Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-13
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/ LABOR. tTlmcS hkhlnuL tllc anu PiOPSi y
will be punished; they must be punished
or society VIII disintegrate. Propert
has been destroyed during this strike
the channels OF commerce have oeel
needlessly obstructcd; life, at last, ha
been taken The situation is serious
but here the path Is straight and narrow
The REORGANIZATION must demonstrate
their power TO enforce their own de
crees, and they must separate themselye
widely from the marauders, who seem Z
be In the ascendency at Fo-t Worth. !
this cannot be done, the days OF thei
usefulness is at an end.
Chicago Times. Perhaps the battle a
| Fort Worth was necessary to awaken thu
slumbering public from its lethargy anC
direct attention 10 the danger tha
menaces society, not more from organ
| lied enemies OF law and order than from
eympathizers with them In places OF
public trust. Perhaps IL may render
\ good service In directing public though!
/ TO the rapidly coming conditions OF pop.
J ular government--namely the abolition
Of ballot-boxing for the appointment OF
executive officers, and strong military
police tablishment-national troops,
probably, but not militia--withln quick
call in case Of an emergency. ooh, for a
little Belgium medlcinein writes q Chi
cago merchant to the Times since the bat
Tie OF Fort Worth, "wheneYer the
paroxysms Of the patient are so violent
as OF late. Drastics are necessary,
often, in acute and chronic maladles."
The time is not far distant when their
necessity will be generally realized in this
land, as 1t evidently now Is in the ylcln-
lty OF Fort Worth.
New Orleans States: No mat
ter how completely opposed the
knights Of Labor organization may be TO
such henous action as that OF Saturday,
no matter how effectually the order may
clear itself Of any completely with this
lawless rufllanlsm, no matter how siren
uously and truly they may disclaim the
use OF violence as method OF attaining
the end they have In view, crime per-
formed in their name or in their cause,
either by unworthy members OF their
body or even by their irresponsible sym
pathizers, attaches a stigma TO their cause,
the sole effect OF which is damage to that
cause.
The men who lay in ambush with
loaded rifles for the Missouri Pacific train
on Saturday, whether they fired the first
shot or not, were there armed in violation
of law, and beyond the shadow OF a doubt
tor an unlawful purpose. II would be
nothing TO the point TO prove that these
men were not acting under orders from
the organizatlon--no one believes that
they were--or even that they were not
OF the body, the certain result
of their Illegal and murderous action Will
be reyulsion in public feeling, an aiena
tlOn OF public sympathy from cause In
whose ostensible name such nefarlous
deeds are perpetrated.
Estate PRESS.
Colorado Graphic The ilendish slaught-
er ut Fort Worth last Saturday is the last
straw that breaks the cancels back, and
when 1t comes to this, no man who
honors the flag will attempt to PALATE
such blow at law aud liberty. Men who
will stoop behind ambush and shoot
down men dischargng duty viii stoop to
any crime, and are Il dangerous element
In our state and republic. Now, If the
railroad companies can get men enough
to run those trains the trains must and
shall run. Gov. Ireland has said it, and
he means IL, All resistance to the law
viii be severely punished, and course
OF murder, il continued by the strikers,
must necessarily compass their ruin The
law will not stand 1T; the people will not
stand 1t.
III Paso Tribune: The riot at Fort
Worth was precipitated by the striking
employees of the Texas & Pacific road,
who were exasperated because in the set
tement of the difficulty as arranged be-
tween Powderly and Gould no provision
was made for them. The position taken
al the outset that Gould was in no meas
nre responsible for the action OF the re-
ceivers was steadily maintained and had
TO be assented to by Powderly. 1t was
but common sense and the strikers
ought to nave seen 1t in advance OF their
action. II they have able men in their
councils such ones have not come to the
front on this occasion.
Henderson News: II is to be regretted
that such an occurrence as the fight be-
tween the sheriff's posse and the strikers
Vt Fort Worth last Saturday should ever
stain the annals of Texas. 1t is a sad
day when the economic questions OF the
hour should cause bloodshed and death.
That brave and patriotic men should
lose their lives through the IN ismanage-
ment of the authorities is severe blow
on the efficiency of the Texas government.
Midland Staked Plain The bloodshed
at Fort Worth last Saturday shows the
folly OF triiilng with mob, The prompt
ness and courage OF jackson in 1882 pre-
vented conflict. The lukewarmness of
Buchanan in 1861 brought on the rebel
lion. Yet both OF these occasions were
rs Insignificant as the intimidation that
prevailed In Fort Worth the greater
portion OF last week. In nearly every
railroad town in the Southwest are organ
tied mobs preventing legitimate corpora-
lions from performing the duties they
have pledged to the public. These mobs
are not necessarily strikers, but are made
NJ OF lawless men outside OF She Knights
of Labor.
Palo Pinto News The climax was
reached last saturday near Fort Worth,
when train, under guard OF shernns
posse, was fired into by some OF the strik-
ers and one of the guard killed and two
others dangerously, II not mortally,
wounded, and one, at least, OF the attack
ing party seriously shot This violence
against the officers of the law transfers
the quarrel, TO n great extent, from the
railroad officials TO the state, aud virtual.
~ makes II Il contest between the strikers
who indorse such violence, and the power
OF the country. A quarrel--a aght, II
further lighting ghOuld he nrecin{tated