The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-08-20
ANARCHY AFLAMB.

The action of President Mcleod, OF the
Reading in Offering a reward Of five thousand
dollars for the detection Of any one destroying
the property Of his road, sho gs prompt
determination 10 meet the emergency. With
spirit like this In proper places, there would be
no dalIying with anarchy as at Homestead
where crime succeeded crime until society was
in chaos before the authorities raised hand.
History holds that there was humanity In the
svrft suppression of the revolutionary sections
nv Young Napoleon We cannot palter with
this business. Fire must be stamped out
The situation in Buffalo is deplorable, not in
itself alone but as the symptom OF growing
spirit Of disorder. We cannot always avoid
labor strifes Labor has had much to endure
from capital Happily these exactions belong
20 the past, when labor was serfdom in Russia
and slavery in the United states, and what was
worse than either in France, Under the
happier conditions of the United States there
has been until within recent years the best
relations between capital and labor The
laborer of the day saw that he might be a
capitalist on the morrow. He was enlisted in
an army where every soldier carried baton in
his knapsack Men who directed large inter.
ests had themselves been laborers and were in
sympathy with them. When the sewing
uQNCOlut Cdult 10 puppldAb tAS e"i'Sif " NA'N
steam loom the hand loom, or the periecting
press with its two printers the rotary press
with its dozen, there was an acceptance of the
situation. One helped the other towards the
adjustment OF new conditions.
In recent years, sipce the strikes Of 1871 we
have had different state OF AFFAIRS New ele-
ments have come into power. Hordes OF
aliens-alien In race religion and sentiment,
have swarmed upon US from the Lower Dan
ube and other semi-barbaruus countries.
Ignorant Stond, superstltious, their manhood
ground out by the sJtriton Of centuries Of op-
preston, dumped upon us through me Euro
pean process of relieving home by sending
crime and poverty TO the American Shores
they come, and we feel the effects OF their com
ing. To them difference OF opinion means
the knife or the torch. hen laborers In the
old day complained ttey sought ad ustment In
frank, earnest way, Men met man, as peers,
Now there must be the secret chamber, pass.
words and spies; "triuunals OF justice" to
'sentence people 10 death % assas ssins chosen
by lot. II there are interests vital 10 the pub
lie welfare, strike az them. Burn, root up de
stroyl Warp railroad tracks set fire to cars,
arrest trains allow perislaDle froight-meat,
milk, fruit the days food Of q community
perhaps-to rot bow up bridges, and day
sever, as IL were, the urte be-, Of society. This
Is the modern way OF adjusting differences"
in labor
As development Of an appalling regime our
people, especially our lahoring classes, must
look il well il the face There Is not a crime
now mpantat Buffalo that does not strike the
poor. Nor can these acts be dismissed as the
impulse Of ignorance and pas ion. Take tho
meeting held al Wayery on July ~, to arrange
this very strike How should the strike be
conducted Mcnamara" apparently leader
''wanted foreen His plan, he said, would b,
20 run cars OF the track 90 through the yard
knock holes In the engine tanks, cut hose an,
so on, 80 as 10 disable engines" This seems u
have been adopted, especially as an assurance
was given by the BunAlo men ITO run ol
the track and wreck freight and coal car
enough from IL at midnight 10 2 in the mornin
10 block up the road for a week" This ais
was done most enectivey,-and In addition 10
when men Of this class get their hands in, an
with sheer flowing" as the reporter tells u,
two or three hundred freight cars we're burned
And the cause Of this-but crime is eve
eauseless except as the instigation OF th
degn There was question as TO the wage
OF form of skilled labor requisite 10 handl
the switches Whatever merit there may hav
been IN the claim Is lost In the atrooity Of N
mceh9 lot lln enforcement we hhould n
member that in no department OF labor Is ther
30 little cause for complaint as In the railway
The pride Of the companies is In aocurat
service, which can only come from intelligenc
and content Labor is subdigded 10 such a
extent, that upon no one department does
severely fall. In no country Is railway servic
better paid or attended with more attraotiy
compensations than In the United States.
has meny prizes The road TO preferment
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