Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-08
Until recently the newspapers of Wash
inston were openly hostile to organized

Washington Times

Until recently the newspapers of Wash
ington were openly hostile to organized
labor"
Washington Times
50 far as this statement is intended to
apply to The Star there is no truth in It,
The Star has long believed in the r.ghtful-
ness and wisdom of organization among
workingmen to increase wages, shorten
hours OF labor and otherwise better their
physical. mental and moral condition. 1t
has long recognized and upheld the wage
earners' right to quit work at will and
peaceably to dissuade others from working
1t has at the same time viewed the I'M
doubted right and power to strike as a
double-edged weapon, often wounding Sc
verely the hand that wields it, and there
fore to be judiciously and sparingly used
in the interest of the workingman himself
The Star has always been hostile to the
doctrines of anarchy whether taught by
labor leaders o. anybody else. 1t has al
ways been hostile to the lawless violence of
the dynamiter. bludgeon-W ielder, incendary
and assassin. no matter by whom or in
whose name behalf crime has been
committed. But The Star does not for an
instant admit, and ii does not believe that
the Times will contend. that hostility to an
archy and lawlessness is under any con-
ceivable conditions hostility to basic
principle of organized labor.
The Star is the organ of the people of
Washington. 1t aims to print the fullest,
the most accurate and the most readable
accounts of the news of the whole world,
giving especial attention to happenings
within the District of Columbia. Its pur-
pose is to promote the welfare of the ma
ticral capital in every manner possible, fos-
tcrng the interests not of the rich alone or
Of the poor alone not of the employer alone
or the employed alone, but of all Washing
fon and all Washingtonians, as BELTS
peoples paper. circulating in nearly every
home in the District, in distinction from a
class publication.
Though in developing and improving the
national capital The Star has benefited all
residents without regard to color sex. occu-
patton or wealth. yet it has happened
that many of Its most important battles
in the public interest have been for the
special benefit of the wage-earners, and
have brought it in direct conflict with ag-
gregated wealth in the great semi-public
corporations. such as steam-railway, street.
railroad. telegraph. telephone, gas and cleo
trio ligh: companies, which have from time
to time threatened the city's welfare. When
the interests of Washington or of its hum
blest citizens have been at stake The Star
has not hesitated to grapple with whatso-
ever endangered them, whether a President
of the United States. a Senator or Repre-
sentative. or any Of the powerful corpora
lions which exercise so commanding and at
times dangerous an influence at the ma
tional capital
The Times itself Is in position to give evil
dence concerning The Stars attitude to-
ward labor, inasmuch as The Star freely
loaned it mechanical facilities. enabled 1t
to obtain press association service. and
materially aided it in every way possible at
a time when it was owned by local work
ingmen. and run exclusively in their in
terest, before it became the property of the
wealthy Indiana capitalist and manufac-
turer who now owns 1t.