The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-07-10
NOT CAPITAL, BUT LABOR.
That is What is Threatened and Must,
at all Cost, be Pro-
tected.

tected.
Perhaps nowhere else has so apt
and ready solution of the existing
strike problem appeared, as that
which is taken from the columns of
the Philadelphia Times. In this
article the entire situation is thor
oughly reviewed from a calm, SEN
sible and dispassionate standpoint,
and the root of existing labor
trouble lain bare, in the following
clear and comprehensive manner;
There is serious interruption in
the great transportation lines of
/ the country because of a strike or
dered by the president of the rail
way Union. There is no trouble be-
tween the men thus ordered to
strike and their employers. There
is no dispute beween them to adjust
they strike simply because they are
ordered to strike and the entire
trade and travel are seriously i'm
peded on the great highways of the
nation.
The railways are not seriously
crippled by the strikers who have
withdrawn from their positions. If
that were the only trouble it could
be rectifed in a day or two, but not
only the transportation interests of
the country, but the whole business
interests must as well face the fact
that our great highways are stop
ped because workingmen are not
permitted to take the place of
those who refuse to work This is a
crime not only against the working
men of the country, but it is a
crime against our free government
that guarantees to every citizen
the right to work where, with whom
and on what terms he shall see fit
to accept.
The time has come when the
while country must face this issue
by protecting labor. 1t must be
protected at every hazard, and it
must be done with such certainty
and such assertion of the omnipot-
ent power of the government that
like attempts to hinder workmen
from pursuing their employment as
they shall choose will not be repeat
ed. The railways centering in Chi
cago would run their trains with
regularity il the men, who are will
ing to take the places of strikers,
were not inundated by the threats
of violence. In short, the strikers
of Chicago are rapidly degenerating
into revolutionary violence, and
there can be safety to both person
and property only in sternly sup
pressing all such anarchical tenden-
cies throughout the country.
1t is the right of organized labor
ers to strike when in their judg-
ment it is best to do 50. No one
can lawfully question their action
when they suspend their labors be-
cause of real or imaginary wrongs
imposed by their employers, but the
right of every citizen to work when,
where and on what terms he shall
choose to accept is a right so sacred
that none can question it without
endangering the safety of all. II
lawlessness can prevail against one
class today. it can as well prevail
against another class tomorrow,
and the common safety demands
that every ones right to labor on
terms acceptable to himself shall be
maintained with the most scrupu-
lous fidelity by every friend of law
and order. Labor must be pro-
tected, peaceably if possible, forci-
bly, if necessary, and the occasion
now upon us calls for the promptest
methods to teach the inalienable
right of the humblest workman OF
| the land