The record-union., 1894-08-13
ROYAL BAKING POWDER.

No class in this State ever did so much
| harm in SO short time as the strikers
have done. Hundreds of families have
| been made wretched and destitute who,
| forty days ago, were contented and
| happy, and might have continued to re-
main so were it not for the Debs and
Knox rebellion. It has caused that faith
! full engineer, Sam Clark, to be buried
alive in one of Yolo's muddy bottoms.
| together with four soldiers who were
obeying the orders of the Government
officer.
| Notwithstanding the ditching of the
| train on the 1lth of July was the most
cowardly and horrible crime ever COM
mitted in this State, there are many
thoughtless people who are spending
| their time apologizing for and excusing
| those who are now on trial for committing
the horrible deed. Such misplaced sym
| pathy is calculated to invite other like
crimes, and the boldness with which the
train was ditched OIL the 1lth of July IS
strong evidence that outside sympathy
| had much to do with the dreadful crime.
1t has been proven that the leading al
| legged actor in the crime not only took
| boy with him, but drove through the
| Federal lines near the noon hour, with
out the least indication OF concealment,
and no one can deduct any other cOnclu-
! sion than that he expected to be applaud
munity, in place of being prosecuted
! provided, however, that he is guilty of
! the crime of which he is charged.
| Mr.. Debs and Mr.. Knox are not the
| only ones who are responsible for the
| great calamity that so many people are
now groanlng under. nor the newly-made
| graves which the disorder caused; but
they had hundreds of sympathizers, who
aided and urged them on in their destruc-
| tive work, and who are to the same eX-
| tent responsible for the evils done as the
| leaders themselves, from a moral stand
point. The disorder developed two
classes of actors besides the strikers en-
ployed by the railroad company. We
will call the first class those who re-
mained quiet and attended to their daily
| business and had no sympathy with the
| Debs and Knox reDellion, and were
| found to be on the side Of law and order
| when necessity demanded their services.
The second class are those who expressed
| great hatred Tor the railroad company
and much sympathy for the Strikers
they were loud takers, and, like the wild
girl OF town, they were found at so
many places and talked so much and so
long, that they caused many to believe
! they constituted the whole people, and as
this was the only class who communi-
Gated with the strikers, they had reason
TO believe that all the people were with
them, and that there was no necessity for
wrecking railroad trains in the dark, and
| that they would be applauded III place of
! being prosecuted. While we do not ac-
cuse the friends of Knox 81 Co. of any
evil intentions. the moral support they
gave to tho strikers has not been of any
benefit to the laboring classes; but, on
the other hand, the whole business has
! proved most hurtful to all.
While the people who sympathized
with and gave aid and comfort to the
strikers should have the mantle of charity
extended to them, for many of them
knew not what they were doing, the four
big dailies OF the metropolis deserve
nothing better than those who perpe-
trated the act of ditching the train, be-
cause they left nothing undone that was
necessary for the execution of the dia-
| bolical deed. There is no justice in plac-
ing few simpleminded people behind
] Jail bars, and permitting those who urged
them on to do the crime to go free and
unpunished. Every one who controls
! the big dailies of San Francisco should
! be behind the bars in company with
| those whom they have misled and edu-
! Gated to do the violence.
The only reaaon the sympathiZers offer
| for giving aid and comfort to the strikers
| is the wrongs that the railroad company
have done TO the people in the past; and
what is the strangest thing of all, the
| strikers have never proposed to correct
one single wrong of the many which the
people have complained of They lave
not only been silent in denouncing the
many hardships the company have bur-
dened the people with. but they aided
the company in giving them the power to
inflict the wrongs on the people, and are
most likely to do so again, in, case the
company takes them back and we
would like to know where their deserv-
! ing sympathy comes in.
Evidently the strikers were governed
TO great extent by the public sentiment
they received from the people. The
people received their inspiration through
the metropolitan press, and it is fair to
presume that had the big daily papers
pursued the opposite course from the
wrong one they did take, no violence
would have been committed, and instead
of Sam Clark and four brave soldiers
| lying in their graves, the people would
be enjoying their valuable services
| Hence, if justice could be brought to bear
on the most guilty CUES, it would fall
with greater weight on the controllers Of
the metropolitan press than it would on
the poor misguided ones who committed
the violence.
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