New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-29

haps to be sued for improper Affiliations WIN or
roads or among themselves: but IT iacs 'ney y
own their own mines. and the strikers 90 no,
striker and former employe, while enS'ieu ~
all liberties of American citizenship. has no more
original rights on the premises OF e'"'
owner than any other citizen.
Two considerations arc systematically isnorso
in this discussion One Is that coal p'opii
like other property owners in iron works Oh as
agricultural investments. for instance nav %
rule in this country become such not from oaioiiia
inheritance from past generations. DIV oeS
superior energy and personal elements VI . 1 a. -
and executive enterprise, which nave gar
up from starting stations OF downright po'ei.S'
Another consideration strangely obscured py mis-
taken sympathy, is this: That men VINO osCoih0
strikers have come upon the premises OF coal piop
erty voluntarily, unconstrafned ana unoecei. 90
when they are dissatisfied with the eohui'
which prevail there .are perfectly at hDefS "
leave; and IL there be others In deeper poseiS
waiting behind them, eager TO take their places
they ought prom pity to leave. and thus give op
portunity to those who on either side OF them nave
inalienable rights as we'll as themselves
A young man of ability. character. purpose ana
self-controI rises from poverty to become a wen
paid superintendent in machine shop he Is az
last able to own a steam yacht. and adVeruses 1or
eight to her. Out or twenS-ioul VINO
apply, eight are, their own terms accepted anu
installed In few days they all strike lor hisner
wages pleading their poverty and mis- wealth ana
after while enthusiastically demanding at least
arbitration" In such a case it is quite easy LOT
the softest hearted philanthropst to discuss Ins
rights of ownership and to say; II these are no,
satisfied let them be duly paid on and depart
His condemnation of them is. moreover, swift ana
sure IL while refusing to quit the yacht until
they are driven off by the poiice tney tner sar-
rison the wharf and by abuse or persuasion sue
cessfully drive away needy. competent ana I'M
Fortunate substitutes. The public appreciates the
meanness and dupiicfty of captain or engineer VINO
will in such a case say: IF you do not pay us
what we are pleased ask we VIII all strike, ana
to the last limits of the law endeayor to keep
others from taking our places We VIII not. 10 be
sure, counsel violence. but we cannot answer Tor
what in the STRIKE the deckhand or the fireman
NAV do so you had better accept our terms at
selves not within month to strike again for fur
Their advance. ID,
Such a case of ownership and strike everybody
appreciates but the same factors ana principles
underIie the business and in equity determine IL
when the owner has climbed to be a coal pro-
nrietor or IL Won please an owner of vast wheat
fields of the West of railroads or freight steam
ers which TRANSPORT the wheat which the hungry
rnuItitIdes of the East depend upon for ite The
anthracite coal strike will terminate ana the
If strikers either accept the teIluS VI o"lioio VI
quit their premises = =,
Furtheruore ownership. duly recognized by all
narties is for all parties not only something
write an Intelligent man of New-Zeaand is at my
elbow He is not only friend 10 the poor. but
lives for them. And he Is saying that the pros
perity of all New-Zealand is hndered its vast de-
nnsits of ore are unmined and Its other resources
ndeyeloped because trades unions have so Inter
Tered with ownership that capitalor what is prac-
ticaIly the same thing foresight, capacity energy
integrity-will not invest there. but goes instead
to Australia or elsewhere. PRESBYTERIAN.
Freeport. Long Islandv Sept %, 1862