The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-14

union laborers military training. Iheyue-
sign to extend the organization to every
manufacturing community In the state.
Tho ostcnsibe object is to provide
force that will protect union LABOR
ers against tho PINKERroNs. The right
to murder o member Of tho PfNKERToN
force, seems to I've implicitly believed In.
But, OF course. after sufficient amount OF
PrNKERToN men have been murdered, en-
ployers will hnvo to look to other sources
for the protection Of property. The private
militia which the agltators are organizing
In Massachusetts, can have no other object
than to enforce Homestead principles ana
terrorize employers.
In Chicago the same idea lie working. 1t
is reported that various trades there pro-
poso to raise military companies :" to com
bat the PINRERToNs when tho next clash
between capital and labor comes" Accord
ing to an authority in the Chicago 6as-
filters Union. " the prime object OF our
organization will DO to fight the P1SKER-
TONS whenever they are called upon to fight
workingmen." That is to say. whenever
there Is big strike. these labor armies Will
be despatched to the scene OF war. and will
proceed to Rnnihinte the persons employed
by the property owners to protect their prop
erty. For the talk about the PINKERToNs
is only blind. There is law In Mnssa-
chusetts. for instance. which forbids tho
employment OF PINKERToN men. yet the
Boston agitators want an army just the
same. And why not A Senator OF the
United States tells workingmen that they
have a right to be employed. right to oc-
cupy the premises OF their employer. Obvi-
ously such right. ii it exists. is not legal
one. 1t is not known to the courts. 1t can
be maintained only by the strong arm.
Strikers martial law is the only law that
will cover the case: and the creation OF an
army to overawe legal rights and processes
by military violence. is necessary II striker
sovereignty Is to I've maintained.
Mob law enforced by regular armies
OF strikers Is the natural result Of
the monstrous doctrine put forth BY
cranks like Senator PALMER and by thugs
like tho New York World The division Of
the people OF the United States into armed
camps would ensue. But the people Of the
United States cannot be taught to believe
that the law Of supply and demand can be
blown away with dynamite: and they will
not permit the substitution OF government
Dy laDOr aRlCdCOTS at inc neuu sCl dTueu
strikers for government by the people.
We advise the persons who arc trying to
organize militia OF Anarchy in Massachu-
sctts or Illinois or anywhere else to give
up the Job.
There are a good many fools and there are
not few scoundrols In tho United States:
but even If the scoundrels could persuade
the fools that violence is friend OF the
workmen. the great majority Of the Ameri-
can people. heartily despising the scoun-
drels and plying the fools. would stand up
for established law and order. for the right
Of every citizen to enjoy his own property
and select his own employees. for the right
Of every citizen to work for whom he
chooses. and to belong or not to belong to a
labor organization. as he chooses. By
whatever folly or violence these rights are
attacked. they nre invlncible while the
present idea Of civilization lasts. The silly
agitators who want to form military COM
panies. should take day of and try to
think just what 1t Is they want to fight. 1t is
not the P1NKERroN bogy: 1t is civilization.