The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-13
THE PRESS AND THE STRIKE.

The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser thinks the rioters should be dealt
with gently, but firmly, and says:
These are the times that try mems
tempers. 1t is hard to see rioters and
ScoundrelS. not many per cent. or
whom are American citizens, defying
the authority of our Uncle Sam, but
they know little better, poor fools.
Deal with them gently, but firmly, oh,
our Uncle; show them the error of their
ways; convince them that they are
wrecking the sublime heritage of In
dependence, and then if they remain
forward in their ways and stone their
prophet, open on them with gatiings
until sense returns to them.
In many respects the case resembles
that of the good Indian.
The Chicago Dispatch Qnd) thinks
the present trouble between the rail-
ways and the employees could easily
be settled by arbitration, and says:
All statements to the contrary not
withstanding, it ought to be an easy
matter to settle the railway boycott
on a peace basis. George M. Pullman
can end both the strike and the boy
colt at any moment by merely rails
ing finger. The American Railway
union is fighting no battle of its own.
1t is in the field in behalf of the en-
ployees It asks no recognition from
any source. It simply demands that
George M. Pullman shall consent to
arbitrate and treat his men fairly If
Mr.. Pullman will agree to do this and
the railways will guarantee to take
back the railway employees without
prejudice the whole difficulty will be
adjusted within an hour.
The question naturally suggests it.
self: Can person or corporation be
compelled to run his business against
his or its WILL particularly when the
terms upon which it is desired that
the business will be run are'such as will
result in loss? There is a difference
between the right to seek employment
and the right to compel employment.
That arrant demagogue and mis-
chieVouS agitator the president of the
American Railway union, has declared
that 1.-The first shot fired by the regu-
lar soldiers at the mobs here w i'll be
the signal of a civil war" AS this
leader of anarchy has proved his pow
Ter to induce or coerce nearly or quite
as large number of men as composed
the army of the confederacy during
the first month Of the Shareholders re-
bellion to bring to a stand one-half
the railroad system of the United
States: to deprive life and property of
that legal security to which they are
entitled and to virtually set aside law
and order over a great part of the
country, we cannot perceive any rea-
son why he cannot plunge the nation
into rebellion as certainly as Jefferson
Davis and his reasonable associates
did in 1S61.-Philadelphia Ledger
Rep.).
Mr.. Debs put forth a very plausible
paper advising his followers to respect
from all violence. This is like telling
the finder not to burn after the
spark has been placed in it. Mr.. Debs
should remeber that the world has
not forgotten the lesson of two thou
sand years ago-''By their fruits shall
I'VE know them
There is no good reason to suppose
that the country will experience extra
ordinary difficulty in meeting the pres
ent emergency. 1t bears about the same
relation to the supreme ordeal of the
nation that a frecracker does to a
dynamite bomb.-Chicago Inter-Ocean
Rep)
The present strike is not so much
trial of the nations strength as of it's
patience.
If railway property can thus be taken
possession OF, all other property will
have to go likewise, so, unless the pres
ent civilization is to be blotted out and
all its fundamental processes aban-
doned, the American Railway union
must surrender its contention. 1t may
be hard for them to accept defeat, but
even for them defeat is better than VIC
tory, along the lines they are now fight
ing on. If they rested upon the right
of every man to work or cease work
when he pleases they would be on
sound ground, but to claim control of
property they have no title to and to
deny to other men who may be starving
the right to earn living in order that
themselves may have large incomes is
a fatally erroneous proposition.-Siou
City Tribune Rep.)
The American Railway union has ap-
parently acted on the theory that it
was the owner of the various railways,
and therefore assumed to say whether
they should run, when they should run,
and what they should run. The leaders
of the union will be wiser if not better
men when the strike is over.
In view of all these facts, the News
insists that it is little short of crime
for Governor Waite to incite or by the
influence of his position encourage hon
est workingmen to deeds which he
ought to know--if he knows anything
about the matter at all-will bring upon
them the most aggressive and relentless
power in this countryside power of the
federal courts backed by the army of
the United States. Denver News
Oem.).
Waite is the result of one of those
strange alterations in American poll
tics that so puzzle foreigners and make
even Americans wonder. But these
same erratic men in office become a
danger from their opportunity to do
mischief in the name of the public.