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Show Tux DESTBCcrivs fire in can Fran-1 cisco on Monday was probably the work of vind telive 'longshoremen, who wished to retaliate upon the lessee of the warehouse for bis efforts to reduce their waee. This ii a bad way to redress an injury, which in this case was if suythiu a moral wroue, and net an cfleme against the legal rights of anyone. If an employer takes advantage of circumstances and the favorable condition of the principle princi-ple of supp'.y aud demand, to coercea man to labor for a specified sum against bis will, he becomes an oppressor, op-pressor, but violates no statute, and the laborer has no riht to injure bim or his property. The right Id labor is sacred, but no more bo than the right to hire; and while the rights of laborers labor-ers should be respected, so also should those o! the ecnployar. The wiKut destruction of property by fire or otherwiie settles no question, andunly shows that t'ae destroyers are vicious and unworthy the respect which honest hon-est and trusted laborers ought to command. com-mand. i |