Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-09

Dobs, Sovereign and Ratchford as pro-
fessional agitators and he is far from
being the first to accuse these men Of
being busy in fomenting labor troubles
in order toprovide themselves with sal
aried occupations. On the other hand
it is clear that labor must have leaders.
Unless its organizations are to be I'M
potent mobs they must have heads.
Such accusations as those made by
Rend are much in the line Of the old
story which pointed out the wisdom of
/ abusing the attorney on the othe side
when one had weak case.
The st. Louis resolutions do not rep
resent "the frothings Of agitators. "
They represent that feeling of fear for
free institutions, that commendable
consciousness that the just purpose of
the laws is being perverted, that
aroused patriotism which is not con-
tent to allow the republic TO drift into
danger without an effort being made to
save it and that feeling of discomfort
and dissatisfaction that rightly
comes into existence when indus
trious and virtuous masses find them
selves unable by the utmost diligence
and application to provide their chill
dren with enough bread to satisfy their
hunger and enough clothing to cover
Their nakedness No thoughtful man,
though he be enjoying fortunate afiu-
ence, will deny that these feeling are
paramount in the breasts of millions of
Americans and that there is reason for
them. We think it is not an overstate
ment to say that 95 per cent of the
thinking people of this country regard
with alarm the encroachments OF GER
/, tain members of the federal Judiciary
} on the rights which are guaranteed to
the meanest citizen under our scheme
of government as rightly interpreted.
} When these rights are denied to one
man they may be denied to another
and ultimately to all save the govern
ing oligarchy which will have appro-
priated into its own hands all power
, Such a condition of misgovernment
: would be worse than absence of gov
, eminent for an intelligent and patriot
ic people lacking a government could
quickly make one, while an oligarchy
backed by bayonets could not be un-
seated save through the expenditure OF
much blood and suffering.
1t is by such proclamations as that
coming from the ST. Louis gathering,
and reaching all portions of thepublic,
that the people may be aroused to think
:, and, thinking, to act. The News be-
. lieves that is only necessary to make
voters realize the very dangers that
may come to them, or their descendants
in the remote future, to secure right
ing of wrongs through the agency Of
the ballot box, and anything that will
help to bring home to them that reali'
cation is in the highest degree useful
Exception may be taken to the utter
6 ances of some of those sitting in the
r convention. They will be condemned
/ in many quarters as anarchists OF ultra
u violent and dangerous tendencies, bu
= 1t would be more correc5 to say, in re-
q gard to at least some of them, tina
J. they are lacking in that confidence II
9 the wisdom of the people-a wisdom
u often painfully slow moving-whicf
= will at last work out the needed rene
dial changes to mike existing systems
better. II must be remembered tina
v with these men it is in the most acute
sense condition and not theory tina
u confronts them. They are not discus
II sing theories of government with acad
$ emic calmness. They see thousands o
IS men women and children on the very
IS verge of starvation and out of the bit
Z, terness of their hearts come bittel
} words. The man or newspaper daring
T to condemn the struggling coal miners
v as dangerous mem bers of society l!
h cruelty unjust, for in all the history o
J. mankind we doubt if there may bt
n found another instance of like struggle
d against hunger and suffering conduct
6 ed with such orderly regard for Law
= and peace. The law breaking and thu
II perversion of law for their oppression
n has been on the side of those agains
g them. If 1t were possible to reduce tn,
g residents of Fifth avenue in New Yorl
e to the condition of these striking Goa
e miners for one week we doubt not tina
r there would be wild outbursts of rag
e and resorts to physical force such a
% have been chiefly notable during thi
+ strike from their absence. -Denve
s. News.
= For the last two or three years tn
n railroad corporations have had a lobb,
d at Washington trying to pass what /