Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-13
THE GEORGE

The vote OF 81, $50 which Henry George
received Tor Mayor OF New York has set
political economists to thinking. II was a
surprising vote for a man fresh from his
pen, ink and paper to receive from q people
who rank second to. home in intelligence
and independence OF thought. Hence the
causes which brought it out have been the
subject Of much editorial comment since
the election. The New York Star, which ia
not only a very able and candid journal
but by reason of it's intimate kno \ ledge OF
the situation in that city, Its opinion upon
the matter is entitled to respectful consid.
Grafton, comments upon the George move.
ment and takes the same view OF it that
The MINER did a day or two after the cleo.
ton. It believes that:
at is a grave injustice to the new labor
! movement. as represented by Henry George,
/ to consider the red flag as it's emblem.
| Bey ond doubt, socialistic extremists in
this community generally supported Mr..
Georges candidacy, but so did some Of our
most respected order loving and law-abid-
ing citizens. The vast majority OF voters
for the labor candidate for Mayor wers
good citizens seeking to effect reforms
through orderly and constitutional
weapon, is one that every American
has the fullest right to employ.
Differing from the great mass oil
Mr.. Georges supporters, not at all as to
the ends they desire to attain, but only as
TO the means to be employed to attain
them, we have treated their movement
from the outset as one worthy of the high
est consideration, and of respectful and
serious controversy on all points of differ
ence between us.
We believe that the remedies for such
grievances as American labor has to com
plain of are to be found in the future, as
they have been found in the past. in the
warm sympathy of the American Qemoc.
racy. We point to the labor REFORMS ef-
fected through Democratic agency during
recent years as the best guarantee of what
further reformation will be effected in the
near future. and we believe that no line of
action could be taken calculated to infict
greater injury upon the cause of laborth than
to seek to defeat and disrupt the Demo-
cratic party.
We fervently hope that the calm relec-
ton that succeeds electioneering excite
ment will bring our wage-earning brethren
to concur in these view s, and we shall do
our best to convince them by earnest and
friendly reasoning. But whether they come
to agree with US in all respects or not, their
movement and motives will always receive.
as they surely deserve, our sincere respect.
Once more we say to the supporters of
Henry George, az we did on the day sue
ceeding his nomination by the labor unions,
Come, brethren, let us reason together"
In this connection The MINER Nould add
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labor movements and organizations that
are too often regarded as q mass of more
or less coherent elements. In the first place
the recent Developments show that So
and Anarchism have no hold on the
laborers outside Of q few large Northern
cities. As regards the West, the Chicago
Tribune is good authority, and it says that
votes OF professional men, of the mer-
camille and trading community. of the en-
employing classes, of the a q farming pop
or OF genuine and intelligent Amer
lean citizens, are not to BIZ found in the So
column"
The Chicago Inter- Ocean recalls the rapid
and swift decline of the old "Granger''
in the Northwest, that swept
like a cyclone over several States, in 1874,
and disappeared as a party organization
two years. This history is more apt to
be repeated, as regards the Labor Party"
in the Northwest, at least, than that OF the
'Know-Nothings."
At all events the Democratic party has
put itself in the best position to deal with
all the just demands and fair requests of
|abor. Its mission will be both conserva-
tive and progressive. It will be the only
great regular organization with the strength
to secure the country and society from the
OF un-American, violent and destruct.
We demonstration. 1t is the only great
that has accomplished any great re-
suits for labor. by reason of it's essential
elements, spirits and