| injury done the country was unthough
of by these blatant lip-loyalists.
Now the issue is raised against labor
under the repellent name of anarchy
Before it was sectionalism now it is caste
The millionaire Mitchell has severed the
hair 10y which he was attached to the
democratic party and casts the influences
OF his wealth against the rights of labor
| while loudly protesting he is actuate(
I by love of claw and order" Just as thu
southern people were misrepresentet
and sectionalism fostered under thu
| pleasing term of loyalty. So now labo
is to be attired in the garb of anarch,
| to drive votes to the republican part,
as the only conservetor of claw an6
order.