The sun., 1900-04-20
LABsu.,s HUMAN SACRIFICE.

LABtiI'S HUMAN SACRIFICE.
TRrE 10 its o,d-time predictions the
Morning News is advocating the shoot
ing down Of workingmen who insist
upon their right to be considered as an
interested party in the fixing of tile rate
OF wages TO be paid in tie several
branches OF labor.
In saying this We are not intending
defense Of violence on the part of strik-
ers. We deplore violence on either side
OF such disputes. At the same time we
do not see the wisdom or justice OF as
suming that all the wrong doing is on
the side OF labor. We know that such
an assumption is unjust, impolitic and
, illogical. Experience proves that there
: are better ways, and more potent wea-
pons for the settlement OF labor disputes
than shot guns or rifles. The accidental
sacrifice OF human lives is great enough,
e God knows, without an appeal to arms,
% and the burden Of this sacrifice falls en-
Al tirely upon labor. There is not an hour
n of the day in which, somewhere in this
At co 1ntry, laborer working for a pittance
a that hardly suffices to keep soul and
BODY toge ther, ia not killed, some wife
AZ widowed and some child orphaned. II
pa is possible that this cannot be avoided
70 but we think that just appreciation OF
n. the value OF a human life-of the hum
re- dreds and thousands of human lives thus
is offered as sacrifices for the worlds we'll
r. being-would excite the liveliest interest
st in, and the deepest sympathy for, the
70. men and women out of whose ranks
n. these terrible sacrifices are made. 1t il
on out Of the ranks Of these people that
nd armies are recruited, out Of which heroes
at come 1t is their bodies that must make
nd the living bulwarks Of the nations de
500 Tense. With these things il mind, Will
of an estimate OF human life that canno
,ce be measured by any property value o
ro- money consideration, we cannot conceiv
- Of condition Of things which wal
es- rants an appeal to the shot gun and th
Sot rife in labor disputes.
ne. The strike OF the Italian laborers q
for Croton Dam, New York, is suggestive {
for fact. anent labor conditions, that ougf
ms. not to be lost sight OF. 1t suggests ths
the the devices OF capital to control the labc
col market are returning to plague it. Thes
strikers are aliens. They have been il
an duced to come to this country, in a
sell probability, by the advertising repor
ual sent broadcast over Europe to Undue
is emigration. They come here because
an these inducements and are preferred
at native American labor because they ar
not at the start willing to accept rate
the wages at which the American labor
axe cannot afford to work. Their ignoran
E of and avarce make them apt scholar
No they soon learn that they are being TAXI
,een advantage OF, and they resent it in Il
,de. only way Of which they know. Witho
ally respect for law which they have alwa
rade regarded as tyranous and oppressiy
see without power of calm reasoning abo
the personal injuries inflicted or imagine
ula, they appeal to force. Then comes Ct
ere; for soldiers and the fight is on.
hey This ia not the American way OF me,
crest ing these things. American labor {
and CARNATIONS under wise and calm lead
ates, ship have found better way. Or5anii
the tions OF working men which lromt
atro. unity OF action, that demands ntel
ught gence and industry, that increases
the capacity Of labor and enhances its vail
ness that fixes wage rates upon an eqrital
,ious basis, offer the only right solution OF t
, re- labor problem. They ought to be
rtive spected and encouraged, their adv
fort ought to be sought and their coun
duct listened to. Organization OF labor is
the cure OF strikes
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