The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
Law and Order a MuzzIe the
Money Power Has for the
I. Nose of Labor.
u. J.C.," Not Being Able to Stand
Before the Force, Advocate,
Bids Him Good Day.
Brute Force Must Give Way to a More
Just Method Of Settling
Labor Disputes.
Fol' the Enquirer.

cessful in his effort to overthrow "law
and order" he would have gone down to
history as a mer. "reteT'-an unsuccess-
full one.
There might be found a few who
would refuse to join 10 the popular YER
dict, but in the main posterity would
JOIN in the readY-made opinion that he
was simply rebel.
Had Major Andres efforts ended sue
cessfullY Cyrus Field would not need to
erect a monument to his memory, as
Andres name and fame Id have
been perpetuated and handed down to
posteritY by grander monument than
the noble shaft that stands on the banks
of the Potomac to immortalize George
Washington-tae successful rebel.
1t cannot be 1enied that the cptimist
is justified in holding the position be
does when he can turn to history and
point to so many lncide is that appear
to make his position tenable one. He
can point to Louis Riel who died on the
scaffold as sacrifice to the same caus e
for which Washington fought-Uuman
Liberty.
Riel offered up his life for as good and
noble a cause as ever nan suffered for.
Judiciously murdered by licensed assas-
sins and still the world by its silence
says, Served him right" He was an
unsuccessful rebel. It is very easy to
follow out this line ofthought and rea-
soning and carry It into the industrial
struggle that is being engaged in by cap
ital and labor at the present time.
1t Is of course known to all who watch
the drift of opinion, as expressed by
that part of society known as labor, that
there is considerable of that element
who desire and believe in force as So
luton of the problem of capital versus
labor While /; is not the writer's be-
lief that force is the remedy to settle
permanently this momentOus and threat
ening question, it cannot be denied that
those who are in favor of extreme meas
ures find plausible reasons for being be-
levers in heroic treatment.
Speaking with one Of the force advo-
Gates, he said:
Look at the case of the street-car
strikers in New York and then tell me
If you think force is no remedy. | be-
lieve can take that case as a basis to
work on and prove that force is the
proper remedy. In the commencement
ofthat strike public opinion as expressed
by the newspapers, was dead against
the strikers"
AS the Rocky Mountain News said
ecitorially Of the strike, 1T must fail as
the strikers have no legitimate grievance
ard this thing of letting lot Of disturb
ers provoke strike and attempt to CO.
cree business men and overturn law and
order, must be, stopped" That" said
tie force advocate, as he,pounded like a
Bercues on the steel he was forging,
was the feeling in Denver as far as
that paper goes to prove the popular
feeling, and l believe it was the same or
about the same with the majority of the
papers that represent the class who
have money"
But" said the force advocate, while
the people were reading editorials like
tae one Just quoted from, the strikers in
New York had carried the war into
.africa' and deliberately and properly
set the laws of the state of New York
at defiance ard fought the finest police
in the world md defeated them, built
harricades of stone and coal, overturned
cars and vehicles of all kinds, over
turned law and order and-won. Sue
cessful rebels condemned? No, indeed
Even this same notoriously labor-hatlng
Denver pape@ heretofore quoted comes
out after it b card and was dead sure thai
the strikers had won, and said that, II
seems the New York street-car strikers
re justified in striking. We are IL
favor of the success of all laboring men
when they have just cause and conse'
quently pleased to hear of the victory o
the carmen
Il don't speak OF this" said the force
advocate, simply TO show the minute
MSS of the aperture into which Arkln'
and his smus- mill can crawl, but just tt
show how success changes uenunciatlor
and abuse into peans of praise. Hac
those New York carmen stood Quletl!
by and used mora suaslon to win th'
strike they would have got whipped 81
badly and quickly that they would haV'
hardly realized that they had struck.
But" said to the force advocate
who appeared to pc getting warmed up
would you set law and order at den
ance?"
Damn your law and order, tits only
muzzle the money power has for tn
nose of labor. With it they muZzle tn
labor OK as he treads out capltallstlt
corn. Heretofore the labor OK, whel
through hunger forced to attempt to plucl
little liora the mass he was tread ne
has been accustomed to hold up his ios