The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1913-08-29
(BY X W. wHITE.)

FIRST LAW" Organ
" ization is the logical cor.
rriariy To this proposition
therefore organization is inseprable from
and runs hand and hand with LAW.
We wish to be understood i'm this con-
nection, and in the very onset, ~ helms
heartily in favor of organization for by il
and through il. there is 20 he attained
the splendid height i'm the higher con-
ception Of things, which We could not,
are obtained that would lie lost and un-
discovered forever; opportunities for the
'etterment of humanity and conditions
- gliding 10y and are buried. forever and
a day, in the peculiarly impregnabie linn
bo Of the Past. withoua organization. Or
IA izatlon is not new. IL In ~ old a.
that Divine injunction which fell upon
a chaotic void, "let there be light and
the first grey blush of roseafe dawn
kissed the cheeks Of an thousand noun
tain peaks and fioode as many verdent
valleys, in order and by law. All nature
sings OF organization and law. IL runs
through the vegetable and animal life in
.,ne unbroxen line, does this orgzniza-
,ion, but II runs to the tune of law IL
fhd- expression i'm the animal life from
the siolIu~k which shines upon the bot
tom oi The mighty deep to the Mammal
monstrr that spouts his intermittant
stream from the ocean, from the pistons,
-tamSIIs, pDlIen dust and petals Of the
tiny flower through the Lloryphyl of the
lrave-, Ia the giant srntiseis 81 the yir-
GIN forest and even in the very formaiis.n
of the commodity. which IL claiming our
attention and To which We are addressing
ours Ives, coal, and it, mining, Was put
there in the carboniierous age 10y a pro-
''e-s al physical organization, under the
formative touch Of the LAW HIGHER.
The whole human family is an organi-
zation with all of it, divisions and sub
and yet subdivisions. Church. STAT,
politics, society. one and all are organi-
zations. but only organizations as long ~
X
when they cease to do, they become an
archists and mighty horde tramping the
highway Of tangent tO the circle Of
civiiizssi, organized and lawful society.
This being true, there can lie nothing,
or We take IL u be fair To say that therr
should be nothing said against the right
If miners organizing in a lawful and le-
gal way for they certainly have the same
right that any other branch Of the world
commercial has. A man, or st Of men
has the right To do what he likes a. long
as what be docs does not redown u the
injury of his neighbor, and certainly the
proper Interpretation Of this is that his
right ceases where that Of his neighbor
takes mp, and this u the thing that courts
Of the land are for, viz: To place proper
construct IN upon this line Of demarca-
ton, between man and man, one organ
ization Of society and another and it
drives N directly back tn the original
proposition that organization 10 insepra-
ble from and runs hand and hand with
law and cannot be brought about sue
cessfully by riots, bloodshed and undue
agitation Of grave questions and weighty
matters, but rather must find final -
luton by arbitration, and the meeting Of
the minds Of men, not the bedie-, how
ever keen the conflict 10 the contrary not
withstsnding. The battle ~ one of brain
and not Of Drawn. Prosperity has crept
back into the mining camp ~ in-iduou--
~ that the short interval 81 it, atseuce Il
hardly nOticsble. The strike (f you de-
sire 70 dignity IL by that nan1e) for the
obdurate stand and RECKLESS aggressive.
nee that brings about friction, abrasion
and sometimes bloodshed, = not . strike
bot a mild form of war. i over.