Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15

as macn IN their own interest as In
that of the society of which they form
so important part that in the prose-
cution of their ends the labor organiza-
tons shall restrict themselves to fair,
open, honorable, and legal methods;
that they must never resort to violence
toward either the persons or property
OF their employees. or toward those Of
their comrades who may hold different
views; and that they must still in their
own interest, always recognize the
fundamental truth that each mans
liberty of action is bounded by the
equal rights of his fellow men. To pass
beyond this limit is license, aud not
liberty; crime, and not virtue or d
privilege. The individual who perpe-
trates this CRIME becomes at once fit
subject for the repressive action of the
law. When a mass of men too numer-
Gus to be dealt with by the ordinary
machinery of the law place themselves
in the same category, the safety of the
State and the security of their fellow
citizens require that they should be
dealt with by the armed force.
The good of the community, the safe
ty of innocent members of society, re-
quire that the moment the necessity
for this action arises it should be
cases prevention is better than cure,
and all concerned should learn that
when peaceable discussion is exhaust
ed, there stands ready tor instant use
well disciplined force prepared to act
upon the instant to support the majes-
ty of the law.
l do not think that in this country
danger is to be apprehended from the
organization of legitimate labor, be-
cause our working men are as rule
Intelligent and industrious, good citi-
zens aud good fathers of families.
knowing aud prepared to maintain
their own rights, they respect the le-
gitimate rights Of others, and realize
the fact that the well being and han-
piness OF their families depend upon me
preservation of order and security: not
that kind OF order which prevents the
many from ascending in the scale of
happiness and prosperity as the re-
ward of honest industry, nor that kind
of security which enables privileged
few to keep the many in state of sub
lection and abjeot poverty, but order
and security as we understand them in
this free land of ours, an order and Sc
curity which afford free scope to the
legitimate aspirations of all, which give
al freedom to oil within our limits: un..
der which those favored in this.world's
goods may retain them if provident, but
with the certainty that they or their
descendants will find their deserved
lower level il wasteful squanderers,
while the poorest sou Of toll, if honest,
capable, and industrious, sees open for
himself and his children the pathway
to honor and well being,
Our nation Is a nation of working
men whether their laber be intellectual
or the no less useful and honorable lab
or with the hand.
Our danger. if danger there be, will
come. not from the true working men,
but from those who do not labor ami
do not intend to do SO, but prefer to
gain an easy living by misguiding and
deceiving the true working men, and,
emulating the wreckers of bygone
times, seek with their false lights to
lure the ship of society upon the rocks
Of anarchy and atheism, that they NAV
prey upon the remnants of the ricn
cargoes washed to the shore.
TIE theories of anarchists, interna-
tionalists and nihilists have onlyrecent-
ly found their way among us. They
are strictly foreign productions which
exclude, and it is not proba BILE that they
can make any lasting or considerable
headway among our own people.
The people of America realize that
the institutions under which we live
are of our own making: that under the
God whom we worship our happiness
depends on the security of these institu-
tions: that the ultimate purpose of
our families; and that our dearest aim
in life is to secure the we'll being of
our childerr.
1t is to the highest extent improba BILE,
nay, impossible that free and enlight-
ened Americans can abandon all they
cherish far more than life itself in or
der to court misery and ruin at the CALL
of few misguided or wicked men,
who have brought hither theories
which wrought destruction and no
particle of good wherever they have at
tempted to carry them into practice i'm
the Old World. When the moment
for action arrives, there is no question
as to the manner in which the masses
of Americans will deal with these men
and their wild theories.
The ultimate result is not for mo-
nent doubtful. But as these men OPEN
ly avow their intention of or.anizing
and arning for the purpose of carrying
their views into practical effect, it is
wise to prepare the means of crushing
their efforts at the outset, that no harm
may come To the innocent, and that the
ruin invoked may fall solely on the
heads of the guilty conspirators.
A few hours control in our large cities
by these madmen might cause almost
irreparable damage. The opportunity
should not pc afforded them; and they
will never strike the blow if convinced
that proper preparations exist 10 meet
them.
AS write these pages some OF our
largest and most prosperous cities are
the scenes of dangerous disorders, arIs-
ing from the efforts of strikers to gain
their ends by violence. Here let it he
repeated that cur legislators should
calmly canine the demands even OF
extremists, and much more those of
the moderate men who honestly desir..
to attain what they regard as legiti-
mate changes.
If any proper and practical thing is
asked, it should be granted promptly
and graciously: but If an attempt IS
made to gain their ends by violence. il
is absolutely necessary to meet force
promptly with overwhelming force,
and..crush the outbreak at once ana
effectually.
Fully endorsing the above very able
article, its publication in the REGIsTER
is respectfully requested.
THOMAS CALLAHAN.
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