The record-union., 1899-08-03
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

CTOSS DdQSe ana goes out TO FISK ner
health and life to relieve suffering. The
world loves and applauds a heroine,
and heroine means a self-sacrificina
woman withswhem we are not well &C.
quainted. No one wishes to detract
from the record of Red Cross workers,
but it is well to sometimes recall that
heroines like angels may be with us
unawares. The woman whose form
has bent, whose features have
faded and whose hands have grown
gnarly in uncomplainingly carrying the
burden laid upon her is certainly not
a mere clod. If peace has it's victories
as well as war. so has the wash tub
seen self-sacrifice and devotion to duty
as significant as that found beside the
couch of sick soldier. The woman
who wears out her life in behalf of her
dependent children may neither receive
nor desire public applause, but society
will not remember what she has done.
NOT UNDERSTOOD.
Willows Journal: The Cubans, are
now objecting to American cattle. The
fact of the whole business is that this
country shed a useless lot of tears over
the Cuban patriot. who now returns
the favor with grunts and growls. We
think the command to carry the Cos
pei to all was intended for the church
and not state. The expense of mill
tary occupation, to say nothing of the
war, would have placed a missionary
over every ten persons in Cuba. The
white mans burden is not fully under.
stood
COSTLY LYNCH LAW.
San Diego Union: Is it not rather
humiliating for this great nation, which
makes so sweeping pretensions as u
leader of modern civilization, to be
periodically compelled to pay damages
to foreigners for barbarous outbreaks
of mob violence? Time and again dur
ing recent years the United States has
had recourse to its treasury to satisfy
claims growing out of failure to enforce
the laws of States. It is true that the
Government has never admitted that
it is liable for the lynching of foreign.
ers, but in cases where demands for in
demnity have arisen from such lynch
ings, the money has been forthcoming
And the notifying part of the affair is
that the outrages for which compensa
ton is allowed, if occurring in some
feeble little country that makes no spe-
redressed by the offending Power in
summary fashion-with a visit from a
feet and the landing of an armed force
OF course such methods are not prac-
ticable in the case of the United States.
So each time this country is convicted
of failing to protect foreigners within
it's borders, diplomacy. and not force is
employed-and this great, enlightened
pioneer of civilization pays money for
acts of it's rabb1e that would disgrace
even semi-barbarous countries. Just
now the Government at Washington is
about to meekly yield UP some cash be-
cause Louisiana mob saw fit to dis
pense with Judge and jury in dealing
with some Italian wretehes 1t is not
a great while since damages We're paid
for a very similar case in which Ital,
ian subjects were butchered in Jail.
Is it not about time for the Federal
Government. which haSto bear the cost
and odium of lawlessness in the States,
to find some way to put a stop to out
breaks that are a adisgrace to the ma
ton as we'll as drain on the treasuryt
STRIKES AND THE UNIONS. Z
Portland Oregonian: The right to
mass the forces of labor against the
forces involved in ca pitai-including or
ganized associa ton for mutual counsel,
representation by chosen leaders, the
privilege of the strike in emergencies
must be recognized as legitimate. On
the other hand, labor must learn self
control and to limit its organized pro-
tective operations to legitimate means.
1t must purge itself of the element
happily not a large one-which seeks to
make a labor union a mask for con-
spiracy and crime: it must command
the respect of society by keeping at
all times within the bounds of law ana
in respect of social order and the rights
of persons and of property.
Recent events in the Occur d'Alene
mining district may be taken to illus
trate these considerations. The miners
have probably been subject to irrita-
tions and to injustice at the hands of
the mine owners or their agents. Had
they protested against their real griev-
ances to the extent of quitting work
at the same time fairly putting their
case before the publicAthey would
easily have brought the mineowners to
time. A legitimate. self-respecting, or
derby policy could not have failed to
the miners took upon themselves the
character of enemies of social order.
The real grievances which formed the
original basis of protest were lost, and
the whole force of organized society
arose as it always does and always
must to put down the disorders and
avenge the wrongs of society outraged.
By an act of outlawry, the miners lost
sympathy, lost respect, gave themselves
the character of criminals, and brought
upon themselves the vengeance of So
ciety in the forms of civil and military
force. Here was the first great mistake,
but it was local. purely, in it's charac-
ter and effects. A greater mistake fol-
lowed in the efforts of the Western Con-
federation of Miners to defend the
course of the miners in the Occur
d'Alenes, and to, stand between the do
ers of the Wardner crime and the pens
alties attached to that crime.
The right course for the federation
would have been to declare itself as
having no part with crime or criminals
acting in the name and under the
shield of labor union. To the victims
of over wrought passion and of vicious
counsels the federation might properly
have accorded the charity we give to
those of our own households who fall
into error or shame. 1t might have
bound up their wounds visited them in
prison, comforted them in the affliction
sOf their own madness: but it should
have notified the world that labor un-
ion offers no apology for crime. that il
cherishes no will or purpose to support
or shield those who appeal to lawless