The record-union., 1894-07-17
VOICE OF TEE PRESS.
Ungarnished Truths and Strong
Sentiments.
The Interior Press or the Strike and
the Boycott and the Enforce
ment OF the Law.
fTulare Register.l

[Tulare Register.l
1t is, therefore, not possible that the
American Railway Union shall triumph
in this contest, and so establish the prin-
ciple that national injury shall be in
fiicted upon an innocent public because
of local injustice, however rank and
heartless il may be. 1t is an impossible
principle, but if it shall become estab-
lished there Will be no knowing what
minute bull-headed employer and few
hot-headed employees may not set all the
forces of civilization at each others
throats.
WHERE THE BLAME LIES.
tFresno ExpoSiuor.
Can the strike leaders shift the respon-
sibilIty by saying that they didn't plan
or countenance the train wreck? When
trainloads of armed men rolled into sac
ramentO from Duusmuir and the mount
aims, with open threats of defiance and
lawlessness; when hundreds OF men with
Winchesters walked openly through the
streets of Sacramento declaring that they
would shoot the first man who tried to
move Pullman; when arms and ammu-
milton We're stored, with the expressed
intention OF defying and resisting the
law, and with the full knowledge OF the
leaders; when open threats were made by
the strikers that the train would be
wreck ked-when all this was done, can
there be any doubt or question where the
blame lies?
IT MUST TRIUMPH.
bakersfield Californian.l
While men may break the law, may
destroy property, may even take life, II
must be remem bered that the law will
assurediy triumph in the end, and that
those who break it must invitably be
made to suffer the consequences. II
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discourage and prevent the least sign OF
lawlessness.
THE GREATEST AND THE BEST.
Los Angeles Times.
Nowhere on the face of the earth is
there people enjoying greater freedom
than we enjoy, more full protection in all
their rights and privileges, or larger OPP
portunities for individual advancement.
We do not question, even in the midst OF
the present unrest, that every thoughtful
American realizes that this is the best
Government under the sun, and that its
overthrow would mean the dlrest disaster,
especially TO the laboring classes. When
labor comes to reflect upon It's methods.
upon the fact that in the Introduction OF
the unamerican strike and boycott it is
making use OF the tyranny which it COM
plains of as being used by capital for the
destruction OF the interests of labor, a
tyranny which will work its own undo
ing, 1t will come to its senses and help to
prevent the deeds of lawlessness and
violence which are being done in its
name. The sense of justice is not dead
in the breast OF American citizens, nor is
devotion to our institutions virtue that
has decayed.
THE LOGICAL OUTCOME.
Pasadena Star.
ftar hOfdinn hry faron Cf arD1oI mo n
the Sacramento depot and railroad prop
erty for ten days; after boasting continu-
ously and repeatedly that the strikers
should not be dispossessed of the same;
after resisting the attempt OF the militia
of the State 10 remove them; and after
forcibly blocking the movement OF trains
in and out of Sacramento for two weeks
after this record the leader OF the Sacra-
Lmento strikers comes out with a dis
claimer OF all acts OF violence. No Amer
lean Railway Union man may have been
concerned III the ditching OF the South
ern Pacific train but it's as plain az a
pikestatf that that murderous outrage
was the logical outcome of the words and
acts of Knox, Chairman of the American
Railway Union Meditation Committee.
CowARDLY AND sENsELEss.
PLACER Representative
The ditehing of the mail and xpress
train near Sacramento last Wednesday,
which resulted in the death OF six men
and the wounding OF three others, was as
eowardly as il was senseiess. Whether If
was done by the strikers or their sympa-
thiZers, the crime will be laid at their
door There must have been motive,
and that motive was not robbery. Was
il not foolish notion that that could be
obtained by terror which could not be Sc
cured by moral suasion2 1t is no secret
that assertions were freely made while
the train was being made up that it would
never reach its destination, and that other
trains would meet the same late.
LACK OF CAREFUL CONSIDERATION.
Lsutter Farmer.j
The great railroad strike and boycott
SLOWS what damage and disaster can be
and thought on occasions as have been
experianced during the past few weeks.
The workingmaD, while OF good common
sense and intelligence, capable OF grasp
ING sound ideas on other matter, when ii
comes to labor differences has shown a
marked tendency TO allow his enthusiasm
and fellow sympathy to get the upper
most OF his good Judgment and zeal TO
help fellow worker and maintain a
principle he may fancy correct, oversteps
the bounds of reason and is lea into
doing things which at other times be
would have scorned to be party to. This
enthusiasm soon extends TO an uncon-
trollable excitement, when supported by
outside sympathy of disinterested per-
sons and massing OF fellow workers to-
gether and becomes dangerously con-
tagious, creating q false sentiment that is
bound to end disastrously for all con-
cerned, especially so to the wofklngman
whose rashness is directly or indirectly
the ultimate cause OF the greater portion
of the damage and loss which ensues from
such an appalling national disturbances.
Do THEY TAKE THE PEOPLE FOR FOOLS.
Seattle lntelngencer.l
If this violence lin Chicago] was the
work of irresponsible toughs and anarch-
lists. as Debs and sovereign assert, If they
in truth realize that it Injuries the cause
which they represent, why 90 they ob-
ject to the measures taken by the Gov
ernment to restore order 7 Why 90 they
raise their voices in protest because sol
diers wearing the, uniform Of the United
States stop the Iawless work OF muroer-
ers and incendiaries2 Ii the rioters have
no connection with the strike, why
should Debs and Sovereign protest be-
/ cause measures are taken TO put an END &c
the reign OF terror and bioodshedY Ii, on
the other hand, it is the strikers who are
doing this lawless work, the pretense
LOal the SbIJh0 II a podS0aBAo ohO ~ HAS
be thrown aside once for all and the
American people should understand 81
once what it is they are called upon te
face.
Debs and Sovereign evidently take the
American people for fools. Otherwise
why should they expect them TO peiievt
their protestations of loyalty and love ol
order while they protest against effor'
made by the Government TO overcome
lawlessness and suppress downright In
surrectiom
AS CERTAIN AS FATE.
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And as certain as fate the hirer is not
going to trust his capital in any enter
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