St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
The Chicago Riot.
To the Editor of the Globe.

10 the Editor OF the Globe.
In your editorial Wednesday you assert
that trade unions are to blame for the riots
in Chicago and Milwaukee. Now, isn't this
rather Incorporate assertion. There is moth
ing in common between the two orraniza-
lions. The socialists, as their name implies,
are interested in social questions only. They
advocate the reduction of the rich to the
same level as the poor by violence if it can be
accomplished in no other manner. No such
theory was ever preached in any labor Or
ganization. On the contrary, they teach not
the pulling down of the wealthy or the des-
truction of property, but the elevation of the
worker by education, by association and in
terchange of thought by temperance.
and economy, and thorough Or
ganizaion to obtain a reasonable share
of the profits of their own labor.
Now all those men prominently connected
with the rioters are Russians, Germans, Po-
landers and Bohemians, who were socialists
in their own countries. Now, would it not be
more sensible to throw the blame on our i'm
migration laws, by which such men are adj
mitted to the country. Surely this country
should not become the dumping ground for
the refuse of the world. Honest labor has an
aversion for them, as they are constant
menace to it, owing to their natural discon-
tent and their continual ideness, which
makes an apparent surplus in the labor mar
ket and which makes their condition so i'm
they are too ready to accept money from the
general fund. There is an eXtenuatiao cir
circumstance in their favor, however, in the
fact that many of them are induced
to come here notably by mining cor
porationS to take the place of strikers
When they find that what they receive for
their labor is not sufficient to exist upon.
they are only too ready tolisten to any remedy
even if it proposes violence. With according
to Bradstreet 1,000,000 workers or about one
twelfth OF the working population of the
country out of employment or in other words
two men for every job,it would seem as if this
emigration business were weighty question.
1t surely is not just to them to plaster their
countries over with false promises in the
shape of glittering advertisements, and it is
not just to the workers of this country to
throw them into competition with a crowd
who are ''busted" before they leave their own
country. 1t seems as though emigra ton
should be restricted to the actual
needs of the country or at least
draw the line at the most worthless
Besides, Chicago herself is somewhat to blame
for the state of affaire which exist there, as
she has used every means possible, by all
sorts of advertising and booming in her Jour-
nails, to increase her census, regardless alike
of their desirability as citizens or her ability
to furnish them work. That St. Paul and
Minneapolis are not afflicted with the same
class is not due to any delicacy about using
the same tactics, but rather to the fact that
they are situated 400 miles farther west and
the walking is poor. Yours. etc..
J. KEARNEY.
st. Paul, May Z, 1886.
Our correspondent misinterprets the
GLOBES meaning. The GLOBE asserted that
the workingmen of Chicago were responsible
for the riot in the sense that they afforded
the anarchists the opportunity to create trOu-
bic and then made no egort to suppress nor