Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-16
Carllee is the gentleman who wanted the
WheeIers IL his district to send him t
Congress. They did not do it.
HOW THEY STAND.

4hC Nc Oih deI0Iu Has IuteIFlS"
all the Senators snd Congressman relstive
70 the Reading strike and finds that: "Ot
the whole number of Senators and mem
bers questioned by the Herald reporters
l6S made replies confessing total ignor-
aDce, 127 gave replies which seem to US
to denote that they are 'on the fence srd
taking care of themselves. O1ly six Sen
stors and s!xty-four Representatives eX-
pressed more or less positive opinions,
and OF these two Senators and twenty
Representatives denounced strikes snd
labor organizations in general or expressed
themselves in favor Of the corporation in
this csse, while tour Senstors apd forty
four Repre- sentstives took stand en- the
side OF The strikers" TIE Herald divides
them into fCur groups, to-wit: In favor
ct labor and higher wages; in fsyor OF
capitsl and lower wages; On the feGce
snd in favor of themselves; cCnfessing
ignorance. OF cur Texas Senators, Coke
is put down on the fence, while Reagan
confesses ignorance. OF the Represents
tiyes from this state Moore Of the Eighth
district is put down SIS Sin favor Of labor
and higher wages" Abbott 'in favor OF
capital end lower wsgee;" Grain, Ian
ham, Martin, Sayers, as being ''on the
fence and in favor Of Themselves" and
Culbersar, Hare, Kilgore, Mills, and last
but rot lesst, Stewart, is on the list OF
"cor Tossing ignoranca." Most ell, If not
sll, Of our Representatives rather evaded
the question as will be seen By their ut
terances:
Senator Coke (Dem.) of Texas-I decline to
be interviewed on the subject.
Senator Reagan (Dem.) of Texas-I have be N
very much engaged and do rot know in par
ricular what CAUSED the strike. Therefore
can not eive an opinion as to who is at fault.
Mr.. Abbott (Dem.) of Texas-I do not under
stand the causes that led to tails particular
strike. think the principle of strikes is alto
gether wrong, and | Go not syn pathize with
them. We In Texas know very little of strikes
from personal observation,
Mr.. CulDtrson (Dem,) CT Te1as-I haven't
read shout 1t, never investis sted ii and don't
KNOW WHICH sIue Is JlSnt.
Mr.. Grain IT en.) of Texas, was not ling to
state in exprets terms his opinion OF the pes
ent strike.
Mr.. Hare (Dem) CT Texas-I Go not know
enough about the causes CT this strike TO justify
mo IN expressing an opinion az to the merits of
either side,
Mr. Klgore (0tm Of Texas-Gi ethe Herald
my love, and tel them that l don't know con
founded thing aboutit,
Mr.. Lanhsm (Oem.) OF Texas-I have only
noticed the accounts CT the strike In general
way, but | believe that, as a rule, st,tkes are
etrimental to 10th the strikers and, SO to
speak, The strikes.
Mr.. Martin tDeu.) Of Texae-I Will reserve
my opinion until 1 have investigated the tub
ject more fully.
Mr.. Moore (Dem.) o. Texas SO long as we
have such uncommercial usages throughout
our country as Prevail in relation to currency
and in relation 10 our tariff, these strikes will
continue to taSe place.
Mr.. Mills (Dem.) Of Texas-Really l haven't
rad time TO look up the matter. / don't know
a thing abousit. All I know is that somebod y
is striking for hirher wages, or lower wages, or
sometbipg; hut haven't an idea as to who can
be IN the right.
Nh SayeIs (Dem,) Of Texas-I think the
quest On CT he ju .tiCe or pjustice of strikes
rounding c.rc instances in each particular
case.
Mr. Stewart Oem.) of Texas 1t Is a matter
which l hay emit considered sufficiently to JUS
II nc IN expressing an opinion. 1 do rot be-
lieve in people rushing into print with poorly
matured opinions.
Its failure to pull some OF the members
off the fence causes the Herald to feel 8
"painful sense of the isolation OF Con-
gress from the people" The magnitude
CT the trouble, the Herald thinks, is such
that public men, IL they are watching the
signs of the times, must be familiar with
it. Ssys the Herald:
Anything more deplorably comic than many
of the replies of the gentlemen con the fence
1t seems TO Us Impossible TO imagine. We have
not sp7 &c here to quote, but we advise readers
In search of good laugh to turn to the chunks
of wisdom uttered by Congressman who-as
one of them neatly puts it-ar '-in favor of
the strikers II hey are RI hit and against Them
If they are wrong or a another. Senator,
remarks, "to not consider It in the line of
their duties to study the troubles between cor
porations and their employees"
Some OF our Texas solons are guilty OF
what the Herald calls deplorably comic
replies II " i'll be seen.