The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-05-25
Press Comments.

mas resulted IN the nninS Oh DOycOl-
ter at New-Haven. The question is
to be taken to a higher court, but
there seems to be little reason to doubt
that the Connecticut law is ample to
meet such offences. A test case IS
usually enough. Most of the working
people of this country mean to obey
the laws, and when they understand
that a proceeding is in violation of
law there are but few of them who take
part in it. In New-Jersey, Mr..
Strange, of Patterson, earnestly urges
an appeal to the Legislature for res
toratiOn of the law under which boy
cOtting in that State was formerly
punishable, At the instigation of la.
Dor unions, it is claimed that the law
has been so altered that the ohense
can no longer be reached. MIR.
Strange is right in declaring that he
does not want to go to the Legislature
to seek BY indirection or by stealth
the enactment of a measure so clearly
necessary to the protection OF free Ia
bOrers everywhere. Only little
fraction Of the workers in New-Jersey
have chosen to organize themselves IN
trades unions or as Knights of Labor,
and only small part of these up
hold that OdiOus and un-Amerlcan
practice which Grand Master Powder
ly has SO strongly censured. Since
he has advised all Knights of Labor,
if any notice of boycotting is sent to
them, to burn it at once, it may be
hoped that the right-thinking workers
of New-.Iersey, whether organized or
unorganized, may unite to put down
practice so hostile to tree institu.
tiOns.-New York Tribune.
Mr.. Powderly has written another
letter. and, like all his letters, it is
sensible and shows that he under
stands the situations. But he must
knew that actions, such as those of
the Knights in the west, in East st.
Louis and Chicago, speak louder than
words. There is only one thing left
for the Knights of Labor order to do,
besides dying, and that is to denounce
socialism, pluguglyism, nihilism, law
lesness, boycotting and DulldOzing.
If it fails to do this the Law and Or
der Leagues will out number it ten to
one before the next election day
passes by. The people ofthis country
are not ready to permit brakemen
and switchmen and iremen to manage
railroads they do not own, or boycott
widows for boarding honest working
men. Unless Mr.. POwderly can
make the actions of the Knights of
Labor harmonic with his words his
organization will meet the speedy
death it deserves---St. Louis Sub
missiOuist.
The efforts of the Episcopal Church
in this country TO identify itself with
the working classes will be aided by
Bishop Potter's letter to the clergy in
his diocese. The Episcopal Church
has long been called the church of the
rich; and if that is the case, Its min
listers certainly have an admirable op.
portanity to do good just now by tell
: ing their wealthy hearers plainly
what their duty toward the laboring
man is. Bishop Potter's points on
: the subject are therefore most timely.
He desires that the rich shall be
; instructed that the laboring man is
: not to be considered an object Of
charity, but a fellow man whom the
I employer shall treat fairly and honest
: w; that he is not to be patronized
' but recognized as every ones equa
e in manhood. This is the kind of tals
g which the laboring classes like t.
e hear, and it should do much to dispe
. the notion which prevails over toward
n Avenue A. that modern Christianity
is the foe of the pOor.-New fori
Tribune.
Most, the Anarchist, is having {
I hard time to make himself out mar
tyr. The fact of his arrest is No
enough, because when he refers to i
the vision of man pale with terro
Il being dragged heels first from unde
). bed by a police rises before ever,
: ones mind, and ridiculous martyr i
e not an aspiring object. So he has &C
a cused the police of robbing him o
( $3.50, and 10 sure his admirers will Sc
e uothing funny about that. But
e will not work. Even If the police 8
Is the Central Office were dishones
re (Which they are mott, they would b
J. too shrewd to rob a blatant rOgu
8 like Most. Moreover, nobody VIII
+ knows him will believe that the Al
l. archist ever had as much as $3.50 i
y his pocket that was all his own
" New York Tribune.