The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-10-14
THE Sentinel charges The Pilot with

HE Sentinel charges Ine 11iOt Will
an attempt to 'mislead its ignorant read
ers," and denounces as demagogy an ar
ticle almost wholly quotation from the
opinion of Pennsylvania judge. The
Sentinel gives no assistance to Rusk by
such attempts at perversion. There is
no attempt made to beat Rusk because
of his action at Bay View. The disper-
sion of mob is matter of little moment
though the killing of number of inno-
cent persons would naturally lead to re-
greet and even justify indignation. The
shooting of persons actively engaged IN
rioting finds excuse only In its being the
last resort. 1t is evident that very bitter
feelings have resulted from the Bay View
matter so that the shooting must be re-
garded as a mistake even by those who
think bullets the only means of preserv-
ing slaw and order" There have been
riots before more threatening than that
of Bay View, and they were suppressed
without loss of life and without that re-
sulting feeling of i'll will which had its
| origin in the summary act of the militia
at Bay View, and which has been foster
ed since by systematic misrepresentation
of the laborers and obsequious tributes
| to the man who committed the criminal
error of giving the direction ''shoot to
kill' to lot of wild youths rendered in
capable of cool judgment from the IN
wonted handling of firearms with full
| loaded cartridges. But the command to
kill could be forgiven IS the hasty order
| of excitement if the poor Ignorant mob
| were not branded as anarchists and an
attempt made to perpetuate the power of
the republican party on an issue which
is an insult to every person who earns
his bread by the labor of his hands. The
workman in Wisconsin was made to
assume the character Of man anxious to
subvert law and order. No paper can
attempt to do justice to the men whose
ability to labor is their capital without
being charged with demagogy. Not a
| word can be said in depreciation of the
attempt to re-elect man governor of
| Wisconsin because through his order a
crowd of lnarmed men. women and chill
dren were made to scatter by volley
from Winchester repeating rifles, with
out being denounced as abetting anarchy.
Rusk' S nomination was confessedly due
to the Bay View matter. A precedent
was set aside that an issue may be secur-
ed upon which to appeal to prejudice
and win a victory by creating alarm. q
was taking an incident of comparati' G
insignifcance and by magnifying it Gre
ating the impression that the stability OF
republican institutions was threatened
by organized labor. The idea carried to
it's logical consequence would make the
laborer a serf, machine to be used by
his employer; thing for the law to op-
press and to which he was to be denied
the right 20 appeal. This is 'demagogy'
in the view of that canting hypocrisy
which assumes to be the exponent of law
and order. Everything on this subject
is ''demagogy" which does not seek to
do prejudice to the cause of labor. Gov.
ernor Rusk, whatever his personal predi-
lections may be, is put forward as the
representative of capital in the attitude
of hostility to labor. 1t is on that ground
he merits defeat. 1t is the purpose be-
hind him which makes his election dan
gerous to labor. 1t is not the individual
Rusk who is to be fought, but the per-
nicious doctrine which the exigencies
of politics have centered in his person.