The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-12
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EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

martial law in the mining districts of
Idaho, illustrates what must invariably
come to pass when labor organizations
become high-handed. For it's own pro-
lection the Government must sWooD
down and straighten out the tangle. An
earlier Illustration was afforded in the
great railway strike of five years ago,
which was the most acute trouble of
the kind that the country ever saw. A
good many fairly good people thought
the trainmen's organizations would tri
umph, and that ali regularly constitut-
ed business organizations, as well as all
individuals engaged in. lawful pursuits,
would have to give in and knuckle to
them. Men who were apparently clear
sighted could not see that this would
mean the beginning of the end of all
regularly constituted authority, of all
order and law. Newspapers were not
expected to see it, and if they did they
were too cowardly to take a stand for
the right. But the monstrous attempt
to introduce mob rule failed, and it will
always fail when the critical test is
made. The action of the authorities in
Idaho has gone further than any here
tofore taken. Not only have they made
arrests by the hundreds, and summar
lily deposed civil officers, but they have
notified mine owners that they must
not employ union labor. They have
also captured the union headquarters
and are treating the organization as
one that is insurrectionary and entirely
without the pale of the law.
ENEMIES OF LABOR.
Tulare Register: The typical doctor
of divinity with sociological tendencies
has a warm heart, a hot head and or
atorical ability that does not weary
but he seldom gets cool enough to sit
down and think bit before he talks.
The spectacle of men out of work ex-
cites the Rev. DR.. Ollie of Oakland to
grapple with the social labor problem.
He starts out with the fundamental as
sertion that every man has right to
work, and winds up with declaring that
the competitive system of labor must
be abolished. That is the way the
typical doctor of divinity does his
economic thinking, not with his BRAIN
but with the pear-shaped pump in the
left breast whose normal office it is to
force blood through the arteries and
not economic nonsense upon his par
work, but no man has a natural right
to compel another to give him work.
All he can demand is freedom of oppor-
tunity and there can be no freedor, Of
opportunity without freedom of COM
petition. The monopolist is the enemy
of labor because he is striving to limit
production, striving to abolish the COM
petitive system. The socialist is the
Of 10 J,o &c
to fetter the hands Of ability by put
ting demagogie mediocrity on the
throne of enterprise in place of that
executive ability which, under free
competition, would rule enterprise by
divine right of God given capacity and
DR.. Ollie is an enemy of labor because
he approaches economic problems with
tense emotions instead of with a cool
headed desire to learn the natural laws
of social being.
SIMPLICITY IN WILLS.
Fresno Democrat: A man who was
rated high as a lawyer at the San
Francisco bar and who was one of the
Supreme Court Commissioners, disposed
of his estate by the following docu-
ment, which is a model will to pattern
after, both for simplicity and brevity:
II leave everything to my dear wife.
She will take care of the children.
make her executrix of my will without
bonds. EDWARD J. PRINGLE.
March 9, 1854
The Democrat will wager that no
one will have a foot to stand on to
base a contest of the probate of that
will. There is no ambiguity about the
expressed wishes and desire of that tes-
tator. 1t is the stupid verbosity, the
senseless redundancy and the blind adj
herence to meaningless form and
phraseology, SO characteristic of law
yers,> that furnishes ground for too
many of the probate contests. They
leave the real intent of the testator
obscured after all the extravagant use
of words and phrases, which behoove a
man sometimes to take day off to
wade laboriously through a mass of
written rot and verbal tumble in order
to arrive at a knowledge of the real
disposition of property by will which
the lawyers couched in anything but
straightforward business language.
THE MAN WITH THE HOE.
Riverside Press: The writer had oc-
easion recently TO make some effort to
secure work for young man who was
out of employment We got on track
of something in the line of ranch work,
but on communicating with him were
met with the somewhat chilly response
that he did not care to do manual la
bor." He had recently been married.
but evidently preferred to live on his
mother or on his wife's relatives than
do some hard, honest work while he
was waiting for something better to
come his way.
And this particular instance is no
very exceptional case. 1t simply serves
to point moral and adorn a tale. There
is a foolish and unwarranted prejudice
on the part of too many of our young
men against 1.-The man with the hoe"
against any form of labor that means
soiled hands and the wearing of old
clothes. There is an idea abroad among
many of our young men that it is more
respectable to sit ON a stool in a dark
stuffy office and suck pen, or to stand
behind counter, wear dude clothes
and part their hair in the middle than
it Is to handle the hoe or pick oranges.
Every young man ought to be am
bilious to rise. in life, and he ought to
try to develop some preference for
line of work and then resolve to be
competent in that line. But for boy
to start out with the notion that cal
oused hands or blue overalls are dis
grace is to put a blight on his future
and stamp him as strongly tainted
with imbecility. There is more chance
to-day for men who can handle hoe
intelllgently, and not make a botch of
a job of irrigation or piece OF potato