The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-20

suredy lost when they outrage public sentiment i
and il both learn that there Ia middle ground
on which they can meet in honor, amity and
mutual profit and respectable sacrifices ofthoss
strikes VIII not have been made in vain.--At
lanta Constitution
WE insist that the EMPLOYERS shall permit
union men to work; we insist with equal sert
business that employees shall permit non union
men to labor. The refusal in one case is as wrong
as unjust. as indefensibe as is a refusal in thu
other The labor organizations must not him
der in this direction.-Louisvlle Courier-Jour4
nal.
IT is quite possible that during the coming
year the amount of national bank notes retired
will be larger than the coinage of silver dollars
Would not the contraction OF the currency by
the retirement of $50, 600, 900 of national bank
notes utterly take the sting out of the demand
for the suspension of the coinage of $50 000 00e
in standard silver dollars9-Albany Express
HE 1.-THE President will serve the country bet
ter in the Office to which it has pleased the pe0
pie to cali him, if he leaves details to his subor
dinates and to the co coordinate branch OF the ex
ecutive and works less himself. The eight hour
law ought to cover his office; the rest Of his time
it might be to the public advantage for him to
devote to fshing.-San Francisco Chronicle
THE free traders are learning slowly. little
while ago they were all demanding unlimited
free trade. Now they want free trade in every.
thing except what their own States happen ia
produce. III another year or two they may have
little more wisdom and advocate the Judicioua
protection of all native industries. Time knockt
wisdom into great many heads Pnlladelphu
Times.
THE very salvation of the laborer depends on
his retention Of the principle Of individual
liberty. The moment he accepts the theory that
he must adopt certain code of regulations as a
badge of his station in life, and assume certain
fixed relations other classes in society. he has
abdicated his individuality and thrown away
his political birthright. -New York Commercial
Advertiser.
NOTHING can be more certain than that If boy
cotting is not brought to a stop in this country
all classes who believe in the preservation OF
personal rights, including employers and en-
ployes, will combine and boycott the boycotters
just as certain as one extreme produces the
other will the boycott prove double-edget
sword to be turned against those who appeal I'd
it-Chicago Tribune.
IF arbitration is to prevail, then, arbitrate
with strikers. But there is one principle that
should be understood their part, for it Is one
that is bound to be maintained by the commu-
nifty. 1t 10 that from the moment strike be
gins q company has the right TO engage help
wherever il can obtain it. and it is entitled to the
fullest protection of the law and of public senti.
ment in SO doing.-New York Sun.
IL 1t be legitimate form of success to prospet
on the ruin Of ones neighbors. then Is Mr.. Gould
the most brilliant success OF American imam.
ciers. But other people besides tho knights OF
Labor will be likely to take exception to the in
dulgent method of dealing with Mr. Gould's
character. and others are strongly impressed
as they with the fact that he typifes most
of the things that are calculated to make our
free institutions a failure. Brooklyn Union.
THE lawlessness of some of the strikers hag
enabled the railroad men to turn the indignation
of the people of the Southwest at the Interrupt
ton 0f business against the Knights; but the
vast majority OF the people of the United States
have no immediate interest in the strike, and
they cannot be deceived into thinking that the
knights of Labor are band of outlaws. or that
Jay Gould is only contending for the just rghta
of an American citizen. charleston News and
Courier.
AT the present time capital avoids enterprise;
business is paralyzed trade stands still, the mer
camille spirit is depressed. No employer of men
can be certain Of the future; he cannot even take
profitable order lest it be made the signal fog
a strike that may ruin him. He Is like those
within the temple when blind Samson without
tugged at the pillars. Such state OF feeling
between capital and labor is unnatural and alb
horrent. and 1t must come to end soon IL 1t ia
not to prove the ruin OF Philadelphia
Telegraph.
UNIONS are created and unionists try to force
out of employment everywhere the men who do
not join them. They cannot comprehend the
fact that, against $685. 900 persons enrolled in
labor organizations, there are $4,000 600 in this
country who are not enrolled who want na
organizations to dictate to them or to make theis
bargains for them, who will tolerate no tyranny
from any quarter and who have exactly az
much right TO labor where they please and az
they please the foremost Knight Of Labor In
the land.-New York Tribune.
TO-DAY, through series of unhappy blunders,
Jay Gould does not recognize the Knights of La
Dor; he refuses to treat with them, and he has
filled the places of most of them on his railroad
system. This is great loss to the order. II
has all come about through the failure to sub
NIT the question Of strikes to the general execu
tive hoard. District assemblies shoud not ha
permitted to Issue famboyant proclamations
but everything OF q general nature should b
submitted to that board milwaukee Sentinel
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