The record-union., 1894-07-17

and the strike assumed alarming pro-
portions the President saw at glance
that unless Federal assistance was given
there would be no end OF the trouble lnat
would ensue. 1t was his duty to use the
Government forces in restoring peace,
protecting property and enforcing laws.
Had the strike been one devoid OF all
lawlessness, had there been no deeds OF
atrocity committed and had national
laws not been interfered with the aspect
would have been entirely different.
EXCEEDED THEIR RIGHTS.
ISanta Barbara Press.
However right strikers may be in
quitting work in order TO obtain better
| wages or in trying to persuade Idle men
not to take their places, they are alto
gether wrong in employing iorce 10 ac-'
complish their objects. They nave no
right to impede traffic on railways, TO
burn or blow up bridges or lmperll Lhe
| freedom of movement or the lives OF
other men. There is no liberty in land
where such things can happen and go
UNPUBLISHED.
CHEAP DEMAGoGY.
fHed Bluff News.l
The sensible, cool-headed men among
the strikers must be intensely disgusted
at the cheap demagogy OF small leaders
(Populists) who are trying to manufacture
NEW CROP.
Oakland Times
It Is amusing to observe the fresh crop
of fanti-monopolists that the strike has
developed; they are more numerous than
flies around honey comb; they are like
the fellows who did not go TO the front
and fight III the war-they do the loudest
talking. The strikers, the men with
grievances, pretty generally mind their
own business, but this style of anti
monopolist can be heard cackling from
one corner TO another.
ATTITUDE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO
PRESS.
Los Angeles Timesl
| AS we stated q few days ago, the San
! Francisco press, with scarcely an excep-
ton, has been making very unpleasant
! exhibition of itself in its treatment Of
! this industrial convulsion. Scarcely a
/ paper that we have seen has come out on
! the side OF law and order. - 1t is
! difficult to over estimate the amount OF
I harm which has been done in this man
ner by encouraging the strikers to pro-
/ long hopeless contest. and probably
1 bloody one. In Sundays LcG99l3leT Am
! brose Bierce reads the newspapers OF that
/ city including the one tor which he
writes, scathing lecture on their mex
| cusable shorT-sighted policy. He shows
that they are cutting their own throats,
/ for no institution depends so much on
| having the power to conduct its own
! business in its own way as does news
paper.
sWHAT 1T MEANS.
/ ISan Francisco Evening Post.]
No man can plant an orchard unless
| there is a reasonable guaranty OF an un-
interrupted service in carrying the pro-
/ duct to market. No one will care to es-
tablish manufactory If the carrying of
/ his wares is to be constantly Interrupted
/ by petty labor troubles. The triumph of
| the policy sought to be established by
MIR. Debs means the arrest of the devel-
| opment of the country, the bankruptcy OF
! the people, the destruction of the highest
| and best interests Of labor, and in short,
the arrest of civilization.
wHELP OF A FOREIGN WOMB.
[Antioch Ledger
| And after ali the boycott is the whelp
of foreign womb 1t is not to tile man
ner born and does not belong in America.
/ We have opened our doors too wide and
we hire too many foreigners TO breed the
| boycott and anarchy. Chicago. the hot
| bed of anarchy and communism, is DOM
mated by the off-scourings of Europe.
The foreigner controls the unions, sets
the pace of the boycott, and then applies
| the torch if Americans demand that their
/ liberties ana tnelf MANHOOD De respected.
The foreigners control the unions to such
an extent that our own American boys
are crowded out of the trades; but foreign
| tradesmen enter our gates ready-Inade,
and the union receives them with open
arms. Let us shut the gates, and let us
| take good long time to assimilate the
foreigners we have.
DID IT HELP THE SITUATION?
Humboldt Standard
Does the wrecking of trains and the
murder of innocent men help the situa-
ton? Win the mem bers of the Ameri-
can Railway Union be held in the same
| high estimation hereafter as they have
been in the past, and will they benefit in
the least by the death of the men killed
and the property destroyed2 1t is all the
more Indefensible since the strikers Oh
| this coast did not strike because of any
personal grievance they had against the
railroads. According to their own State
ments they were we'll treated and well
paid by the company whose property
! they are now destroying, and only went
on the strike TO assist the American Rail-
way Union men of Chicago in their fight
with the Pullman Company.