Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-05

| 70 BY peaceful, legal means and are re-
sorting 10 violent methods. That is
the very feature which gives promise
Of serious disaster ns one result Of the
great strike now on. In European
nations, when the masses are over
thrown In an uprising OF this nature
they Bubiide 40 far rs the general
movement IL concerned until some
new element enters TO again arouse
them. But In America II IL different
Though overawcd by the presence Of
superior force or crowded into sub.
mission 10y ils application, there Ia
actually no subsiding Of permanent
nature. There Is merely an awaiting,
becaulc Of the pressure Of clrcum.
stances, Tor better chance.
This lesson is shown ia the history
Of our continent. Agos ago, whom
people whose iorefalhers came from the
tower Of Babel occupied these United
States an iutefucclne conflict broke out
IN the land. Oas side 0r the other was
defeated alternately, but the beaten
party was never Hublugated unul dc.
str0yo0, and then there was but one
man len. a thousand years later the
scene was rC-snaclcd 10 far as the
"never surrender" feature Is con.
cerned, and the only way by which a
cessation Of the conflict. between the
forefathefs Of the present aborIglnes,
the Lamsnllcs, and the Nephltes was
eli, cied was by thu anninilatl0n Of the
latter The same spirit was OK
hiDilud At the iounding Of this
Republic, when tho revolutionary
armies were beaten again ana again
bu, could not DO whipped into cub.
mission. Aud 10 the late civil war %
tue policy Of repression had been per.
slstenuy followed by tue victorious
Uaion Representatives, instead Of that
Of reconciliation which was adopted,
tho great rebellion would not have
teen ended yet ~ would have been
continued In one form or another Ia
that spirit OF determined resistance 70
oppression which seems indigenous 20
this part Of the world.
The conflict now on between the
railway managsrs' association aud the
railway union 10 for the mastery Of one
or the other, Ia which the power Of the
government now IL practically on tho
side VI tue mauagers' association, anu
incidentally on the eide OF capital
against labor The procedure may DO
tho only sale course TO pursue today;
but whom It enis In the immediate
issue, what them Suppose the man.
agers association wins, what Ia the
spoil Of the victory TIE labor Gle.
ment will feel that 10 IL forcei 10 an
inferior position, aud isin a condition
OF slavery. Suppose the government,
or associations Of employees Or capital.
lets, should open negotiations Tor a sys-
tenn Of arbitration which IL now r..
fused Ia this dispute? n made In good |
Iaith II would be the tender Of an olive
branch which would 20 a long way
toward eneoling general reconoilla-
lion. II presented before one or the
other party IL thrown down Ia the |
contest II would be- OF Infinitely greater |
value In the line Of peace. hut |
II tho government and capital.
lists decline RTbitrameut aud are
content 10 abide by this settlement |
OF force, the full effect Of such policy |
will DO to inspire the labor organiza.
lions 10 recruit theif forces and aug
ment their numbers Tor another and |
greater contest IA which the desire ior |
revenge will play prominent part.
IL seems strange that capitalists and
the ruling powers IN the nation DO not
take into account this certainty Of
trouble from another quarter than
merely a question " wages. II IA
war Of sentiment, Of conviction, that
cannot DO settled by force without
annihllaIion Of one or other Ct The
parties. Il could bv satisfactorily de.
tormined on the principle Of unsrlnsh
arbitrament. But a. matters stand
Today, the contest whloh II now on
and h spoken Of a. "a battle 10 the
death" meaus more than merely the
conclusion Of the presont strike. IL Is
an irTopreaaiblo conflict which will
grow more sanguinafy as time goes
on and It Is ended by tbs destruction Of |
ono Of the contestants, or until tho |
oonclllaiory metho 10 adopted by the |
people or instituted for their salvation |
by a Higher power