The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-05
INsoLENT OUTLAWS.

The operators the presidents appeal foi
settlement with demand for Federal troops to suppress
the awlessness of the strikers
AS to the awIessness of the strikers, It not peril
nent to the present discussion consider the
that point.
In the first place the governor of Pennsylvania is
able to cope with the situation Besides, there is no
Federal question involved except the supreme question
Of the sovereign duty put end to this ntoerable
condition by seizing the mines forcing them into tho
hands OF a receiver. and the president not his
way clear to that. The miners union has dsavowed
the Of awlessness and its officers using every
endeavor to preserve peace The violence therefore is
matter of individual conduct with which the constab-
ulary and militia Of the State of Pennsylvania must deal
It is WE'LL however to remark in this connection that
such anarchists and outlaws be the miners
are the direct result the capitalstic policy These
operators in common with other and owners
OF great industries the past imported cheap alien la
borers to compete with American workngmen. They
searched Europe and gathered ali the poor
who could be tempted escape the hard conditions OF
their native Among this horde many anarch.
lists who incorporated into body Of Amer
workingmen and many others OF nobler character
who have acquired higher ambition and now seek a
proper reward according the American standard for
their abors So whatever violence the operators are
encountering Is the legitimate harvest of their own
greed and they viii get little sympathy this account.
But who these who pirate Of lawlessness2
They are themselves outlaws.
They daily violating the civil and criminal
Of the land by their combination control the output
Of coal and regulate the prices
It is notorious that in normal times they meet every
morning in New York and fix deliveries and schedules.
They have destroyed competition and established the
most hateful monopoly OF modern times.
1t is only their wealth and power that makes them
respectable
In motive and action they worse than the rioters
Of whom they complain for while the rioters are night
ing for decent wages the operators struggling to
make entire nation pay tribute to their greed
And more They confesaedly seeking to destroy
the miners union, which IS the worEngmans only means
Of detensetrying to opeu up ruthless competition
hungry aborers while they themselves have IN
lawfully throtted competition in production
Their position in respect to the law is insolent IN
to the public the consumers and the miners II h
infamous.
No wonder there socialists and anarchists The
coal trust is breeding them daily and hourly and there
is frghtful reckoning ahead If something be not done
to curb the commercial monsrostez that are making
barter OF hunger and cold.
The plight Of President Roosevelt and his marty !.
pitiable.
Republican policies of protection and favortsm have
developed these gigantic evils and now the government
In their hands is poweriess appealing to creatures q
should command confesslng itself impotent before
conspiracy against the very life Of millions who are 40
pendent upon the favor the trust for the dole ~
bueketful Of coal to keep them from freezing II Rooa
welt had the his convictions he would omen ~
mines not by driving out the strikers but by driving on
the insoent outlaws who own them suit to dIssolv
The trust would solve the matter Instantly or If that AZ
not indictment Of the mpous Baer and his associate
under the criminal clause OF the sherman ao, v,oa
do t.
But that would ALLEVIATE all the trusts and monevba,.
and without them the republican party would be helnes
Sc. nation OF 7sOoooOo stands shiyernr wh,,e ~.
railroads owning the coal mines refuse to submit ma
cause to a board OF arbitration to be named bv =
president And this is government and prosperity !,
ccrding to republican policy
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II Is conceded that the democratic ticket i; H.,
county win be opposed by so-ealed independent io
made Of political odds and ends scraped together i !.
The ambition thirst for Office OF few dsopoopted !,
dvidrals Well fotewarnsa is forearmed The dsmoe,.
win have then house in order when the pnch comes az IN