The record-union., 1894-07-21

dence that he Will reap. But along comes
the demagogue and insists that the rlgnts
of labor demand that the ground must De
plowed with a spade and the crop har-
vested with the scythe and fail. The
denagogue points to PLETHORA of labor.
and insists that machinery is an enemy
of labor. The argument is plausible ana
the farmer thinks it is logical; but his
confidence in his ability TO SOW ana reap
any profit without machinery is de-
stroyed. He buys no land, sows nothing
and keeps his money in his pocket. Thus
the demagogue destroys the source OF the
golden egg. Capital is too tlmld and
cowardly to survive strikes, and hence IN
the long run labor is never benefited by
general strikes.
But IT HAS THE POWER.
fFaH River Tidings.l
That the Pacific Coast railroad COM
panies, who have always maintained
liberal policy toward their employees,
should be tied up; that the leading indus
tries OF our State should be crippled: that
the bread and butter should be taken
from the mouths of thousands of people
who are struggling for an existence, and
whose rights are in every way as sacred
as are the rights OF these strikers, we say
that they should be allowed to go on, and
the Government have no legal power to
stop them, is an outrage and a burning
disgrace to our nation.
SYMPATHETIC STRIKES.
Bakersfield Californian.
A sympathetic strike is wrong in prin-
iple and policy. In the present instance
On this coast the effects of the strike were
heaviest upon the producers and busi-
ness men of the State, next the railway
employees, then the railway company,
and lastly Pullman, whose loss by reason
of the Pacific Coast strike is inhnIteSlmal
compared with other losses. BY this
strike the strikers injured themselves
and their friends, and never at any time
helped the Pullman strikers. This severe
lesson now learned at heavy cost will
probably prevent future sympathetic
strikes.
THE TIE-UP Is oVER-GUERRILLAIsM.
Oakland Enquirer.
II present appearances go for anything,
we are in for long guerrilla warfare be-
tween the railroads and the strikers. So
lar as the tie-up of trains is concerned
the strike is over, and great amount OF
unskilled labor is now offered to the COM
pany TO take the place OF the more or less
skilled men who are out. With the en-
gineers, conductors and a great part OF
the brakemen standing by 1t the company
can supply the places of the missing fire
men and run its trains, so that there is no
longer hope of forcing IL to terms by
simple abstention from labor. But now
.
Trestles and culverts are burned; rails
are loosened; Instructions are piled on
the track; brakebeamS are UnfaStened;
Gremen are pulled out of locomotives
and hammered with fists and clubs and
the air pipes of signal towers are cut.
These are all criminal acts and most of
them imperil the lives of passengers and
railroad employees. Under the new law
in this State the placing of distractions
on tracks to derail trains is a capital
Offense. Do the persons who lOosened
the rails on the trestle beyond San Pablo,
or the parties who piled rocks on the
track not far from SlXteenth-Street sta
tion. know that they are liable to be pun
lshed with death lfsthey are detected?
a MATTER OF CONTRACT.
Fresno Expositor.
A great many newspapers and more
men are trying hard to put the Govern
lnent in the wrong in the matter of en-
forcing the carrying of the mails. 1t does
not seem to occur to these papers and
patriots that there are mail contracts be-
tween the Government and the railroad
companies, and that the Interpretation of
the law has to be according to the contract
with the several companies. If railroad
companies wero compelled to carry the
mails on special mail trains, doubtless
the critics of the Government would be
right, but such does not appear TO be the
generally contracted to carry the mails
on their regular through trains, and regu-
lar through trains, ever since sleeping
cars came into vogue, are composed OF
sleeping cars for The accommodation of
the public. If the railroad companies
have not contracted to carry the mails on
special trains the Government can't COM
pei them to do it, and if the Government
can't protect the men who are willing TO
run the trains in the places OF the men
who have struck, the Government isn't
worth supporting and it ought to give
place TO another form of government that
can protect citizens in the enjoyment of
their rights.
WANTS TO SET UP AS A CZAR.
n. Y. Evening Post.]
The general condemnation of the pres
ent strike is justified not only by its
wanLon beginning and lawless and bar
barouS methods, but also by the fact that
IL clearly had its inception in a con-
spiracy. The American Railway Union
Is a new and ambitious organization, and
its officers have been spolling for fight.
President DebS made speech to the dis
contented Pullman employees before they
actually struck, in which he urged them
TO take radical action" and promised
general boycott on the company's cars"
when that order has gone out, brothers."
said the fervent Debs, mot Pullman car
VIII Do ulON6Q III duy tGTTlLOIy over
which the nag OF the American l. UnlOD
floats" What Debs is really after is the
aggrandiZement OF himself and his union.
lie wants to break down and absorb the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and the unions of tremen and brakemen
and conductors and switchmen, and set
himself up as a Gar. But that is too
stupendous an undertaking." as Chief
Arthur OF the Brotherhood shrewdly re-
marks. Deps is simply making of him
self and bis organization a national nui-
sance, and it is high time that the ma
Ilonal powers set about suppressing him.
QUESTION OF RIGHTS ALL AROUND.
IThe New York independently
There needs to be impressed upon the
strikers over and over again the plain,
simple truth that, while they have right
TO quit W ork themselves, and while it is
not doubted that they have Just griev-
ances. they forfeit all sympathy and con-
sideration when they endeavor to en-
force their demands by riotous proceed
lngs.
they say to the public that their rights,
which are the rights OF labor, are as sacred
as the rights of property, and in this they
say well. But how can they expect 10
have their rights regarded when they set
at naught the rights of all others-the
right OF capitalists TO own property and
to be protected in the use of it; the right
Of other men TO labor, and 10 be allowed
TO do so In peace; the right OF railroad
companies, as public carriers, freely to
serve their patrons, and to have their
property and their trains guarded from
Inolestation? These rights are just as
sacred as the rights of the strikers, and
while the strikers practically deny them
they cannot expect the sympathy and
support of the public. The public must
protect itself. 1t is not the operators of
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