Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-07

Cuuct SONIC VI Tue lett ClhAtnS IN tue
town belong to the order. That is why
we invited you 70 meet with us and Join
US IN condemniug violence. There are
your resolutions; II YOU think they clear
your skirts, very well. With that we
have nothing TO do, We don't come here
as knights OF Labor and antl.Knlghts,
but as citizens, and let us unite In ferret
ing outtho infamous scoundrels who shot
down a brave officer who vas member
of your order.
Mr.. Tanning thought Il unreasonable
that 1t should be expected OF them Co turn
detectives. There were men from all
parts OF the world in the order, and
all men were liable to DC infamSd by pas.
sion He was no agrarlan or communist,
but there were not men enough or guns
enough In the country TO put down prin.
ciplc. He criticised the bringing Of
troops here, and thought 1t was uncalled
for. He regretted the unfortunate occur
renee Of Saturday, but the roads brought
II upon themselves In putting armed mon
upon the trains.
Mr.. G.. w. w. Smith protested against
the statement that the knights OF Labor
"caused the striken lie said an agree
ment had been made between the Knights
OF Labor aud the road which had been
violated from St.Louis to the Rio Grande.
Before the citizens held up the hands of
Mr.. Iloxie they should find out whether
the knights made mistake. lie didn't
believe the citizens drew up those resolu.
tons, because they were so much alike all
over the state, but thought they came
from employees OF jay Gould
Capt Greene said, the citizens com,
mittee were depuOzed for one particular
I purpose. We have nothing to do with
| the causes OF the strike. We are not
here TO decide who Is right or who is
wrong The colored brother over there
! (Mr. David Black has made the NEST
sensible speech made here Tonight He
got down TO the point. The question IS
what are we as citizens going TO do about
lawlessness In Fort Worth. Bloodshed
is simply the end of lawlessness, not the
1 beginning. We don't wdat you 10 run
the trains, but are you willing TO join Ia
the enforcement of law and the protection
Of property, no matter to whom II be-
/ longs?
DR.. Briggs thought the Knights had
done their parts were the citizens willing
TO do theirs9
Col. Young criticised In plain terms
/ the resolutions. They say there has been
no trouble no crime. God help the men
who signed that statement. He referred
! to the repeated failure TO move trains,
and the various acts Of violence commit
ted In the city, You say those men are
not knights Of Labor. We have their
statement that they are. There has been
trouble here and serious trouble. But
the law has determined that the trains
should run, and they will run.
Mayor Smith said he was satisfied this
meeting could not agree on any set
4 of resolutions but he thought by an in.
terchange of opinions better state Of
feeling might be created which would
tend TO preserve the laws OF the country.
Amy attempt to rule by bloodshed must
revolutionze the country. Whatever
wrongs existed should be redressed by
constitutional methods. Whenever men
have become so distempered as TO believe
otherwise the disorder can only be cured
4 by forcible methods, Has any man, he
asked, the right TO say that his
fellowman shall not labor or
| because he does work to abuse him with
opprobrious epithets. He replied to the
assertion OF Mr.. Tanning that there was
no necessity for force, by referring 10 the
disorderly occurrences of last Thursday,
and to the tragic event which followed
There was no other alternative than to
telegraph for troops. IL was useless to
ray that there was no violence here.
Bullets and soldiers are the only things
which can quell the mob. He
said that he had learned his NOR
ais from the bible, and quoted
u passage from 1t as law aud order scrip
ture. He discussed the strike, which he
thought a mistake in that the Missouri
Pacific had been made to suffer because
OF grievances against the Texas < Pacific.
DR.. Briggs read the resolutions which
Col. Young had characterized as N in-
suit to the citizens, and defended them.
| A lively colloquy occurred ia which
several gentlemen Joined. DR.. Briggs
closed this by the ejaculation; "Let by
cones be bygones forever and eternally.
1 What we want now is to thoroughly un-
derstand each other.r
"That's the point?n said several gen
tlemcn.
MIR. Nolan said until It was proved that
the men who participated in the trouble
/ on Saturday fired the first shot he would
not denounce them. One side said they
were at fault, the other side they
were not. The courts were
open and would decide that
. DOlhLs ODltNb WHICH lHlb IHttliHE Ltil
subserve is to allay the feeling which has
grown up aud correct the false, foolish
ana absurd reports which have been
spread abroad. The events Of the last
few days were enough TO make man be.
lleve that the American people were not
capable Of governing themselves, II he
believed half the reports which had been
put In circulation. There was no ground
for such reports; these are what our res.
olutlons condemn.
Mr.. Holloway agreed with Mr.. Nolan
In his remarks about the necessity OF
preserving order. In conversation
to-day with Mr.. Howell, a Knight,
he stated that there were men In
the order OF knights who would dare
/ wreck passenger tralns-do anything@-to
carry their point. We want the issue
settled to-day.
} DR.. Briggs said the report made TO Mr.
! Holloway was certainly false. II Is bet
ter for as as citizens Of Fort Worth 10
condemn ell such false reports; for u
! 10 state that the reports were mostly sen.
, saiional on both sides.
We want the truth told, but falschoods
/ condemned.
Mr.. Maddox said, he thought he fore
saw the result Of the meeting. Nothing
/ could be accomplished ia this way. Ht
: wanted good resolutions offered for Tbs
, knights here 20 Indorse ak
; well as the citizens, au6
let II go ont 10 the worle
/ as 10 who vii; or win not nGorSs
r what Is right and proper. In this way ~
expression viii be obtained from "a.
! KNIGHTS.
ii Mr.. Tanning said they would as aeon
mites from The knights indorse only N
(. Knighfs or IS representatives 81 iht