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Show the union laborer, or the anarchist must not step. This is the line which clearly marks the rights of private property. The railroad strikers have the un-1 doubted right to stop work and use their moral influence to prevent other men from accepting employment on terms injurious to labor. But when they appeal to violence they go too far. The temporary injury is to the railroads, rail-roads, but the lpug and permanent dis-ater dis-ater falls upon organized labor. It is the dignity of labor and the majesty of trades unionism that are wounded by the bomb and burned by the torch. The rights of property will survive. American institutions will survive, but unless anarchy be checked at once the cause of organized labor will suffer for a long time to come. We say these things in a spirit of friendliness to labor aud of love for our institutions, and we believe the great masses among laborers everywhere agree with us. LOOK OUT I The telegraph brings the news that railroad strikers in Lehigh valley, Pennsylvania, are resorting to the torch and bomb to enforce their demands de-mands upon employing corporations. This is sad news for every friend of organized labor in this country. Already Al-ready at Homestead an-i the mines of norlheru Idaho wo have seen the pages of this year's history stained with blood and blotted by violence. Now again, i the first important strike that suc-Meda suc-Meda these other grave outbreaks we ' see the appeal to force. The Times believes in good wages, I in fair treatment, and above all in the j right of labor to organize. Hut there ; is a line beyond which the capitalist, I 1 ( 1 , |