Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-25

ed trains, destroyed property, as
saults upon those who were willing to
do the work on account of which the
entire country was suffering because
not done, who have not forgotten the
criticism showered upon the admins
tration for not taking more drastic
measures, will read with grimnes5 the
attack Gompers makes upon the De-
partment of Justice which has
brought the deviltry to a full stop by
means of injunction proceedings.
AS the Attorney General points
out it was either the injunction or
calling out the Federal troops or per-
hitting the Government to cease to
exist.
I'VE hear quite little about the
rights of the minority. a minority in
this country has greater rights and
is protected to greater extent than
in any other country in the world.
But q minority has no right to deny
to the majority the right it claims for
itself. The minority has no right to
promote civil war, impoverish a ma
| ton. deprive a people Of those things
to which they are entitled under the
law, or to ignore and seek to with
hold from the majority rights as
equal as those enjoyed by the minori-
ty"
| The good sense of labor is not all
gone, we believe. To it we hope
these words of the Attorney General
will come with full significance
| they arc significant:
I'm conclusion, l want to say a
! word here to labor AS truthful a
statement as any l have made in this
address I now make. l am your sin
ccre friend. and will not deceive you,
but you make a mistake when YOU
set up rules in conflict with the rules,
laws and Constitution of our common
| country, which rules and laws and
whose Constitution are applicable to
every other man in every other en-
! ployment. and must, for your own Sc
| curity and safety. be applicable to
you. Your principal trouble lies and
your greatest danger is in the radi-
calism and character or some of your
prominent leaders. Your security
| lies in the Constitution of the United
States, and in the laws of the United
| States. and in the good opinion, by
you deserved. of all American people.
! There is no quarrel between labor
and the government. A few irrccon-
| cilable railroad executives, who insist
upon calling themselves hard
boiled" might also with considerable
benefit to the country, he dispensed
with The fault is not all on one
side, but, at time when strife that
was almost civil war ragged in this
country, the government, having the
right to do so. insisted upon the rail-
roads performing their necessary
, functions to serve the people. Those
! in conflict with the railroads inter
| fercd with the performance of this
service, and it was to protect the
| rights of all people, strikers and en-
| plOyers. and every man, woman and
| child in the country, that the govern
! ment in its rightful capacity, took a
! hand. I accept my full responsibility
! for the step taken. and though it tenn
| porarily shocked because of the sud-
den halt of civil war. 7 would, I'M
der the same circumstances, do the
same thing again or feel incapable to
speak for an important branch of the
/ government. and unworthy of the
confidence and trust imposed in me
! by the President Of the United
! States