The record-union., 1894-11-24

Stamped Out.
at the annual meeting of the Bar Assoc
citation of the State of Ohio, the President,
Hon. S. K. Harris, delivered the annual
address, in which he covered many
topics OF interes to the session. Among
other things he discussed the subject of
strikes" On this subject he said:
Another topic l approach with diff
dence, Tor the reason that no expression
has been uttered on the subject by our
association. What the views OF our
members here assembled may be are
unknown to me, but / cannot refrain
from expressing my own feelings and
convictions, whether they may be ac
ceptable to this association or not; L al
Jude to the growing state of anarchy to
which our beloved republic IS rapidly
drifting under the unchecked growth of
communism, which takes the specious
form and name of so-called strikes.
thousands upon thousands OF laborers
have had ample employment with good
living wages on the railroads, in the
mines and the manufacturing establish
ments OF our country. On the other
hand there are triple the nunb Der of
honest laborers in miscellaneous pur-
suits, uncertain in their nature, liable to
AldCtudbE ia W ages anu VI uDCtEldtu uuTd-
ton, such AS the common day iaborer.
The latter class may we'll envy the
miner, the railroader and the factory
hand. They would gladly change
places for the same wages, but what state
of things confront them? They are met
and repulsed by strikers who voluntarily
go out themselves and refuse to permit
The other laborers to take their places.
Here we see the work of sediuouS dem
agogues with political aspirations and a
burning desire for notoriety. With in
cendiary eloquence they seek to embitter
labor against capital, when they well
know that labor and capital are mutually
dependent on each other. They tell the
laborers, who are the strongest numeri-
caily, that they are abused and oppressed
by their employers, at times when the
laborerS are well compensated aud con-
tented. They lncite discomfort and re-
sentiments where none existed before.
They arouse the dormant passions and
cupidity of the laborer. They frame and
formulate organizations and societies for
Them, and incite them to ruin their bene-
factors. They dupe their followers with
the doctrine that capitalists and corpora
tons are powerful and oppressive, but
tail TO tell the other truth that host of
hostile and unreasonable laborers are also
oppressive and dangerous. The result is
that they have prevented the running of
railroad trains, they have tied the hands
OF property owners, they have closed fac
tories, and they have shut up coal mines
on which private families, factories, rail-
roads, ana steamers on our naVigable
waters, depend for fuel. They have inn
peded the carrying of mails and have in
flicted untold injury, either directly or
indirectly. upon every business pursuit.
For the vacant position OF every Strik er
there are three equally honest laborers
with families in need of their earnings,
who are ready and willing to go TO work,
but the hordes OF strikers, under the in
structions Of designing leaders, sullenly
and forcibly repulse every non-union
laborer who ventures to start the train,
to open the mine, or set the idle machin-
cry 10 running in the factory, and that to
the extent Of assassination, If necessary
to carry the point. There can be a
tyranny of labor as well as tyranny OF
capital.
Suppose a change of places. Imagine
an employer who would discharge a
laborer and ut the Same time say TO him
Il VIII neither give you employment nor
permit you to work for nybody else"
The same designing and insiduous
leader, who first inaugurated a strike,
would be ready 10 turn around and incite
the rich against the poor, If he could
thereby obtain political power and noto-
riety. y demagogue in a republic and a
courtier in monarchy are the same.
They both trown and Halter the govern
ing power for the sake of personal gain
ana notOriety.
The designing orator and demagogue
who lncites happy and contented class
OF well paid laborerS, as well as the poor
who are out OF employment, to mutiny
against their employers ana benefactors;
who makes inflammatory speeches to
convince them that the rich have no other
design than to crush the poor, and that
L.
ruin the rich, deserves to be cIaSSed with
the bloody anarchist, and should, like
him, be stamped out by the Government
Tor its own protection.
The organized strikers compose less
than one-thlrd the laboring men of the
United States, and OF them considerable
majority are foreigners.
our land has been latterly made the
receptacle into which foreign nations
have dumped their paupers and GRIM
lnals.
This honest, intelligent, industrious,
laW-aDIdlng foreigner will in the future,
as ia the past, be welcome to our shores.
We see the neatnesS and thrift of the
Germans who have clad these lovely
islands with their vines, and like Mr.
Wehrle have beautitied them with struct-
ure.
allude to those people only in words
OF praise, but unhappily statistics show
that class OF immigration TO be on the
wane, and in their stead we are flooded
with dangerous criminals like the Italian
bandit born with a stilettO i'll his hand.
This republic has been kind to the
laboring man, political parties have We'd
with each other as TO which could best
promote his interests. Unuer Congress
sional legiS alton the Chinese with their
cheap labor have been excluded in the
interest of the American laboring man.
The construction of the | Mon Pacific
Railroad was completed by Chinese labor,
and the same class can live, work and
thrive on wages that would slarye an
American laborer and his family. Hence
they have been excluded purely for the
benefit OF co mpensatory wages for Amer
leans.
The Legislature of Ohio has enacted
laws peculiarly beneficial to the laborlng
classes. Ii protects wages against the
homestead and other exemptions of the
debtor; it gives them priority over all
others in case of their employers failure;
il gives them mechanics and workmen's
liens on structures OF all kinds; and our
courts consIriIe all those laws literally in
the interest of the mechanics and labor
ers whose work is III the structures.
1yonld 90 farther. l would have our Leg
islature and our courts protect the honest
laborer. who seeking employment, finds
!. vacant place with an employer ready
and willing to set him to work, but finds
himself met, halted and tni eatened, not
nv the owner OF the property, but by a
striker who has vacated the position,
stopped the business, deprecated the
property OF his former employer. and
now Iorbids fellow citizen TO work when