The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-24
THE FRIcK SHOOTING.

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aged or countenanced the attempt upon the
life of Manager FRIcK of the CARNEGIE
works. The suggestion that the men could
bring themselves to contemplate such a
! deed is too terrible to be entertained. I'm
less it shall be proven to the contrary we
must believe the act was that of a reckless,
daring anarchist q mad wretch of the
order of Gu1TEAU and the fends who
threw dynamite bombs in Chicago few
years ago. And yet we realize as the strlk-
ers must do, that they will be held RESPONSE
Bile for the crime by considerable portion
of the public The lawlessress which they
have INDUCED in, the threats which they
have uttered, the desperation they have
shown brought on by the knowledge that
they are engaged in an unequal contest, will
all be brought up as evidence of encourage
ment to Just such deeds; deny it as they
may, denounce the assassin and his crime
as they will, the public viii find in the
strikers utterances and acts the inspira-
ton which led to the attempt upon the
life of the man of all others who is held re-
sponsible for their present unfortunate
condition.
fit shall be established that the would-be
murderer was directly encouraged to the
act by the strikers, or even that he is con-
nected with the men in any way, more
than he should and will hang in the event
OF Mr.. FRIcK's death, and sudden end will
come to the labor organization with which
the CARNEGIE company Is coutending.
Sympathetic as the American people are
with labor, and considerable as our laws are
Of the working classes, these laws recog-
nizing the rights Of the humblest citizen
quite as much as those of the wealthiest per-
son in the land, there will be no federation
of assassination, no countenancing of muir
der as an sdiuster Of labor disputes The
American people are lenient on the side of
working men in their contests with capital.
because of the knowledge that the struggle
is always an unequal on; yet when it comes
to violence, to lawlessness. there is
prompt alienation of sympathy, as
was illustrated in the case of the CHur
d'Alene strikers. Today no right thinking
person has any sympathy or respect for the
nom union workers, whereas previous to
the acts Of savagery the ''scabs'' were gen
orally denounced.
The FRIcK affair again strongly empha-
sizes the fact that the great problem which
presents itself to the American people is
that Of employer and employee. 1t threat
ems society and the government itself Just
what the solution will be, and Just how it
will be brought about we do not pretend to
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plan that will be successful they should
step to the front, for statesmen, political
economists and sociologists are all puzzled
and in distress. The world is full of the
cries, and the theorists are ready with their
schemes. They will tell you that capital
lists must be brought low and made to
divide more equitably with labor: they will
say that labor must be made to respect the
rights Of capital accepting what it offers
or taking nothing; they will insist that
unicnism must be destroyed and men
left free to accept or reject work as
they please; they will say there must
be no combinations of capital to coerce
labor. But the solutions do not solve. The
conditions continue and matters become
worse. The antagonism is more bitter this
Year than ever before. There is fight in
the atmosphere; there IS murder in the
air. The newspapers are censured for not
settling the question, whereas the news
papers are doing their utmost to establish
peace and maintain the rights of ali. Con-
gress and the legislatures are denounced on
account Of the unhappy state of affairs.
whilst the lawmakers generally simply do
not know how to proceed. All want peace
and justice and equity, and all see the
drift is swiftly towards the opposite He
would be benefactor, statesman and
humanitarian who could tell the American
people what to do to stave of the evil
which is upon them, and could lead them
out Of the awful danger which is threaten
ing,