The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-07-18
TAtlania Constitution,

ductors of the State road, and as he
took a seat behind me said: "What
is the matter with you? Are you not
conducting this tramp "No," said he,
1--WE strickland Pm still striking
striking for home This is my off day.
am glad don't live up yonder among
those strikers. tell you what, major,
if this government is saved from ruin
it will be saved by the people Of the
South. Our native born population has
got respect for law and order and fair
dealing, but them fellows up there
haven't got bit. Their motto IS rule
or ruin; give US what we demand, or
we will take it. AS fast as one strike is
settled there is another on hand. and 1t
is running the country" ,
A couple of Michiganders asked
Captain Dick if he thought the big
strike would get down here in Georgia.
!'No,n said he, 1--WE Southerners have
done had our big strike and got enough
of it, "When was that?" they asked.
"About thirty years ago." said Dick.
"It was an awful big strike and lasted
four years, and we got licked. The
yanks hired about , 600, 900 of foreigners
to put US down, and they did it, and
they aud their sort are now trying
their ~hand on the people who hired
them. That's what's the matter" One
of the gentlemen ventursc to ask him
what our people thought Of Coxey and
Kelly and their armies. ."eh, we don't
care anything about thetn," said the
Captain. 'They are part of the same
crowd that the North inherited from
the war. They came down here at the
tail end of Sherlnan's army and plum
dered all this beautiful country, and
never left pig to sqaeal nor chicken
to crow. They liked the business then
and they like it yet. I see that Coxey
cost our government $4,000 while be
was in Washington, out there's no tell
ing how much they cost the country
they passed through. Before the war
we would have called them vagrants,
but some Northern preachers and edi-
tors svmpathize with them and say it
is only q sign of discomfort. That's
what's the matter-discontented be-
cause I've got something that worked
for, and they want it, aud won't give
it to them. The yanks taught them
that it was no crime to srSb US, and now
they are robbing them. You know that
Solomon or somebody said II man
sows wind be will raise crop OF whirl-
wind. No, gentlemen, as sure as you
are born the South will have to save
this country from anarchy, and she can
do it. We didn't have but about half
million Of fighting men in the other
big strike, and we killed more than
that and put $500, 900 on the pension
list, and then it took a million more to
whip US, and so you can imagine what
we can do now since we have raised
another CROP" And Captain Dick
gritred his Confederate teeth and rolled
his big Confederate eyes all round in
their sockets.
Well, we have been amazed at this
last big strike and we did sympathize
with the railroads and the people who
suffered, but we didn't feel very much
concerned until the embargo'on our
watermelons reached US. 1t is just as
Powderly said in his speech last Tues
day in New York: Livery strike
against railroads is strike against the
whole country. Our railroads are so
essentially connected with the life OF
the nation that when you stop one of
these great arteries you stop the flow of
the nations life-blood. Personally, l
do not believe in strikes. have always
advised against them"
Good for Powderly. But this new
leader, Debs, has the instinct ofa brute.
Ee would see thousands of workmen
thrown out of employment and their
families suffering for bread, and COM
merce paralyzed just to crafty his own
ambition. And what is it all about?
Just because the Pullman company
offered it's employees wages which the
workmen refused to work for, and so
they were paid off and discharged.
This was their legal right. Now, Debs
orders strike on every road that hauls
a Pullman car, and he stops long train
loads of live stock where they cannot
get either food or water, and his bench
men actually prevent hundreds of pas
sengers-men, women and children
from getting food or water in the town
where they were derailed. He has sent
his agents all over the Eastern States
to induce the employees to come into a
universal strike and let labor whip
capital for good and for all time. How
far be will succeed, we cannot divine,
but the reply of the Jersey City men
was admirable:
1--WE have done well to keep our
places and our wages these hard times,
for we are assured that our railroads
have not earned a net dollar in the last
six months. No, we will not join you"
This strike is the out-crop Of fanarchlsm.
1t comes from the same lawless spirit
that caused the assassination of Lincoln
and Garfield and Mayor Harrison and
Carnot. It leads to arson, pillage and
the destruction of property. It causes
thousands Of workmen in other indus
tries to be thrown out of employment
and their families to suffer. If this
strike continues a month the strikers
themselves will lose hundreds Of thou !
sands of dollars, the railroads will lose
millions and the commercial public |
hundreds Of millions.
Is there no power in Republican
government to stop these outrages and |
punish the ringleaders? If not. then |
let us have a military despotism and |
be done with it. Our courts have been |
our bulwark and our pride. They are
slow, but they have been sure and we
have felt secure under their protectloN
to life, liberty and property. But these
men laugh at courts and scorn the law:
They substitute anarchy and violence |
IOT law SuO ISaSOu. Oy " dy Va SO'oSs
for them it is said that the masses of
the strikers are bulldoZed into it by |
their leaders, and that not one-tenth of
them are really in favor oft. This can
not be true, for We read that the police |
of the towns and the scurf and scum of
every community are co their side. |
The spirit of anarchy is all over that
land and their desire is to have divide. |
Politicians have pandered to this law
less element for their votes, and it is
through them that the police got their
appointments to office. Look at the |
police of New York city, as exposed by
DR.. Parkhurst. Sixteen millions Of
dollars of blackmail paid them in two
years by awbreakers for hush money.
Look at the exposure on Ward island, |
where the officials have plundered and
robbed the Door luna:ics and idiots of
their supplies and put the money in
their pockets. Their brutality to these
beInlesS creatures. il is said, nearly