The record-union., 1894-07-11

inf1ammable state of affairs everywhere
now, and the torch of excitement, II hrei
anywhere, many ignite our entlre Social
and political fabric.
PROTECTS ALL PERSONS.
Oakland Times.
This matter ought TO be submitted TO
arbitration. That the railroads are en-
titled to the full protection of the laws for
their property and employees is undoubt-
edly true. 1t will never do to concede
that the law denies To one interest the
protection it affords TO all other interests,
or that the law does not protect the per-
sons of all citizens alike. The leaders OF
the strike have clearly shown their ap-
probation of this, and have steadily coun-
seied moderation and obedience TO the
law. While the supremacy of law and
order must be maintained at all hazards,
the necessity for bringing the strike to
close is hourly becoming more apparent;
il is OF transeendent Importance.
OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL.
ICloverdale Reveiile.l
Ownership must carry control While
the employees have privileges to organize
for common good and can exercise
their privilege at their own discretion,
yet these organizations must concede
their fellowmen equal rights and liberty.
TAKE DEBs' ADVICE.
Oakland Enquirer.l
If the strikers will do as President Debs
calls upon them to do they will not raid
railroad property; they will not hustle
men out OF railroad shops; they will not
Kill engines, or push box cars on passen-
ger tracks, or dIsarrange block signals or
rake the CRATES OF locomotives. President
Debs even calls on the men to keep away
from railroad tracks. Ii this were done,
there would be net only no need of mill
tia. but none OF deputy sheritfs. how
does the condition of things at Saera-
mento square with what President Debs
enjoins upon the strikers? We wish they
would think of this, and act, tee.
VIOLENT MEASURES INEFFECTIVE.
Humboldt Standard
This labor problem is great one,
which cannot be settled by violent meas
ures. 1t must be done by men of cool
judgment in their sober senses. 1t is
strange indeed that thousands OF our eiti-
Zens-sensible men as ru1e-will para
I'VE the industries of the State, riot and
destroy property because Pullman and
his men, away off in Chicago, are in q
fight over the scale OF wages paid in his
shops.
BEWARE OF VIOLENCE.
San Jose Herald.
There must be no violence no blood
shed, no destruction of property in Cali
1ornia. Whatever else comes out of this
strike these things must be avoided.
Let them submit to the
authority of the State and of the Federal
Government at once and trust to the
American people for the righting OF their
wrongs in the future. They have now
reused the public to full knowledge of
the issues at stake, and they may be GER
tain that justice will be done in the end,
ii they obey the laws. But if they now
defy the legal authorities and resort TO
violence struggle may result in which
all that they have gained so far will be
lost. In a Government
hike this when wrongs can be so quickly
and so surely righted by an appeal to the
ballot-box, violence OF any kind is
blunder as well as q crime.
WHAT WILL HE GAIN?
[Napa Register
Now, what will the striker gain?
Wherein is he in his present attitude
protited? The wages lost in weeks of
idle warfare cannot be recovered. The
confidence between employer and en-
ploye is broken. The capitalist will mar
row in his investments. Labor-creating
enterprises will decrease in number and
diminish in size. Organized labor will
stand as menace TO independence of ac-
ton. There Will be less work to do and
more men to do that work. All because
the labor union has in its zeal TO control
overleaped itself. The above we say as a
friend OF the laborer. We have been a
wage-worker and know from experience
what it is to be under unions yoke.
UPHOLD THE LAWS.
Humboldt Standard.
II this thing shall continue 10 man can
foretell what the end will be. Good citi-
Zens must uphold the laws and assist in
maintaining order, or we shall soon have
no Government 10 protect US, and no
country to call our own.
NEITHER LOGICAL NOR REASONABLE.
Los Angeles Herald.
OF course it is not logical nor reason
able IN the American Railway Union to
assume the right to dictate to the mana
gers what cars they shall or shall not
haul. This is an interference which is
not at all permissible. Corporations have
the same exclusive right to manage their
own business that individuals have.
IT WOULDN'T SUIT.
[St. Helena STAR
Had the American Railway Union said
to the strikers at Pullman, I'VE will stand
by you, see that you do not suffer and
that no one else goes TO work for the Pull
man Company until you receive Justice"
the accomplishment of their object would
be certain or the Pullman Company
would be compelled to 90 out of business.
Commerce or Lraftlc would not be affected
in any way by such action, and no one,
not even the strikers at Pullman, would
suffer. Such plan, however, would not
suit Debs, who poses as a leader and die
tator, so he orders men who have no
grievances to quit work and ties up the
wheels Of commerce and causes a stagna-
ton that will result in suffering among
the farmers, the fruit men, the merchants
and the laborers. We believe the South
ern Pacific and other railroad companies
are righGia not submitting to such dicta-
ton.
SURRENDER OF A PRINCIPLE.
Antioch Ledger.l
There are those who complain because
the railroad companies do not yield 10 the
extent of cutting out its Pullman cars.
This would be equivalent TO complete
surrender Of an important principle. 1t
is, perhaps, as good time as any 10 de-
eide whether the boycott is defensible as
an American principle. No one thinks of
asking the strikers to accept the wages
dictated by Pullman. This would be ask
ing them TO abandon their principles and
10 surrender their individual liberty.
And yet the same people expect the rail-
road companies 10 abandon their princi-
ples. This is a question that might as
well be settled here and now. Suppose
that some man inyents brake that is as
good If not better than the Westinghouse,
and few roads adopt and use it. Then
suppose a strike is iomented in the West
inghouse brake factory. The next step
would be for the inventor of the opposi-
tion brake TO bribe President Debs 10 or
der general strike and boycott Of all cars
using the Westinghouse brake. What
would be the result?
THE SHORT CUT OF COERCION.
TLos Angeles Times.
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