The record-union., 1894-07-18
LISTEN 70 REASON.
An Appeal to Citizens TO Stop and
Think.
The Expenditures of the Southern Pa
cif1c Company in the City of Sac
ramento Each Year.

EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN: As one listens on
the corner and to the groups Of men talk
ing. he has naturally to conclude that the
object of society and its construction was
known to all, even to the most simple oi
subjects.
The common impression that one gets
is that there must be trouble between
capital and labor. as the wheels OF pro-
gress and manufacture drag slowly. Bat
this talk is ''love's labor lost.o It IS said
''there is nothing SO obscure and hard to
develop and understand as society,"
has almost become part of the nature OF
Americans to obey the laws. No man can
move in society without knowing al
least a portion of its laws. Every man
must know the laws of his avoeatlon.
The reconstruction of society is not SO
simple a matter. 1t would be much easier
to change the course of the earth around
the sun. Still, you hear these leaders OF
strikes say that they are revolutionizing
our entire social and industrial system by
one grand strike. They are not honest:
they preach these doctrines to work upon
sympathiZing people. They know bet
ter themselves, and their only object Is
communism: they are deceivlng labor to
accomplish their ends; they are trying &c
encourage labor to fight capital. Capl-
tai and labor go hand IN hand, ana When
we hear the eXtrayagant statements Ih2ue
by these socialists that this IS war be-
tween capital and labor. 1t makes me
think Of two cats / once saw when boy,
their tails were tied together and they
were hanging over a clothes line and try
ing to Kill each other; mean boy mao
tied them together and put them IN posi-
ton to destroy themselves.
Capital and labor must not hght; they
are not fighting. One is essential to the
otner; one depends upon the other; Inc
trouble is not between capital ana lapor
but comes from the loose Immigration
laws upon our statute books which allow
the scum of all countries to come here
and scatter the seeds OF anarchy Droau-
cast throughout our land. This Is the
source of the great evil that has brought
about this strike.
The United States Congress is debating
the subject of an appropriation OF one
million dollars to extinguish the Russian
thistle. 1t should appropriate one mill
ion more to educate the socialistic thistle
that is far more Injurious to this country
than the Russian thistle. They should
also, without hesitation, pass such laws
as will prohibit the injurious element
that is coming to our doors every day.
In the Monday morning issue OF your
paper there was an article taken from an
Interview with Archbishop Ireland OF st.
Paul. At this time every one should
read that article with the greatest care,
II is full of information; tull OF truth;
full of christianity and full OF the milk OF
human kindness. Some time ago Arch
bishop Ireland made speech before
some labor organization, l do not now
remember what one it was, but / was so
impressed at the time OF reading II that
i cut a part OF it out, and as 1t is full OF
the most valuable information at THIS
time / wish to have it printed in your
paper again that 1t may be more care
fully read. For those who do not know
this grand American, prince wish TO
say of men, he had the courage of his
convictions to defend our public school
system against large portion OF his
church. He is a great man and has the
courage to stand on principle rather
than policy, a man with advanced ideas.
In the address referred TO he said IN part:
81 hate that view of labor which makes
of il a mechanical force like unto the ro-
tation of a railroad wheel or a turbine,
purchasable at mere market value. i
must see at all times the living generator
OF labor-the man, my own brother and
the child of the supreme Goa, and II
availing myself of human labor must
keep well IN mind the dignity and the
rights of the man. demand
for the laborer and his family-so far as
through just and rational measures we
can reach thereto - the means oi
decent livelihood, the opportunity to de-
veIop intellect, TO care for bodily health
and moral and religious growth, TO re-
ceive due portion OF the joys OF human
existence.
LET me now enter my brief plea fol
capital. At once you will unite with me
in extending over it the shield which
covers property, whether this be the ex-
tensive Investment of the rich or cIrcum-
scribed possession OF the poor. Property
is the very foundation stone of the social
fabric; il is the incentive and reward oil
industry and energy. The Indian tribes
have slight regard for property; what is
owned by one may be used and controlled
by all: the Indian tribes remain bands
of savage idlers. He who menaces prop
ertv is an anarchist, and the anarchist is
the deadly foe of order. OF right, OF So
ciety. He is the wild beast, solely bent
on destruction.
Labor is an absolute need of the coop
Grafton of capital. To what purpose is
your muscular strength unless capital is
niph TO reward? Without capitalize
there lu6 ull4llOHS VI WOl
factory doors remain, closed, fields are
untitled, mines hold their treasures in
concealment, no ships plough the seas,
no railroads span the continents. With
out capital labor is latent, unproductiye
energy. Why to-day are there among US
legions of unemployed? Because capital
HES away from us.
Capital emerges into public light or
hides itself in vaults at its own good
pleasure. We must WOO 1t with winning
words and acts. 1t is timid of it's life.
Make il insecure, il will shun you and
leave you to beat the air with your idle
arms The laws of the financial world
are as infiexible as those of the fodr
seasons of the year. The State or the
country in which, through mob riots or
oppressive legislative statutes, property
is endangered or made unproductive, will
be surely abandoned to their own sterile
resources"
The leaders of the present strikes,
Debs and Sovereign, are the enemies OF
labor. If you will carefully read the dis
patches that came from Washington q
few days ago you will notice that q COM
mittee representing these two anarchists
are reported as having called the atten-
: ton OF the President of the United States
to the O'Neil law passed by Congress
some time since. If they had been the
friends of labor they would have ex-
hausted all the laws on the statute books
TO make the Pullman Company arbi-