The record-union., 1894-07-19
TWO ExAMPLEs OF COURAGE.

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TWO EXAMPLES OF COURAGE.
The Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco on Tuesday did what it should
have done ten days ago, and by resolu-
ton denounced the strike and the law
lessness attendant upon it. and declared
in favor of sustaining the State and Fed
eral authorities in executing the laws. 1t
pledged its members to aid in prevent
ing depredations and appealed to the
authorities of all classes to suppress un-
lawful acts, and to bring offenders to trial
for obstructing railway traffic.
The Mayor of Oakland on Tuesday
called meeting of representative citizens
of that city which passed strong resolu-
tions denouncing the strike violence, the
interruption of traffic by the American
Railway Union and all lawlessness insti-
gated by that order and its sympathizers;
they demanded protection for the men
who want to work, and the arrest and
punishment of men who kill engines. de-
rail cars. use dynamite and drag firemen
and engineers from trains. throw prop
erty into the bay, etc.
Speeches were made and testimony
given that ripped up the strike methods
a,,d striv,1ad tho etri1>oro of SiaruiSa
namely, that they do not instigate un-
lawful acts, and that the American Rail-
way Union is not responsible for them.
Finally strong pledge was drawn up
and signed, offering the signers as posse
coalitotuS for the enforcement of the laws
and the protection of property, and to
that end they asked to be sworn in as
peace officers, and fifty were at once
sworn by the Mayor.
AT that meeting T. j. Roberts. the
President of the American Railway
Union, appeared and denied that his or
der or its members, or any of them. were
guilty OF the acts of violence at Oakland,
and asserted that he disapproved of them,
and that the order forbids them, and that
he would do his best to prevent lawless-
ness. Yet the man admitted that he has
l.2O0 strikers under him. Who. then, are
the people who do the things complained
Of? Mr.. Roberts, in response to categor-
zeal inquiries regarding outrages and the
perpetrators. answered in every case. ''I
don't know.n Yet while he stood there
an engineer arose and declared that Rob-
erts stood by and saw strikers drag the
fireman from the engineers cab and
Roberts made no response to that.
1t is asking quite too much of human
ity that it shall believe that the Oakland
strikers are absolutely quiescent and
that some body of men whom their leader
does not know commits all the crimes
that have filed the last few days at Oak
land.
San Francisco and Oakland by two
representative bodies are now of record
traffic and mails and the lawlessness that
has followed The strike. Sacramento al
lowed her opportunity to escape from
her. Neither her Mayor nor Trustees
have called upon the citizens to express
their sentiments upon the matter. True.
on the Sd day of July a number of busi-
ness men did organize and denounoe the
strike as unjust and uncalled for, and
sustaining the position of the railroad
company in refusing the strike demands
and calling on the officials to preserve
order and protect property. That organ
no time faitered in adhesion to its pri-
mary declarations and the work it laid
out for itself. But the official action that
should have been taken, that the business
men asked for, has never been manifest.
Beyond uniting in proclamation of
warning, the Chief Executive of the city
has not done as did the Mayor of Oakland
so soon as he reached the city from an
exile enforced by the late tie-up. So far
as the Trustees are concerned as board,
they have contented themselves with I'M
ploring the strikers not to be rude, and,
as some of their members put it, pre-
venting bloodshed. Such expression as
the board has made has been of encour
agement to lawlessness, by growing
at the military and denouncing military
methods.
We repeat, that the officials of Sac
ramento City and County, from Mayor
to Trustees, from Supervisors to Sheriff,
and police to the humblest official have
been cowed apparently by the strikers,
for they have taken no steps to put the
Capital City on record as outraged by
lawlessness, and as protesting that the
laws should be enforced.
ARMS MORE ACCEPTABLE.
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