The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20

and by the government. see IN q
Rome paper that they have organized
in Chulis district, in Floyd county, "a
bread brigade" and have 400 members
and they have signs and grips and pass
words, and have sworn that they "will
have 10 cents pound for their cotton,
debt or no debt, and they will hold it
at the muzzle of a Winchester" Surely
that can't be so. Is it possible that the
spirit of anarchy and communism is
taking hold of our people? Bread bri-
gade! Why, there is not farmer in
Floyd county who is suffering for bread.
There is none in this county. Corn is
abundant everywhere. It used to roll
in here from the West by the carload,
but it don't come now. There are
hundreds of farmers in Barlow who
will have corn and fodder and meat to
sell. Our farmers are better off to-day
than any other class in the community.
They come and go when they please
They have health and strength and
good water and are never visited by
storms or pestilence, such as have lately
come upon our sea-coast. They have
cattle and hogs and chickens and eggs
and "garden sass" and the schoolhouse
and the church are not far away-what
a pity they cannot for a little while
look in upon the poor of Europe and
have their hearts touched with gratitude
that they 1--we in this blessed land.
Labor is too hard upon capital-too
threatening-Soo exacting. These may
seem strange words for me TO use, but
they are true. I am as hostile to memo
poles and trusts and combines as any
body, but when read of these great
strikes in time like this, it shocks my
sympathy. What are these organiza-
tons anyhow, but monopolies. The
watchword of most Of them is elf 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 comes to be the law
now, I cannot understand.
But we are gratifed to see such kind
relations between Mr.. Thomas and his
employees on ourroad from Atlanta
to Nashville. That is all right and we
hope it will continue. The mystery is
how 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 were
only seven loaded cars going North
over this great road, so I was told. Be
low Atlanta there is nothing to load and
yet the lease of the Western and Allan
tic costs S12o a day. Railroads and
factories. have their troubles, and but
few make a fair rateof interest on their
cost. The wonder is that any sane man
| will invest in them where strikes and
violence prevail.
Now, [ do not wish to be misunder-
| stood. I have respect for all the organi-
| cations where they respect these rights
| of other people, but when those en-
ployed on one road say to their ena-
| ployers you shall not carry any freight
that comes over another road where
there is a strike, their demand shocks
the judgment and the common sense
| of mankind. When the strikers assault
| and intimidate others who would glad
Iy work, or when they allow violence
to be done ard 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 stand
ing army Of half million soldiers to
protect citizens and their property. The
very class who are now importunate for
the government ownership 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
locomotive and the car that carries the
United States mail.
Well, of course, these brotherhoods
have an answer to all this, and have
read it all. Papers and periodicals come
to me weekly that breathe out enmity
to capital and are tainted with COM
munistic principles and in my opinion
these publications are doing world of
harm. They are educating the work
ing people to the idea that there should
be a divisions division. In the awful
days of the French revolution three
communists went into the Bank OF
Rothschilds and cried 'liberty, equality,
fraternity-we have come for our
money" The Jew said "all right; I
have eO,0o0,O0o francs in the bank.
There are 60000,ooo people in France;
here are yours,n and he threw three
francs upon the counter. "Now go tell
the rest to come on and get theirs" I"
said he.
| But we have not come to that and !
hope we never will. 1t becomes all our
considerate people, whether poor OF
rich, whether employers or employed,
to be reasonable and tolerant, and to
respect the rights Of others and teach
others so to do. BILL ARP.
It isn't in the ordinary way that Dr..
+ Pierce's favorite Prescription comes to
tho weak and suffering woman who