The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-04-13
TIE RIOTERS SEE TIE POINT.

..Thus have been for twenty years in
years for thy two daughters, and six
years for thy cattle; and thou hast
changed my wages ten times"
Then jacob struck his duplex father
ia-ja+H for higher wages, and, not get
ting them, went cnt. Thus was one of
i,:la fezg strikes that was I, success, for
Jacob vent fs:to b,tainess on his own
account, and prospcrcd. 1t will be
noticed, however, that had it not been
TO: a bad dream that naban had he
would have brought 9stcob to terms. In
this, the first of all recorded strikes,
the Almighty sided with the oppressed.
sAnother notable, strike was that of
the Israelites sagaipst the exactions of
Pharoah, he Of the indurated heart.
Moses was the organizer of this strike.
When Pharoah called out his militia,
to bring the strikers to forms, they
came to grief in a miraculous manner
in the Red sea. However, itA is only
fair to call attention to the fact that
Pheraoh's version of the trouble has.
never baen published. There may have
been some mitigating circumstances, for
the subsequent conduct of the children
of Israel, in putting to the sword those
with whom they did not agree, justi-
fes the suspicion that they, themselves,
were not entirely devoid of discrep-
ancies. Incidentally, it may be also
mentioned that before leaving Egypt
Moses struck an Egyptian SO hard that
he never rallied from the effect of the
blow.
never see that Egyptian obelislk in
Central par1kysfthout thinking about the
row between Moses and Pharoah, for it
was one of the o1oelislks in front of the
temple of On, at which institution
Moses was O student. There it was
that he acquired much of that wisdom
for which he was justly celebrated.
Strange, isn't it, that there should be
in New York an obelisle at which the
great law-giver must have gazed every
day2 Butt am depressing.
A strike very much to be commend
ed was that Of the ancient Greeks, who,
following the advice of their leader,
Marco Bozzaris, struckssfor their affairs
and their fires.
Strikes are very uncertain as to the
away horses-more easily prevented
than stopped. And, like runaway
horses, those engaged in them do not
realize when they start out that they
themselves may be fshed out of the
wreck at the finish.
It even happens that the capitalists
utilize strikes for their own benefit. It
sometimes occurs that a manufacturer,
who holds more stock than he can
carry, makes fortune out Of misfortune
by inducing the employees to go out on
a strike. Labor frequently accolnmo-
dates capital with the loan of a strike.
Strikes generally affect the strikers
more disastrously than the employers.
Men have stornachs, dollars have not.
Alsain. tits estimated that the amount
spent bysworkingnen in strikes during
the last two years would have paid the
wages ofh hundred thdSsind men dur
One Of the greatSkt aissac iss to the
success of strikes in 4aSgs cities is to be
found in the>faet tN6s4, soon as~a
strike has been start1 ranks of the
strikers arc svelfsds@S4Geeh ac<Sss4ons
from the very toughest elemeAts So
ciety, men.vho never do koneSts1corlk
under any circumstances whatever. It
was to a,man Of this type that a Soft
minded friend of mine in Brooklyn gave
for nine beers and cigar. The stri,s-
ers in Brooklyn were also reinforced by
foreign anarchists, men who oame to
this country in search Of freedofaefrom
work. In the future, as IN the past. this
Objectionable elepnent will exert an in
huence for evil In every strike that
takes place'in- a large city. Much more
trouble is caused by men who can get
work, but won't work, than by those
who want to work. OF course employ
ers, particularly when they are large
corpora tions, are always violently OPP
posed to labor demonstrations of any
only one whose right to strike is not
only acknowledged but approved by
those for whom he works.
The only persons who seem to profit
~ riots and strikes are the Qewsboys