The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-03-25
THE PRESS on THE STRIKERS.
NEW YORK TIMES.

New Y ORR N arch 23.-The following is an edi-
torial in this mornings New York Times: Dis
trict Assembly No. 10l, Knights of Labor, com
plains that the proposal OF MI HoXie! ror the seE
road, would place the knights in the position Of
having made causeless strike. SO far as that road
is coaCerned hat seems to be absut the size of it,
Having refused the settlement recommended by the
governors Of Missouri and Kansas, the knights
nov. call upon the merchants of st Louis, whose
interests tirc have so seriously injured, to inter
yene with p demand that the railroad company run
its trains or forfeit its charter.
As they are the only obstacles to running trains
the request coming from them, IS decidedly cool.
They are also threatening to extend the strike 10
all the railroads of the country. Ii they attempt
that il is 10 BE hoped that they will fnd some
where LAW auou III, and executive vigor enough lot
the enforcement of the laws for the protection OF
the property and the rights CT railroad corPola,
tons The Knights of Labor are no more ABOVE
the law than other people, and have no rlght 70
kill engines, burn BRIDGES or stop railroad trains
ard run them mp on side tracks
THE EVENING POST.
To dsy the New York Evening Post has TIE fol
lowing editorial: The attempted mediation OF
the goyernors in the Missouri Pacific strike seemf
TO have sH vet led TO results. AT all events tht
strikers have not, up to date taken their ADVICE IC
accept Vice President HoXies offer to let bygonet
be bl cones and take back into the service OF tn'
company all stri< <ers who have not been guilty o
doing damage to property. At this moment things
in Texas are in worse condition than ever, as tn,
strikers, as telf resources lnCredse, are ilOIe l'
more disposed TO resort to violence. A masked
mob has overpowered the guards and ''liilled thu
engines at Denison, and at Omaha freight trair
which escaped from the station was pursued ant
brought back by force. To this complexion it wa
pretty snre to come at last. The position taken BY
thel knights is, in fact, one which cant be main in
taiued In any community without violence. NJ
man not 8 krighH can be won over to it b.
argument simply. The right OF anothe
man to stay in our employment on his terms or
In other words, he right of trades unions to bile
laborers on anyone they select for as long as the
please. which Is now the central doctrine OF tn
labor gospel ia which civilized communitie mite
will no more accept than peacably they Will accep
the Koran and the Mormon bible. 1t Is aggra
yated too BY tle. right which the knights ais ais
claim. of obstructing highways, and OF damagln
property in one part of the country In order 10 al
them in having their way in the settlements
If the railroad corporations whose defects W W
seo as clearly as anyone, think they can escap
this .rouble by surrender now, they are greaIl
mistaken. We have seen enough to know ID
knights are in the hands of men who do not Of kno,
what noderationis, and who are utterly lndl1eren
to tbe general Welfare, and probably hardly unde
sstand It, ana who are emboldened by every suece
10 make new and more intolerable demands.
The railroads might just as well push this que