Year: 1877

SuBEG8slOIl9s EEDpn&Ste8, VI Or


RltEtnE and Diagnosing by the Press


of the Country Dn the Reign


Of Terror.


brooklyn Eagle.I


Z QUESTION OF FORCE AGAINST FORCE.


1t is not question now either of right
or wrong. 1t will become that thereafter.
1t is now q question of force against
force. Capital has called on authority.
Law has been invoked by business, to
display its thunderC. The organized
military has been set against the organ
lied strikers. A new vocation has been
created, the one of duressing mutinous
labor. If the case of the strikers was a
hard one, there is evidence enough that
there were hundreds of thousands In
harder lot. The places they threw up
because they were earning little, are
sought for, ten seekers to one place, by
those who were earning nothing. 1t is
against the most distressed of their
brethren in straits that the strikers feel
more anger now than anybody else. The
men who have thrown up work for poor
pay do not want to kill the men who paid
them so little, as they think, half so
eagerly as they want to kill them who
are glad to get work at any price. Their
first quarrel was against capital. They
are now warning on as much of pauper-
ism as sees a chance to get a living by
labor. The rest of pauperism, especially
the vicious part of it, is al1ying itself
with the crime that is meditating raids
on society in its dives, its cutters and
boosting kens,


AN INsURRECTtON, NOT A STRIKE.


New York Hcrald.)


The men who are blockading roads,





open and sacking shops, throwing stones
into moving trains, are not strikers; they
are rioters; it ia not strike, but an in
surrectiOn, and it has not hope of suc-
cess. 1t may still further cripple the
railroad companies and disable them
from paying fair wages; it may put the
public to great inconvenience, loss and
expense; but it will be crushed out; and
when the endicomes, after all the disgrace
such anarchical attempts bring upon
the country and upon the workmen,
what good will have been accomplished?


A QUEER "sHARING OF GOODS"


CSew York Worldly


Save in the matter of light and fire,
which Just at the present are not crying
necessities with-the poor of Pittsburg, it
is difficult to see how the wholesale bum
ing of property can be looked upon as a
sharing of the goods of the rich with the
poor. It is only a man who believes
with Jack CaGe that the ''three- heeped
pot should have seven hoops who can
be brought to suppose that destruction is
distribution, as to these distinguished but
anonymous Internationalists it seems
to be.


TIE STRIKERS PLAYING WITH FIRE.


Detroit Post.)


This violence and riot brings the CON-
munity and the rioters face to face. If
the spirit which IS now rampant among
railroad employees shall win a victory, it
will be at the expense of the prosperity
of the country. No country can thrive
when property is at the mercy of lawless-
ness and mob violence. Such acts as
disgrace the country to-day are the same
in spirit and character as those which
make Mexico and South American re-
publics so contempSibly weak. 1t makes
no difference to property owners, or those
who are ambitious to own property,
whether their property is liable to
destruction at the hands of revolutionary
politicians or revolutionary labor leagues.
Ali countries where property is at the
mercy of mob law go down into the gulf
of destruction, and there Is no help Tor
them. If reckless men can thus imperil
railroad property at a moments warning,
they are fast bringing the country to
condition where people will not build
and run railroads, or will do it under
despotic, arbitrary government that wilt
make short work with such anarchy,
That will mean different sort of country
and government from what We have at
present. 1t will mean some sort of gov.
ernment that does not depend upon the
votes of the mass of people cut of which
such mobs are engendered. This means
q separation of society into classes, the
degradation of the laboring classes, and a
deprivation of opportunities to rise in
the social scale. 1t means, in short, a
conversion of the America which is the
favored home of the working classes into
an America which will no longer enjoy
that distinction. These strikers are
playing with fire, and sooner or later
they will burn the roofs over their own
heads unless they blow out their torches.


SIMPLY OUTLAWS.


Cleveland Herald)


As for the men who defy the law. re-
sist its officers, wantOnly burnan DESTROY
property, and to threats and violence add
arson, robbery and murder, thew are
simply outlaws, and should be treated as
such. 1t is monstrous that the business
of the whole country should be paralyzed.
travel stopped, the mails impeded, cities
given over to a reckless and murderous
rabble, and the power of half a dozen
states and of the national government de.
fled by mob of rioters. The nation IS
disgraced by such proceedings as those at
Pittsburg, Reading, Baltimore and other
places where the mob have had their
sway. Society will be III peril unless
such lawlessness is suppressed promptly
and those melting and participating in It
are severely punished. It is not now a
question of wages, but of the common
safety. 1t is not an issue between rail-
road companies and employees, but be-
tween order and anarchy.


THE VICIOUS ELEMENT ON TOP.
Cincinnati Gazette)


AS II IS here, 50 everywhere: the idle
vicious and criminal elements are on tor tor,
They have subdued the workineros1,
These everywhere stand impotentIv bv
and see the subsistence Of their families
taken from them, All oyer the o0putFy