The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-12

very few years until the Indian problem would
be solved It would cost q great deal Of money,
but IL would be money well spent. Denvet
Tribune, Republican.
THE right of the strikers to refuse TO work
except upon their W terms is freely accorded,
but their claim to the right of preventing other
men from working and to impede railway traffic
by the destruction of railroad property cannot
be tolerated if the United States is to remain q
free country. milwaukee Sentinel
sDoEs prohibition prohibitip yesterday had
a hint of staleness, but tomorrow it viii
again be a fresh topic, with a new crop of sEatis-
tics to prove that it does and that it doesn't; and
the Prohibitionists will take fresh courage in
their opposition to all scientific and rational
checks to the drinking abit.-Brooklyn Union.
ONE workingman has the absolute right to
join an order, and another has precisely the
same right to refuse to do so. Interference with
the liberty of the individual citizen cannot
safely be tolerated, as that would be to set mp
and give official support to a sort of tyranny
which would be unbearable. philadelphia Ins
quirer.
The wrong done by the men who use force
against the Chinese is chiefly in the fact that
such resistance is contrary to that good ordef
which should characterize every good govern
ment. 1t is barbarous because it Is born OF
disorder and a spirit of mutiny. It is barbar-
GUS not so much because it is war as because il
Is private war Advertiser.
HE HIATT ht d. LOUIS yesterday was one OF
those inevitable acts of half-scared, unskilled
men put on duty to resist rioters. In cities
where these things are liable to occur only trained
men able to endure any amount of provocations
short OF violence, and to meet violence only with
well-directed force sufficient to quell the mob
should be put on duty.-Memphis Avalanche.
THE sheriff of the county had appealed in vain
for military aid in preserving order, and, receiv.
ing no response, had sent his deputies home
leaving the protection OF the railroad property to
men armed and employed by them, but commits.
stoned as deputies by the sheriff. The consti.
abandoned all attempts to preserve the peace.
AID authorized, so far as they could, the raising
and arming of a small army by the railroad COM
panies. New York Star.
THE strikers have a new scheme for putting
themselves further in the wrong. They propose
to cut off the coal supply of the Missouri Pacific
road by an interference with the mining compa-
ny that furnishes it. The further they 60 with
such desperate tactics the worse 1t will be with
them. Lawless interference with business and
and the sooner the Western knights of Labor re-
cover their senses the better it will be for the or.
eanization. New York Times.
JAIL a halt! Get together and settle the dis
pute by proper concessions on both sides, or by
No man who can exert even a 1t
tie influence toward settlement should hesitate
to speak, and speak at once. Neither side
should be stubborn. Nobody should be auto.
cratic. The time has come when all people,
whether they are directly concerned in railroad
affairs or not, must demand a business-like set
Element; and let the settlement be at the cost OF
no more blood or burning .-Cincinnat Enquirer.
MEN who will not work because Of differences
with their employers are safest at their homes,
where no Winchester bullets can reach them;
while those who invoked the aid of force in the
attempt to manage their own affairs cannot ex-
pect public support to be extended to measures
involving the indiscriminate murder of unoffend-
ing persons. Neither the anarchy of mob rule
nor the savagsry of needless slaughter by corpo-
ration hirelings should be tolerated as admissible
phases of the struggle in the W~est-Philadel-
phia Record.
THE public highways must be cleared. The
embargo must be raised. The only Instructions
now are mall bands of strikers who are defying
the State governments-who are assaulting men
anxious to move the trains. This must end.
The laws are sufficient, and at any cost the laws
must be enforced. The patience of the people
has been exhausted. Costly delays in business,
the interruption of traffic, the incendiary talk
and the overt acts of strikers at Fort Worth. at
Little Rock, at East st. Louis-all enforce the
demand for peace. even if peace has to be con-
quered. The men who strike are on trial now;
not for striking, but for lawless interference With
others. louisville Courier-JournaL
EVERY man has a right to say what wages ha
is willing to work for. Every man has a right
TO join an association in which he
submits ms own judgment TO the judgment
of the majority of his associates. But the man
who has not joined such an association has not
forfeited his right to work for wages satss4
factory to him, and if those who have joined
such An association interfere with the exercise Of
his right. they are as much oppressors as the
capitalists who, for their own selfish ends, OPP
press laboring men. These are old truths, and
well worn; but men forget them in their passion,
and they need to be constantly enforced. No
real progress can be made by despising them.
Advertiser.