Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1892-08-05
VIEWS OF COL. A. W. HAIR
RIS ON THE SITUATION.
Kingston, N. M. , July "a.

| Az SDHoeSS oiA ohpoputuA SouoC
is generally considered an migrate.
ful task.
For many and oftentimes sell
fish reasons, men shrink from it,
and prefer in silence to "rathel
bea. the ills they have than fly to
those they wot not of.
When, however, such respect
able Journals as the Albuquerque
Democrat, and such highly esteem
ed citizens as our excellent ex-
governor, enter the list AS smypathi-
zers with and apologists for out =
laws, it is high time for reserve to
be thrown off, and silence to be
broken.
When vested rights are assalled,
individual ownership and control
of property ignored, when dynamite
shotguns and bludgeons are resort
ed to, for the destruction Of life
and property contrary to, and in
defiance Of llaw, whether by armed
and frenzied mobs or stimulated
by labor organizations, it is time
for good citizens to lay aside all
selfish desires for gain, or popular
ity with the masses. 1t becomes
their duty by the use of every
means in their power to stamp out,
and set the seal of condemnation
upon all such attempts at anarchy,
and violation of law. As | write
comes the startling report of the
ASSASSINATION ef Manager Frlck of
the ,Carniegie Homestead works;
what Is this but logical result of
the insane stand taken by the
AmaIgamated Steel association,
and other kindred organizations,
and the sympatllzers and apolog
lists, &hat "the laborer has vested
interest IN his job"
The morning Democrat assumes
this position, the ex governor dis
claims it, but argues for courts of
arbitration and a graduated income
tax. Both propositions are the
verlest rot and of no practical
application or utility.
The blood OF the dead workmen
and guards shed at Homestead
cries to the ground in denunciation
OF the abettors of these lawless
acts. The fostering bodies of
scores Of union miners and the
smouldering embers of the Idaho
mills, will plead in vain for protec-
ton to life and property, if the
maudlin sympathy of leading
journals and good citizens continue
to be extended.
Let us analytic the position
assumed by our friend Slower;
while finding fault with the Demo
crat and Senator Palmer he unwit-
tingly becomes eptangled in web
of his own inconguous assertions.
Now conceeding individual vested
rights and ccatrol of property, now
denying them. "a
In one breath ciaNing the right
of the employer to ree&ste and
control the enterprises Formulated
and carried on by his brains aid,
money. In another taking away
that privilege, and vesting it i'll
courts of arbitration, and indirectly
labor organizations.
One moment claiming that
Senator Palmer, and the Demo
crat are wrong in advocating the
principle that the laborer has a
vested ownership in his job, and
by parity of reasoning, the plant
in which be IS employed "that this
position if carried to its legal con-
cIusion would drive away great
industry out of the country.
The next moment denonncing
Carnegie as wrong IN attempting
to regulate his own business to
suit himself. copdemning him for
being 30 rich, and claiming that be
ought to disgorge a portion of his
lll-gotten wealth. (The ex-gover-
nor has not decided how much }.
How is it possible for our friend