Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-04-01
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In its columns.
ar. B. N. Rowe is the Santa Ana agent oil
tho HERALD.
The other side.
While no lover Of labor will ever
encourage strikes under any condi-
tions save where they are absolutely
essential to the protection OF the wage
Garner. nevertheless they are often
brought about by gross disregard OF
both Justice and sagacious businesspol-
icy upon the pant Of employers. We
do not think that the spirit OF COM
munism is growing. In fact, we look
upon it as much weaker than IT was
twenty or even forty years ago, the
intelligence OF the masses all overthe
world having greatly advanced dur
ing that period. On tho other hand,
regard for the rights OF mankind
has equally developed during the
past hundred years. When the
nineteenth century opened there
were one hundred and thirteen stat
utes in England under any onesoi
which a man Belonging to the lower
classes might be executed. Now
there are but two, high treason and
murder. The same spirit Of broader
humanity has entered into the rela-
tions of capital and labor, and while
the working man will not be upheld
by public opinion in employing vio-
lence in dissuading his associates
from accepting wages which he de-
clines himself, at the same time those
who employ great wealth and power
to oppress their fellows are justly
looked upon with adherence.
The connection of Jay Gould with
any strike Justly leads intelligent
men to distrust the merits OF any
pronnnciamientoes issued against
strikers anywhere. II Mr.. Gould
had conducted some OF his peculiar
financial operations in France he
would now be pulling an oar in the
galleys. The wrecker Of the Erie
Railway and author OF the cele-
brated Black Friday panic has as
samed an air OF indignant virtue
which is highly amusing to those who
are acquainted with his career. In
Texas he is using the machinery of
the Federal Courts to harass the men
who dared to strike at Marshall. He
has been enabled to do this because,
as is frequently his wont, he had pre-
viously wrecked that road and had
thrown it into the United States
Courts and into the hands OF re-
ceiver.
A number of the strikers have
issued well written address to the
press OF tthe United States in which
they make a strong and logical appeal
to the public. These persons had
been led TO visit Marshall under gross
Interpretations. They say
We, the undersigned, having been
led to believe by the Texas and Pa
cific authorities at New Orleans that
there was no strike at the city of
Marshall, Texas, and that every
thing had been amicably settled,
started for that place under such i'm
preston, and on arriving at the depot
in Marshall were hustled into an
office like sheep and then and there
sworn in as deputy U. s. marshals to
protect the company's tools. After
due investigation, and hearing both
sides of the question, we found unde-
niable proof OF strike; and, as man
to man, we could not justifiably go to
work ad take the bread out OF our
fellow-workmen's mouths, no matter
how much we needed it for ourselves;
and therefore, for this reason, we
have declined to work for said com
pany.
J This is certainly, to say the least, a
very peculiar proceeding, 1t was
bad enough to be induced to travel
great distance under false representa-
ttois, Dut W bc NohipciAou " Jolu
their oppressors and act against their
commands was adding insult to in
jury. There is about it all something
despotic and tyrapnical which is
certainly not in consonance with the
spirit OF a Republican government.
The strikers justly say;
We were emphatically told by Gov.
Sheldon that the strike ceased to ex
ist and that we were to fill the places,
as skilled labor, of those who
had already quit. Because we
declined TO start to work we
were arrested This was tanta-
mount to an insult, not only to every
citizen OF Texas, but OF the United
States, and direct violation OF the
constitution OF the State and OF the
United States.
Is this the Republic of the United
States, or are we living under an as
sumed czarship or khanate OF Tartary?
Does not Judge Pardee, for suspen-
sion OF the writ of habeas corpus,
make himself liable to impeachment;
and do not Marshal Reagan and Com
missioner Singleton, for these unwar-
Ianted and uniustiiiable arrest7, lay
themselves liable to removal? These
are grave questions to which our rep
resentatives in Congress should give
their immediate attention, and no
doubt they will, for by this time they
have received hundreds of letters and
kilograms denouncing this infamous
scheme.
In every sense the questions raised
by these strikers are OF national inn
port. The whole people OF the United
States are interested in finding out
whether the machinery of the Fed
eral Courts can be wrcsted to the
purposes of the New York plutocrats
whose favorite pastime is wreeking
railroads, watering the stock OF the
corporations which they seize and 80
expanding its nominal volume that it
is impossible to pay dividends upon
it without intolerably expressing the
patrons of these institutions. They
are interested again because, in the
present strike, the whole business in
terests of the country are suffering
and the loss entailed upon parties in
no sense compromised by the con-
troversy has already been great and
threatens to become enormous. The
sooner Congress gives its sanction to
the principle OF arbitrating between
capital and labor the better for the
country.
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