Evening journal., 1890-08-21
LETTERS From Il He PEOPLE.


Workingmen's Views
To the Editor of the EVENING JOURNAL.
SIR 81 have noted with much regret |
the attitude Of the EVENING JOURNAL ON |
the New York Central strike. It has !
dealt editorially with the many misrep-
reservations sent out in regard to the
strike in manner unfair to the men and
unworthy of an organ, claiming to adyo-
cate the rights of the people. If
body Of intelligent working
men select representative Of an
organization of which they are members
TO SO and seek information from the
officials of corporation of which they
are employees in respect to an alleged
grievance which thousands of men say
existed If their representation is
treated witch contempt, denied the small
satisfaction Of a hearing, what alter
native is left the men2 These
are the foolish and insgnif-
cant causes which the EVENING JOURNAL
Ia company with the real organs of
corporate interests, has been harping
upon since the inception of the strike.
In your issue of the 10Th instant was
published an account of two Pinkerton
men being killed by strikers, and an edi-
torial in the same issue condemning the
strikers in unmeasured terms for their
lawlessness AS the world knows the
whole affair was concocted lie the least
the EVENING JOURNAL could have done
would have been to have noted its
falsity in some OF its several issues
since The fact that Pinkerton mon, the
little standing army Of the robber tariff
baron, fired into a crowd Of bystanders,
without real provocation, Is one that
should have been taken advantage Of by
our law and order loving EVENING jour
NAL TO launch forth a stirring article on
the outrage to American liberty by these
modern Hessians. No comment what
ever II is these things that have set a
number of your readers to thinking. and
as a reader Of your paper fee justified in
| protesting against the injustice that is
| being done the strikers. and / am sure
| all workingmen feel the same way. It
was a Vanderbilt who exclaimed: "D-n
the public" So please give men fair
| deal who are forced to do battle against
| them. JAIdEs MURPHY
Wilmington, August 90 1890.
The EVENING JOURNAL has been mis-
read by Mr.. Murphy. We have the sin
cerest sympathy for those workingmen
who remain in places where the compen-
sation is insufficient to support them and
their families. They are objects Of pity.
This country was established for the
brave and the free; 1t was not contem-
plated that there could be an oligarchy OF
power or OF money. That we have any
thing of the sort is because the
workingmen cast their millions of votes
with the political party which fosters
these oligarchies, which, under the pro.
lection of the government have become
masters Of the people and directors OF
legislation. But we do not sympathizt
with lawlessness or violence. The work
ingman has perfect right to demand
his rights, and not getting them, to quit
work. But that right does not
include the right Of trespass
destruction and murder; it does moi
include the right of employing and dis
charging men, or the right of managing
the property It does not include tn,
right of maintaining anarchy or o.
threatening war. The removal of griev
ances by illegal means cannot be toll
Grated II they must be removed b,
violence, fire and death, then the cur
is worse than the disease. Labor ha
rights, but SO has capital, and the peopl
should not be made to suffer because tn
one trenches upon the other. That is wha
strikes do by lawlessness, violence an,
murder; that is what capital does legal,
by buying or otherwise controlling tn,
votes.of labor in order TO corEummate thi
legal robbery of the tariff which enriche
the few and impoverishas the many
Workingmen themselves are responsible
for adding their voters to the part,
Of legalized robbery, which has depresse,
agriculture on the false plea Of creating
a "home market" and impoverished tbs
workingmen on the plea Of paying wage
TO the American working man" w
repeat that we sympathize with tn
working-man, we abhor the criminal
MIR. Murphy writes as if he had intelli
gence enough to make the distinction =
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