Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-03-21

cancels back, Mrs. Bowser! To-mor-
row your lawyer can call upon my
lawyer!"
"But what for?n
"To see about the divorce and ali
mony! / have reached the limit! That
is all. ANY further discussion a be
confined to our respective attorneys"
And having silenced and crushed
Mrs. Bowser after the usual fashion
he smoked three cigars in succession
and tumbled back into bed with his
good nature fully restored and a wish
that il were morning so he could keep
right on smoking all day. NJ. QUAD.
A Way to Prevent Riots.
From the Kansas City Star.
If there is anything calculated to
bring the New Orleans rioters to their
senses it is the address issued by the
business men, supplemented by the
proclamation from the Governor. The
address is based on the principles of
the constitutional rights of every citi-
zen, whatever his race, color or posi-
ton, and on the general welfare of the
commonwealth. 1t goes over the
beaten track, but if it does emphasize
one point and make it clearer than an
other that point is that no mob under
the pretense of "organiZed labor"
shall p~ersistently interfere with the
peace and prosperity of the commun-
ity, and, while refusing to work, com
pei others also to refrain. This is the
only tenable position by which the
law can be maintained and the safety
of Republican institutions a be pre-
served. Once establish the principle
that an organized band of workingmen
may enjoy the privilege of dictation at
the end of a rife, and law trembles
and anarchy prevails. If two or three
per cent of the population of a city
shall be permitted to cripple the COM
merce of the city at its pleasure, of
what use are laws and lawmakers?
The address in other respects is con-
sentative, but its firmness gives as
surance that the community is no
longer disposed to trifle with the men
whose stand is that of Anarchists. The
ultimatum is that while the right is
conceded to every man to combine
with other men for mutual protection
or to stop work, such right does not
extend to forcible interference with
men ~peaceably making a living, and
all such interference will be treated
with swift and unsparing punishment.
The proclamation issued by Govern
or Foster is much in the same line.
The Governor warns the rioters that
his duty is plain and that he will not
shrink from it; that he will use the
whole machinery of government and
the power of the state 'sto dispense all
riotous assemblies andto maintain and
uphold the law, and to sustain all per-
sons in the full enjoyment of their
constitutional and legal rights, and to
protect them in life, liberty and prop
erty." There is no other course left
open to him. The law is explicit and
the faintest CLEAN of common sense
shows that it is necessary. But the
riots in Chicago, in Brooklyn and,
more lately, in New Orleans demon
strate the necessity of prompter and
more forcible action. The time has
come in this country when too many
valuable hours are wasted in waiting
to see what the mob will do. Had the
Mayor of New Orleans been the man
for an emergency the police could
have easily forestalled the riot, and
bloodshed would have been prevented.
Once let the turbulent masses of this
country, whose violence is the worst
enemy to organized labor, understand
that the whole state is back of a man
peaceably going to work, and the
danger of riots and bloodshed and de-
struction of property is m~easurably
removed.