The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-13
COMMENT AND OPINION.

The man who goes out to see what a mob is
about frequently finds out to his sorrow.-Cincin
natl Sun.
LET workingmen shun anarchists. agitators
and hoodlums as they would shun pestilence.
Lawlessness in any form is tho deadly foe of
labor.-Philadelphia Times.
HONEST and regular work kills very few per-
sons. Add worry to work, and the danger be-
gins. Add dissipation of almost any sort. and
the trouble thickeus. It is not overwork so
much as undercare that kills.-New York World.
IT would be strange il Mr.. Gladstone, de-
feated, should be succeeded by the Conserva-
tives, and they. not he, should pass the home
rule bill which is to be the Magma Charta of Ire
land. Strange, but by no means impossible.
New York Herald.
The knights of Labor purpose to make war
upon liquor drinking. Their motive Is purely
practical. They say that a man who Is a slave
to liquor is of no use to organized labor. This IS
true; he is of no use to anything or anybody.
Springfield Republican.
AND after home rule for Ireland, WHAT Dis
establishment of the Anglican Church and a
sweeping land reform for England. To some
other statesman will come duties as great and
opportunities as grand as have come to Glad
stone. National Republican.
THE female United States Senator is a
portentous possibility. We know not the day
nor the hour which may bring her forth, her
$3.50 w ebeN S.S @HsO9t
reform. her face set Zionward, her aim. the pro-
hibition by act of Congress Of all forms of vice.
Washington Post
Thu ugliest fact about all this trouble in the
Southwest is that. because officers of the law are
afraid of the tabor element at the ballot box,
from Governors to mayors of petty towns, they
have executed the law with such hesitation,
when they have executed it at all, as to invite
serious breaches of the peace.-Brooklyn Union.
THERE always has been and there always will
be power enough in this country to crush rebel
lion. Instruction, or riot. Every experiment of
the kind has ended in failure, and to the humilia-
ton and injury of the participants. Men who
cannot understand that this Is a country of law
and order must take the s.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, of Illinois. sees, in the
bloody encounters which took place at East st.
Louis yesterday. the ripening of the legitimate
fruit OF his dilly-dallying policy with the strikers.
His theory that quiet and securely were TO be
restored by the soft words of even an aged and
greatly respected chief magistrate is rudely
dashed by the events. Boston Advertiser.
JUSTICE and fair play are stronger than Goulds
and Hoxies on the one hand or Knights of La
Dor on the other; and tyranny on the part OF
either cannot succeed. They that take the sword
will perish by the sword. Far from being pro-
noted by the use of arms, the labor movement
is disonorcd and retarded. Winchester rifles
have no utility in the struggle for the elevation
OF workingmen Minneapolis Tribune.
THE organization of labor aims at restoring to
workmen as a whole that right of property in the
product of their industry which they possessed
as individuals under more primitive conditions.
1t means that the accumulated products OF labor
that we call capital and the current labor that
joins it to constitute modern industry. shall be-
come partners on some equitable basis, and
shall jointly decide the conditions and rewards
of their partnership York Star.
LABOR knows better than any other element
l.. Nos4A kh@ 49, 80 ~. 1-:-1< >t1 mr. T.
teliigent woringkman who looks abroad perceives
that all the efforts at securing better conditions
for his class must fail 80 long as the class itself,
through lack Of self restraint and self-denial,
squanders so large a proportion OF its earnings
in the saloon, and, by cultivation OF depraved
tastes, kills its own conscience, ambition, self
respect and capacity for improvement.-New
York Tribune.
THE case will add another to the many illus
~trations' recently given of the cruel, barbarous
and suicidal character of the strike as a method
of settling differences between employers and
employed. 1t ia q two edged sword which cuts
where there is no desire of cutting. 1t is a
clumsy instrument which, in working harm to
the adversaries of those who use 1t, works in
finitely greater harm to innocent persons who
are the natural friends and allies of the strikers.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
HAD the Premier innocently provided that
Ireland should be represented in the imperial
government in addition to her own local legisla-
ture, Englishmen would have denounced the
plan because it gave the Irish two Parliaments
and the British but one. Mr.. Gladstone has sue
ceeded by the rule Of contrary in turning the
opinion Of the country in the very direction
which he wished it to take, and enjoying the
spectacle of Seeing how absurdly prejudice can
be made serviceahle to the cause of right.
Brooklyn Eagle.
GRANT that there has not been open and
manly dealing or the part of the railroad au-
thorities; grant that the compact made in New
York has not been honorably carried out; grant
that the general executive committee of the
knights of Labor were not treated In ST. Louis
with the consideration which was due to their
mission, their spirit and their character. still the
true course is to stop the strike and then de-
mand fair play and appeal to the public judg-
ment of the country. Let labor show its wis
dom as we'll as its strength. - Philadelphia
Press.
HAD the influence of the organization the
Knights of Labor been put forth resolutely and
in good faith to prevent any unlawful interfer-
ence with property or with the rights of individ-
The responsibility, therefore. rests in a very
large measure with the organization which
called out the men on strike. and then Ola not
restrain them from a course of high-handed law
lessness. That is the exact truth. The local
leaders of the Knights of Labor and The local
authorities of East st. Louis are responsible for
every drop of blood shed, and for all property
destroyed in this disgraceful outbreak. New
York Tribune.