San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-04-08

sumos no responsibility for tho views
of its correspondents,
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The indictment of Capt. Whisky
by the Hays county grand jury has
been widely copied and commented
ON. II is calculated TO add much to
tho reputation of the county, but in
order to do so, it will have to be
backed ND better than it has thus far
been in our otherwise promising lit
tie city.
Apropos of the dissatisfaction OK
pressed at tho result of the city cleo
ton in certain respectable quarters,
we are free to say we have very little
sympathy with tho compliments.
They had fair warning of what was to
DO expected if they did not wake up
to act in behalf of what they con-
ceived to be their interests and the
interests of our city. By q reasona-
bic effort they could have changed
the result. But they chose to go to
sleep and let tho matter go by de-
fault, and hence can fairly blame no
body but themselves. Men who, in
q republican government, will not do
their duty as citizens, aro entitled to
no sympathy for any consequent dis
aster that may befall them.
An old friend writes Us from
Blanco county as follows:
II has been some time since I at
tempted to write anything for your
paper. But the cause does not exist
in the fact that I do not like the FREE
Press, or the Independent manner in
which it is run, for L do like both. 1
take several papers, and when I get
them all from tho Office at the same
time, 1 always take up the FREE Press
first. 1t is so much like getting n
letter from home. From it catch
up with nearly oil the items of local
or home news.
He goes on to express his appreci
alton of the course OF our grand jury,
and adds:
All that I hnvo further to say at
this time in regard to your troubles
brought about by the independent,
outspolen course you have seen
proper to adopt Us public journal
list, is the same that l have long ago
expressed through your columns,
which is: Go straight forward, and
all thing else will regulate themselves,
or block up, which 10 the same thing
in substance AS liquids seek their
own levels, so does vice.
The Strike---ylews Of Correspondent.
Ed. FREE Press - The railroads
are indispensable to travel and com
merce, and they should be compelled |
by law to carry tho mail, travel and
freight. Any organization of men
seeking unlawfully to hinder them
should DO punished as offenders
against public peace and safety. IF
the government is unable to protect
The roads, there must be q very wide
spread and alarming sympathy with
the lawless element. Is it possible
That these corporations, caring only
or their own interests, are working
Tho very grease out of the bones of
heir employees on starvation wages
Have they so grievously oppressed
heir laborers rs to win for them the
of the people to such an
sxtent that tho arm of the law is pow
orless to protect the railroads or pun
sh those who prevent their opera
ion3
If the chartoring of these corpora
ions leads, through their greed, to
he oppression and pauperism of
heir employees, thereby rendering
hem dangerous to the safety of life
md property; and if the roads are q
public necessity why not run them
~ power that can be magnanimous
o the poor laborer, and promptly
punish tho lawless? Why
hould not the government purchase
nd run them? The government
would have m eye to the public
afety and convenience, and to the
deviation of its employees. There
you'd be no motive to Cypress and
'auperizo the worliingmen. They
rould be Justly paid for their labor,
= promptly punished for their law
assness.
Must al travel stop, and com
nerce be paralyzed, because Gould
Till not pay just wages, or because
lis men demand more than he thinks .
he company can afford topay? Must
he toiling millions pay from ten to
fly per cent. more for every article
{ food they buy because Jay Gould
nd few thousand men Cmostly for
igners) have got into big fuss
{ we invite TO our shores the disaf- !,
ected and restless spirits Of every
lime, and invest them with all the !
lights of citizenship, we must give
hem Just compensation for labor, or