The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-08
COMMENT AND OPINION.


WHAT does the laboring man gain who. after
securing ten hours wages for eight hours work.
finds that he has co paw 20 per cent more for al
most everything he buyss-Brooklyn Eagle.
A MAN who hires another to commit MURDERS
hanged. Why should not man who deliber
ately and explicitly advocates and causes whole =
sale murder be punished with equal severity
Cleveland Leader.
IT is reported that the tariff artists at Wash.
ington regard free wool as the very backbone
of the Morrison bill. Well, wooden head and
a wooden backbone may make good scarecrow,
way.-Boston Record.
IT really seems that if Ir Atkinson 1.-THE labor
philosopher wishes to maintain any general re-
spect for the opinions he tries to nculcate he
ought to remember what he has said from one
month to Misunderstanding Dispatch
WORKING people have no more DANGEROUS ene-
mics than those who interfere with their right to
work There are thousands now in the city who
have no differences with their employers. but arc
compelled to remain idle because few so will
it.-Chicago Mail
THERE must be some limitations upon Henry
Georges rule that "a man has right to work
when and where he wants to- Suppose some
other man had asserted his right to work his
tongue when and whore Mr.. George was making
his talkq-Boston Herald.
TIE sympathy of the American people, which
is essential to the success of the cause of Amer.
lean wol kngmen. can be preserved only by pnrg-
u
which recognizes no rule of law but its passions
and appetites. -Philadelphia Record.
WHILE an occasional business may warrant
the increase, it is as certain as anything in this
world can be that any attempt to increase
wages gener ly by the reduction of working
hours must end in an industrial depression such
as we have never known. Milwaukee Sentinel.
MEN who strike, not because they have grev-
ance, but because they are directed to do so by
an organization or which they are members, do
not take much heart into the movement 1t Is
paying pretty high price for association TO sur
render to it ones judgment and interests.--BoS-
ton Advertiser.
1T is well enough for Southern Democrats in
Washington to express, privately, their
domination of the traitorous vaporings of Jeffer
son Davis at Montgomery and elsewhere. But
an Interested country waits IN vain to hear any
one of them rise and utter his disapproval in the
Senate or the House. Philadelphia Press
NONE but agitators and demagogues will hest
tate TO uphold and strengthen the guardians of
the lawn in thus defending the foundation of our
free government 'In union there is strength"
hut t must be union for good purposes law
fully pursued. IN any combination to gain any
object by violence or intimidation there is fatal
weakness for safety eompels all the forces OF
law and order to combine against it-Frank
Lesie's Weekly.
to live in ours will be when no man shall have
right to labor and life unless he puts both into
the power of despotism IN which he has no
voice, which forhids him to work-whch is the
same as to forbid him to live-unless he sub.
jects himself blindly to its power to order him
out of work and livelihood, and which compes
him to make war on his own subsistence. Gin.
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
THERE will be little objection on the part OF
employers to paying for labor by the hour and
making eight hours a days work, but there are
few lines of business in a condition to pay the
same for the product Of eight hours labor that
they have been paying for ten hours production.
The business will not bear it. and in such cases
strikes are foolish and must fail, and it is pity
that fact so plain must be proven by sorrowful
experience. -Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THAT the strike has become ''eraze" and an
epidemic is proved by the slight provocation,
in many cases the want of provocation IN which
the workingmen will throw down their tools,
out on their hats and coats and leave their work.
1t is seen. too. in the frequent incoherence and
multiplicity of their demands Sometimes they
fail to make up clear. square issue with their
employers. The men of the Michigan car works,
in this city, TO the number of eight hundred
stopped work and were then unable to say def
nitely what they wanted.-Detroit Free Press.
Mr.. PowDERLY has lost a good deal of the gen.
eral regard lately. and in respect to his own dig
nity-infuence evidently he has none-he should
do something to satisfy the public that he has no
sympathy with Martin Irons and his greedy as
sociates, who appear to have done exceedingly
well with the contributions sent them. The
strike ended on Monday, by the action OF the
strikers themselves, but not until their places
had been filled by others. Who is responsible
for the great loss of wages they have suffered
they or the paid Observation-Disclosures Tete-
graph.
ALTHOUGH the policy would have been an he
roic one, and might have been severe test to
place upon the loyalty of the order. Mr.. Powder
ly and the executive committee would now stand
before the country In remarkably exalted posi-.
ton, if at the beginning of tn Is contest, they
a
hands, and, announcing that efforts at arbitra-
ton should be exhausted before a strike was be-
gun, had ordered the strikers back to their
places. on penalty of having their district as
semblies cut off from the general order.-Boston
Herald
CANNOT Industrious men see that it Is the very
height of folly for them to send capital into
panic by lawless actsY It is bad enough to en-
barrass industry by any mistaken and excessive
demand. But an experiment. on the eighi-hour
basis might have been made in peace. and. had
it proved failure. in peace it could have been
abandoned. Instead. violence and rioting now
threaten TO disturb all industry to such an extent
that, had the experiment. the brightest prospects
of success. it could scarcely end otherwise than
in failure. And if it fails. and years or months
OF prostration result and the great army Of the
unemployed socks work on any terms, do not
laborers see that they will have lost all that
they had gained or hoped to gain, and morei
New York Tribune.
The American people hate despotism of every
kind and degree They are for fair play and
equal rights; and just 80 far as the labor asso.
Citations prevent fair play and outrage equal
rights they will be resolutely opposed by the
great body of the people. and quite as much by
those who understand the real situation of work
inemen and the frequent injustice and tyranny
of corporations, as by those who do not under
stand the one and who deny the other. The
remedy for such differences arise from ques-
tions of wages between employers and employees,
and for other real differences, is found in arbi-
tration. But the question of the right of A aud
B to say whom shall employ. or with whom ID
shall contract for his own labor can no more be
a subject of arbitration than any other kind Of
slayery-Harpers Weekly.
Down with the Red Flag.
Chicago Mail.