Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-15

attorney, such appointment is quite agreeable
70 me, but until such an election is made u
VIII naturally occur TO You that any inierIer-
ehce on our part in my personal AFFAIRS Is, 10
say the least, quite gratuitouB.
Mr.. Gould tells Mr. Powderly that any
attempt to connect him personally with
the late strike on the Southwestern roads
or any responsibility therefor is equally
gfatuitous, although he is President OF
the Missouri Pacific, When the strike
occurred he was out OF the country, hav-
ing gone away relying on Mr.. Powderly's
promise of last August that there should
be no strike on that road, and that II any
difficulties should arise, Mr.. PowderlY
would come frankly to him with them.
THE HoXIE CORRESPONDENTS
Mr.. Gould then recites the correspond
ence which passed between Wee Presi-
dent HoXie and Mr.. Powderly when the
strike began. To Mr.. Hoxie's second dis
patch MIR. Powderly never replied. Mr..
Gould then says:
This correspondence places the continuance
of this strike on your shoulders on sat still
ana was silent after Mr. HoNie's urgent APP
peal andEallowcd the strike to go on, and al
lowed the c0mpany's property TO he fOrcibly
seized, and the citizens Of four States and one
Territory TO DO deprivedof their rlghtfu rail-
way facilities. Thus forced, the board of di-
reotors, prior to my return, placed the mat
ter IN Mr.. Hoxles hands by formal resolution,
and that disposition of is has never been
changed.
THE HoXIE AGREEMENT.
Mr.. Gould then quotes the agreement
that Mr.. Hoxie would meet a committee
OF actual employees and says that Mir.
Hoxle has always been, and Is now ready
to carry out that agreement, but that no
employe has ever presented himself to
carry 1t into effect, and that large num-
ber Of strikers have been received back
into the company's employ. Mr.. Gould
concludes:
In the face of all this you notify me that
unless by o'clock l personally consent to
something, precisely what, 1 do not see, then
personal consequences OF sort vaguely eX-
pressed, but not hard to understand, will Mt
the hand of your order be vlsited upon me.
Let me again remind you that 1t is an Ameri-
propose TO destroy.
PRESENT STATUS OF THE CONTEST.
The contest is not between your order and
\ the laws of the land. Your order has already
dehed those laws In preventing by violence
this company from operating les road. You
held then that this company should not
operate it's road under conditions prescribed
by the law, hut only under conditions pre-
scribed by you. You now declare in effect
that l hold my individual property and
rights, not as other men hold theirs,
but only at the peril OF your letting
loose irrevocably, after O'Clock, yOur order
upon me. III this Is true OF this company and
OF me, 1t is true Of all other men and compa-
nIes.
THE LAW.
If so you and your society are the law, and
an American citizen is such only in name.
Already for weeks your order has in your
attacks upon this company not hesitated to
disable IL by violence from rendering its duty
to the public, and from giving work and pay
| ing wages TO men at least three times your
| number, who working, ae they were, by your
| side, were at least deserving OF your sympa-
| thy. Having pushed this violence beyond
| even the great f0rbearance of the public, and
| found in this direction cause TO hesitate, you
now turn upon me and propose that the
wrongs you have hitherto inflicted on the pub
| lie shall now culminate ID an attack upon
an individual. In this. as / have said, the
real issue is between you and the laws of the
land. IL may be before you are through,
these laws will efficiently advise you that
even !, as an individual citizen, am not be-
yond their care. Very respectfully.
JAY GOULD