The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-30

litical agitation for the reshaping of
self hopeful sign.
1t is little less than marvellous that
the laboring classes of the United
States-who are supposed to be the
most Intelligent laborers in the world
should have chosen to waste their ener-
gies so many years in hopeless at
tempts at coercion and blind exhibit
tons of fury, like a mad bull charging
a barbed-Wire fence. They should
have learned long before this that a
resort to violence in time of strike is
the worst possible course for them, and
the most certain to end in their COM
plete subjugation. 1t is said, and per
haps truly in many cases, that the
striking employees are not responsible
for these outbreaks of violence. Granted
and yet the people who make the trou-
BILE are no doubt in sympathy with the
strikers, and in pursuing this course
they are irreparably injuring their
friends.
When any class of citizens, no mat
ter what their grievance, resort to mob
violence they place themselves in an
attitude of hostility to organized socle-
ty Society must take a stand against
them to prevent the whole organization
from going down in anarchy and chaos.
And. as a matter of fact, the grievances
which cause the outburst cannot be re-
dressd until a state of law and order
is restored.
WANT A JOB.
The Mail. Woodland: San Francisco is
making great preparations for the re-
ception to be rendered to the Califor-
MIA boys when they arrive from the
Philippines. She should not lose sight
Of the fact so often called to- her at
tention by the country press, that many
of the boys would prefer a job to blaz-
ing torches and fluttering bunting.
THE ARBITRATION FAD.
Stockton Mail: The absurdity OF re-
garding arbitration as a practical
means of settling future disputes be-
tween nations is shown by the attitude
of the United States as regards the
Alaskan boundary, which attitude is
sensible and correct. why" asks
Uncle Sam, should I submit the prop
osition to arbitration when 1 am sure
that I am right and am quite capable
of defending my opinion with force II
necessary" 1t is only when a nation
does not feel equal to fight or hopes
to gain diplomatic point by belns
conciliatory that it consents to arbltfa-
ton, as England has in the case OF
Venezuela. But it will not hear of SUBJ
hitting the Transvaal issue to arbl-
tration, because it believes itself in the
right, is sure of being able to whip the
Beers, if needs be, and has no other
powerful nation to reckon with IN the
premises Wherever a nation feels that
it can do so safely it will refuse to arpl-
trate, and whenever it thinks 1T can
afford to repudiate the award OF an
arbitration tribunal it will do even that,
as witnes the Behring Sea award. Very
likely Great Britain, which has the
most use for arbitration, as RUE,
will be pretty sick of 1T when the VEN
ezuela decision shall have been rem
dered. and will have no more to do
with it, in view of the impossibility or
procuring change of venue to Mars
IT IS RESPONSIBLE.
Humboldt Standard: The free trade,
free silver papers and Popocratic ora
tors are making merry over the recent
labor troubles. and the deadlock be-
tween the laborers and the tin plate
manufacturers. They insist that the
protective tariff is the cause of the Ia
Dor troubles in this industry; and it is
the indirect cause, there is no use OF
denying a fact so patent. If the duty
had not been placed on tin plate we
should have had no labor troubles in