Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-20

@. ID. hOBERTSON'
+ A Rejoinder.
wosru TEX, May IL, 1885,
# q ,srrTy; To-day, after an ab-
seyeral days from the city, |
(. ,ne first time the structures OF |
,,ssnondert "B" upon an article
IAN so sorry that my communi-
F Al not suit him. In matter and
n style and sentiment, they are
I'm alike Objectionable to his
Az mste. Too bad. He says that
Y 10 nothing but froth in my last.
y. roth Is all that his intellectual
"a arc CAPABLE of assimilatiDg.
y oueropping Indications he must
+. ivsd on froth or some other weak
Il n.bulum all life. He continues
n vas one solid plain sensible
IL Al the verbrOge II is that ignor-
~ ID tbe cause OF the strike. This
INA which everybody knows and
IN denies is so smothered by vor-
.srohtlty that 1t is not easy to fnd it"
bly ideas are such strangers to b
A would Lot recognize one IL he met
4ublIc. He seems, however, to have
Il graspeG one idea from my article
= usual possession seems to excite
4cusdersbly. II everybody knows
4,body denies that Ignorance was the
y q the strike, why did the congress
n Urlted States appoint a special
Mice to spend weeks travelling
&liaklng testimony Of hundreds Of
ses inorder to lind out, if possible,
&Iu:ef Why did those sworn wit
4 conflict in their opinions as to the
d the striker Is our congress COM
i cinObodies2 After asserting that
Ydtnies the proposition that igno-
8 Ess the cause, B turns round IN the
lngraph aud denies it himself. |
~ that the voters of the country
SAy alone are responsible for the
sand oil the Industrial and political
4 B. declares this is false. Now let
te how those two positions har-
VI II ignorance is the ceuse,
n b the ignorance? Certainly
that Of the babies and
nor is it that of the
n. Undoubtedly it is the ignorance
voters and they are responsible.
voters sre not responsible who
DO they not assume to govern?
Rey not profess to make the laws?
not they the power to make good
lithey are not responsible then
i no such thing as human respon-
|9l True, there are certain classes
Pnder all laws divine and human
|Ssmpt from moral responsibility on
Pounds Of inculpable ignorance. D.
pave TO prove his claim to member
p one oithese clauses before he can
n nls share OF the guilt, No doubt
|Am could be easily proved.
DeEflngto my articles, b. proceeds:
''e read bis many communication
" GAzErTE, in oil of which his sym
with strikers, law-breakers and
'Alss has been prominent, and his
~, rlch people and capitalists un.
Y PESO "prolex," but call me a com
esat onoe2 That is the knock-down
ntnt with men OF Obs" callber.
Ss tne argument of weak minds.
ue, ! sympathize with strikers when
ae In the right, and | am neither
uner ashamed Of expressing that
aliyi tearing no mans frown and
: no mans favor. But | am as ready
laeln strikers when they are in the
!, regardless alike of public opinion
'Pular clamor. In 1856, when the
. On The Gould Southwestern rail-
'Nsfe, Just after gaining that strike,
'Svnc meeting in the courthouse In
"uim, | told them that strikes
lever permanently Settle the indus
snVolemi that strikes sometimes eff
,hulYldnal injustice; that strikes
~ costly method of settling dis
4 ys'weeu employer and employees;
wy should never be undertaken only
ias' resort. | presented
i sAle views years before
:" we press But ON the othor
held then, as hold now,
, sllst Present conditions strikes are
4 and necessary at times,
= nave often done good. Many
: ne been unnecessary and harm
sl nnsuefai denunciation OF strikes
4 " - general approval of them
III ''Vh mat my writings symps-
,n m.'h Undertaking deserves but
y oonslnpt. ! defy "B.p or any other
Y pOlni 70 allne OF mine which com
m vVuld construe in that dlrec-
=, .e..lty,fwo years In THIS world and
va ~ sinner plaintiff, defendant or
lhS II ~, IN civil or criminal case;
N scion, utterance or writing ad-
NJ. y violation Of law of my coun-
! ~ ~. ~ my writings did | ever de-
IA piNllsls and rich men simply
~sy we're capitalists and rich
Iess Y" 10y a fool. That would be
n N.Y. folly. "B.6 asks; oIs
nl,,nw DC rich9 II 50 what Is
~ /. !. IS not wrong to be rich I'M
I,nls ~ a Ileh at the expense OF others.
., SWAT . mnat you are In justice enti-
iso,v sn o. the grandest characters
los, a aase been rich men. Some OF
,eser, ..nes1 aud sincere reformers Of
1 b., ne are rich men and CAPT
id w. even supposing that rich
4 snS ep'Allsts were all bad men,
hase u asping, then denunclation
AudIsh sem would still be absurd
ID y ~, Time and again have ! ex-
N !, rSch In speaking and writing.
Is th,., am not deluded as you
Ilnf.i ~ " the fallacy that there Is
"vsuiity between laborers and