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body, which meets in Philadelphia in De-

body, which meets in Philadelphia in De-
cember.
The national assembly of the Knights
of Labor, at their recent meeting held in st.
Louis. refused to pass a resolution favor
ing the adjustment of the militia, but
adopted one favoring its practical dsor-
ganization. The purpose Of the passage
of these resolutions is perfectly clear; it is
practical confession that strike like
that at Homestead, C9ur d'Aiene, Buffalo
and New Orleans cannot succeed if the
property of employers and the persons OF
employees are protected from violence.
The sheriff and his local posse are power
less to suppress the organized violence OF
a large number of strikers. SO the militia
are necessarily resorted to by the author
tiles to suppress violence and protect prop
erty. This perfectly legitimate use Of the
state militia is termed by the labor Or
CARNATIONS forcing American working
men to comply with the demands of
brutal and tyrannical capital" This is
going altogether too far. The state is
pledged to suppress illegal violence against
the persons and property of all men,
whether employers or strikers, and public
opinion in America can have no sympathy
with the use of violence and the illegal &C.
cupation or destruction of property to
force success for strike.
The militia, when called out in New
York. Pennsylvania, Idaho and louisiana,
did nothing but guard property and pro-
tect non-union men from illegal violence
when at work. The people will never con-
sent to abolish state militia on the
ground that it is an obstacle to illegal vio-
lence against the persons and property of
citizens as much entitled to protection as
are the strikers themselves against illegal
assault The present Loubet ministry
in France is on the verge of its
fall. because of the encouragement
given by the premier. Loubet. to
the strikers in the Carmaux affair.
In the soSalled compromise imposed by
the government on the parties to the Car
maux quarrel, the mine owners got
scarcely anything and the workmen al
most everything. The superintendent of
the mines, indeed, was allowed to keep his
post, but he was compelled to replace on
the pay roll of the company the discharged
workman. Moreover, large proportion
OF the arrested ringleaders of the riot
which took place among the strikers were
released.
That part Of the people Of Paris which
uphold the rights of individual property
and favor law and order, believe that the
revival Of the anarchist outrages is due to
the encouragement given by Loubet to the
Carmaux rioters. The argument of At.
torney Erwin in behalf of Critchlow in.
Guided the extraordinary plea that while
the occupation of private property by
armed strikers was proper, the attempts
by the owners of the property to land
armed men for its recovery was an illegal
invasion. Gen. Weaver, in his extraor.
binary address of congratulation to his
party, seems to take the same ground
which is absolutely without defense under
our present form OF government as set
forth in the Federal constitution and law
and the constitutions and laws of all our
states.
Gov. Hogg, of Texas, is another repre-
sentative of that class Of Incendiary poll
ticians who pretend to believe that "a rail-
road corporation is a crime and wealth
the objectionable SIM" This kind Of
blatherskite is as old as Jack Cade, who is
represented by Shakespeare as bidding his
soldiers Spare none but men of clouten
shoon; they alone be honest men," These
demagogues minister to the worst passions
of the people, forcibly described by Bis
| marck as 1.-The lust Of the INDECENT for
others goods, the envy of the less wealthy
for the rich.''