The record-union., 1894-08-14
THE SAND-LOT PRESS.
Why it is Howline Against the Rail
road Company.

road Company.
From the San Francisco Evening Postl
1t is sign of conscience when Il man
against whom tratnful accusation has
! been brought attempts to retute it. Up
to the present time the sand-lotters who
supported the recent strike, with it's in
| evltable violence and false assumption of
virtue. have in the face OF all the criti-
| cisms that have been heaped upon them
maintained a moody silence. Perhaps.
considering all the circumstances, this
was as good thing as they could do \
man caught out late ut night with kit of
! burglars tools under his coat usually
wisely refers you 10 his attorney for an
| explanation. Naturally newspapers en-
gagged in fomenGng strife and encourage
ing murder, when detected, decline to be
interviewed.
Within the past few days, however, the
| prevailing peace and quiet, and the per-
sonal comfort which 1t entails, has en-
! boldened some OF them TO emerge from
! behind the piles of false issues which
| they have created to divert attention
in exactly the character the Post pre-
dicted for theln-that is. they have fallen
to charging that their critics are in the
''pay" OF the Southern Pacific Company.
! One OF the most respectable of these sand
lot organs remarks:
1.-The railroad papers are now busily
| engaged in manufacturing in their small
way false views of recent events. 1t does
not seem to them to matter much that in
doing so they are blackening the fair
! fame OF the State. One and all they art
lessly assert that the railroad is the Gov
ernment. 70 fail to take sides with it in
any difficulty that it may have with its
employees is termed anarchy"
! Speaking OF ''blackening the fair fame
! ifNf na fn hyT hon L..
! blow TO the State dealt? Was the fair
fame Of the State blackened by the people
| who recently argued that the employees of
the railroad had no legal or moral right
TO destroy property and derail its trains
to murder those, in fact. who chose to
work for it at fair wages; or was il black
ened by those who, in an effort to
''cinch' it, argued that the boycott was
! justinable and murder and rapine the
] best method of bringing it to terms?
! Speaking OF subsidies, do the saud-lot or
gans desire to have their books exported?
| Are they willing to take OIL their coats
and disclose TO the public the collars"
| they wear?
The general belief is-and we do not
vouch for its truthfulness-that the sand
lot press is like Dean Richmond's bad
man; that is TO say, it will not stay
| bought. 10 engage its advocacy at so
much per line upon any subject is to in
vite treachery. In other words, the sand
lotters demand more than the traffic will
bear. Once discover to them that you
have bank account and they will max o
dead set-not for fair percentage of it,
! but for all of it.
But ali this is well understood nova
days, and the public takes little or no
stock in the. so-called agitations of the
sand-lot press. flights" which are pro-
NOTED by charging opponents with cor
ruption, or which embrace anarchy as
legitimate instruments are known to
have but one purpose. The sand-lot
press, the Iroquols Club and the Populist
! party are at heart anarchists. A decent
respect for their own safety only requires
them to pretend to be in favor of law and
order and for maintaining property
rights. In the excitement incident to
the late strike they lost their heads and
disci osed their true feelings.