The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-26
Innocent Bystanders.

II FREQUENTLY in the past, when men have fallen out
with each other and proceeded to fight it out between
themselves upon the streets of town. some OF the
went wild and brought down citizen not concerned IN
the fight and who going about his way attending 70
his own business in most proper and orderly fashion
Such unofending citizens usually dismissed IN the
spatches as innocent bystanders. The heroic gentle
men engaged in the duel usually accorded most OF
the publicity and honors of the OCCASION and were rarely
punished for the injury that they may have inflicted upon
the innocent bystander because such injuries were I'M
uremedtated and unntentional
Originating thus the term innocent bystander" has
been popuuarzed to designate all persons who have IN
Jury or damage inflicted upon them by parties IN con-
fict in which they in way concerned In the De-
ginning of duel the public street the participants
were volaors of the law though they were rarely
punished as they should have BEEN All right thinking
people condemn the affairs which frequently Jeopar-
died the lives of innocent bystanders'
Recently we have had exemplfcations of other types
of innocent bystanders" Many small nations and even
our own nation suffered during the late such and
because of this forced into the war too Bel
gum was the first innocent bystander to suffer but be-
fore the ended every nation on the globe had fet
the effects of most seriously. There should be
strong League of Nations which would prevent any nation
running amuck in any such way as Germany did, but
that is not the real point of this article
The organization of unions in this country has reached
point where by consolidating forces they Can and on
occasion do amuck to the serious damage OF the
labor union all the labor unions IN Amer-
ca combined should not have the right to say that
man shall not work how and where he peases for his
daily bread they do this by threats and violence in
every strike called in this country.
Every man who accepts employment of the people,
either as guardian operative, of those businesses
necessary to the health and lives of the people, should
be pledged and required to the fufllment of his
duty. In accepting such service and leaving 1t under
conditions which would be apt to cause loss of lives,
should be termed desertion and dealt with accordingly
Certainly police firemen and railroad come in this
class
But the effects of labor quarres which settled by
the "duel method" very far reaching. Hardly any
strike which stops production and extends to the
destruction of property is bound to make innocent
bystander to certain degree of every citizen in the
land Economic waste is a crime against CIVILIZATION
and if this country is survive free republic it is
time to stop all economic wastes. Congress would be
much better off perfectng laws this matter
than in opposing the League of Nations.
The Literary Digest of the current week is made the
innocent bystander of labor dispute which it is not
party which prevented the publication of that paper
in the usual 1t appears however on time but
wholly minus advertisements which it usually carries
in its pages, and thereby loses much revenue.
All over America today are heard the grumbngs OF
capital which labor has forced deeper into corner, and
predictions that fight to the finish will be the end of the
present steel strike freely heard
Capital with all its dependents together with organized
labor and all its dependents will not number one half OF
the people of the country who in this will be the
innocent bystadners unless they decide to take hand
also in the battle for their own rights