Year: 1877

| Brooklyn EagIe.l


= QUESTION OF FORCE AGAINST FORCE


1t is not question now either of right
or wrong. 1t will become that hereafter
1t is now a question of force against
| force. CSpital has called on authority
Law has been invoked by business, tC
display its thunders. 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 q
| hard one, there is evidence enough that
there were hundreds of thousands in a
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 living by
labor. The rest of pauperism, especially
the vicious part of it, is allying itself
with the crime that is meditating raids
on society in its dives, its gtittets and
boosting kens.


AN INsURRECTIoN, NOT STRIKE.


New York Hurald.)


The men who are blockading roads,
burning cars, attacking troops, breaking
open and sacking shops, throwing stones
Tito moving trains, are not strikersj they
are rioters; it is not strike, bit an i'll
surrection, and it has not hope of sue
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 end:eomss, 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"


(New 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 man who believes
with Jack CaGe that the three hoeped
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.


THE STRIKERS PLAYING WITH FIRE.


Detroit Post)


This violence and riot brings the COM
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-
pubics 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. |
All countries where property is at the |
mercy of mob law go down into the gull
of destruction, and there is no help for
them If reckless men can thus iHperil
railroad property at moments warning,
they are fast bringing the country to q
condition where people will not build
and run railroads, or will do it under a
despotic, arbitrary government that will
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 ehgehdered. This means
a separation of society into classes, the
degradation of the labOring classes, and
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 Heraldl


As for the men who defy the law, res
sist its officers, wantOnly burn and destroy
rroDartv and IN threats and VioleOee add