New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-07-13

l flCW las INTERCHANGEABLE a. VI
sion to both McCleary and Davis and
will not hold back now that it looks as
if it would have to swallow either one
or the other We would urge, however,
that Brown county do its duty by Red
wood county in supporting Mr.. Turrell,
a man of unquestioned integrity.
Look into the Omaha convention and
what do you find? No doubt many who
are earnest and honest in their belief that
reform is needed, but who are the lea
ders? A good many Of them are men
who have rarely done a stroke OF actual
labor and never raised a finger in the
true interests of laboring men and far
mers. We speak these words meaning
~ and honestly for they are borne out
by the facts and we realize that there are
those who are being deceived by the
prattle Of these calamity orators. Many
of them too have made their living out
of laboring men without returning any
equivalent. Donnelly, Fish and John
P. ST. John are men of this class. They
are professional reformers, lecturers and
patriots who contract the muscles of their
mouth in behalf of the farmers for what
ever they can get out Of them Time
was when Fish was respected by the class
he profess,d to befriend. Now that he
is known, there are few who care to do
him reverence. He is one of the chronic
passers of the hat. Now in this politi-
cal movement and now in that and in all
agitations that present new induce
4 ment for his stock in trade. They are in
these movements professionally or in other
words for the rake-otf. They join them
Just as the confidence man hoyers around
the circus or the county fair. They are
in search of suckers, and their presence
is bane just as the fakiir is to the place
he frequents.
The peoples party, whatever it may
succeed in doing in localities, can never
achieve abiding success until it relegates
to the rear these professional agitators
and demagogues
: l 5H DurInCr tho fho foIo
8 have been busy in keeping tab on the
1 eyentful strike which has been in pro-
gress at Homestead. In the fight be
tween the laborers and the Pinkertons
men were killed on both sides, and both
sides it seems are partly to blame. The
strikers may have had grievances, but
i the use of violence or attack upon the
parties employed to guard the works
was not justiGable as long as the latter
remained within the law and, stood on
the defensive. No man has a right to
compel another to work for him, neither
has any man the right to use force to
compel another to employ him. EN-
ployees have a right to organize and use
4 all moral and peaceful influences to adj
vance their interests as wage earners.
But when they pass this line and en-
j ploy force they enter a field that is dan
i gerous and where their sincere friends
cannot follow them. On the other
4 hand, the employment of private mer-
i cenaries, In the place Of the public
i peace officers and militia, is equally dan
gerous and indefensib1e. The public
1 peace and the protection Of property
are leggitimately the charge Of the public
authorities appointed for that purpose
| The substitution Of private police is
therefore an evil sign, and IS an ac-
acknowledgement Of the unreliability o1
the regular authority. It is an invita-
ton to disorder and riot. The catastro.
phe which occurred at Homestead NAV
not be entirely due to he presence d
the Pinkertons, but it was no doubt &C.
tolerated and increased thereby. The
lesson to be taken is that the time has
], come for the prohibition Of the employ;
ment Of such extra police. Some states
have already taken steps in this direc-
ton and the other commemorative now
have an incentive for the speedy passage
I of such provisions. This should be 4
country where order should be respected
and differences between labor and CAPT.
tai adjusted without blood shed.