The record-union., 1894-07-16
Voice OF THE PRESS.
The Interior Journals for Law and
Order.
Clear Views of the Boycott-Unmis-
taxable Loyalty to American
Institutions.
Tacoma Ledger.

Tacoma Ledger.
IF the country were invaded by foreign
! foe. and its ports blockaded and the
means of interstate communication seized
by armies, the condition could not be
much worse. No American can help
feeling humiliated to be thus deprived
of rights for which our country is name
so dear.
ACcEDING TO DIcTATIoN.
| lSt. Helena Starl
Suppose we did accede to this dicta-
! ton, what assurance have we but that in
another month, or even less time, a SINH
lar action would be taken." Any busi-
ness firm employing men can place them
| selves in the position occupied by the
railroad companies and they would do as
they are doing. . The men in the
employ of the Southern Pacific had no
| grievance, their wages were satisfactory
and they received their pay on time.
| Why desert their employers under those
| circumstances? Debs has been given
| more power than one man should WELD.
LABOR INJURED.
Fresno Expositor.l
A,great many men do not realize that a
| condition of affairs is being produced in
this country which is going to make it a
l <
prise to be carried on in which wages
have to be paid to workmen. The condi-
! ton of labor is being made much worse
instead of better, by this strike and boy
| colt.
| THE SENSELESS AND UNJUST BOYCOTT.
Seattle Intelligencer.
1t does not make this boycott of the
American Railway Union a whit less
senseless whether the Pullman Car Com
pany is right or wrong; the senseless
boycott only makes matters worse for
both parties, and for tens of thousands of
people all over the country who have no
| interest in the controversy one way or
the other. This boycott is a bit of as
| founding folly. 1t Will do nothing for
the men on strike and will cost many a
railroad man his place, for American
public opinion will never support so
senseless and unjustifiable a boycott
since its success would only erect most
ugly and pernicious precedent for the
future. No business can be transacted
| In this country ii the American Rail way
| Union proposes to abuse its opportunity
and its powers by stopping every wheel
in this country every time there is local
quarrel over question of wages between
the Pullman Car Company and its en-
ployes. This Sympathetic" boycott will
surely fail; it Is senseless, unjust, impo-
iitic and oppressive, and with general
public sentiment behind them the rail-
roads will surely fight this boycott to the
death.
1T Is a BOOMERANG.
Antioch Ledger.
If the right of the boycott is once es-
| tablished the rich will not be the only
| ones to suffer- but every infant industry
will tremble in the balance. In fact, the
| boycott is a weapon that capital can use
| as well as labor, and 1t can be made to be
a great promoter of trusts and combines.
Once establish the rule that might is
right and labor will get but the tail end
OF the dilemma. The boycott is a terrible
| weapon, and once make it the paramount
law of the land and we might as well say
good-by to our free institutions and to
individual liberty.
| GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP WOULD NOT
SETTLE 1T.
| fresno Republican,
| So far as the conflict between labor and
capital is concerned, and the demOraliZa-
tion and danger it infiicts upon the pub
| lie, court Of arbitration would accom-
plish all that Government ownership of
railroads would and very much more
1t is an open question, indeed, whether
Government ownership of the roads
would settle labor disturbances so far as
| the roads are concerned. There are
a number of railroads in this country
now being operated by the Government,
but that does not seem to make the slight
est difference i'll regard to the effect of the
| boycott on those roads,. 1t is not at all
apparent that the business conducted by
the Government is to'be exempt from the
prevailing disturbances.
STANDING IN THEIR OWN LIGHT.
Los Angeles Times.l
These men who are striking should see,
| if they reason at all, that they are them
! selves their worst enemies-that they are
standing in their own light. If the un-
natural and un-American boycott and
| sympathetic strike" were eliminated
from our industrial system, and replaced
/ by system of reason and arbitration, it
is not too much to say that within few
months the manufacturing industries of
this country would be increased at least
% per cent, or that preparations would
/ have been made for such an increase.
! This would improve every line of busi
ness throughout the country, would set
all the idle men TO work, and by increas-
| ing the demand for goods would enable
the manufacturers to pay their employees
better wsges than they are able to do at
| present, SO that we should all be happy,
and there would be no need for industrial
armies to march to Washington or any
where else. There would be work for
everybody who is willing to work.
| THE LAW MUST BE UPHELD.
Oakland Tribune.l
1t is enough for every good citizen to
know that there is law in the land, and
that law must be upheld; and that the
Government, when invoking it, must be
/ sustained at all hazards. If any other
| course were admissible, then anarchy
would prevail. All the differences, there
fore, which have brought about this con-
dition of things must be relegated to a
secondary position. These must be set
| tied by peaceful and lawful methods after
the dignity and prerogative of the law
shall have been established and vindi-
| Gated.
THE PEOPLE CAPABLE OF sELF-GovERN-
MENT.
TSanta Rosa Democratic
Those who now say they have doubts
of the capacity of the people to govern
themselves will hide their heads in
shame and call upon the mountains to
fall upon them. The American people
can and will fulfill their destiny, which
under the guidance of the supreme ruler
of the universe is to the greatest, the
most beneficent and the freshest govern
ment in the history OF the ancient or
| modern world.
LAW AND ORDER OR ANARCHY.
[Salinas Indexl
The situation has now passed beyond
| the question OF employer and employed.
| The United States Government has
taken the matter in hand for the purpose
of seeing that the mails are transported
and interstate commerce not interrupted.
One of two things will result-either law
and order will be maintained or red
handed anarchy will run riot through
| the land. The principle upon which the
present strike is based-that any organi-
Zation should be permitted to paralyze