Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-24

dlsmseai) az to an injury OF his person
or property This adjudication inter-
feres with nobody but the parties TO the
suit.
There Is throughout the length and
breadth OF this country sympathy for the
laboring man, but when be voluntarily
sacrifices this sympathy and goes even
further 70 the extent OF depressing in
nocent parties, sympathy turns to con-
demnation Now propose to show that
the strikers themselves do not believe
their cause Just, and why because they
are not consistent themselves. They do
discriminate in the strike Itself. Is
there any reason why passenger trains.
mall trains should be allowed
20 run, and freight trains should be pre-
vented This SHOWS but one thing, and
that conclusively, that they are not justi-
fed; they fear the law, not OF the states,
but OF the United States II the princi-
pie OF the strike Is correct, II the cause
is Just, why shrink from applying the
fullest, the snrest remedy Why dilly-
daily with IL? Shut down the whole
thing No, mol the answer is--"ialsus
IN ono, falsus In omnibus" The strike
Is wrong in particular; II Is wrong In
general. furnishing corporations
Furnishing miliions--punisblng lnnocents
furnishing the guilty all at the same
time, Is wrong In theory, Is wrong In
practice, and must BIO abandoned. What
is the remedy The remedy lies In the
law. II the law Is not what II should be,
send men to the legislature and to con-
gress that will enact proper legislation.
"Then you advise political move
mcntYh Not at all--f4r from IL. That Is
-. .s,N.l N Ia. 4
gogues men wishing 10 be leaders, but
without the sHgacity to do it--haye
brought about this trOuble--tbls strike
Alliances are righl, hut they must be
homogeneous. One-half the oc 'upaliOn
list are frmtr,. They demand cheap
labor, cheap freight. Remember, only one
tWelf h of the occupation list includes
both trades and transportation. These
demand high labor and high transpOrta.
lion. what concord hath Christ with
Il lial2" What security has one 10 Fix III
this alliance?
CAPITAL AND LABOR
are not enemics--they are friends-and
they must be Divided as the
waters, yet one as the sea.
In Gods universe one star differeth
from another; however, they are all stars.
In free government every citizen Is
sovereign, but under the same law. Dill
ferences IN rank and in fortune are the
legitimate results OF the differences in
brain, assisted by labor, and either brulu
without labor, or labor without brain.
COutenimeut is the panacea. Ambition,
alone, Is nOn-prUdOcuYe, Lofty aspjra-
lions must rest upon au intellectual basis
TO be successful Tue writer has been
labOrer IN both fields, manual and intel
lcrtual--has plONed (when the spelling
was long as the furruws), aud not for
season, but for years, Has never "turned
IL brake or "pulled thTottle;n but
has carried "lhe head end" Of q hun
dred-ioot chain, and once saved coll
llslon when the brakeman did not know
the lover from the target Gin a Dory
SWITCH.
While | ann thus lsborer am not
knighted, but what I've written has been
suggested with the hope Of benefiting
the parties non In this contest. IL is
hard thing, it Is notifying, TO admit our
errors. The PrOdlgal Son was the no.
blest Of them all. Wnen he could not
1--we upon he husks) and those the swine
had leit) he Sr, sc and wen to
his fathtr IL requires moral courag
10 no tnls-ych, courage Tar beyond
the standing In front Of the canuou's
mouth
TO close-this issue must close--peace
must cwcll between capital aud labor,
or bloodsh' d, war, intervene. Nv faith
In the stability, In the srlf-adju,Ling
power of this government, warrants me
In believing that oil will yet he well
Thee are the convictions, not of ''dis
lnh'rit d Knight" nor n "Knight of
Labor" but A LARoRER.