The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-21
ALL HONOR TO THE "sUN."

The Philadelphia Press renders nothing
but simple justice to the New York Sun
when it says under the caption "All
Honor TO the San":
The New York Sun deserves special honor for
ifs bold. manly. fear .ess delverance during the
present crisis of labor and law. It's voice has
rung out over sll ths land ike e ciayion- Every
friend OF truth. justice and right owes it q
vote of thanks for its courageous and inspiring
uttssauces.
1, easy q. such a time to play the derna-
gogue- TIE blatherskites and the conscience
less eagerly seize such opportunities TO nislead
the unthlnklag and 10 cater 10 the deprayed.
II IL easy, too, TO palter and parley and play on
both sides. The Sun has been neither q dema-
gogue nor trimmer. IL has had the courage OF
its convictions, and 10 has struck ght out from
the shoulder with virile, muscular force that
has been e1hilsrating It's Judgment has been
as clear a. crystal, and lis good Anglo-Ssxoa
has been as robust as Horace Greeley's in his
paimiest days.
All honor 10 the san!
The grest merit of the Suns utterances
has been that it has undinchingly insisted
upon the vindication Of the right of prop
erty to be protected against illegal inva-
sion and the fundamental right of the in
diyidual man to labor on his own terms.
The San has eloquently stood up for all
that makes the American flag mean any
thing more than a mere bit of gaudy bunt-
ing; ii has stood up for society. for Jaw and
order; for the constitution and the laws 1t
has called things by the right names;
it has said without a but or an
If that when q body of striking work
men undertake TO prevent other workmen
by force and murderous violence from &C
cepting work that these rioters have re-
fused, these riotous strikers when they
are too strong for the sheriff, should be
instantly suppressed by the military of
the state.
The American flag is trailed in the dust
when government for a moment upholds
strikers who declare that other workmen
shall not take work the strikers have re-
jected, and propose to kill them if they
do, and the Sun has without any qualif-
cation insisted that it was the funda-
mental right of property-hoider to pro-
tect his property from invasion: that it
was the first duty OF the state to protect
men in their right to work as firmly as in
their right to strike.
The issue presented by the Homestead
rioters was simple enough, but the shame
full conformation of the riot by the press in
certain parts of the country; the advo-
cacy of state socialism in its defense by
certain Democrats on the floor of the
United States Senate. befogged the true
situation and the criminal enormitv of
the action OF the strikers, and the stern,
patriotic bugle notes blown by the Sun
brought every true friend of American
Law and order to his feet without distinc-
ton of party. No service Of equal magni-
tude has been rendered by any great news
paper since the New York Times attacked
the Tweed ring and upse. it.
In these days of cowardly demagogical
newspapers that never dare speak up for
law and order, lest they lose subscriber
or vote al the next election, it is some
thing TO thank God for that the New York
SHn's courage and patriotism rose above
party cries and petty personal interests
and spoke out sternly in denunciation of
rioters and land pirates seeking to rob law
abiding citizens OF their right to have.
10 hold and to lawfully use their property,
and seeking 10 prevent by violence other
law-abidiBg citizens from taking work on
their own terms.
The Suns vindication of the right OF
property 10 protection, and the individual
right 10 labor under our flag, has been pre-
septed with so much simplicity. strength
ana patriotic fervor that il will have far
reaching effect for the future. In our
judgment the New YORK Sun has walked
the aw and order people of America to a
lasting sense of the peril of coquetting
with industrial incendiaries who organize
riot against both rights OF property and
the individual freedom of labor.
The Sun has completely burnt UP all the
wretched sophistry pleaded in condona-
ton Of the crime al Homestead whether
by contemplate newspapers or contempti-
bic demagogues on the door of congress.
Il was great opportunity, and the Ss.n
rose graudly 10 the level of the occasion.
There is not s reading young man of in
tel!igence on this Coast that has not had
his brain clarified OF deal Of cooweb
woven by the political spiders that are
always the craving demscosues in press
or public speech when riot lying,y dubs
itself "laoor battling for its rights" The
rights Of labor are dear 10 Us all il is the
rights Of labor that really are assaulted
when organized riot alirms with arms
that the individual right - labor IS not as
sacred as the right % strike; that the in
dividual right 70 labor is not right that
strikers are bound 10 respect.
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