Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-09-19
R BLACkCA7SLOSETWO CALLS IT Anarchy
CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE ON CAR.
MEMS STRIKE.
Warns the Press of San Francisco
TO Change its Moral Tone and
Stand for Law and Order. Car
Strike Causes Much SUFFERING in
That City.


during which time his mind is cloud.
ed by discomfort while brooding over
his situation, and his family not in
frequently suffers from the want of
the necessaries of life.
THE loss inflicted by strikes on
the employers is not much more than
half as great as that which is sus-
tanned by the employed, who can
much less afford to bear it, 1t would
be a vast stride in the interests of
peace and of the laboring classes if
the policy of arbitration, which is
now gaining favor for the settlement
OF international quarrels, were also
availed of for the adjustment of dis
putes between capital and labor"
The San Francisco Garments strike
mas now continued for about three
months. The direct loss to the car
men in wages and incidentals to
maintain the strike is estimated by
the San Francisco Chronicle, $4,-
100000. The indirect loss to the
working people of this stricken city
is probably as much more. The mer-
| chants, contractors and general COM
mercial classes have suffered loss
of nearly as much. 1t is impossible
to trace the effects of this appalling
financial loss. In addition to the suf-
fering of the 1000 striking carmen,
hundreds and probably thousands of
clerks have been discharged on ac-
count of lack of employment due to
strike conditions.
Great as is the financial loss, the
greatest in the history of the city,
yet the loss in higher values is ines
timas4y greater. The generation and
cultivation of coarse brutality; the
murderOus and rancorOus spirit
which has dominated the streets of
San Francisco for the past 100 days,
have lowered the average manhood
of the city by many degrees. The
confidence of the public at large has
been broken. The tide of marvellous
prosperity which was rising to the
dimensions of an abounding wave
has been turned back.
This is not all. The actual suffer-
ing of the working classes has been
very great. The families of the car
men have suffered and will suffer.
They have been driven from their
homes. Thousands have been COM
PEELED to leave the city and are drift
ing aimlessly about under binding
sense of injustice. Nearly every sort
of loss has a compensating side but
the strike has none. If city is
rebuild it is an asset. Even the de-
struction of war creates new and
generally better conditions, but the
strike is a form of bitter desperation
which disintegrates everything sac
red in the civil order. 1t is essen
TALLY anarchy, no matter what the
provocation. Its basic moral prin-
ciple is vengeance, personal retalia
tion, an attempt to right a wrong
If God has made any revelation to
man it is to the effect that blind
rage is weakness. Back of all the
social and political trouble in San
Francisco is lawlessness. The dis
graced and convicted mayor practi-
cally proclaimed at the beginning of
his administration that it was not
necessary to obey the law. He def
initely stated that under strike con-
ditions the law would not be enforc-
ed. He is essentially and first an
anarchist. His stealings are personal
sins, bad enough, but the treacherous
principle of his reign of vice has
been anarchy. No one should be de-
ceived. San Francisco has been in
an anarchistic condition from the
day that he took oath of office. The
end is not yet. Unless the press Of
San Francisco changes it's moral tone
and stands for law and order, we
are but in the beginning Of fermen-
tation and disintegration. The strike
is form of anarchy which breeds
economic death.-California Chris
tian Advocate.
Gard of Thanks