The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-11
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nm ON GREAT ISSUE
Nc hear anoe ogalu much about property
rights os opposed TO personal rights, which is
the most VITAL tho right OF property or tho
right Of humanity. Tho writer has said on
previous occasions, ne repeats now. there Is no
line Of distinction capable OF being drawn by
human agency between the rights OF prop
erty and tho rights OF person.
The very foundation Of government is being
challenged in tho strike now IN force through
out the nation. II citizen OF this republic on
Joys the right to work and bo protected IN that
right. then It follows with nll the Irresistible
force Of both law and logic that the whole army
and navy OF the United States should bo used II
necessary TO afford any citzcn such protection.
Labor leaders those Of the radical element
who snecr at the majesty Of law ana insist that
government must protect them, yet refuse pro-
tection 10 those citizens not I'm the union, fum-
nate In flaming terms against tho Injustice of
government using its forco to protect the prop
erty OF tho employers or cnpitallsic class. IL It
impossible for these men to understand that
their own accumulation ana holdings arc like
wise unsafe unless the law functions to protect
tho property Of tho wcll-to-do?
BUT It ia not protection TO property any more
than II Is protection OF the constitutional rights
OF citizens that should force government to ex-
tend ample protection against all of these
forms of coercion and direct action. Tho union
leadc,s declare their rights to strike, yet they
deny that citizens outside their unions have
right to work on the Jobs they have q6,ued2
Government in It's every form from tho mu-
niclpallty up to and including the federal au-
thority is unde, tho unacceptable obligation OF
affording such citizens protection in their work.
which means. OF course. that protection must
be afforded the physical property they work In
or about.
We have no way OF knowing how others may
feel about IT, but we have nothing hut con-
tempt for the governor OF Missouri When no
received without rcbuko a message OF con-
graduation from the strike leaders because he
had refused to afford protection 70 the em-
ployers' property ana the other citizens who
were willing to work where the strikers quit
he forfeited the respect OF oiear-th'BkinB and
outstanding citizens everywhere. But when In
stead OF robuking tho insufteruho insolence OF
tho strike leaders he expressed to them his APP
prcclatlon and assured them that the state OF
Missouri was not "a strike breaker, he placed
himself squaroly I'm tho class With Haywood,
Goldman and Lcuiuc.
Nobody asked the governor TO make the state
OF Missouri "a strike breaker lie was asked "a"
use the authority OF his office to protect good
citizens in tho enjoyment OF their constitutional
rlshts-the same rights tho strikers woro en-
toying. And he refused 20 DO SO, llo permitted
tho strikers I'm one town within his jurisdiction
10 take over the government and establish an
archy. by driving from that town all men who
refused to abide their will lie permitted these
outlaws TO taso charge OF property which did