New-York tribune., 1886-07-09
ORGANIZED L9WLESsYKSs MUST CO.

The Chicago District Assembly of the
Knights of Labor has adopted new rules ex-
pe!ling all Anarchists and denouncing Anarch-
ism and all its ways in a reireshingly vigorous
and plain-spoken manner. This is what the
knights Of Labor all over the country ought to
do, and what they will have to do sooner or
later if they do not want to put themselves in
the attitude of hostility to American civiiza-
ton; for that is What any kind of tolerant
relations with Anarcbism means. Here in
New York the Central Labor Union, said to be
composed of or controlled by foreigners, few of
whom can speak English and most of whom
are aliens, is making trouble for the working
men who do not repndiate its misrepresentation
demonstrations. This Central Labor Union has
undertaken to denounce court and jury for
doing their sworn daty under the laws of this
land, and is endeavOrng to ruin business
man whose sole offence is that, being called as
a witness, he told the truth. The laws declare
boycotting criminal. The Central Labor
Union villGes the laws, and i'll effect declares
its intention to make war upon all who admin
ister or seek their protection.
When body Of unnaturalized foreigners can
come here and begin campaigning against
American law and order, threa ,ening with che
boycott all who dare to resist the boycott, and
al! this avowedy in the line of policy whose
ultimate object s tn upset Ouc entire system OF
civilization and substitute for it a wild-beast
anarchv it is time to speak plainly about the
undertaking. The men foreign rulijans every
one of them, beyond doubt who fired uron
;hc American hag at Chcago the other day, are
of the same kidney. rnis is the kind of people
who before they have been IA month in the
country want to overturn the Government, and
when they find the laws in the way begin to
shrek out abuse of our courts. our juries our
legislators, our public opinion; in short, every
thing that initiates against the dlffis of
Anarchist doctrines and that hinders the free
use of bOycotting and bnmb-thrOwIng. The
plain truth is that these people have not the
remotest idea of freedom. WHAT they ask for
is the most abominable, brutal kind of slavery
conceivable. Nor have they any moral sense.
They hate law us the professional criminal
hates it, But they must be taught that the
American people make and keep, and insist on
Others keeping their own laws, and chat they
do not mean to hand over the Government to
foreign cranks, who know nothing of demo-
cratic principles, and whose ignorance aud
vicious tendencies make them the poorest kind
of material for American citizens hip.
1t may as well be understood first rs last
that whoever undertakes in this country to
defy the laws and to overthrow American
institutions 1ill come TO grief 1t does not
matter how the attempt is made. Ii will fail.
No imported Anarchist however fresh. can
supplant the American people in running the
Government. No such body of foreigners can
establish ali opposition to oar laws either, or
undertake to punish our julges AMI jurors, or
bully or black nail witnesses. The boycOtt Is
an odous, lawltss. wholly un-American
practice. 1t is Il co Yards and blllys
weapon a base agency whereby sturdy loafers
NAV wreak sneikng vengeance upon poor
women. Labor-Amercan labor, that Is to say
cannot aft jrd to ally itself with those W no
resort to so contemplate practice. Public
opinion, which is sovereign in the Unlted
States, will not cOuntenance any such proceed
lug The Chicago Knights of Labor have had
the sense to realize this fact, and have cat
,ouse from the Anarchists and their works.
We hope that the New-York labor organizl-
tons and those OF all the rest of the country.
will promptly follow suit, and SO convince the
foreign mischief makers that if they not
prepared to abandon their Objectionable doe
trines and accept American governmental
theories they had better return whence they