The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-07-13
SOmE STRIKE OBSERVATIONS.

rresiaeht Dowell OF the Sioux City
branch OF the A. II. u. talks very
sensibly Us follows:
o. course We will be held responsible
Tor the laWless acts of the hoodlnm
elemenl who revel in acts of mob VIC.
lence and anarchy, but, please God,
they are not members of our associa-
ton and not railroad men. In looking
over The list OF wounded in Chicago the
names indicate who are the lawless
element.
They are not American born citizens.
but Bohemians and Poles and Huns
which have been imported into this
country by tie coal barons and the
manufacturers and monopolies to take
the places of American born laborers.
because from their environment in the
old countries they are able to live and
slave for wage on which an ordinary
human being would starve
They are the ones who are commits
ting the depredations, who are doing
acts of violence. who are committinp
arson and in whom the spirit of anarchv
runs riot, and they are supplemented in
the acts of violence by the thugs and
thieves OF that great city who prosper
real insLigators of the mob.
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Herein lies one of the most vital
causes of the present unrest in this
Countrywide free and unlimited coin
age of the scum of Europe into American
laborers And yet what political party
dares today to take a position in favor
OF restricting foreign immigration as
1t ought to be restricted? Yet until
immigration is restricted and the for
elgn element now in this country
becomes thoroughly assimilated. occas-
siOns like the present will be of fre
quent occurrence.
Another fundamental reason for the
existing situation of general discomfort
is the course pursued by demagogic
political leaders of both the Democratic
and Populist parties in striving by
every device and argument and asser-
tion within the range of their mis-
chievous brains to create feeling on
the part uf those who are classed us the
poor against their more thrifty neigh.
bors Take the arguments used dur
ing the last presidential campaign
from President Cleveland's letter UI
acceptance down to the senseless ys.wp
of his Populist allies on the stump. and
the same theme pervades them all-the
rich are growing richer and the poor
are growing poorer because OF legisia-
ton or lack uf it. Wild assertions. dis
torLed figures, and false logic took the
place Of cool. dispassiona'e argument,
and the result is Il condition of things
bordering on anarchy. which has had
its natural expression il Chicago dur
ing the past week or ten DAYS.
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Debs's threatened boycott OF the
press will be IL big affair. We have
yet to hear of any rewspaper. out
side the Populists organs, which justi-
ties in any degree the strike: yet nearly
all Of them view the situation from the
standpoint of the workingman's inter-
ests.
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While Altgeld, Debs and Sovereign
have been trying to convince President
Cleveland by specious and demagogic
utterances. that they were complete
masters of the situation, millions of
property have been destroyed and hun
dreds of lives jeopardized. What
would have occurred had the govern
ment listened to the pleas of these men
and withheld its authority. no man is
wise enough to even approximate.
And yet there are otherwise reasonable
and well-balanced men in every com
munity who condemn President Cleve-
land for his action.