The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

pose to regulate our civilization by assassination.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
For the kind of crowd the Milwaukee AN.
thorites had to deal with the action of the
militia in firing deadly volley the first time,
after repeated warnings to the rioters to dis
perse, was the true course, and no doubt re-
suited in real saving OF innocent lives. To
temporize with mob bent upon arson and MUIR
der has always been found to be mistaken for
bearance.-Boston Herald.
IT is the incubation of such absurd ideas AZ
Davis holds which prevents the South from
reaping the benefit of the lessons of the war.
So long as the women of the South teach their
children that the .lost cause" is holy and was
lost through misfortune and not through Its own
inherent rottenness there will be little prospect
of new generation equal to the material tasks
before it San Francisco Chronicle.
AS people we tolerate every kind of vagares.
man may, with impunity, be as many kinds OF
fool as there are coors in the rainbow, and wa
do not interfere. But brutal crime, which eulo-
gizes chaos and uses gunpowder and the torch 70
produce it. is not to be endured for an instant
Chicago is about to take off her gloves, and wa
remind her that there are times when mercy to
the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. York
Herald
CAMPAIGNS are constantly won by the muster
of an army of observation which never fires
shot. The workmen have the strength to win
and employers know it. The only danger which
idUOT udS W lear is tHdt ny uistdhcS VI tH6u
own, the wage earners may fritter away that
strength, and when they come into collision with
the perfectly organized and disciplined phalanz
of capital they may dissolves and scatter into
mob.-San Francisco Chronicle.
OF course, there may be favored trades or tenn
porary exceptional states of trade IN which g.
man can get more holidays and smaller weekly
total of hours for the same wages, but in the
end he will find that always within reasonable
limits, shorter time means shorter wages. Thu
is hard saying, but it is always better to say
the truth. Work by the piece or by the hout
seems to be the natural conclusion to which the
matter must come.-New York Sun.
No citizen has the legal right TO interfere with
or injure the legitimate business of an other,
and when two, or three, or more persons combine
to interfere with. injure or destroy anothera
proper business they are guilty Of criminal con-
spi2acy and this invariable decision Of the courts
has had most excellent effect in making the
boycott much less popular weapon than it was
a little while ago in the hands OF INSCRIPTIONS
labor agitators. Inquirer
The people of Dakota have as good right to
live under a constitution of their own framing
as those of Minnesota. They will be perfectly
justified if they conclude to begin State life
without sanction from Washington, and they
will have the sympathy of the people OF tina
country on their side Whether or not it would
be wise to proceed in this way is another guess
ton, and one which the people Immediately con.
cerned must decide for themselves -Minneapo-
lis Tribune.
IN the first place, the leaders of the Knights
have not the wisdom that can prevent them from
leading their followers into contests at once fool
hardy and disastrous In the second place, the
rank and file of the order are still so undisci-
plined that after they have been got into a hope
less ENHANCEMENT their leaders powerless to
extricate them 1t would surely seem that q
very thorough reorganization of the order is
needed before it attempts any new manifestation
New York Sun.
WITH q man of the stamp Of Jeremiah Rusk
in the executive of Illinois, the reign of law and
order would not have been interrupted at East
St. Louis beyond twenty-four hours. and would
not have been subsequently interrupted on the
border of Chicago and again in Chicago. With
man of the stamp of Jeremiah Rusk in the
executive of Chicago, there would have been no
massacre Of policemen In the Haymarket and no
mobs of anarchcal strikers after the attack upon
the Mccormick factory. Chicago Times.
A GENERAL stoppage of business, even when
not accompanied by riot diminishes the wage
paying capacity of every employer. If the strik-
ers should resume work, reservng their demand
for change in it's conditions till more con-
venient season. they would not only prove the
sincerity of their denunciation OF the murderers
by dynamite, but they would deserve and re.
ceive che gratitude and sympathy of the COM
munity at large, and these are Of very great
value in any labor dispute. New York Times
THE lesson of the Oglesby and Rusk incidents
ought not to be lost upon aspiring politicians.
The Illinois Governor was afraid of making him.
self unpopular II he took vigorous measures, and
finds himself the object of universal contempt;
the Wisconsin Governor simply went ahead and
did his duty without stopping to speculate
whether it would help his chances" or not and
finds every good citizen in the land applauding
him. Honesty is, after all, the best policy-for
politicians, as for everybody else.-New York
Evening Post
THE Anarchists come from central Europe
and by central Europe we mean Russia, Poland,
Hungary, Bavaria and the German provinces
bordering upon these countries. There has been
redrepublicanism in France, but 1t grew, came
to head and disappeared rapidly. This social
disease can be said to be epidemic in the Scla-
vonic nations. epidemic among the Germanic.
and sporadic among the Celtic. We are likely to
have the cholera but its home is in Asia We
are likely to be corrupted with nihilism but its
home is in central Europe. Chicago Mail.
If Mr.. Powderly General Master Workman Of
the Knights of Labor will excuse the plain
statement of what appears to be the almost uni
versally-shared opinion, we are impelled to say
that he talks too much, especially as what ha
says is not at all in harmony with what he or
his order does. What Mr. Powderly may say
now, since his surrender to the mob spirit of the
Knights of Labor which he tried to subdue and
could not, is of no consequence whatever. The
public looks at what the order does, not at what
Mr.. Powderly says.-Philadelphia Telegraph
IHE eHect OF allowing Anarcnlsm 70 Dc taughx
without let or hindrance must naturally be I'd
famarize the least intelligent with the idea that
there is particular harm in these attacks
upon society, in these reiterated indictments to
riot, arson and outrage The country has seen
already what freedom for Anarchy means on q,
small scale Is ii prepared to accept this ma
lignant guest as permanent RESIDENT Is il
prepared to bear the cost moral as we'll as mate
rial, which the exhibition of so blind and reckless
hospitality will entail upon it?-New York
Tribune.
THE lawless ignoramus is not without certain
logic in his reasoning when he contends, as he
persistently does contend that he has the same
moral right to seize what he wants by force as
another fellow has to seize what he wants by
process of law, but in defiance of the spirit Of
law The mainstay of a governmental system
like ours must be morality rather than force; and
when the people who profess to be moralists,
under any pretext countenance political ina