Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-19
THE DOdddge Building Corpus Christi

hawk for a hen, or tiger for calf.
When Jean Vatican, the greatest hero of
Victor Rugo's writings, after life of
suffering and brave endurance, goes into
Incarceration and death, they clap the
book shut and say, 'HGood for him!'
They stamp their feet with indignation
and say just the opposite of "Save the
working classes. - They have all their
sympathies with Shylock, and not with
Antonio and Portia. They are pluto
Gratis and their feelings are Internal.
They are filed with irritation and irras-
cibility on this subject. To stop this
awful imbroglio between capital and
labor they will not lift SO much as the
tip end of the little finger.
Neither will there be any pacification
of this angry controversy through vio-
lence. God never blessed murder. Blow
up tomorrow the eountry-seats on the
banks of the Hudson, and all the fine
houses on Madison square and Brooklyn
Heights and Brooklyn Hill and Ritten-
house square and Beacon street, and all
the bricks and timber and stone will just
fall back on the bare head of American
labor. The worst enemies of the work.
ing classes in the United States and Ire
land are their demented coadjutors A
few years ago assassination-thea ssas-
sination of Lord Frederick Cavendish
and Mr.. Burke in Phoenix park, Dublin,
Ireland, in the attempt to
AvENGE THE WRONGS OF IRELAND,
only turned away from that afflicted
people millions of sympathizers. The
attempt to blow up the house of COM
mons, III London, had only this effect:
to throw out of employment tens of
thousands of innocent Irish people in
England.
In this country the torch put to the
factories that have discharged hands for
good or bad reason; distractions on the
railtrack in front of midnight express
trains because the offenders do not like
the president of the company; strikes on
shipboard the hour they were going to
sail, or in printing offices the hour the
paper was to go to press, or in mines the
day the coal was to be delivered, or on
house scaffoldings SO the builder fails in
keeping his contract-all these are only
a hard blow on the head of American
labor, and cripple Its arms, and lame Its
feet and pierce its heart. AS result of
one Of our great American strikes you
find that the operatives lost $500 900
worth of wages and have had poorer
wages ever since. Traps sprung sud-
denly upon employers, and violence,
never took one knot out of the knuckle
of toll, or put one farthing of wages into
a callous palm. Bsrbarism will never
cure the wrongs of civilization. Mark
thatl
Frederick the Great admired some land
near his palace at Potsdam, and he re-
solved to get it. It was owned by a mil
Ter. He offered the miller three times
the value of the property. The miller
would not take it, because it was the
old homestead, and he felt about 1t as
Naboth felt about his vineyard when
Ahad wanted It. Frederick the Great
was rough and terrible man, and he
ordered the miller into his presence; and
the king, with a stick in his hand-a
stick with which he sometimes struck his
officers of state-said to this miller.
''Now, have offered you three times
the value of that property. and il you
won It sell it I III take it anyhow. The
miller said: ssYonr majesty, you
WON'T eyes," said the king, az
will take it, 'Then, - said the mil
Ter, s'if your majesty does take it will
sue you in the chancery COURT At that
threat Frederick the Great yielded his
infamous demand. And the most i'm
perious outrage against the working