The record-union., 1894-08-03
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
What Leading Exponents of Public
Opinion
Have to say on Some of the Living
Questions of the
Day.
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
TLouisville oourier-Journal.7

Day.
louisville 0ourier-JournaLl
The speech OF Attorney Erwin in the
Federal Court at Chicago yesterday was
little better than an ineltement to an
archy. Declaring that the Government
had been unjust in its treatment OF the
strikers, he violently assailed the Gov
srnment officers, and with shrek as
serted that in case Of injustice the power
of the Government reyerts TO the people.
II by this he means that it reyerts 10 ali
the people in the exercise OF tnelT SUI
frages at the ballot-boX ne IS lneAact, iof
the power has never left the people. II
he means. as he seems to mean, that 1t re-
verts 10 q fractional part OF the people,
assuming to nullify laws at thelf own
pleasure by use OF force, he IS teacnlhs
sedition and laWlessness. Ihe Govern
ment is the people operating Intousn
forms they have themselves eStaDnshed,
and the people are not mere hanuiuI elIll' ol
adventurous charlat2ns nor their folloW-
srs, organized under whatsoever name
and claiming rights superior TO the wei
fare of the general public.
WHO SUFFERS MOST?
[Chicago Inter-Ocean.l
The great sufferer as a result Of the in
sanity of the recent strike is not capital
but labor, and the war was only appa-
Eently against the employer class; it was
actually waged upon and at the expense
of the working classes. 1t is only gross
stupidity that can see benefit to labor III
the interruption of the ordinary means by
which labor subsists. If the activities OF
the country that keep money in circula-
ton are suspended, labor is the first VIC
tim of the crisis. Labor thriyes in pro-
portion to the general prosperity.
DIFFICULT.
TChicago Post.
The most difficult problem of civiliza-
tion is TO draw the line between liberty
and license.
THE RIDDLE SOLVED.
Kansas City Journal
Governor Altgeld says he rarely reads
The newspapers This is frightful warn
ing to other men in public life.
THE PoPULIsTs' PLAN.
Tacoma Ledger.
The Populists seem to be organizing
everywhere TO destroy the business in
terests of the country and perpetuate
hard times. If this Is not their purpose
they have adopted wrong principles and
are pursuing wrong methods. They
could not destroy confidence in the Gov
ernment more effectively than by their
present course. The lack OF confidence
IN the Government which they excite
drives money into hiding and makes
property less valuable. Their warfare
upon the railroads has made capitalists
timid, and no new money will be risked
IN railroad construction to open new
countries and build up new towns so
long as there is any doubt that good
government will be maintained III all the
states.
THE DEADLY UNISON.
lChicago Dispateh.l
Voting to expend 81 100000 to exter-
inmate the Russian thistle Is paternalism
with q vengeance. Waycross Station
viii now rise as one man TO demand an
appropriation of 81, ,000, 600 TO wipe out the
deadly jimson weed.
THE AMERICAN LABOR UNION.
cleveland Leader.I
No gift of prophecy is needed to enable
any we'll informed man to predict with
certainty the fate of the latest conner in
The American Labor Union, which has
Just been announced 10 the world by a
small party of agitators in Chicago, has
no chance of success. 1t is doomed by
the very plan of its organizers.
The men who are at the head of this
movement start out by inviting the hos
tility and opposition of every officer and
loyal member of all OF the labor organiza-
lions now in existence in this country.
They denounce every one of the old
unions and orders as failures, and in
sinuate that they are kept up chiefly to
further the personal ambitions OF their
officers. The American Federation OF
Labor and the Knights of Labor are
alike notified to go OF somewhere and
die TO make room for the new organiza-
lion.
AN INSULT To WORKERS.
y. Y. Tribune
The report that certain of the great la
Dor organizations have directed whole
sale enlistment of their mem pers in the
militia services Of various States, with
the idea that in that way they may ac-
quire control of the local military power
and thus render It useless IN suppressing
lawlessness in the next extensive strike
IS in all likelihood fantastic midsummer
Mction. 1t is not probable that any labor
leaders of character and position are ca
pable OF proposing any plan so auda-
ciOusiy reasonable. 1t is still less prob
able that their followers could be pre-
vailed upon to carry such q scheme into
effect. To credit a story like that is to
insult the members OF labor organizations
by assuming them TO be traitors to the
obligations Of citizenship and false in their
allegiance to the flag.
ORGANIZED LABOR NECESSARY.
ALBANY IN. " JournaL]
Organized labor is a necessity of the
time, but when organized labor resorts to
violence or brings about condition
which leads to the commissisn of overt
acts it forfeits confidence and loses
ground. And violence follows every
strike. They are inseparable, which must
serve TO show every man in the land that
the methods of labor managers hereto
fore have been mistaken If not criminal.
While there is recourse to violence labor
never Will obtain public respect or receive
its due.
ALTGELD's NICE DISCRIMINATION.
[Chicago Tribune.l
Governor Altgeld would not have fid-
died at the burning of Rome. He would
have quibbled about the legality of the
measures taken to put out the fire.
MEssIEURs THE IURDERERs.
buffalo Courier.l
A committee of the Constitutional Con-
vention has made q report against the
abolition OF capital punishment. Appa-
rentiy the committee agrees with Victor
Hugo in holding that messieurs the muir
derers are the fellows who should take
the first steps to bring about the change.
SAN FRANCISCO STOCK MARKET.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 2, 1894
MORNING SESSION.
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