The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-27


acquaintance with the facts which hava -
the methods OF arbitration to which we hav na s
ferred as successful elsewhere. Boston Advss
/ tser.
ANY social structure Of which dictation IL -.
cornerstone will collapse sooner or later. ana
when 1t falls the people in it will be worse hu.s
| than the people outside. Better lay some othas
cornerstone -PhiladelDhia Times
/ IT is the power of the vote in the hands -
/ women that is needed, and Ii is the only th,re
that can be brought into politics that will insurss
/ an honest and safe government sooner or later
| Every city has to come to this Boston Tran
| script.
/ IL public sentiment was as rigid now az IL ,vas
in the days of Cakes Ames, Mr.. Garland wouId
| at least be doing time at his Arkaneas home
| The Credit Mobilier scandal was mere kinder
| garten affair compared with the telephone ioh
| Chicago Mail
| The Queen who Is scared to death by the uati
| ton of working man, and who allows her
guards to seize and hustle off to prison the poor
| man who dares to appeal to her charity or GOOD
will for her subjects is travesty on the title Of
| ruler.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
| PROJECTION is here-and to stay. Year by
| year 1t is gaining ground, until in many parts Of
the country where few years ago it was scarce
| ~ believed to have hold, it has become tanta-
mount to political death to advocate the un-
American doctrine of free trade-Alhany En-
press.
If Pension Commissioner Black has any proofs
ought to produce them and il he has none, as
appears to be the case, he ought to say SO, and
extrlcate himself as soon as possible from the
unenviable position in which he has placed HIM
self.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
! IT [the formation of new labor organizatiousl
| is one step nearer the state OF things to which
we are drifting when every man shall have his
| own organization and when in our struggles
| with one another we shall have the same rela-
tive strength that we had without any organize
| ton at all Brooklyn Union.
THERE would be no Democratic President In
office to-day, no Democratic party in power but
for Southern soidity secured by the meana
adopted in that State Horrible as murder is il
is the Democratic title deed to the power it holds
This may seem like harsh statement but 1t ia
the solemn truth for which the occasion calls
National Republican.
Now, 'look here upon this picture, and ON
this" Should capitalists who combine to life
| the price of coal complain that laborers combine
| to lift the price of workf Should capitalists who
| pool their money to corner necessary Of life
| blame the ead-winners for combining to corner
their skill and brawn9 All this is worth thinking
| of-New York Herald.
HAD there been slavery 1t is pretty safe 70
| say there would have been no war ito end the
doctrine of State rights, notification and seces-
! sion" There would, In that case, have been no
| reason why that doctrine should have been as
serted in one section and rejected in another
| with such violence and heas as to lead to an
armed collision.-New York Times.
| LET US hope that voters in the congressional
elections next fall will 60 90 the bottom of this
question. II is not enough that man is pre-
| tectonist. He must be Republican projections
| ist and then he is doubly armed. He will vote
right in the organization of the House, and thus
| stop the apprehension of danger, often disas'
trous as the calamity itself -Philadelphia PresG
| WHO is to succeed Eli Murray as Governor OK
| Utah2 This is question which Mr. Cleveland
ho oil vhv anF
| the ablest and most determined enemies Of multi
| fcation has been removed from Office apparently
| to please the Mormons. A new Governor cam
not be appointed too soon. Utah cannot safely
| be left without federal executive -Bostf1 ADJ
vertiser.
! WoRKMEN cannot afford TO annoy and disgust
| the general public by debating where and what
| we shall buy, nor to discourage and drive into
retirement the most philanthropic and reason.
| able portion Of their employers. Their good
| fortune now is general sympathy we hope they
viii not destroy it by fantastic interference with
| the liberties of other men.-North western Chris
| tian Advocate.
THE wise course would be to arrange for the
prevention of strikes Let the law provide the
| machinery of arbitration Make its provisions,
| under certain circumstances compulsory Take
| away every suspicion Of injustice by applying an
equal rule to employer and employed. Then
strikes might be regarded as illegal ccnspiracies
and suppressed and punished accordingly.
| Washington Post
| The right of employers to choose in what form
they will employ labor is as absolute and az
sacred as the right of the men to decide whether
| they will organize or not. II the men consider
whether organization will increase or lessen the
| demand for their labor 80 the employers must
| consider their own risk whether they can best
get the help they want through organization or
| from individual workers. York Tribune.
If each one of the 100000 employers of labor
in the United States is forced to deal with the
| combined trades unions in the settlement OF
matters relating to his own business, 1t follows
| that all employers will be driven to perfect an
alliance and select another "Powderly' to act al
their spokesman If strike to coerce one COM
| panY can involve every trade in the country the
same will be true of lockout. Chicago Tribune
BEYOND all comparison, the grandest and most
| farreaching victory the organization 1.-THE
| Knights of Labor could win would be attained
/ by prompt and voluntary refusal to hold an un'
| just position, or to insist upon en- unjust de-
mand; by immediate withdrawal from false POI
| sition taken through error of some leaders.
That would give the organization the condolences
| OF the public and OF workers throughout tina
| country. But either success failure in an un.
just contention would do the organization meal
| culable harm.-New York Tribune.
| If the wisest men in the community are moi
| At to be invested with supreme power indepeud.
| emily of the safeguards Of law, what would
| shortly be the condition of society and govern
ment If the Knights of Labor were put in com
troll of the States Of Missouri, Kansas and Tex.
as, as they virtually ask that they may bel The
taking of a railroad forciby out of the hands Of
its owners, even when making just compensa
ton for it, is act of supreme power. but in this
| case no compensation has been promised or
thought of.-New York Evening Post.
] IT cannot be allowed in this country that
man who employs labor shall not himself select
it and control it, free from dictation as to the
| individual persons whom he shall employ. Such
| a rule would be ntolerable in it's operation and
| effect and, while it might benefit few, 1t would
afford to the many license and occasion Of
| abuse that would be fatal to all business 6iscis
| pline Nor can il be allowed that an industrial
organization Of o protective character shall
usurp the great power of government and levy
| war on all business under pretext of attending
/ to it's own.-New York Sun.
THE breaking up of freight trains ''killing" o.
| engines, destruction of property, and endanger
| ing the lives Of peacable and orderly workmen