Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-26

chants- Iney nau nut one opinion. They
were suffering, but one and all.hoped the
railroads would hold out and settle this
question Of trade tyranny and law and
order once and for all. do not remem-
Der ever having seen so complete a revul-
sion OF public opinion as these strikers
have brought about within week. All
first public sympathy was heartily
with them In what II believed
was fight against heartless cor
porations, but now they have succeeded in
placing the railroads on the side of law
and order, and with one voice the intelli-
gent community is backing the corpora
lions, simply because the corporations do
not insist notwithstanding with the rights
OF everybody else and in making threats
OF violence. | saw the fight on Third ay-
enue yesterday. II was a small riot. In
II were all the deadly elements OF the
commune; all the incipient flames and
fury OF the worst Partisan days. Nothing
saved that great thoroughfare from mas
sacre but the promptitude with which the
police fell upon the mob and drove It
back. When the first brick was aimed at
the poor conductor that was trying to take
the car through there went up howl
from thousands OF cruel, demoniac
throats, and in en- instant the air was
black with missiles. The car windows
were smashed, the light panels splintered
The wrecked vehicle was surrounded In q
twinkling with maddened men and women
A horrible sound Of yells, screams and
groans filed the air. There seemed to be
but one impulse animating this mob-it
was to get hold Of the two men who were
on that car and tear them limb from
| limb. IL was noble sight,
this brave endeavor of thousand
to clutch two fellow-beings and
rain blows upon them and trample
them into masses OF undistinguishable
flesh beneath their hoofs. As | saw
brawny arms in the air, caught sight Of
the distorted faces and glazing eyes and
heard the fearful din of sickeniDg oaths
and imprecations, asked myself If this
was the advance guard of the army Of
Knights that was going to regulate labor.
1t only lasted five minutes, thanks to
organized power, to which, alas, in these
days Of arbitration and moral suasion we
must come at last for dread adjudication
in the streets. The clubs were coming
One double platoon came. down Third
avenue, another came suddenly out Of
Fiity-ninth street as II it had been shot
up a trap. Then commenced that most
fearful of all sights, police attack upon
street crowd. Superintendent Murray's
orders to his men were to "strlke hard. I"
/ turned my head away with sickening
sensation, for had seen this before. You
can have no possible conception OF the
: terrible nature Of such n scene unless
, you have encountered 1t. | have wit
messed charge Of cavalry that rode
, down gunners and tramped infantry into
, , the earth, but there was mild redeem.
: ing swirl TO it, and then there were no
women and children there, as there al.
ways will be in mob.
The one duty Of the rolice in such Q
crisis is to break and scatter the solid
mass. 1t must 90 through it, and when
the onslaught is made with those dread
full clubs it is too late, in the paroxysm
of purp use, to pick the innocent from the
guilty
II ever you have heard the sound o.
those clubs as they fall crushingly upor
: heads and faces you will never forget it
: As il by magic the scene changes. A few
} stalwart men stand up defantly moment
in opposition. Then they fall under thu
: blows. But panic seizes the great mixeC
= throng Of men and women. The air II
? suddenly filed with screams. The char
y acter of the tumult is sharpened into dis
may II IuuN CndOS VI
:, women are entangled by their skirts anI
1t thrown down and trodden upon; you cal
= hear the pitiful cries of the children abov
J the din; it is the meeting of organized
o force with disorganized violence.
!; 1t does not last long. In fifteen min
u utes the street is cleared. But it il
bloody. And then that dismantled car II
L dragged back to the depot and score o
g miserable wretches are behind the bars
u This is the first tussle. But there Oh
u Eifty-ninth street are the reserves draw
$ up freshly. They seem to say, "Here w
7, are, ready to go on. If this question 0
labor is to be question of mere brut
l. force. that's what we are here for" Ant
II in It and over it all there is Il sad remind
&c err that the men who had rights and publ
81 sympathy have thrown away the mos
'e precious part of their fight in undertaken
: to shift their fight from the corporation
lie TO the community. NYM CRINKIE.
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10 THE STRIKES AND THEIR FFFECT ON TIL
.e LABOR PROBLEM.
l. gentleman who declares that he rel
l. resents the Wesleyan Methodists, sina
W sect with large name, which the secula
10 reader mustnot confound with theMethod
u list church, appears in the newspaper
% with cODgratulatory lelter 10 MI Houi'
}, and stigmatizes the knights Of Labor
IN "bandittin An ex-Judge Burke appear
he in like manner in another letter and &C
vises all the railroads to discharge all tn
u Knights of Labor for the purpose OF thu
tx Gripping and eventually breaking up tn
n order. Apparently Mr.. Hoxle in tn
n Southwest has taken advantage OF ansir
rs defensible strike to disorganize and
u possible destroy the order, which alon
lie made the strike possible. It appears I
IN have been the aim of the Third ayenu
y, railroad management in this city, by tn
rs gradual substitution of non union mel
'll TO supplant the union men altogethe
1t, and SO get rid Of troublesome iaoe
a organization. These letters and tines
IT. acts indicate the way in which some me
ia America are looking for the solution
m, the labor problem They hope to solve
ne by disrupting all labor organization
D. making all laborers servants, treaun
:, them all as individuals, and SO suppress
4" ing their dangerous discomfort by o.
40 stroying their power.
he This is both impossible and dangeroul
a Labor has been organized for three cel