The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-09-20
gratitude that they live in this blessed
land. Labor is too hard upon capital
loo othreatening--toL, ,Xacting. These


too threatening--toC ,xacting. These
may seem strange words for me to use,
but they are true. I am as hostile to
monopolies and trusts and combines as
anybody, but when I read Of these
great strikes in times like these, it
shocks my sympathy. What are these
organizations anyhow, but monopolies?
The watchword Of most Of them is, "if
you don't pay so much, we will quit
and when we quit nobody else shall
take our places. That did not use to
be the law and how it ever come to be
the law, cannot understand very
we'll.
But we are gratifed to see such kind
relations between Mr.. Thomas and his
employees on our road from Atlanta
to Nashville. That is all light and
we hope it will continue. The mystic
ry is how a railroad can pay its men
at all while our whole financial system
is paralyzed. There is hardly enough
freight business now to pay for the
axle grease. One day last week there
we're only seven loaded cars going
north over this great road, so / was
told. Below Atlanta there is nothing
to load and yet the lease of the West
ern and Atlantic costs $120 day.
Railroads and factories have their
troubles, and but few make a fair rate
of interest on their cost. The wonder
is that any sane man will invest in
them where strikes and violence pre-
vail.
Now, I do not wish to be misunder-
stood. 1 have respect for all these
organizations where they RESPECT the
rights Of other people, but when those
employed on one road say to their
employers you shall not carry any
freight that comes over another road
where there is strike, their demands
shock the Judgment and the common
sense of mankind. When the strikers
assault and intiinidate Others Who
would gladly work, Or when they allow
violence to be done and the track torn
up and the locomotives disabled, it is
simply an outrage upon the law Of the
land, and if persisted in, will surely
bring this government into monarchy
like those Of Europe, where it takes a
standing army of half a million sol-
diers to protect citizens and their
property. The very class who are now
itaportanate for the government own
ership Of railroads should remember
that strikes are not tolerated among
government employees, neither in the
army or naval or public works or the
railway mail service. Strikers do not
dare now to stop the locomotives and
the car that carries the United States
mail.
Well, Of course these broth erhoods
have an answer. to all this, and | have
read il ILL Papers and periodicals
come to me weekly that breathe out
enmity to capital and are tainted with
communistic principles and in my
opinion these publications are doing q
world of harm. They are educating
the working people to the idea that
there should be division-a division.
In the awful days of the French revo-
luton three communists went into the
Bank of Rothschilds and cried "liber-
ty, equality, fraterpity-we have come
for our money" The Jew said "all
right. I have 60, 800, 900 francs in the
bank. There are go, O,0O0,00O people in
France; here are yours" and he threw
three francs upon the counter. "Now
60 tell the rest to come get their $,
said he.
But we have not come to that, and
1 hope we never will. 1t becomes all
our considerate people, whether poor
or rich, whether employers Or employ.
ed, to be reasonable and tolerant, and
to respect the rights of others, and to
teach others to do SO.
RTTT, ARP.