Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-21

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for the adjustment of possible diff1cul-
ties in the future be made a part OF the
agreement.
That no bylaws or rules conflicting
With the agreement shall be enforced
or passed by the association or union
during the life of the agreement.
Would any body of workingmen
other than the trades unions of Chi
cago hesitate moment before accept
ing such compromise? 1t contains
nothing but what should have been
conceded in the first place. n man
could be a firm believer in the organi-
cation of labor, in fact most men are
such believers, but there is no man but
will admit that there is better activ-
ity possible for labor unions than dog
in the Manager policy. The labor unions
of Chicago, whose particular bogie has
been the trusts" have formed a trust
that terrorizes and tyrannizes for per-
sonal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT to an extent
never beforc heard Of. 1t is a great
tragedy that such battle should come
TO an issue in 50 young a city as Chs
cago, just as the spring has been prom
Using the most splendid activity in the
business world, and just as the country
is settling down 10 prosperity after its
long Years of panic. But the fault seems
entirely in this case that OF the labor
unions and finally of the laboring man
who permits himself to be led about
With ring in his nose.
A SCOTCH VIEW OF ".
The Weekly Scotsman, published at
Edinburgh, Scotland, has this to say of
the Boer commissioners that are visiting
this country to secure American inter-
Nention in behalf of the Boer cause:
MIR. Fiscle. has been exposing TO an
interviewer in Amsterdam samples of
the stock-in- trade With which he and
his fellow Boer5 ENJOYS are preparing to
stump America. We gather that, under
The guise of apostles of peace. they pro-5
pose 10 agitate oil American platforms
for intervention. which, In the illrof-
ceiVable event of its being attempted by
the republic, Would lead to war between
the two great branches Of the English
speaking race. Having first visited the
Netherlands because it is a country pso-
pied by the same race as themselves
the delegates are next to proceed to "a
sister republic, the people of which
century ago fought the same fight as
the Boer people are now fighting. Their
endeavor Will be, after dispeiiing error.
to- seek to unite all parties in the states
on a common PLATFORM that OF aiding
a small nation in d struggle for its
rights and Freedom. We do not doubt
that the I3oer enNoys Will be able to
make some noise on the other side of
the Atlantic. There are parties there
by whom any instrument With which to-
gain their political ends any weapon
that can be used To attack this country,
will l1e glsefuily Welcomed, and no scru-
pie made either as To the character OF
the means Or the consequences of the
Others thsresaie, no doubt, Who
are honestly. altho ignorantly, in SYM
.i;tthy with III. Beers and Who viii
shout when they are invoked ii, the
Eanle of liberty. justice and republican,
ism, without waiting to inquire what
realities lie behind these phrases when
us3d by the representatives of Mr. Fru-
ger and Mr.. Stcsn. But from making a
noise on American platforms to SURFING
up a great nation to meddie IN a quarrel
sin which it has neither legal nor moral
right to interfere. and so risk the out
break If a war more unnatural and.
needless than any that has stained his
tory, is a long step. Mr. Fischer is. for
sGoth. To dispel The error that he and
those who work With him sought war.s
or desired anything but peace and the
enjoyment Of their rights. without i'n-
pairing III. rights Of other peoples. z Let
them ansWei, then Why they launched.
insulting ultima:ums. and took agrees
5sise action that made the preservation
of peace i,npossible. Let them say why
they refused TO grant to other peoples
a moderate share of those rights of cit
iZensfiip which. in genuine repubiicsEand
in progressive nionarchies is yielded as
Ia matter of course. In the light of the
recent history of the Transvaal. Of its.
dealings With the imperial government,
With the uitiandera, and even With It's
.burghers' Mr.. Fischers claim that the
republics are a small nation struggling
for its rights and freedom is staggering
limits cool effrontery. When he tells the
citizens Of the United States that cen-
turs ago they We're lighting the same
flight that the Beers are fighting today.
they may possibly remind him that the
lquestion of whether people could be
taxed and yet refused representation
Was one of the issues of the war of inde-
pendence. In the I'ransvaal that right
wao persistently denisd. the section OF
1.-The population which formed the niaior-
iity and subscribed nearly the whole ex-
psnses Of the state had no part in its
/ government. Rather than comply with
a request for franchise reform which
Ifell far short of what the American re-
| public grants to all newcomers 10 Its
4 shores MIR. Kruger, and with him Mr..
4 Steyn, plunged into the var, from
(which they would fam extricate them
/ sslxca by pulling into the dispute ma :
tons which have Won greatness by fol-
lowing principles diametrica!ly oppo-
\ site to those that have brought these
4 Dutch republics to ruin. That they are
little nations may possibly be plea
flor patience ard long suffering or the
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