Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-10
KNIGHTS OF LABOR,
nsware Of lhe scr.he. ana rhnrlse,

Beware OF tho Scribes and Pharisees.
FORT WORTH, TEX, April g-Editor
GAZETTE; The strike and the late trouble
in our city incident thereto have shown
up the usual number of tricksters and
demagogues from among our people, and
conspicuous among these are several
"caricatures" ON the legal profession. 1t
is to these "honorable menn (P) that |
would call the attention of the Knights Of
Labor.
Barred by the rules OF your organiza-
ton from membership, they come like
cringing ours and would lick the crumbs
that fall from their masters tables
Beware of the lawyers who would hang
on your track with sweet words and fair
promises, for they seek TO use you TO
further some ambitious design. Like the
Scribes and Pharisees of old, they are
"llke unto whited sepulchers, which in
deed appear beautiful without, but within
are full OF dead mems bones and all man
ner OF uncleannessn They denounce an
officer Of the law for doing his sworn
duty under the law, and citizen for
obeying sheriff's summons to aid In en-
forcing the law, and make the in
famously false assertion that
the said officers and citizens are
espousing the cause Of capital against la
Dor. An uneducated man might be hon
est in such belief, but the lawyer who
tells you this is simply liar. The men
who composed the sherifis posse IN this
city last Saturday are fair, honest and
conservative. Probat ly all Of them look
/ with alarm upon the power that has been
attained in the United States by aggre-
gated capital, ana hope by proper legisla-
ton TO retrench that power But under
no circumstances win they see state OF
anarchy substituted for the institutions
and laws they have been taught to regard
With more than flliGl affection. They be-
lieve that any man in our country can OBJ
tain redress for wrong within the law, be
he high or low, And, II the law be bad
or weak, they believe that there is con-
stitutional method of changing It, They
further believe that ours Is a government
of laws emanating directly from the peo-
pie; that all classes have equal rights at
the ballot.box; and that redress for every
grievance should be sought through that
most potent friend of free people.
Certainly we have no better way Of
Judging the future than by the past. And
taling up the history of the past, know
Of no struggle from which we may more
justly draw ideas to govern us in this
matter than the French revolution OF
1889. Not that this has assumed the
proportions OF that awful struggle, or
that 1t ever could In the face OF American
patriotism become so bloody, but in the
principles involved in the respective trou-
bles considerabl esimilarlty may be traced.
The unpriyileged class in France had
great burdens to bear. So much greater,
|, however, than any our people have to COM
plain Of that comparison is almost ride
ulous. The result of their grievances was
the revolution Of 1883, and incident there
to that most terrible epoch in all history,
the Reign Of Terror. The streets Of Paris
literally ran with blood. The furious
: Jacobins under the leadership OF Robes
pierre, Couthon and st. Just, each OF
whom died under the guillotine, and
MarGt, who persisted by the hand OF
Charlotte Corday, welded unlimited sway,
and neither age, sex, nor innocence were
spared The mob at Paris ruled France
What was the resultY The counsels OF
4 the illustrious La Fayette were passed
: unheeded, and he was driven into exile
, The people became anxious for any
established system Of government. Ma
poleon Bonaparte, the child OF the revo
: luton, was thrown to the surface; In
! quick succession he became first consul
) dictator, then emperor, deluged Europe
in blood, and finally, at Waterloo, was
! crushed by the allied powers while
) France, decayed in her glory and impov
[ erished in wealth, went back under The
J scepter Of the Bourbon; and the flower o
her manhood lay Gleeping beneath the SOC
J from Moscow to the Pyrenees. Wht
/ doubts, at this day, that the rash, unwis'
leadership of the French revolution 0
1889 retarded the cause of nationa
J liberty IN Europe for ages
> ~ was during Ibis terrible n time
| fiat ttntS4emale Victim Of lill1YSioui
/ Jacobin fury, Madame Roland exclaimed
"0h, liberty, what horrible crimes ar
committed in thy namen SO terrible
were the crimes Of the French reyolu
G tionists that all good men were disguised
' and the people OF other European nation
: said; '.It this be liberty or the price o
. liberty, give us monarchy instead.
: Knights of Labor, yours Is q good order
] Husband your power Instead OF fTitterlnl
! 1T away on trivial matters. Do away will
! the boycott; 1t may have served GOO
!, purpose for a while in ireland, but is
! useless weapon in fredeountry.
And last, but not least, beware OF tn
lawyers who will prostitute their proies
a sion to gain your favor; for the writer o
: this article viii bet dollars TO dimes tina
y you will see some of these gentry suffer
= ing themselves led, like lambs, to be sac
: riiced on the altar Of some county ofic
by November next.
= a KNIGHT OF THE LAW.