The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-28

strikers. The closing paragraph is as
follows:
You and I are made ITO suffer want,
that few may grow richer. Thus it
has ever been, when unconsciona'b-e
thieves, stock-diluters, widow and
orphan robbers, seek to get control of
a valuable property cheap. Today we
are their sacrifice. Tomorrow it will
( be Others. In the spirit of peace and
Zens and taxpayers of Brooklyn. We
have bowed before the written law, and
shall continue to salute ''Gesler's hat"
until the great majority of suffering
! beings find out what we in bitterness
have learned: That the Jaw, the judges
and the government is for the rich, the
powerful and the grasping. Our SER
wants they should be, our masters they
! are. Chosen by our suffrage, they be
tray us before the cock crows thrice
] The rights and affairs Of the people are
i IN the hands of Iscariots. When, o,
when! will come the day when their
bowels will be spilled on the ground?
That is the kind of stimulant that
some labor organizations deal out at
strike times. It fires up the foolish and
ldisgusts the thoughtful. The Brooklyn
strikers may have real and reason
able grievance against the street rail-
road companies and might have gained
the sympathy of the country if they
had fought their battle on legitimate
lines. AS it is, they have placed them
selves in hostility to the law and made
it the duty OF its representatives to OPP
pose legal force ito their Illegal violence.
What a pity it is that the struggles
of labor against the tyranny Of capital,
should be so often rendered futile by
1.-THE folly, tyranny and brutality of the
men who engage in them! Whatever
may be the merits of the case, before
anything can be done by way Of its
settlement, order must be restored and
nn6bocracy must be put down. We fear
that the loss to the strikers will, in
any event, be greater than any gains
they will make from the strike.
Following are a few of the press
comments IN relation to this subject:
Before any agreement can be made
between the strikers and the railroad
, companies the state of war must be
:, ended. MobS must be dispersed thor
oughly and violence must cease, even
II 1t IS necessary to resort to extreme
measures to accomplish that purpose,
The use of the bayonet is plainly fu-
. tile 1t carries no awe with it. Steiner
measures are called for, and if these
} rioters will not learn that the state is
stronger that themselves by any other
lesson, they must be taught by volleys
The first necessity is the enforcement
of order. The second is the re-estab-
: lishment Of travel These two accom-
i plished it may be necessary for the
state to take the trolley companies
roughly in hand and compel them to
: discharge their duty.-NeW York Com
mercial Advertiser.
President Norton and all the other
trolley magnates can learn by the
signed statements of prominent citi-
zens in the World, by the utterances
in the Brooklyn pulpit yesterday, by
the press Of both cities and by all
other means Of obtaining public
opinion that the attitude of stub
bornly declining all overtures to a
| peaceful settlement of the trouble is
strongly condemned by the people
There is, however, practically entire
agreement that all lawlessness must
: be suppressed. Mr.. Shepard stated the
5 only sane view in his letter to the
Worlds yesterday: "The mayor anG
city authorities must maintain order
without reference to the right OF
wrong of disputes out of which a quar-
, rel may have arisen" Mayor Schierer
: having decided that the local authori.
: ties cannot maintain order, the gov,
ernor has discharged his duty in Civ.
ing the assistance asked for.-NeW York
: World.
The strikers in Brooklyn are trying
/ the same tactics that caused so much
, loss of property-and failed-tn the
r great railroad riot of last year. By in.
timidating new employees they seek tc
show that the companies cannot oper
I ate their lines; but the state is bound
E to provide protection to the companie:
3 and their men, and attempted intimi
dation when there are troops in the
field is sure to lead to a conflict Tr
l the meantime the railway companie!
: are estopped from negotiating a, settle
ment OF the strike. If they should yielt
! an inch, under threats of violence, they
; would invite a future rule Of anarchy
The only thing to do is to suppress tht
: rioters by force Of arms. When peace
D has been restored at considerable sac
r rifice it will be time enough to talk O.
a concessions. There is no instance of {
big strike in this country attended by
l violence. which has been settled while
. rioters We're in the field and it is quite
u likely that there never will be.-Phila
D delphia Ledger
Since this unhappy conflict was pre-
2 cipitated by the trolley corporations il
| their nlerci-ess policy of grinding GU
u dividends on millions of dollars 0
u watered stock many violations of lay
e have taken place. but, as we are as
n lSured, and as we believe, the locked-ou
" part in them. These outbreaks are tn
e work Of the outlaws and thugs to b
y found in every large community, an
who are ever ready to rise in insurre1
ton against constituted authority.-N
J 7. Recorder.
1t is no part of the duty Of privat
Il parties to preserve order. Everybod
has the right to demand securit
against violence, and 1t doesn't max
=, any difference who he is or what h
y has done. The worst criminal has tn
same right to the assurance of Securit
that the best citizen has. The Brookly
~ trolley companies. no matter what the
y offense, are entitled to projections
Detroit Tribune.
Mankind of the most common sol
re finds it comparatively easy to rush e1
cited into the heat and smoke of ba
tie; most men ara brave enough fl
that But it is another thing to tram
up and down in the presence of a how
IL ing mob whose taunts are more pier
ing than bullets and refrain from e.
le ercisng the natural right of reply an
reprisal; it would be much easier to il
Y. dulge in a hand-to-hand encounter tina
Id to appear unconcerned under such CT
cumstances. Yet the soldiers in BrooI
lyn have done this from the hour VINE
n | they were first called out; they hay
earned all the applause which will 1
given thern.-W ashington Star.
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rs The New York Recorder deserve