Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-12
INTERNAL DANGER.
strength is in obedience to Law and Law
full Methods.

Strength Is in obedience TO Law anu Law
full Methods.
Louisville CourieT.Jo journal.
The great labor organizations are in
peril, not from without, but from within.
They ask recognition from the public,
and demand it of the great corporations
and of the government itself. They pro-
pose arbitration, and assert that by arbl-
tration all sources of discomfort may be
removed. The one question in the minds
of most men is, can great labor organi-
cation be held responsible for its pledges
and agreements? Granted arbitration, who
can guarantee that the decision OF arbl-
traitors will be accepted and the orders OF
the head obeyed?
Until very recently there has been a
growing faith in the knights OF Labor.
At its head is Mr.. Powderly, whose in
huence has always been on the side OF
law and order. He commands for the
organization a moral support OF inestt-
mable value, and without which it must
inevitably fail. 1t seemed possible TO
treat with the knights of Labor as a re-
snonsible body; responsible to the law;
responsible to public opinion; response
bic at least to its own chosen leaders.
Recent disorders at st. Louis, in Kan
sas. and later at Fort Worth, have shaken
to some extent the confidence OF the peo-
nile in the value OF labor organizations.
| If these disorders continue; il property
| ID injured; if laborers are driven from
work; if officers of the law are assailed
md slain, it will be found that public SEN
timent will unite against them, and that
all the power of the government VIII be
invoked to maintain the law, to suppress
disorder and TO punish lawless men.
The Courier-Journal speaks as the
| friend of the workingman. 1t believes IN
the nower, in the right, in the value OF
labor organizations. If these organiza-
tions can shake themselves free from the
| oilers ano from the lawless, they can DO
vast good 10 the community. Following
the policy Mr.. powderly has outlined,
they would grow in strength, as In WIS
4 dom, and by the exercise of patience, en-
] durance aud forhearahce they could, here
a little and there a little, advance the
| WAGES OF the workingmaDip not spasmod-
icaily, but permanently, They could Sc
cnre for him fairer share in tneproducts
OF labor, and in that way ana mothers
greatly improve the condition Oh every
laboring man and woman ~.
/ This has been our hope and ialtn, aho
II has been shared largely W wv PNNP.S
BECAUSE OF this there have come many
manifestations OF sympathy and en-
conragement to the workingmen OF
strikes, and these manifestations have, a
least among certain class OF strikers
been misinterpreted. -.
sympathy with the laboring man : no
vet inconsistent with a profound regar.
Tor The law; If it ever Is 1t must y
because of the ascendancy OF,
lawless element in the lapo
organizations. One may WISH y
90 see wages advanced and the hours OF "a
Nor shortened without having the ieas
alteration for men who kill engines
misplace switches, tear up tracks, an'
a ASA, those who are willing and anxlou
Men have right to refuse to woI or, !. !.
strike IL thew will, but no BODY OF slrla TN
has apy right to interfere with anota le
Who ID willing to work when he can = :
work to do. The moment any ooay ~
men destroy property or take NE, In. tne
have crossed the line which separate 'iiei
from the sympathy Of the people
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