The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-06-06
Wednesday, June 6. 1900.
Strange Condition OF A fairs.

Strange Condition of Affairs.
Except on the ground OF political timidity
We are unable to understand why neither
editors nor politicians, legislators nor con-
gressmen are making any effort to suppress
the mob violence OF the labor unions.
Their organization is a menace to the peace,
property and prosperity of the country.
When mobs or outlaws are laying violent
hands on the property and persons Of the
citizen, we see editors, politicians. congress-
men, and simlin headed idiots talking about
trusts.
No attention is being paid to the destroyers
of property, or TO those who MAIN and
kill laboring men.
Republicans and Democrats are loud in
their protestations Of hatred for the trusts
but the aggregation OF public enemeies under
the firm name of labor union, receives no
attention.
They stop street cars, shoot laborers, destroy
property, disturb business Of all kinds, while
they themselves voluntarily go into 1dleness,
or form an organization 10 make respectable
and law-abiding citizens stand and deliver to
them not only their money, but the control OF
their business.
duo pIOpolGy iatOACoeo AcNS A'oNsS
which even outlaws aud mobs should be
made to respect
Is not the cry OF trusts" about like the cry
of stop thief?
From the Atlanta Journal OF one day last
week, we take this news item.
st. Lous, May 30.-A terrific explosion, sup
posed TO have been caused by dynamite,
placed on the tracks Of the Union line at
Fifth and Chambers streets, shook the build.
ings and broke the glass in all the windows
in the neighborhood at midnight. Many per-
sons were thrown from their beds by the
violent shock and all were awakened and
more or less terrified.
So far as known no one was injured. The
policy have been unable to find out who was
RESPONSIBLE for the explosion.
No fatalities occurred among the eleven per-
sons shot in yesterdays riots. r. H. Stilson,
throug the spine, is In critical condition.
Cars are running on sixteen OF the Transit
company's lines.
Chief Campbell has Increased the police
force in South st. Louis on account OF the
serious disturbances in that part Of the city.
Non.uniformed special officers have been
experience. General Manager Baumhof. of
the Transit company, said today that the
police should take strenuous methods to pre-
serve order.
ave are now feeding 1000 men at our two
commissary depots In different parts Of the
city," said he. In no case are we allowed TO
set upon and assaulted and the goods destroy
ed.''
About noon a mob gathered at Broadway
and Miller street, where yesterdays riot took
place, and built bonfires on the street car
tracks. When the cars stopped the non.
union employees and policemen on board
were hooted and jeered. Forty mounted
police charged the crowd and dispersed ii.
The police used the broad sides Of their sabres
on the heads of those with whom they came
in contact. A number were injured, but none
seriously. The distractions were removed
and the cars proceeded.
President Hawes. OF the board of police com.
missioners, announced this afternoon that he
will ask Sheriff Pohiman TO summan 1000
men to form q posse comitatus to help the
police TO keep order and prevent the destruc.
tion ofstreet railway property.
Kansas City Strike Off,
Kansas City, May so.-The strike Of the
union street car men In Kansas City has been
called of Internationally on the part Of the
strtkers- The men are free to secure rein
statement upon individual application.
From this it will be seen that the mob fall
ed in their demands on their employers, and
that the labor union has kindly consented
for its members to seek another job.
No attention is paid to the insurrection,
rebellion or unlawful acts OF the men who
should be sent behind prison bars and make
TO peck rocks, but we find this editorial about
trusts:
HypOcritical Professions.
1t would be amusing fit was not so disgust
Ing 10 see Republican conventions in every
part OF the country placing in their platforms
strong denunciations OF the trusts and urgent
strong demands for their restriction and regu-
lation.
The Republican National Convention will
Keep US this pretense OF animoSlty toward the
trusts and determination TO collar them.
How can the public be deceived by such
declarations?
The Republican party has had control Of
the government for more than three years
and has not madea single effort to prevent or
even check the trust evil. On the contrary
the man now a. the head of the legal depart
ment Of the ministration has refused to ex-
ercise the power which the existing antitrust
law, defective as II is, con fers upon him.
His reply to all requests and suggestions
that he proceed against the trusts Is to the
effect that this matter is the business OF the
states rather than the federal government.
1t Is well understood that the trusts are allies
OF the Republican party and that they will
contribute millions Of dollars to the Republi-
can campaign fund this year. Republican
denunciations OF trusts for the quality ofthelr
gall are only equalled by the DEVILS rebukes
ofsin.
When compared to the conspiracy of union
men against the interests Of their employers,
and when their acts Of violence, murder and
destruction of property are recounted the
evils resulting from the trusts dwindle into