The record-union., 1894-07-10
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land have been violated by the transpor-
tation managers in this deplorable affair,
and TO furnish some attempt at justifica-
ton for the course of the strikers in tear
ing up tracks, blocking switches, threat
ening with death men who are willing to
work. disabling engines, burning bridges
and in other ways violating the law.
LABoR's RIGHT.
lNapa Register
Labor has the same right to organize
that capital has, but il has no right 10 yio-
late the laws OF the land.
This is no time to apologize for the law.
To enforce the law is always in order.
ENEMIES OF LABOR.
[San Francisco Bulletin.l
Violence in any shape in the case of a
strike brings new and irresistible forces
into the field. Those who counsel it or
engage in 1t are the worst enemies OF
labor in all cases.
WHO WILL BENEFIT.
alameda Encinal.l
Who can foretell the end of this ri
diculous and uncalled for strike now In
progress against the railroad systems all
over the land? Who can possibly be
benefited through it? Certainly not the
men who instituted the trouble, aud
much less those who, away out on this
coast, are affiliated with the organization
known as the American Railway Union.
HONEST CONVICTIONS.
Fresno Republican.
A good many newspapers which are
not adorned with corporation badges are
showing their intense regard for their
subscription lists by tacitly indorsing the
boycott. One thing this country stands
in need OF is more newspapers which
have the courage to express honest con-
victions and stand for honest principles,
whether everybody is pleased or not.
APPEAL FOR cAL1INEss.
Stockton Mail
There is nothing to be gained by stimu-
lating popular excitement up to the
point where an overt act would follow
naturally; on the contrary there is much
to be jeopardized and lost. The people
of California have suffered enough already
through the stoppage of transportation
and the interruption of business, and il
should be the part of every good citizen
to counsel calmness and encourage good
order, that the situation may not be made
worse nor the day Of fuA-recovery post
poned.
A UNIVERSAL NURSE.
Oakland Enquirer.l
Thirty years ago the Central Pacific
Railroad was built, and during all the
time since its trains have run except dur
ing a few snow blockades. Now they
have been stopped week by a strike
and already we hear persons of all classes,
some of high intelligence and some OF
low, proclaiming that our only hope is in
Government railroads. This is COM
ment upon the prevailing inirmity. The
Government has come to be looked upon
as universal nurse, who is expected to
mix mustard plaster for every sore and
to discover a balm for every bleeding
heart. 1t is inconvenient to have the
railroads stop even for week, but after
thirty years Of SCI vice so short a lapse
hardly iustifes the declaration that pri-
vate enterprise is a failure in the trans
portation business.
ON THE WRONG SIDE.
ALAMEDA Argus.l
There has not been strike or q boy
colt, from the Kearney movement down,
in which the daily papers of San Fran
cisco were found on the side of law, Or
der, decency and the commercial and
manufacturing interests Of the country.
FAR REACHING PRECEDENT.
Petaluma Argus.l
If the precedent is once established that
train men can, at will, dictate to railroad
companies what kind of cars or locomo-
tiyes they may safely use on their lines,
they at once become power more to be
dreaded than the most exacting and rasp-
ing railroad corporation in the land, for
under the plausible guise of righting the
supposed wrongs OF laboring men they
can make the disturbed relations between
employer and efnploye in any manufact-
uring industry the ready pretext tor
clogging the entire wheels of interstate
commerce. Obviously. If they can right
fully visit the present calamity upon this
State in obedience 10 mandate from be-
yond the Rocky Mountains in aid of the
employees of Pullman, they can with equal
reason and justice extend their Quixotic
effort in the direction of redressing the
supposed wrongs Of striking mechanics
to the remotest corner of the land.
ATTEMPTING TO DICTATE.
lodi Sentinei.l
1t would appear that the demand of the
strikers from the railroad company is un-
reasonable. They are going too far. They
are attempting 70 dictate to the railroad
company how it shall carry out the terms
OF private contract between it and Pull
man. All Federal judicial opinions thus
far given are to the effect that the strik-
ers are violating the laws of the Govern
ment.
Our laws must be maintained. If they
are not good, new ones should be made.
RULE WORKING BOTH WAYS.
santa Rosa Democratl
The world has set the seal of condemn
alton on slavery. When labor is forced
to yield to the dictates of capital by ire
sistible power then is labor enslaved, and
capital is taking what does not belong TO
il. When capital is compelled by irre-
sistible surroundings to submit to the
dictates OF labor, then is labor appropri-
ating what il has not earned and TO which
ii has no right or title, moral, legal or
equitable. The rule works both ways.
The strikers on the various railways are
acting in utter disregard of these princi-
pies, ana thus acting are causing to go to
destruction millions of dollars worth Of
property and bankrupting thousands of
innocent men. Concede that the Pull
man Company is altogether wrong land
probably it Isl, has any patriotic citizen a
right to paralyze the industries of the
country by taking up the quarrel between
it and its employees. We say emphati-
cally. no. Let law and order be restored.
WHEREIN rs JUSTICE?
Fresno Expositor.l
But it is difficult to see wherein there is
reason or justice in the men OF other occu-
nations. the switchmen, the brakemen,
the engineers and other employees, refus-
ing to handle the cars that have been
made pv union labor and have thus re-
ceiyed the sanctification which itdernands. 1t
The ears which the American Railway
Union aud its allies refuse to handle were