Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-07-13
THE STRIKE.
How 1T IS VIEWED IN VARIOUS Sc.
TIoNs OF TIE CoUSTRY.
louisville Courier Journol.l

NIIoulSNliic courier journal.
Let no man dclude himself with
the notion that if this business pro
ceeds there Will be no war. The Debs
movement cannot possibly succeed.
Its success would mean the over
throw of government 1t would
mean anarchy. All the powers of
law. the army and the navy will--tho
moment tho occasion arises-be hurl
ed against it. The only question for
the work people to consider is wheth
or it shall carry down with itself all
we have been taught to hold near
and dear2 Shall tho vanity of fool
at the head of committee be set
against the duty each citizen owes to
his country? Shall the orders of a
trades union be set agaiust loyalty
to the governments
The man Debs is n dire enemy of
truo workinSmen. He is an enemy
OF his country. His scheme is Who'll
ly impracticable. The idea ho ad
vances is wholly false His methods
arc equally untenable and intolera
bile. There can be, there will be, but
one resuit-the vindication of the
public authority and The maintenance
of the public order at every cost.
But there may be infinite Eloodshed
and needless bloodshed-and there
will be, has been, infinite loss and
hardship, all of which will recoil up
on the lowly and the poor, not upon
the rich and powerful, who arc be
You'd roach.
New Orleans Picayunc.)
vi course, i'll every such case, the
masses of the people arc the greatest
sufferers. There are among the 60.
O0J,000 in the United Suites about
1000 miilionaires. 1t would be i'm
possible to stnrve them out, for they
can buy what they need, no matter
what may DO the price, or they can
close up their mills. factories stores
and warehouses and stenrn away to
Europe to stay until the trouble shall
pass. There are perhaps n hundred
thousand well to do people who will
be able to weather the STERN, but the
work people have got to stand the
stress. They must suffer, no matter
what happens, and in the event of n
general strike iihey will have tho con
solution that ali OF their troubles and
sufferings, starvation and general
misery. will be their tribute of sym.
patty for the strikers.
nEp,
philadelphia Times.)
President Debs, of the American
Railway Union, is common enemy.
lie is the enemy Of labor; he is the
enemy of capital; he is the enemy of
Industry, OF commerce, of finance and
of trade; he is the enemy of every
thing that improves the condition of
workingmen and that tends To the
general prosperity of the county.
He has wantouly and arbitrarily
deprived scores of thousands of his
followers of their daily labor and
their daily bread when they had no
dispute whatever with their employ.
ers.
BY the interruption of trade and
traffic he has increased the cost OF
nearly all the necessaries of life to
the worliingmen when they arc de
prived of all sources of income bv
the strike he has ordered.
He has deprived labor of millions
of dollars that would have been paid
in wages during the present year by
tho construction Of new RAILWAYS,
which will be halted now by the
great uncertainty of the cost of OPP.
Grating them.
He has stopped foreign investment
in our railroad securities for tho time
and probably precipitated the return
of many millions of such investments
to be paid from our already scant
supply of gold, therey crippling the
whole business and industry of the
country.
He has halted American invest
ment in industrial enterprise winch
would give employment to workmen.
All such investments are readily hin.
dered by uncertainty, and tho dis
turbanco in labor circles is one Of the
surest methods of stopping invest
ments which would give employment
TO labor.
He has opened the door for the re
duction of wages throughout our en-
tire railway system. The railroads
have been struggling against most
adverse tides during the Inst yaor
and many have been compelled to
yield to the possession of receivers,
but thus far they have almost inyari
bly, maintained the wages of their
workmen. With loss of a million
dollars day imposed upon the rail
ways and chose interested in their
traffic, by strike that is rs costly as
it's wicked and revolutionary, the
railways will be compelled in the
near future to reduce the wages OF
their employees.
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