The record-union., 1894-08-09
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of Journals at Home and
Abroad.
The Strike, and Some of It's Incl
dents-Populism-L
ness-Anarchy.
[san FRANCISCO ChronicIe.l

TSan Francisco Chronicle.
| It has been against the unlawful acts of
the strikers and of those in sympathy
with them that the power OF the State ana
National Governments has been directed.
The Government stands ready to put
down at the point of the bayonet not
! strikes, as Mr.. Debs says, but crime and
! disorder of all kinds. The action OF the
constituted authorities is not in antagon-
! ism TO labor organizations, but in sup
! port of peace and order and for the due
protection of life and property.
WILL BE ASHAMED OF IT.
Stockton independent.
In the arguments in the train wrecking
case at Woodland the defendants attor-
ney characterized one of the witnesses for
| the prosecution as q traitor. The basis of
the charge is that he deserted the strikers
when it was proposed to stop train by
popping" the engineer, and then told on
/ the stand all he knew about the Railway
Union arming men and doing violence.
! What an eccentric sense of fidelity law
yer must have to scorn traitor TO a con-
| spiracy when he found it TO be
for assassination and at the same
time defend men for entering into and
contin aing in the conspiracy. The
same attorney says Russian liberty
is superior to the liberty that the
prosecution would grant people in this
country. That is what depraved idea of
lawyers duties does for even learned
| lawyer when he becomes unduly excited.
1t is no wonder that with such examples
before them people believe that lawyers
are all dishonest, untruthful and un-
patriotic. The lawyer who gave express
| sion to all this mock Indignation is one
who stands well in The community and
will, when his excitement subsidies, be
ashamed of his exaggeration and balder-
dash.
TRUTHFUL MR.. KNOX.
[Marysville Democrat.l
! It will be remembered that in several
interviews with Knox, the leader of the
strikers in Sacramento, he invariably de-
Glared that he was not i'll favor of de-
stroying property to accomplish the de-
sired end, the boycott OF the Pullman
Manufacturing Company. He also de-
clared in several interviews at different
dates that he would permit all trains TO
be run If no Pullman cars were attached,
that the only fight the American Railway
Union had was to boycott the Pullman
! Company.
The recent secret evidence revealed in
hundred or more kilograms sent by
! Knox proves that he was not sincere in
! the statements made as above quoted.
June 2Sth he wired to all managers of
the American Railway Union lodges in
! California to tie up all trains, and the
stating that he had tied up everything.
| July 4th he wired to the leader at
| Truckee to come at once to Sacramento
! with guns and volunteers, and several
other orders were given which not only
meant the tying up OF all trains but the
! destruction OF property. lie was IN
| possession of the property of shippers,
which in many Instances went to decay
! or was damaged because he would not
permit them to be moved. Freight stored
in the sheds of the railroad company
could not be taken out by shippers ex
cept on an order signed by Knox, which
! authority he exercised In an arbitrary
way to the detriment and great loss by
innocent owners. He declared that per-
mitting boats to run between San Fran
cisco, Sacramento and other points was a
great detrlment to the strike, and he
would have tied them up also If he could.
| kilograms were sent by him urging
strikers to stand firm, that they were
certain to win, when he knew that the
back bone already was broken and that
| the end was near, all of which proves
that Mr.. Knox is entirely unreliable.
TWO KINDS OF TYRANNY.
Lowell (Mass.) Journal.
Mr.. Sovereign's assertion that the COR
porations declare their divine right to
rule over the rest OF mankind" is q piece
of the rot which characteriZes the mani
| strike bosses who declare their divine
right to rule over the rest of mankind.'
They assume to direct and appoint every
thing, to order men to cease work, to de-
termine what railroads shall run, what
cars shall be used, what time shall be
made. and even what executive action
shall be taken, and what laws shall be
passed. In fact they assume TO absorb all
the functions of Governmet, and the
Governor of California didn't dare pro-
ceed 10 the capital without a permit from
these gentry. The American people are
not all fools-nor even majority of
them. They prefer a government of
laws and regularly constituted authori-
ties in preference to that of lot of wild
cranks, who have no sense OF response
hility and no scruples. The machina-
tions of the Debses and Soyereigns lead
to widespread ruin and an entire up
heaval of society. Better season of
cyclones, floods, fires, pestilences and
earthquakes than season of anarchy. It
will take months to repair the damages
which this wild dance has wrought under
Debs' direction. And the worst of 1t Is
that the distress has chiefly fallen on the
very men and women who have helped
to cause it and on others of the same class
who are innocent of any intent or desire
to join in it.
STRENGTHENING OF RESPECT.
[Santa Cruz Sentinel.l
Cne of the important effects of the rail-
way strike will be strengthening OF re-
spect throughout the country for the
power of the National Government. 1t
has already resulted in brushing away
J from the minds of ignorant or ill-in-
formed citizens some misconceptions as
to the extent of the Federal authority and
in enforcing the subordination of the
State to the Union. There is no doubt
that most OF the labor leaders in Chicago
had little thought that they would run
up against the central Government