Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-07

uuu cuuu'N ~ the legal exercise OF all
their rights of person and property.
Mr.. W. Il. Farmer, district master
workman OF ~, who came in during the
latter part OF the meeting, was called for,
and responded IN a brief talk. He said
he hoped the people OF Fort Worth
and OF Texas would not consider
that the knights Of Labor were
class OF people who were
desirous OF the destruction Of properly.
The order gave no sanction to lawlegs-
moss. There was one thing, however,
which must be remembered, that there
was radical cause behind all
these great uphoayals, The con.
centration Of capital Ia tho hands OF
gigantic monopolies was the great cv,l
which was behind all these troubles. lie
was willing to exercise all the power
which had been vested In him 10 keep
peace until the people lad been cdu-
Gated to settle their grievances
Mt the proper place---the ballot-hox.
No good can come out Of riot aud blood
shed. Let us try to keep peace among
ourselves for our own good, for the good
OF Fort Worth and the good Of the state.
He hoped there would never be another
strike.
After an exchange of pleasantrles, IN
which nearly all the gentlemen present
joined, and which evidenced cordial
feeling on all sides, the meeting adj.
journed.
THE srRrKRRs IN COURT.
A writ OF habens corpus has boen
granted N. NJ, Lovln, the district mas
ter workman OF Assembly l0l, and will
be heard Friday morning hy Judge Beck.
ham. At the same time similar wrlts In
the cases of r. Il. Berry and I'd Isham
will be heard.
In the case Of Mccarthy, who is al.
| legged TO have taken out the
Winchesters that were used by
the strikers, counsel on both sides agreed
to let the matter rest with the grand jury,
who will Investigate the subject. Nc
Carthy, it Is understood, does not deny
having hauled out the guns. His mother,
a nlco,looking, elderly lady, visited him
yesterday IN the county jail. She Is
deeply troubled athis condition, the more
so, as he is her only child.
The haheas corpus trial OF William
Lee and Il. l.. Rowland before Judge
Beckham In the district court yesterday
resulted in letting the men 20. They had
been arrested for disobeying The injunc-
tion obiaincd by the railroad against the
strikers, but no complaint being made
against them they We're discharged,
PUNGENr SPEECHES.
! The remarks of MIR. Jester and Capt
Greene at the conference between knights
and citizens Monday night were 70 well
timed thatTnE GAZETTE reproduccs them
here, Yesterdays report having been cut
short because OF the early hour at which
the paper was compelled to 20 to press
Mr.. ,Jeter said that lawlessness had
been committed by men, not because
they were knights Of Labor, but
because OF pure unadulterated
cussedness. We should denounce crime
on all occasions, without regard TO what
its authors call themselves. Every good
citizen was compelled IN seli-defense "a
meet the issue. He that Is not for thu
law Is againstit.
! Capt. Greene said no one believed that
az an organization the knights of Labor
I oountonancod assassination. But there
was no use Sinking the point that the
men who uncouplcd cars and killed en-.
| gines, which the governor had just said
was Il crime, did so because they believed
the knights of Labor wanted them to do
It. Mr.. Irons had ordered them to "hold
the Fort" and until the arrival OF the
militia they had been doing Il. There
was no use denying the fact that the con.
stabulnty OF Tarrant county was not able
TO protect the railroad in moving trains
II is well enough to pass resolutions de
nounclng lawlessuess, and shall support
them, hut the real question at issue Is, art
the leaders Of the knights Of Labor
ready to say 10 their men, "You must
cease interference with property which
does not belong TO your" You can do 1t
belong to secret organizations and
know their power. Will on gcntlemer
Ito the committee Of Knights say t.
your men, "You must cease TO violate The
law or you mnst cease TO be Knights Of
Labor?" IL is simple foollshness fol
men 10 say, that they can trample or
the law. Fort Worth was dis
graced in the eyes OF the country
because for four days II permitted
the law TO be openly violated, It's officers
insulted and It's mayor abused aud jeered
ut. Capt. Grccnes talk, of which this IA
but brief synopsis, was warmly ap.
plauded by the spectators who had
gathered outside the anti-room TO listen
10 the proceedings.
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